Simply Christmas by Tama Fortner is a 31-day Christmas devotional hot off the press. It's a wonderful holiday accompaniment full of Biblical insights regarding the birth and life of Jesus. Just as the title suggests, Simply Christmas also provides thirty-one helpful ideas for keeping the best of Christmas without losing ourselves in the business of …
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When our children were young, one of our favorite activities leading up to Christmas was reading a story through Advent. Each of the four Sunday nights we lit an Advent candle in anticipation of the coming of the Light of the World (Jesus) Jotham's Journey, by Arnold Ytreeide, is one of the four books we …
Francine Rivers stays true to the Scriptural record of Jesus' life in her novella, Unafraid, but uses her imagination to fill in the gaps of Mary's story. The climax in Rivers' series of the five women listed in the lineage of Jesus, Unafraid tells the story of the woman God chose to bear His Son. …
The fourth in the series of Advent books by Arnold Ytreeide following: Jotham’s Journey, Tabitha’s Travel’s, and Bartholomew’s Passage. Each night throughout Advent, the stories build momentum culminating at the manger in Bethlehem on Christmas Eve. Join the adventure in Ishtar’s Odyssey. Ishtar is a ten-year-old son of a wise man. His father and uncles convince …
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So many of my favorite home school memories involve reading good books aloud. For many years we began our days with me reading both devotional books and historical fiction to the children and ending the days with Daddy reading classics to all of us. When the books were riveting, the children often persuaded me to …
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