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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...

Experience the joy of Christ as the story of salvation comes alive in your heart this Advent. If you’re yearning for a way to slow down, reconnect with God, and rediscover the wonder of Christmas, Joy Has Come to You will guide you there. This beautifully crafted four-week journey walks you...

This thrilling book from trusted and bestselling author Max Lucado serves as a powerful and encouraging reminder of everything Christ’s victory over death and darkness has made possible for all who love and follow Him. The Resurrection: How Christ’s Triumph Restores Your Hope is a powerful...

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.

Do you long for a more honest, imaginative, and Scripture-rich companion for the Advent season? A devotional willing to acknowledge the darkness of exile and the brokenness you see around and within, so you might rejoice more fully in the arrival of Jesus, the Light of the World? In Advent for...

Advent and Christmas are my favorite times of the year, with the coming celebration of the birth of Christ. However, the older I get, the more I have come to realize that Christ has been relegated to third or perhaps fourth place behind toys, decorations, and commercialism. I wanted to create a series of stories that might bring the true reason for the season back to its place of importance. These whimsical, multicultural tales evoke the timeless human needs of love, companionship, and purpose in life that are promised in the birth of a baby at Christmas.

Christmas should spark worship and adoration, and R. Albert Mohler offers a book that mines the depths of the advent season, and all the theological riches God has gifted to His people. Recapturing the Glory of Christmas is a call to worship and praise. Indeed, Christmas beckons the world to...

Enjoy the enduring insight and wisdom of Charles Spurgeon with these beautifully written biblical reflections. These short and profound reflections on the life and teaching of Jesus have been carefully compiled and edited by Jeff Medders from a collection of Spurgeon’s sermons. Some of the...

On the Way to Bethlehem follows the long journey to Christmas. The story begins in Rome with a decree issued from the seat of worldly power for a census, setting into motion events leading to the birth of the Savior of the world in a town that represents the very opposite of worldly power, Bethlehem.

El Día de Acción de Gracias, con raíces que se remontan a los años 1620, simboliza el hermoso encuentro entre colonos europeos y nativos americanos, donde el intercambio de alimentos y sabiduría marcó el inicio de una tradición de gratitud y convivencia. Sin embargo, en la actualidad, esta festividad a menudo se ha transformado en un ritual centrado en el consumo, alejándose de su esencia original. Es momento de revitalizar su significado, aprendiendo a valorar lo que tenemos y a compartirlo con los demás.

Barb Gardener has been in Africa for two years working on a Clean Water project with Heather and Giles Holland while hiding from her criminal, vengeful uncle! FBI agent, Zac Shields, assigned to protect her during their time in Africa was the last thing she wanted as he was the one she blamed...

Are you looking for a way to set your focus on the true meaning of Christmas, but don’t have a lot of time? Do you want something simple, that you can accomplish easily, yet you want it to add a sweet and satisfying component to each day as you move through the Christmas season? Are you looking for easy-to-implement activities that you can do as a way to emphasize the spirit of Advent? The beginning of Advent marks the first day of the Christian calendar and is a period of anticipation and preparation for the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ.

This year, don't let Christmas sneak up on you again. The wonder and awe of the Christmas season can easily get overshadowed by lights, tinsel, bows, and paper—not to mention last-minute trips to the mall and visits to the in-laws. In all the hustle and bustle, we often lose sight of what’s...

Journey through Lent with Best-Selling Author Paul David Tripp “During our forty days together, may your mourning increase so that your joy may deepen.” —Paul David Tripp Lent is a time in the yearly Christian calendar when we mourn our sin and let go of worldly things that keep our hearts...

A first-of-its-kind, pro-life-focused, Christmas Devotional from Rev. Jim Harden, M.Div., CompassCare CEO. Christmas is a time of vision, a time to consider the landscape of human life, what it means, and why it’s valuable. The mental image of Christmas is the nativity, the crude circumstances that surrounded the moment when God reinforced the dignity of humanity by clothing Himself as one. But He did not stop there. For the joy set before Him, He invaded the dungeon of our sin-dimmed world with the light of His presence, to transfer us into His kingdom of light.

Hear from “those who told the story first.” You may or may not know the story of your birth. If you do, there is something special about hearing your origin story again and remembering how it all began for you. That’s why we observe Advent: to celebrate how it all began for us. In The...

Es que para el Padre Mauricio el tiempo tiene un eje central «La Navidad». Este libro es el testimonio de su fe, que confiesa que Jesús es el Hijo de Dios. Es su respuesta al anuncio del ángel: hoy, en la ciudad de David, les ha nacido un salvador, que es el Mesías, el Señor...

In his final Christmas story, Dickens narrates the hair-raising experiences of a professor. As the protagonist dwells on his past sorrows and mistakes, a phantom visits him. It offers him a bizarre escape from painful recollections of yesteryear by offering to eradicate his memory.

The Carols of Christmas Volume 3 is a heart-warming devotional inspired by some of the most beloved Christmas carols of all time. Inside, you’ll enjoy a fresh glimpse of some of the same joyful and nostalgic melodies you sing every year now set to personal reflections in this 28-day devotional journey.

Surely, Christmas in the distant past must have been different from the one we know today. But how different? You’re about to find out. The Christmases of long, long ago were a merry mess of odd superstitions, dangerous games, and overindulgences that lasted from Christmas Day until Epiphany twelve days later. The “Christmas season” of earlier times was not the period from Thanksgiving to Christmas Day that Americans experience today, but rather a no-holds-barred bacchanalia following the austerity period of Advent.