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The Handel's Messiah Family Advent Reader

Author : Donna W. Payne

Publisher : Moody Publishers

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 24,77 MB

Release : 1999

Category : Advent

ISBN : 9780802455741

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For families who yearn for Christmas to be a true celebration of Christ's birth on earth, the Handel's Messiah Family Advent Reader provides daily readings that are biblically-based and culturally rich. With intriguing stories explaining well-known Christmas customs, each reading features a different portion of the libretto from Handel's Messiah and offers a spiritual insight that links the story to an important principle. The book also includes a CD with portions of Handel's Messiah to enhance the experience.



Hallelujah

Author : Cindy Rollins

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Page : pages

File Size : 32,19 MB

Release : 2017-10-15

Category :

ISBN : 9780999146613

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A handbook for families looking to celebrate Advent.



Hallelujah

Author : Cindy Rollins

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Page : 144 pages

File Size : 20,43 MB

Release : 2020-09-26

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ISBN : 9781944435073

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Family traditions become established, sometimes quite by accident and sometimes because "we've always done it that way." But the best family traditions are thoughtfully cultivated. With Hallelujah: Cultivating Advent Traditions With Handel's Messiah, Cindy Rollins leads the way in building a rich Advent tradition for you and your family. Inside you will find: Weekly Scripture passages, hymns, and poems, Daily Messiah listening schedule with background information from Greg Wilbur An overview of the church calendar by Thomas Banks Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany recipes, and Suggestions for celebrating the Advent feasts of St. Nicholas and St. Lucia. Cindy also invited four of her friends to share how they celebrate Advent with their own families.



Every Valley

Author : Albert L. Blackwell

Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press

Page : 160 pages

File Size : 24,55 MB

Release : 2014-09-16

Category : Religion

ISBN : 1611645220

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Handel's Messiah is one of the most beloved musical works of the western world, playing an especially sentimental role in many people's Christmas traditions. The libretto of the work, taken directly from the King James text of fourteen books of the Bible, has turned many otherwise forgettable phrases into memorable, singable, cherished lines of Scripture. This gift-worthy book will delight and inspire classical music fans and those for whom Messiah is a beloved Christmas tradition with essays exploring the theological, historical, and pastoral implications of the Scriptures that make up Handel's Messiah. Forty reflections journey in order through the oratorio, taking the reader deeper into less-often studied texts like Malachi 3:3 and bringing new light to oft-recited passages like Luke 2:9-14. Each reflection offers the libretto from Messiah, the same passage in NRSV, and a brief commentary on the text, written by a respected scholar or pastor. Readers can peruse the book at leisure or examine one reflection per day throughout the Advent and Christmas seasons.



Jotham's Journey

Author : Arnold Ytreeide

Publisher : Kregel Publications

Page : 168 pages

File Size : 27,41 MB

Release : 2008-08-26

Category : Juvenile Nonfiction

ISBN : 0825441749

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In this widely popular, exciting story for the advent season, readers follow ten-year-old Jotham across Israel as he searches for his family. Though he faces thieves, robbers, and kidnappers, Jotham also encounters the wise men, shepherds, and innkeepers until at last he finds his way to the Savior born in Bethlehem.



The Gospel According to George

Author : Sylvia Patterson-Scott

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Page : 182 pages

File Size : 38,4 MB

Release : 2021-05-13

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Messiah is George Frederic Handel's most enduring and frequently performed work. First performed as a charity concert in Dublin, Ireland, in April 1742, it became a staple fundraiser for London's Foundling Hospital and Handel's last public performance in April 1759, a week before he died. Nearly three hundred years later the music lives on, but many in our modern culture have lost the flow of the narrative that Handel is telling in his music. The Gospel According to George draws out the drama that lies behind this collection of scriptures about Jesus, the Messiah, using insights for modern readers into the text and its original context, and notes on how Handel interprets that text musically. The questions and applications in the "Beyond the Music" sections at the conclusion of each movement will lead you into a profound and intimate experience of this well-loved oratorio at Advent, Lent or any time of the year.An enhanced ebook with recorded music embedded is available from Apple Books.



Anticipating His Arrival

Author : Rick Brannan

Publisher : Lexham Press

Page : 245 pages

File Size : 46,34 MB

Release : 2016-09-14

Category : Religion

ISBN : 1577996917

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Family devotions can be hard to schedule and plan--and doing so in a meaningful way can be especially difficult during the days and weeks leading up to Christmas. As you guide your family through this season, Anticipating His Arrival helps you and your family remember his first advent on Christmas and prepare for his second coming, celebrating and anticipating both events. Each day's Scripture reading includes discussion questions with accompanying responses to make it easy for you to engage the themes of preparation, anticipation, joy, and incarnation throughout the season of Advent. The reading schedule--which begins the first Sunday of Advent and ends on Christmas Day--has been adapted from the Revised Common Lectionary and includes devotions for all three years in the liturgical cycle, with every year drawing on the Synoptic Gospels.



Shadow and Light

Author : Tsh Oxenreider

Publisher : Harvest House Publishers

Page : 160 pages

File Size : 15,37 MB

Release : 2020-09-01

Category : Religion

ISBN : 073698061X

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Celebrate a Season of Wonder and Waiting Though the holidays are often jam-packed with busyness, the weeks leading up to Yuletide are still a time to reflect on the miracle of Jesus’s birth. Shadow and Light is a concise and customizable guide for the Advent season to help you rediscover your childlike wonder and contemplate the sacred gift we celebrate in the Christmas season. From bestselling author Tsh Oxenreider, Shadow and Light is a rich yet approachable experience that invites you to explore the historical meaning of Advent. Drawing from liturgical tradition, Tsh provides fresh insights for new and longtime believers alike. Each day includes Scripture, a reflection, a question, and a simple activity to engage the senses, such as lighting candles, listening to music, and viewing artwork both old and new. Let yourself break away from the hustle and bustle of crafts, cookies, and Christmas parties, and receive your invitation to remember the quiet focus of our celebration. Shadow and Light will help you reclaim the holiday season as a time to remember Jesus’s first coming, and to long for his one-day return.



Names for the Messiah

Author : Walter Brueggemann

Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press

Page : 98 pages

File Size : 21,42 MB

Release : 2016-08-01

Category : Religion

ISBN : 1611646707

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In Isaiah 9:6, a divine utterance is given to us using four royal titles--Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, and Prince of Peace. Names for the Messiah ponders each title and how the people understood it then, how Jesus did or did not fulfill the title, and how Christians interpret Jesus as representative of that title. Christians have claimed from the beginning that Jesus was the Messiah foretold in the Old Testament. In this study, best-selling author Walter Brueggemann tackles the questions: "What were these expectations?" and "Did Jesus fulfill them?"



Prepare Him Room

Author : Marty Machowski

Publisher : New Growth Press

Page : 88 pages

File Size : 47,48 MB

Release : 2014-10-01

Category : Religion

ISBN : 1939946549

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Share God's best gift with your family this year and start a lifetime of traditions with this gospel-focused, four-week Advent family devotional. Each week includes Bible readings, fun Christmas activities, songs, and an original Christmas story.