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Charles Dickens offers a timeless meditation on the season in this tender, uplifting Christmas essay—an invitation to gather the living and the lost around the hearth of memory. With warmth and clarity, he traces our journey from childhood wonder to adult gratitude, forgiveness, and hope...

Neues Winterliebe-Highlight von SPIEGEL-Bestsellerautorin Laurie Gilmore In ihrer kleinen, nach Zimt und Zucker duftenden Bäckerei zaubert Annie Andrews jeden Tag Köstlichkeiten, doch ihr eigenes Liebesleben fühlt sich alles andere als süß an. Vor allem, weil sie sich ständig mit dem...

No matter how hard we may try to tame the crazy busyness and relentless pressures of those weeks (months?!) leading up to Christmas, our days are still likely to be fuller-than-normal. That’s why we need daily reminders to ponder the Prince of Peace. To savor the Savior. To gaze at the Great I AM. In Consider Jesus: Meditations on the Person and Work of Christ, beloved teacher Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth invites us to quiet our hearts, to slow down and think about who Jesus really is and all that He has done for us.

Read by the author. Draw near to God this Christmas season as you reflect on spiritual lessons from a timeless holiday classic. This 25-day Advent devotional journeys through one of the world's most beloved Christmas stories, A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, and helps you honor Christmas in...

Meditate on the Coming of Christ with Rich Daily Truth. Revel in the goodness of the newborn King with Charles Spurgeon! You’ll be drawn to worship as you see the wonder of Immanuel, God with us, and the glory of the gospel through this timeless Advent devotional. These 25 short and profound...

Christmas is supposed to be a season of joy, wonder, and hope. But somewhere between the shopping, decorating, expectations, and endless to-do lists, it can be easy to lose sight of what made Christmas feel so extraordinary in the first place. What if the wonder of Christmas isn't gone? What if we simply need to rediscover it? In A Walk Through Christmas, Sandra A. Roberts invites you to slow down, step away from the noise, and take a thoughtful journey through this most sacred season.

A daily devotional/study for Lent on the subject and the experience of temptation. Daily reflections on the hard school of temptation, based on Scriptures, inspired by the Lenten experience of a Benedictine monastic community. Each day's reflection includes a quotation taken from two works of...

Washington Irvings collected Christmas tales, telling of the Author and his holiday in a rustic country seat, Surrounded by all the good cheer and tradition the Geogian times can muster. A fine tale for the seasonal period! Narrated by Michael Ward...

The fifth and last of Dickens's Christmas novellas; Redlaw is a teacher of chemistry who often broods over wrongs done him and grief from his past. He is haunted by a spirit, a phantom twin and "an awful likeness of himself" This spectre appears and proposes to Redlaw that he can allow him to...

Illuminating Advent Through Diverse Voices from Early Christianity In Candles in the Darkness, historian Lynneth Miller Renberg and theologian Adam R. Renberg invite us to travel back in time and encounter faithful voices from many walks of life, including bishops and mothers, monks and nuns...

Celebrate the wonder of Christmas… even in the middle of summer. The 12 Days of Christmas… in Summer is a heartfelt devotional journey designed to rekindle awe, hope, peace, and joy in every season of life. Through twelve Scripture-rich reflections, pastor and author Thomas Shuck invites listeners to slow down and rediscover the greatest gift ever given—Jesus Christ. Blending biblical truth, personal warmth, vivid imagery, and encouragement for weary hearts, these devotionals remind us that Christmas is far more than a date on the calendar.

Heart Speaks to Heart invites readers to accompany Henri J. M. Nouwen on a Holy Week retreat where he sought to deepen his understanding of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. What began as an intellectual pursuit soon became a profoundly personal encounter. Moved by the mystery of God's love revealed in the Passion and Resurrection of Christ, Nouwen's focus shifted from studying the Sacred Heart to speaking directly to the heart of Jesus—and listening for his response.

From one of the most beloved spiritual writers alive today, a powerful, timeless book of meditations for the Lenten season What if Lent were not primarily about self-improvement, but about real transformation through encountering God? In Wondrous Encounters, Richard Rohr invites readers into a...

Watch out. God is on the way. It's not within our own power to make a fresh start. If we're to have a future different from the past, it must come as a gift, something not of our devising. What we need is a God who refuses to be trapped in eternity, a God who not only cares about us but is...

See Jesus's birth through the lens of ancient Nativity stories. Discover the fascinating connections between ancient birth stories and the Nativity of Jesus in this captivating four-week Advent study. The book discusses the births of Isaac and Ishmael, Samson, and Samuel to reveal how they...

Hunger for Righteousness is an inspiring and insightful journey through the practices of Lent, Holy Week, and Easter, offering fresh perspectives on spiritual disciplines such as prayer, fasting, almsgiving, and repentance. Farag Mikhail combines biblical wisdom, historical insights, and personal stories of Christian heroes—both ancient and contemporary—to bring the traditions of Lent alive in a way that is deeply relatable and transformative.

If Lent has ever left you feeling tired, distracted, or spiritually stuck, this powerful devotional will help you finish strong and enter Easter with renewed hope. Through nine days of meditations leading into Easter and eight more reflections for the full Easter Octave, listeners are guided to encounter Jesus in fresh ways through Scripture and the Church’s liturgy, moving from discouragement to resurrection joy.

"But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth" (Acts 1: 8). In The Apologies From a Repentant Christian series, we follow a personal and inspirational story of how an encounter with Christ changes a life forever. In her first audiobook, the author shares her moment of redemption, which involved surrendering her heart to God and receiving a new identity in Christ.

During Lent, we often reflect on our limits—from dust we are, and to dust we will return. We remember that we will never be able to do everything we want to do, even and especially when what we want to do is love our neighbor well. In this daily devotional, Disability rights activist Tatum Tricarico helps us turn the tables on Lent. Rather than a time of feeling condemned or guilty beyond help, Lent is when we can take a breath and finally say what we have been trying to hide all year: I am human. I can’t do it all. And still, I am beloved by God.

As a travel blogger, I’m always on the hunt for hidden gems across Western Canada. So when my best friend invites me back to Candy Cane Creek for its first annual Valentine’s Festival, I can’t resist. From the conversation hearts tree to the holiday hoedown, the town has pulled out all the stops for couples and singles alike.