Just what is God doing when it comes to time and to us? Out of Time explores responses inspired by the Revised Common Lectionary texts, reflecting on how God uses our experience of time to meet us, challenge us, bless us, shape us, and call us into holy endings and new beginnings.  

At its heart, this series explores two senses of being out of time. Advent thrusts upon us the reality that time is limited. We run out of time to reconcile, to prepare, to make a change. Yet even as we are running out of time, God is outside of time entirely.

Sample this Advent series for free with excerpts from our:

• Preachers’ Notes: Preaching commentaries explore connections between each week’s lectionary texts and the Out of Time theme.
• Children’s Message Starters: Kid-friendly connections to the week’s theme help to jump-start your brainstorm for a children’s sermon, including a visual aid.
• Sunday Liturgy: Fresh texts for Advent worship.
• Advent Devotions: Arranged around a weekly text, this take-home resource guides users into noticing how God appears in their experience of time.
• Liturgy for the Longest Night: This individual service uses the Northern Hemisphere’s lengthening darkness to hold space for those who struggle around the holidays.
• An Advent & Christmas Pageant: An intergenerational pageant underlines the different ways that characters from the Nativity—from the Wise Ones to the donkey that traveled with Mary—experienced the moment when God-made-flesh entered into human time as a baby in Bethlehem.

This is a free .pdf download.