Advent Emmanuel - Devotions for Christmas

About the book

For many, this is the season excess: more gifts, more food, more parties, more decorations, more, more, more! We jam pack our December days and nights until there is no room for another thing, another activity, another moment for anyone else. So full, yet so empty. In the days of Caesar Augustus, when a young couple came into town, there was no room for them either. The people were so full of themselves, most missed the most important event of all time. Someone made room and they were filled for a life time. This year, may we push back from the table and make room in our lives, in our budget and in our Christmas for Christ.

That is my wish as I offer twenty-five Bible based devotions for the Christmas season. I hope that Advent Emmanuel, literally “preparing for God with us”, may bring you more insight of the Christ and to yourself. Through your daily meditation, prayer and the actions you take, may you truly come to know, or know with more conviction, who Jesus really is in your life.

Honoring the traditional Advent Calendar in which a small gift is opened each day as Christmas approaches, with each reading, I offer you a gift. It may be a gift that you receive or that you give, but either way, you will benefit from putting your faith into action.

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Excerpt from the book

Christ in a Real World

This will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger. - Luke 2:12

Can you imagine the smell of the stable where Jesus was born? If the shepherds expected to find the Messiah in the sweet smell of heaven, they were likely surprised to find Him amid the odor of their own very familiar world. The Savior of mankind was not surrounded by the incense of perfumed priests, but the smell of hard working common men and lowly beasts. He would be a carpenter with calloused hands and burdened with the responsibility for this widowed mother and siblings when work was plentiful or scarce.

He is one of us, albeit the best of us, and He knows what it means to give until it hurts. He did. May we follow His example.

Today’s Gift

Be sure to visit the “real world” this season, a world that may be uncomfortable or unknown to you. Connect with a local nonprofit that will enable you to step into a new experience such as feeding the homeless, delivering blankets or coats to those in need, making cards or small gift bags for seniors in a nursing home. Walk in the shoes of someone less fortunate than yourself today and begin to understand how Jesus felt in our skin.

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