Lagan Valley Vineyard

Stuart Bothwell kicks off our Advent Series. We've included some discussion questions for you to reflect on as a response to this teaching. Q U E S T I O N  O N E   It's easy to rush ahead and begin celebrating Christmas before the waiting of advent. How can you and your family slow down and settle into a few weeks of practicing advent to open yourself up to a sense of expectation and hope? You may want to bring this up around your dinner table to share practical ideas as a family. Q U E S T I O N  T W O On Sunday, Stu shared this quote from Alain Emerson. Take a moment to read it again. How can you open yourself up to Hope being both your compass and your destination? “To be fully alive is to be hope-filled. It follows that when we are hope-less we are less than our true selves, we are deficient. We can’t avoid disappointment in life, and we are certainly not immune to it, but the greater truth is that we were created for hope. Seasons of disappointments will come, we should expect them,