Looking for Christmas
A Search for the Joy and Hope of the Nativity
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5.0 • 1 Rating
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Publisher Description
Experiencing Christmas at Its Fullest
From New York Times bestselling author Donna VanLiere, Looking for Christmas is a thoughtful and heartfelt reflection on the origin and meaning of Christmas. As you explore the people and places found in the biblical Nativity account, you will uncover the powerful ways this story can fill your life with celebration and purpose.
Encouraging and engaging, Donna helps you to recover the true meaning of this season as presented in the Bible. You'll gain uplifting, life-changing, and personal insights about what Jesus' birth means for you today and always.
If you're longing to go beyond the usual holiday traditions and activities, Looking for Christmas invites you to a richer, more meaningful connection with what Christmas is truly about. Experience renewed hope and discover how this story can bring more peace and joy into your home at Christmas and beyond!
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Novelist VanLiere (The Day of Ezekiel's Hope) delivers an earnest ode to a holiday that, she argues, has been sanitized in contemporary culture by picture-perfect celebrations and secular customs. Unpacking elements of the Christmas story, she highlights how Mary "provided a loving home for God's only Son" at the risk of being shunned for getting pregnant out of wedlock and how steadfast Joseph was chosen to be Jesus's adoptive father despite being a "nobody by the world's standards." Other chapters discuss Jesus's birth in a manger after Joseph and Mary were denied a room in the local inn—humble origins, she argues, that foreshadowed Christ's dedication to the disadvantaged. Throughout, the author uses the Christmas story to highlight how Jesus welcomes the "brokenhearted and downtrodden"—a reassuring point that she hammers home a bit clumsily (on the lack of space in the Bethlehem inn: "There was no room for the King of kings to lay His head, but he always makes room for you.... The doors of Bethlehem were closed to him but He has flung open wide the doors of heaven to us"). Though this treads familiar ground, it will uplift Christians looking to rediscover the season's joys.
