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Arriving in Bethlehem – taken from The Christmas Story

Dickens – taken from Celebrating Christmas A 2017 film about Charles Dickens was entitled The Man Who Invented Christmas. The eye-catching title is a profound exaggeration because, as this book frequently points...

Home Alone – taken from Christmas at the Movies Home Alone is about how 8-year-old Kevin (brilliantly played by Macaulay Culkin) gets left behind when his rather dysfunctional family leaves for a...

Promises and Prophecies – taken from Jesus Christ – The Truth Matthew’s Gospel begins with a long genealogy that daunts modern readers. It’s tempting to pass rapidly over this listing of...

Saint Nicholas – taken from Heroes of the Faith: Volume Two One problem with becoming a public hero is that, inevitably, your life ends up in the hands of the public! There,...

Elizabeth and Zechariah – taken from Celebrating Christmas Luke begins his account of the nativity of Jesus in what might seem a rather surprising way. We are introduced to Zechariah, a priest...

Every December the world pauses, some willingly, some wearily, to tell the story that divided history in two. We call it Christmas, but heaven called it Rescue Day.In that Bethlehem...

Mary – taken from The Christmas Story  

Caesar Augustus – taken from God With Us In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world . . . And...

Advent Calendar – taken from Celebrating Christmas The most obvious expression of the countdown to Christmas today is the Advent calendar, a card with a flap for each day of the season,...

It's a Wonderful Life– taken from Christmas at the Movies It’s a Wonderful Life follows the life of George Bailey, born and raised in the typical American small town of Bedford Falls....

Advent – taken from Celebrating Christmas The run-up to Christmas is considered by the church as the season of Advent, from the Latin ‘Adventus’, or ‘coming’. Advent is a time of preparation,...