Today is the 27th day of November. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I am Brian. Welcome

to a brand new shiny sparkly week. And today, today's a special day, as we begin this

new week, today is the first day, the first Sunday in the season of Advent. Advent begins

today. That means we're about 40 days out from Christmas day. There's four Sundays leading

up to Christmas. And those are the Sundays of Advent. That's the season of Advent.

And you may have observed Advent your entire life. You kind of just grew up with Advent

calendars and just everything that goes around that. You also may be somebody that has heard

the name Advent before, but don't really have never observed it. It's not part of your

tradition in the church that you belong to. That's fine. It's all fine. Today is the first

Sunday of Advent. Advent means arrival. And it's simply a season designated on the

Christian calendar to allow our hearts to begin to prepare for the arrival of the Savior

into the world. And obviously, that's happened a while back, but we commemorate that as

we celebrate Christmas each year. And so to have a season of Advent, very similar to the

fact that we have the season of Lent leading up to Easter, really is simply a time to immerse

ourselves to give special focus to what is going on. And that is preparing our hearts

to celebrate the arrival of Jesus, which is a very different story than the arrival of

Saint-Aclos. And Advent, Adventism meant to put our hearts in part in the place that

the people were in as they longed for change, longed for a Savior. They were waiting, expecting,

hoping that some things would change and that God would restore them. And then he came.

So we put ourselves as Christian people in the same position. We think about that, that

there was a time where this story hadn't been told yet. People were longing for restoration

and hope that people were longing for a Savior, a Redeemer, a Restorer. And we focus on that

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