Preparing for Jesus: Meditations on the Coming of Christ, Advent, Christmas, and the Kingdom

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Zondervan, May 3, 2011 - Religion - 195 pages
In Preparing for Jesus, best-selling author and master storyteller Walter Wangerin Jr. recreates verbal images of the events surrounding the Advent of Christ, offering a devotional journey into the heart of the Christmas season. Through rich detail and vivid images, these moving meditations make Christ's birth both intimate and immediate, allowing us to see Christmas from its original happening to its perennial recurrence in our hearts. Preparing for Jesus is sure to be a seasonal classic, treasured year after year.
 

Contents

PREFACE
DECEMBER THREE O Zechariah How Did It Feel Meeting
Daily to Join
How Blessed Is Your Yes
Model for the Faithful
Echoing the Songs
What John Becomes
The Character
The Fourth Gift
May I
CHRISTMAS DAY Christmas Day Our Door to the Nativity

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Walter Wangerin Jr. is widely recognized as one of the most gifted writers writing today on the issues of faith and spirituality. Known for his bestselling The Book of the Dun Cow, Wangerin’s writing voice is immediately recognizable, and his fans number in the millions. The author of over forty books including The Book of God, Wangerin has won the National Book Award and the New York Times Best Children’s Book of the Year Award. He lives in Valparaiso, Indiana, where he is Senior Research Professor at Valparaiso University.

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