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In a style that is reverent and faith-filled, Anne Weems reflects on the mystery of the Christmas season. Included in this collection are twenty-six new poems as well as popular selections from her earlier works, especially Reaching for Rainbows and Family Faith Stories. Capturing the spirit of joyful celebration, they can be used in worship services, read aloud at family gatherings, or used by individuals for quiet reflection.
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Wildflower House volume Wildflower Christmas Novella
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In Wildflower Christmas, a Wildflower House novella, Kara is looking forward to a quiet holiday--just like the ones she's always known--but this year, instead of celebrating the holidays with her father in the city, she's at Wildflower House and she's alone. Kara is okay with a low-key Christmas because after hosting the hectic first official event at Wildflower House she's ready to enjoy some rest and relaxation before January arrives and the final...
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Stitch. Share. Gift. Repeat. Nothing beats the feeling of giving and receiving a handmade gift. Now starring in the role of Santa: you! Use cotton fabric, wool, or hand-dyed linen, then embellish with simple hand embroidery, rickrack, and trims to bring Christmas cheer to you and yours. Your heart will be brimming with pride and joy when you fill your sleigh with tiny, handmade treasures. Popular author of Bowl Me Over Debbie Busby is back to share...
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It's Christmastime in Lancaster, Maine, and it's an occasion for carols, ornaments, and poison? When a well-known food critic visits Tea for Two and becomes ill, Jan and Elaine set out to learn what put her there. Has someone tampered with their teas? And if so, who and why? With the critic in the hospital and the tearoom closed for a toxicology screening, the cousins have much riding on their investigation.
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"For the greatest, most profound, tenderest things in the world, we must wait."
Never are moments of quiet reflection more important than during the rush of the Christmas season. These beautiful meditations from the works of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, one of the most beloved theologians of the twentieth century, are perfect as brief devotions for those who already love Bonhoeffer's...
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The holiday season can exacerbate feelings of hopelessness, despair, loneliness, angst, depression, anxiety, fear, grief, etc. HOLY GHOST HOLIDAY HELP 365 VOLUME 1 is a resource that will assist you in getting through any holiday with the joy and peace of the Lord and secure your identity in Christ. It's an easy read. The objective of the book is to teach the Believer to give space for the Holy Spirit to move in their life and to use the Word of God...
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A Stubborn Sweetness and Other Stories for the Christmas Season is a collection of modern-day short stories by Katherine Paterson, award-winning author of Bridge to Terabithia and The Great Gilly Hopkinsboth loved by children and adults for over twenty years. This compilation includes stories of real-life people such as a shopping mall's night watchman, a lonely widower, a pregnant teenage runaway, a political prisoner in China, a grieving mother,...
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In other words, all the love, cheer, sharing, forgiveness, understanding, justice, unity, harmony, peace, and joy that everyone is wishing for in life-happens in this single time of year called CHRISTMAS.In short, each time Christmas comes, the KINGDOM OF GOD happens in our world. Happy reading!
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So many of us have this sense that this is not what Christmas was meant to be. We juggle sacred and secular expectations, struggle with family and disappointments, with full schedules that can't quite overcome our doubts and loneliness.Contemplating Advent offers a road map toward aligning our lived experience with the things our hearts promise us about this season. Comitting a few minutes each day to meditation, contemplation, and prayer can transform...
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The colorful holiday classic is finally brought to the big screen, designed by famed children's story author and artist Maurice Sendak, and written for the first time to be as close as possible to the original story. A lavish, exciting and heart-warming celebration of dance, of music, and of life. Based upon the Pacific Northwest Ballet's original production.
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Advent for Everyone: A Journey with the Apostles provides readers with an inspirational guide through the Advent season, from the first Sunday in Advent through the Saturday after the Fourth Sunday in Advent. Popular biblical scholar and author N. T. Wright provides his own Scripture translation, brief reflection, and a prayer for each day of the season, helping readers understand Advent in the wider context of God's love.
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Advent for Everyone: Luke provides readers with an inspirational guide through the Advent season, from the first Sunday in Advent through the Saturday after the Fourth Sunday in Advent. Popular biblical scholar and author N. T. Wright provides his own Scripture translation and brief reflection, exploring the Gospel themes of faith, repentance, justice, and celebration.
Wright's engaging reflections take you on a journey of spiritual enlightenment,...
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Congregations are often confused or uninspired by the emphasis on Old Testament themes during Advent and too "over� Christmas by December 26 to pay much attention to the gospel stories that follow Jesus' birth. Walking Backwards to Christmas starts at the end of the story, with Jesus' presentation to Anna and Simeon at the temple, and moves backwards through Herod's ...
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To "prepare for Christmas� in our society is to be sucked into a vortex of indulgence, from decor to gifts to calorie-rich foods. Layer upon layer of tinsel, lights, and wrapping paper create the illusion of abundance, disguising the feeling of emptiness in our souls. The arrival of the Messiah, by contrast, is true abundance disguised by the impression of scarcity. Training our eyes to see through the rough stable, the adolescent mother, and...
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"A NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS" IS AN ENGAGING RETELLING OF THE STORY OF GOOD NEWS OF JESUS BIRTH AND WRITTEN IN A VOICE THAT REVERBERATES WITH THE TRUTHS OF THE BIBLE.
THIS CHRISTMAS STORY IS CHRIST-FOCUSED AND AIMED AT FAMILIES FOR READING TOGETHER DURING THE HOLIDAYS.
THIS RENDITION OF THE STORY OF CHRIST IS SPOKEN IN A POETIC VOICE WHOSE RHYTHM AND RHYME CAPTIVATE BOTH THE READER AND THE LISTENER WITH ITS FAMILIAR TONE AND TITLE.
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The world is slowly emerging from the worst global emergency in a century, and the myriad struggles of the contemporary moment-division, isolation, illness, and uncertainty-make living our faith a challenge. For Christians, a number of questions have gained new urgency: Where do we find hope when it seems in such short supply? Where are the signs of God's peace in this divided world? Where do we find a deeper sense of joy?
Thomas G. Long and Donyelle...
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Weems's lyrical poetry is a reminder of the importance of true discipleship. She challenges Christians to look past the ongoing distractions of the "busy work" of church meetings and socials, new programs and technology, and inevitable conflict, while reminding readers in her singularly expressive voice that the "institution" of the church is, at heart, quite simply all about Jesus. This collection of poems, written to be used in worship, in personal...
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At Christmas, God came into our ordinary world in the form of a child, and still today, God is at work through the ordinary stuff of life, if we train our eyes to see.
In this daily devotional for Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany, Jill J. Duffield draws readers' attention to ten ordinary objects that appear in the biblical narratives of messianic prophesy and incarnation-objects we encounter in our own lives. Through objects such as gates, trees,...
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It may not happen so often but when it does, it is magical. There is just something story book like about crunchy white footprints and snow covered rooftops everywhere. Of course, snow brings its own problems too … but for a few special days during the cosy Christmas time, it's relaxing to go for a winter walk and snowball fight before coming back to settle for some warm coffee beside an open fire. Re create this magical feeling by paging trough...
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