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The Christmas Countdown

Creating 25 Days of New Advent Traditions for Families

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Prepare your heart and home for a meaningful Christmas - Create new family traditions for Advent!

This guide provides easy-to-use devotionals with Scripture, music, food, and fun family activities to prepare your heart and home - and reach out to others - in celebration of Christ's coming.

"This book includes activities that will facilitate learning and bring families together during the Christmas season. Margie's warm spirit, personal flair, and strong desire to teach transcend throughout." - Deanna Stock, Ed.D., Associate Professor of Teacher Education, Chesapeake College

"The Christmas Countdown reminds us that Christmas is more than a shopping list. This book isn't simply another list of things-to-do this December but rather it is a plea to stop 'doing' and begin 'being' once more. Twenty-five new traditions remind us that family is a gift which reflects the great Gift of God incarnate, restoring us to the beauty of Christmas." Joel Kurz, Pastor, The Garden Community, Baltimore

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    • Library Journal

      October 1, 2010

      It would be a remarkable year, indeed, if LJ did not see a new batch of Christmas-themed books. Among this season's bumper crop are what amount to two Advent calendars in words: Harding's The Christmas Countdown and Bordon and Winters's Everything Christmas. Harding, a volunteer in Native American missions, has written a kind of spiritual manual for the season, complete with Bible selection, family activity, "adult challenge," and "child prompt." Her book inspires readers to look outward from the needs of the self toward a Christmas that celebrates others. Bordon and Winters's book is a more traditional package, with excerpts from hymns and carols, stories by the likes of William Dean Howells and Pearl S. Buck, and recipes, all keyed to the days leading up to Christmas. In The Feast of Christmas, Kelly (religious studies, John Carroll Univ.; The Origins of Christmas) uses the perspective of history to illuminate the distinction between the secular and the religious vision of Christmas. To Kelly, these visions have often been in harmony and could easily be again: the enemy is really an irrational fear of "commercial" Christmas. VERDICT For the Christian family, Harding's book is an excellent guide; for the thoughtful Christian believer or pastor, Kelly's book is suitable; and Bordon and Winters's anthology would make a fine gift as applicable.

      Copyright 2010 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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