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  • Christmas In The Manger

    $8.99

    The gentle beauty of the story of the first Christmas is now available as a board book. With a simple, lyrical text and radiant artwork, this book is perfect for the youngest child to be a part of the wonder of the Nativity. Full color.

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  • Hear The Bells Ring

    $7.95

    Anyone who has used Cynthia Cowen’s resources knows that they have the following characteristics:

    They are complete — everything you need is here;
    They require little preparation, rehearsal, or props;
    They are theologically sound and spiritually uplifting.

    Many churches have discovered recently that families wish to include worship in the festivities of their Christmas day. This is the perfect way to do it without requiring a lot of work.

    It’s all here: call to worship, Christmas carols, litanies, meditations, scripture readings, and more!

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  • Coming Home

    $12.95

    After many years of preaching from the first three chapters of Luke and the first two chapters of Matthew, Frank Ramirez decided to preach about something a little different around Christmastime. What evolved was this series of seven messages for the Sundays beginning with Advent and ending with Epiphany.

    Why a sermon series based on the Old Testament book of Haggai? Ramirez writes, “I’ve always been fascinated by the lesser known books of the Old Testament, partly because I’m afraid of being embarrassed in heaven if I don’t recognize some of these people!”

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  • Whose Birthday Is It Anyway

    $7.95

    For the small church that does not have a lot of time to prepare, here is an ideal Christmas program and worship service. It can be presented as part of a Sunday School program or Sunday worship service.

    The true message of Christmas is spoken through the words of “the friendly beasts,” which include two donkeys, three doves, four cows and four sheep.

    This program enables children to become involved in a Christmas project in which they share their Christmas ornaments and angel food cake with the congregation.

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  • Behold That Star Christmas Anthology

    $20.00

    Looking for a fresh collection of stories to usher in the season of joy and giving? For those grown tired of commercialism, who feel that Santa Claus and red-nosed reindeer do not project the true Christmas spirit, this book may be the answer.

    Containing little-known classics by old and new masters of the genre, this bestselling anthology includes stories from many lands, interspersed with songs and poems – over half the contents available in English for the first time.

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  • Light In The Land Of Shadows Cycle B

    $12.95

    Light In The Land Of Shadows contains 16 sermons for Advent, Christmas, Epiphany and Transfiguration Sundays.

    This book makes connections between Old Testament themes and contemporary issues. The preacher will find it exegetically sound yet filled with illustrations and insights. The lay person will find it comprehendible and useful for exploring ultimate issues within the context of meaningful Bible study.

    (The) sermons are fleshed out in normal, everyday language, grammar and sentence structure — Yet the faithful preacher can take comfort in the fact that they are backed up by sound biblical exegesis. (from the Introduction)

    Hal Warlick is a master at weaving a fascinating story or illustration into the sermon, dramatically portraying the scriptural message. This is Old Testament preaching at its best.

    Sermon titles include:
    Lighting A Fire In A Cold Room
    All Dressed Up And Somewhere To Go
    Any FAX From God Today?
    Will We Enjoy Heaven?
    Pain And Promise In The Hand Of God

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  • Wrinkled Wrappings

    $12.95

    Wrinkled Wrappings is a series of pulpit messages for Advent and Christmas carved from the pen and emanating from the heart of a distinguished preacher whose messages inspire hope in the hearts of believers. Brokhoff is especially skilled at relating biblical stories to modern life. The flowing style of these sermons is peppered with gripping illustrations that catch us where we are and carry us along as he shines the light of God’s Word into our lives.

    Sermons are based on texts from Mark, Luke, John, and Isaiah.

    Sermon titles include:
    You’re Going To Have A Baby
    Good News For Bad Times
    God With A Human Face
    Happy Next Year?

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  • 1st Christmas Present Ever

    $7.95

    Versatile — “ready-to-use” — no memorization required. Just what the volunteer ordered.

    This program is appropriate for Christmas Eve or any Sunday morning in Advent. Involving children of all ages and one adult, it can be used in any size church with a few participants or many. Two versions — a longer version intended for a full-length service and a shortened version to be used in place of a sermon — are also included.

