Seasonal

Looking to share Christmas with 7-11s? The Topz gang travel back to see the Nativity for themselves Ideal as a Sunday School resource over Advent Take a journey all the way back to the very first Christmas with the Topz gang, and discover a night like no other! The boys and girls of the Topz gang have been told the Nativity story loads of times. They’ve seen books, nativity plays, and films all about it. There is nothing they don’t know about Christmas...or so they think. But all that changes when they go backward. Not to last Christmas, or the year before, or even to the year before that, but all the way back to the very first Christmas over 2,000 years ago. They find a Christmas they could never have imagined. Seeing countless angels flood the night sky, and seeing a Mary barely older than the Topz gang themselves being chosen to be Jesus’ mother, and how King Herod went on a crazy hunt for the Baby - the Christmas story they never knew happens right before their star-struck eyes. Made for 7-11s, this is the perfect resource for kids who think they know the Nativity inside and out. Filled with fun, this Topz Christmas book is a journey like no other! Help kids grasp why Christmas is much more than a donkey and a stable with this nail-biting, exciting, and engaging book from the Topz series

This invaluable guide helps all who plan worship to appreciate the rich possibilities and spiritual depth of the seasonal material for All Saints to Candlemas in Common Worship: Times and Seasons. It focuses on All Saints to the Eve of Advent Sunday, Advent, the Christmas Season and the Epiphany Season. The main part of the guide provides a range of practical tips and illuminating case studies to encourage creative use at a local level. It also gives succinct background information both for seasons and individual major seasonal occasions as well as for all the liturgical texts. John Sweet's introduction explains the raison d'etre of 'Times and Seasons' and provides a helpful brief introduction to the history and theology of the Christian Year.

Waiting Here For You helps us anticipate rather than dread the busy season of Advent and Christmas. A season overflowing with anticipation, Christmas comes the same time each year with great hope and promise of a baby born long ago. But, this season meant for joy is often consumed by busyness, pressure, mixed emotions, and is gone as quickly as it came. What is it all for? In the journey of Advent - a season of expectant waiting and preparation - we find our answer. It s in the waiting season of Advent that we prepare our hearts to meet December 25 with joy, peace, hope, and promise in our newborn King.

Advent is a season of waiting and anticipation in which the waiting itself is strangely rich and fulfilling. Poetry can help us fathom the depths of Advent's many paradoxes: dark and light, emptiness and fulfilment, ancient and ever new. For every day from Advent Sunday to Christmas Day and beyond, the bestselling poet Malcolm Guite chooses a favourite poem from across the Christian spiritual and English literary traditions and offers incisive seasonal reflections on it. In the spirit of the season, he blends the familiar and the new, ranging from from spiritual classics such as Edmund Spenser, John Donne, George Herbert and Christina Rossetti, to contemporary voices Luci Shaw and Scott Cairns. His own acclaimed sequence of sonnets for the great Advent antiphons are also included.

Why Christmas? is the specially designed Alpha Course resource booklet for Christmas by Nicky Gumbel. This small and handy booklet is an easy to read evangelical give-away with superb illustrations. The Christmas version of the Alpha resource booklet, 'Why Jesus?' helps you to understand why Jesus is important in your life and how you can become closer to him through the activities and practices of the Christian faith. In Christianity, Christmas is the celebration of Jesus' birth. 'Why Christmas?' discusses the meaning of Christmas from a Christian perspective. 'Why Christmas' considers the following areas: What is important about Christmas? Why people get so excited about Jesus? Why did Jesus die? This booklet is a great read if you want to understand the meaning and importance of Jesus in the Christian Faith. 'Why Christmas' is an official Alpha Course resource and should prove to be a valuable asset to all guests and leaders during the Christmas season. 'Why Christmas?' is a perfect stocking filler for friends and family as it is extremely educational and informative about the real reason for Christmas