Did you know that every year at Christmas Americans spend 600 billion dollars? A creeping kind of idolatry is consuming us. We're drowning in a sea of financial debt and endless lists of gifts to buy. An overwhelming stress has overtaken any sense of worship. We now believe the marketing lie that spending money is the best way to express love. Somehow, this has become the new normal; everyone's Christmas routine. Instead of Christmas frenzy this year, let's celebrate A Simple Advent.