    Symbols of Christmas (a tree, ornaments, candy canes, a creche and more) are combined with biblical readings and brief dialogue to create a greater understanding of Christian traditions. While the narrative dialogue is being read, a silent, active nativity scene is shown to illustrate the first Christmas present ever. (Copying privileges included.)

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  • Roads From Bethehem

    $42.00

    SKU (ISBN): 9780664221577ISBN10: 0664221572Editor: Edna TroianoBinding: Trade PaperPublished: December 1993Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press Print On Demand Product

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  • Kneeling In Bethlehem (Large Type)

    $19.00

    In a style that is contemporary, reverent, and faith-filled, Ann Weems reflects on the mystery of the Christmas season. Included in this collection are twenty-six poems created specifically for this title as well as popular selections from her earlier workds, especially Reaching for Rainbows and Family Faith Stories. Capturing the spirit of joyful celebration, the poems can be used in worship services, read aloud at family gatherings, or used by individuals for quiet reflection.

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  • What Shall We Do With This Baby

    $7.95

    Jan Spence created this short Christmas Eve children’s program for her small, rural church. It includes five brief scenes built around a suggested order of worship. Clergy can easily write a meditation to complete the service.

    Speaking parts are available for a narrator and two readers. These roles are appropriate for junior or senior high students.

    Any number of younger children can easily be added in non-speaking roles as shepherds, angels, and wise men. The program also included speaking roles for Mary, Joseph, and baby Jesus.

    The service has appropriate breaks for carols or songs by children’s choirs.

    Narrator: What shall we do with this baby? Yes this is the question that has echoed through time. Nothing is more helpless and needy than an infant alone. Without human help, a baby alone cannot thrive or survive. What shall we do with this baby indeed!

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  • Golden Bells

    $12.95

    Is the need a Christmas message, adult casts, and great themes of literature? This book offers two solutions:
    The Bells of Christmas Eve takes place in Italy in 1520. In the final moment of the play, the bells ring — it is a miracle. Speaking parts for 8 persons. Performance time about 30 minutes. Church bells should ring as sound effects at the play’s end.

    The Golden Gift is set in France in 1820. The story is based on a scene from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo. It includes the familiar story of the ex-convict and the good bishop. The ex-convict takes the golden candlesticks. Parts for 10 persons. Performance time is about 30 minutes.

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  • Christmas Praise

    $21.00

    SKU (ISBN): 9780664221614ISBN10: 0664221610Waldo BeachBinding: Trade PaperPublished: December 1991Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press Print On Demand Product

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  • Unplug The Christmas Machine

    $17.99

    1. “A Christmas Carol” Revisited
    2. Women: The Christmas Magicians
    3. Men: The Christmas Stagehands
    4. The Four Things Children Really Want For Christmas
    5. The Homecoming
    6. Inside The Christmas Machine
    7. The Gift Of Joy
    8. A Simple Christmas
    9. Christmas Revival

    Appendix: Resources For A Simple Christmas

    Additional Info
    Nine years and thriteen printings later, Unplug The Christmas Machine is still the undisputed guide to creating a joyful, stress-free holiday season. Revised and filled with new material, this book will enjoy even greater popularity in the years to come.

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  • Saint Nicholas Speaks

    $7.95

    Includes Costume Instructions

    How recently have you shared with your congregation and its children the story of the “Christian” Saint Nicholas? This book offers you the opportunity to tell the story in a visual way by dressing the part of The Bishop of Myra, Turkey.

    Saint Nicholas Speaks enables you to tell the story in an informal format with children, from your pulpit, or to groups outside the church. The monologue is also appropriate for parents and grandparents to read to young children during Advent.

    The book offers instructions on how to make Saint Nicholas’ costume and a brief description of Christmas traditions in eight countries around the world.

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  • Choices

    $7.95

    Your congregation’s children are the focus of this spectacular service for Christmas Eve.

