Preparing for Jesus: Meditations on the Coming of Christ, Advent, Christmas and the Kingdom | 
 enlarge | Author: Walter Wangerin Jr.
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Category: Book
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Rating:  2 reviews
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 195
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.8
ISBN: 0310206448
Dewey Decimal Number: 242.33
UPC: 025986206444
EAN: 9780310206446
Publication Date: October 1, 1999
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Product Description
In this Advent and Christmas devotional, best-selling author Walter Wangerin Jr. takes the reader day-by-day through the major events and characters leading up to the birth of Jesus. (36 meditations.)
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An excellent family tradition January 14, 2008
Charles H. Bonnett (Philadelphia)
This book contains a few pages of Scripture-based meditation for each of the 25 days before Christmas ("Advent") plus similar meditations for each of the traditional "12 Days of Christmas" after Christmas. You will learn more than you expected, and it will be relevant to the true meaning of Christmas. The book is small, and somehow bridges scholarly research and deep thought with relatively easy reading. Easily scaled down for family reading, it's an exceptional idea for a lasting family Christmas tradition. Highly recommended.
Your were There: at the Manger ... January 6, 2003
Paul M. Dubuc (Columbus, OH USA)
15 out of 16 found this review helpful
I enjoyed using this little book during this past Advent and Christmas. Walter Wangerin Jr. has used his wonderful gift writing to give us a series of daily meditations that are a great help in focusing the mind, heart and imagination of the reader on the deepest significance of Christmas. We follow the events of the first Christmas from with scripture accompanied by short writings, poetry and prayer. Wangerin's writing varies between dramatization, exposition and application of the Christmas story to our lives. If you relax and let the author and the Holy Spirit have their way, the book will help you break through the confusion and frenzied cultural activity that often accompany Advent and touch the deeper meaning of the season. It doesn't drop you after Christmas Day but carries you through the 12 days of Christmas, gently releasing you at the beginning of Epiphany. It will leave you feeling like you've been there: at the Manger and help you go and live out the significance of Christ's coming to us in your own life.I highly recommend this book, I thought it was even more effective than Wangerin's similar--and also very good--book for Lent and Easter, "Reliving the Passion".
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