Inside the Christmas Story
eBook - PDF

Inside the Christmas Story

Reflections for Advent

  1. 160 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Inside the Christmas Story

Reflections for Advent

About this book

Depressed by Winterval? Put 'Christ' back into Christmas with a fresh understanding of the Christmas story, based on daily Advent readings and meditations. If you are troubled by the noise, pressure and materialism of secular Advent with its emphasis on material and commercial rather than spiritual preparation for Christmas, this book will help you to read and think about Advent and Christmas in a new way. Co-authored by a New Testament specialist and a practising clinical psychologist, it explores the familiar narratives from the Christmas story with freshness and vigour, and draws out their implications for day-to-day living. The Christmas story is full of themes that we often avoid in churches - asylum seekers and refugees; death; loss and suffering; old age; childlessness - but they can give a new depth and meaning to our Christmas celebrations. Christmas will not seem the same again.

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Information

eBook ISBN
9781441121479
Edition
1

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. HalfTitle
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Foreword
  8. Preface
  9. Before we begin
  10. December 1 Christmas . . . and Jesus
  11. December 2 Christmas . . . and the rest of life
  12. December 3 Christmas . . . and science
  13. December 4 Christmas . . . and the Gospels of Matthew and Luke
  14. December 5 Christmas . . . and a family tree
  15. December 6 Christmas . . . and Jesus’ parents
  16. December 7 Christmas . . . and prophecy
  17. December 8 Christmas . . . and Zechariah
  18. December 9 Christmas . . . and Elizabeth
  19. December 10 Christmas . . . and forgiveness
  20. December 11 Christmas . . . and a girl called Mary
  21. December 12 Christmas . . . and children
  22. December 13 Christmas . . . and hardship
  23. December 14 Christmas . . . and Augustus
  24. December 15 Christmas . . . and humility
  25. December 16 Christmas . . . and shepherds
  26. December 17 Christmas . . . and Anna
  27. December 18 Christmas . . . and Simeon
  28. December 19 Christmas . . . and the Magi
  29. December 20 Christmas . . . and presents
  30. December 21 Christmas . . . and refugees
  31. December 22 Christmas . . . and loss
  32. December 23 Christmas . . . and food
  33. December 24 Christmas . . . and Jesus the man
  34. December 25 Christmas
  35. December 26 ‘Th ey think it’s all over . . .’
  36. Index