Joy.  Delight.  It's Christmas time, so those emotions should come easily.  Right. But we are busy.  Shopping.  Family.  Extended family.  Extended shopping.  Recitals. Plays.  Spending.  Decorating.  More spending.  Who has the time for joy and delight?   But we have been given so many gifts already, the joy to be astonished, the joy to be gentle, to be warm to others.  None ...

Readers have enjoyed Melody Carlson's Christmas novels for years. Now six of these beloved stories are available in two handsome value-priced 3-in-1 editions. The Joy of Christmas includes An Irish Christmas, The Christmas Dog, and All I Have to Give. The Treasure of Christmas includes The Christmas Bus, Angels in the Snow, and The Gift of Christmas Present. Perfect as gifts, these volumes will be cherished parts of th...

Here’s a fun, nostalgic, encouraging month’s worth of reading for the busy holiday season: It’s a Wonderful Life, a brand-new Christmas devotional. This 31-day book includes brief readings based on Christmas classics—stories, books, movies, poems, and songs. Each entry draws a spiritual point from the particular works, whether sacred or secular, accompanied by relevant quotations, scriptures, and prayers. Entries range from the namesake 1946 film starring Jimmie Stewart, to Cha...

The Christmas season is one of the busiest times of the year for families. Taking time together to celebrate Advent, to focus on waiting, is a wonderful opportunity to bring you and those you love closer to God and to each other.These twenty-nine readings, one for each day of Advent, are a deep, yet practical exploration of the traditional themes of Advent; promise, light, love and hope. But the focus is more on what isn't said than what is; giving you an opportunity to put yourself...

This book is a gift to help us step off the frenetic treadmill that the Advent season too often becomes. Its help comes by enabling us to listen deeply each day to the Advent scripture readings and John the Baptist's repeated Advent call to "prepare the way" for the holy babe who is coming.

In this unique devotional, Lynne Hammond lets us peek ever so slightly into her private devotional time with God. You'll begin a 31-day journey of your own.

Allow the mystery of Advent and Christmas to touch and transform you. In A Time of Fulfillment: Spiritual Reflections for Advent and Christmas, Anselm Grün brings fresh meaning to the traditional texts of the season and encourages you to experience the deep peace promised by this holy time of year.Starting with the ancient images of the "O" antiphons, you will rediscover in Advent the profound joy of waiting for Christ's coming. Continuing with the Scriptures of Christmas,...

Come Let Us Adore Him.This advent season, celebrate the holy night that transformed the world and Jesus' remarkable gifts of joy, peace and love.From the manger to the resurrection, Experience Immanuel-God with us- this Christmas.

Does your life seem to go round and round and never get anywhere? Perhaps you, too, can learn some lessons from the labyrinth.  This book began during the Christian Lent season, 2011, as 40 tweets on "Ways My Life is Like My Labyrinth." It grew into 40 devotionals based on those tweets, and now to this book containing them all.   Take the journey. You may find yourself visiting places in your soul where you have never been.

It’s time to stop crying in our soup about the consumeristic commercializationof Christmas. Instead of bashing the culture for making Black Friday bigger than Thanksgiving, let’ do something different this year. Let’s do Advent. Instead of quibbling over saying “Happy Holidays” instead of “Merry Christmas,” let’s recover what it means to celebrate Holy Days. Instead of our cheesy slogansabout the “reason for the season,” let’s practice a sacred season for the sake of the re...

Throughout the Old Testament stories which span centuries, God progressively revealed more about the Jewish Messiah that He would send to His people. Thousands of people anticipated His coming and wondered if their generation would be the one. When the time had fully come, God sent His angel Gabriel to penetrate the veil between the spiritual realm and the natural realm and appear to young teenage girl who had found favor with God. With little revelation of what she was getting into, Mary ...

Christmas Cookies! A delightful part of the holiday season.  December is filled with sweet smells and tasty treats. Enjoy a dozen spiritual “cookies” to feed your soul and lift your spirit and a dozen delicious Christmas cookie recipes to create your own edible treats to nibble on.