    Traditional Christmas scripture texts are skillfully interwoven with mimed dramatizations, dramatic dialogs in contemporary language, and familiar hymns and carols in this complete order of worship.

    With something for everyone to do, from pre-schoolers to high school seniors, your children — and their parents — will personally experience the joy of the Christ child’s birth — and the choices which that miraculous event gives us.

    Performance Time: approximately 45 minutes.

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  • Places Of The Promise

    $12.95

    “The Advent/Christmas story is one that identifies specific places as the font of the rich interactions between God and humanity. The names of such locales are as familiar to us as our own homes.”

    Here are six sermons with accompanying children’s sermons. The series covers Advent 1 through Christmas 1. Each sermon focuses on the particular sphere God used to prepare creation for the gift of Jesus.

    The sermons offer:
    * Texts from Lectionary Cycle B
    * Other suggested texts
    * Suggestions for congregational activities

    The children’s sermons follow an advent wreath-lighting series. Following Christmas, these sermons use the Christmas tree and the creche scene as themes. Each children’s sermon offers at least three objects to use as illustrations.

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  • Prophets Bread Cycle A

    $12.95

    From the author of the vastly popular “Gospel Horizons” series, comes this new collection of deeply thoughtful, personal; yet, universal responses to First Lesson lectionary texts for the Advent season.
    Drawn from the author’s own searching questions and sensitive insights, these model homilies will deepen your understanding of the proclaimers and prophets who were sustained by the word of the Lord.
    Messages include:
    – God as Woodcutter
    – The Glance of God
    – What God Sees
    – Six Cloudy Days
    and thirteen more!
    For use with Common Lectionary texts.

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  • Shepherds Of Bethlehem

    $7.95

    This Christmas Eve Candlelight Service takes your congregation to the hills and homes of Bethlehem on the night that Jesus was born. Monologs by local shepherds and their families reflect on the hopes and expectations of the common people who populated that quiet, historic town. Prayers and suggested hymns combine with traditional Christmas readings and the drama of candlelight to create a spectacular and reverent Christmas Eve worship event.

    Staging and costuming can be simple or complex. Includes reading parts for up to eight older youth and adults, and walk-on parts as desired.

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  • Come Sing And Celebrate

    $7.95

    Here are two delightful Christmas plays for a special celebration with your parish’s children, youth, and adults.

    The Night Love Was Born by Mary Jane Mulder is a contemporary re-enactment, in word and song, of the first Christmas story, set within the world of imagination — where even a cynical toy soldier can learn the true meaning of Christmas.

    Originally written for participation by up to fifty children, this flexible pageant can be tailored to suit the needs and resources of large or small congregations. Staging can be either simple or elaborate, and the entire performance can be presented in forty minutes.

    Angels We Have Heard on High Street by J. Richard Coyle is a modern version of the Gospel’s account of Christ’s birth, using contemporary characters who present their message in music and mime. Parts are involved for participants of all ages, and congregational involvement is required. Staging and production are flexible, and can accommodate abundant or limited resources. Performance time is also flexible.

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  • Reading The Signs Cycle C

    $12.95

    If you are like many parish pastors, you find the Christmas season to be the most frustrating season of the church year — so much to do, so much to celebrate, so much to say — and so little time to prepare it all!

    That is why J. Ellsworth Kalas has prepared these twelve thoughtful sermons — to help you present the meaningful and coherent messages you want your congregation to hear during this busiest of seasons.

    Within are sermons for every Cycle C gospel text during the Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany seasons from the Common, Lutheran, and Roman Catholic lectionaries, including:
    – The Signs of Summer
    – The Hinge of History
    – Songs of the Season
    – Return to the New
    – From Empty Nets to Full Lives
    – Awake to Glory

    Use these complete sermons as presented — or as jumping-off points for your own meaningful messages.

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  • Christmas In The White House

    $29.95

    SKU (ISBN): 9780664222161ISBN10: 0664222161Albert MenendezBinding: Trade PaperPublished: December 1983Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press Print On Demand Product

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