Experiencing Christmas: Christ in the Sights and Sounds of Advent
Ebook
Discover how everything changed when God was born.
Everything seems different at the end of the year. We put lights on our houses to dispel the growing darkness, Christmas music floods local radio stations, apple cider and cranberry sauce are again on the menu, and wrapping paper and tape are always ready. Things just look, smell, and taste differently during the Advent and Christmas season, and these differences are a sign to us that God is about to do something radical and different. Christmas is when God surrounded the divine with senses of his own. That first noel was when God had eyes to see suffering, ears to hear our cries, and hands to hold those in need, and all of these senses were bundled in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger. “This will be a sign to you,” the angel told the shepherds, and they traveled to Bethlehem and found a child. What signs do you see during the Advent and Christmas season that point you to the divine?
Additional components to use the book as a four-week small group study include a leader guide and DVD/Video Sessions featuring Matt Rawle. This book also includes a link to free downloadable teaching resources for children and youth.
Matt Rawle explores the Advent themes through the senses of sight, taste/smell, sound, and touch.
Works beautifully as a stand-alone book or can be combined with the Leader Guide and DVD/Video sessions to create a small group or churchwide study
Hear from Matt Rawle in short teaching videos each week
A four-week Bible study perfect for Advent and Christmas
- Title: Experiencing Christmas: Christ in the Sights and Sounds of Advent
- Author: Matt Rawle
- Publisher: Abingdon Press
- Print Publication Date: 2023
- Logos Release Date: 2023
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781791029289, 9781791029272, 1791029272, 1791029280
- Resource ID: LLS:9781791029289
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-04-29T21:22:45Z
Matt Rawle is Lead Pastor at Asbury United Methodist Church in Bossier City, Louisiana. Matt is an international speaker who loves to tell an old story in a new way, especially at the intersection of pop culture and the church. He is the author of a new series of books titled The Pop in Culture Series. The series includes The Faith of a Mockingbird, Hollywood Jesus, The Salvation of Doctor Who, The Redemption of Scrooge, What Makes a Hero?, and The Gift of the Nutcracker.