Preparing for Jesus: Meditations on the Coming of Christ, Advent, Christmas, and the KingdomIn 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
Four Questions | 21 |
You | 27 |
Enlarges Little Prayers | 36 |
Daily to Join | 53 |
To SelfExamination | 58 |
What Sort | 65 |
Two Mothers Meet | 73 |
What Singing | 81 |
How Mercy Comes | 88 |
What John | 95 |
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Advent afraid angel baby Bath-sheba become Behold Bethlehem birth blessed born breathe Caesar Augustus call his name child Christ Christian circumcision Coelius Sedulius coming cries David Day of Christmas death delight divine earth Elizabeth enter Epiphany Evermore eyes faith father fear flesh Gabriel Galilee glory God’s grace grin hear heard heart heaven heavenly Herod Holy Spirit honor human Immanuel incense Israel Jael Jerusalem John Joseph Judah Judea keep king light lives Lord Jesus LUKE Magi manger Mary's meditations mercy Messiah mother never obedience Old Testament ourselves peace praise pray prayer prepare present priests promises prophet rejoice Reliving the Passion righteousness salvation Savior says shepherds Simeon sins Son of God song soul story suddenly suffering Temple thee things truth unto utter virgin voice Walter Wangerin Jr watch woman womb wonder word world at war worship Yahweh Zechariah