Surprised by Mary: How the Christ Who Was Born through Mary Can Be Born Again through You
Ebook
There's more to Mary than the carols we sing and the stories we tell at Christmas. James A. Harnish draws on Scripture, tradition, and contemporary experience to explore the surprising claim that the same Christ who was born into the world through Mary can be born into the world again through us.
This invites you to live into Mary's story right now! As you follow her from the day Gabriel invited her to bear the Son of God to the birth of the church on Pentecost, it will help you become a follower of Jesus who brings hope and healing to a broken world.
Through Mary's story, you will discover that Christian life is not only about how you can be "born again" but about how Christ can be "born again" through you.
“James Harnish is the best of United Methodism. He is anchored in Jesus, soaring in song, conversant with the saints, fired by the Scriptures. When the history of the Protestant recovery of Mary is written centuries hence, Harnish’s work will get a chapter.”
—Jason Byassee, senior pastor, Timothy Eaton Memorial Church, Toronto
“James Harnish offers far more than just an extensive biblical overview of the life of Mary. He extends an invitation to make the life of Mary a model for the spiritual life, to make her story our own. What results is something as surprising as the title of this book suggests: we discover our own capacity to bear the light of Jesus and give birth to hope for a hurting world.”
—Magrey R. deVega, senior pastor, Hyde Park United Methodist Church, Tampa, Florida
“Through Mary’s journey, James Harnish takes his readers from devotional intimacy to clarion call. He surprises us with a story that we thought we knew, reframing our contemporary moment of crisis with the stalwart faith of a woman who said, ‘Let it be with me.’ There is grief in these pages, but there is also hope that rings true. Given Harnish’s pastoral witness, that is no surprise at all.”
—Jerusha Matsen Neal, assistant professor of homiletics, Duke Divinity School
- Title: Surprised by Mary: How the Christ Who Was Born through Mary Can Be Born Again through You
- Authors: James A. Harnish, Donna Claycomb Sokol
- Publisher: Cascade Books
- Print Publication Date: 2024
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781666774245, 9781666774221, 1666774227, 9781666774238, 1666774235, 1666774243
- Resource ID: LLS:9781666774245
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-05-30T20:42:27Z
James A. Harnish is the author of numerous books and Bible studies including Finding Your Bearings: How Words That Guided Jesus through Crisis Can Guide Us (2021), Easter Earthquake: How Resurrection Shakes Our World (2017), and A Disciple’s Path (2012). He retired after forty-three years of pastoral ministry in the Florida Conference of The United Methodist Church. He and his wife, Martha, live in Longwood, Florida.