Holidays category: 1566 books

A Journey to Bethlehem will take us on a journey that will lead us one step closer to the place where Jesus was born. We will meet people like Mary, Elizabeth, Zacharias, and Joseph. We will also camp out with the shepherds and experience the moment, when the Angel of the Lord visited them and then...

"Avenues of Adoration Through the Season of Advent: Devotionals that Celebrate a Christ-Centered Christmas," filled with insights from scripture that will bring spiritual renewal, offers answers to fully celebrate the Advent season. Follow the street of the shepherds, the avenue of the angels, and the march of the magi to your own spiritual Bethlehem.

Why Gary Neal Hansen's Christmas Play? Your church wants to put on a pageant this December. You want more than kids as shepherds in bathrobes and tinsel-winged angels. Sure, they're cute, but you want your congregation to know why the baby Jesus matters. You want to show the real meaning...

Many people end their celebration of Christmas on December 25, but George Donigian reminds us that the celebration is only beginning. Donigian offers meditations that begin with Advent and continue through Epiphany (January 6), also known as the 12th night of Christmas. Like the surprises of...

In his September 2015 speech to the United States Congress, Pope Francis credited American journalist Dorothy Day (1897–1980), cofounder of the Catholic Worker movement, for her deep faith and social activism. Day’s devotion to her Catholic faith and its traditions reverberated through a series...

Ready-to-use worship and preaching resources for the four Sundays in Advent including Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Includes biblically-based sermon briefs, suggested Scriptures, hymns, prayers, and litanies for lighting the Advent Wreath. To help pastors minister more effectively during this important...

"But the angel said to them, 'Do not be afraid. I bring you good news of great joy that will for all the people. Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is Christ the Lord.'" -Luke 2:8-11 With the Christmas hustle and bustle of gift shopping, cookie making, and holiday...

The warm, wonderful, real-life tale of the family that brings the Christmas spirit to life on a street corner in Manhattan. Every holiday season for nearly twenty years, Billy Romp, his wife, and their three children have spent nearly a month living in a tiny camper and selling Christmas trees...

This one-of-a-kind Christmas booklet will take readers on a voyage as they explore God’s promises for Christmas—from Genesis throughout eternity—that the Savior, Jesus, would come and that He will be with us forever. More than a simple retelling of the Christmas story, this Advent devotional...

Why be Jewish? A fascinating dialogue across denominations of the High Holy Days and their message of Jewish purpose beyond mere survival. Almost forty contributors from three continents—men and women, scholars and poets, rabbis and theologians, representing all Jewish denominations...

A guide to help you invigorate your Seder, create lively discussions, and make personal connections with the Exodus story today.For many people, the act of simply reading the Haggadah no longer fulfills the Passover Seders purpose: to help you feel as if you personally had gone out of Egypt. Too often,...

How does the story of the Exodus echo in our own generation and in our own lives?For us to hear the Oneness of God, we must grow into a place where the cosmic and the political are deeply the same truth.from Part VThe story Jews retell on Passover is about rising up against tyranny, about the triumph...

Enrich Your Passover Seder with Renewed Meaning and SignificanceWhether you are planning to participate in, contribute to, or lead a Passover Seder, Leading the Passover Journey will help you relive the Jewish Peoples legacy of survival, hope, and redemption, and reconnect with the rich heritage celebrated...

Dr. Erica Brown is one of the foremost Jewish educators of our time. In In the Narrow Places, she brings her extraordinary teaching skills to the subject of the Three Weeks, the period of mourning commemorating the destruction of the First and Second Temples. For each day of the Three Weeks, she presents...