Product Description: The twelfth-century abbot and contemplative known to history as 'The Mellifluous Teacher' wrote sermons for the entire Christmas liturgical cycle 'from the first Sunday of Advent (four weeks before Christmas) to the Feast of the Conversion of Saint Paul (25 January)...read more

Product Description: The twelfth-century abbot and contemplative known to history as The Mellifluous Teacher ' wrote sermons for the entire Christmas liturgical cycle 'from the first Sunday of Advent (four weeks before Christmas) to the Feast of the Conversion of Saint Paul (25 January)...read more

Product Description: Between Gloom And Glory is an example of Old Testament preaching at its most powerful and effective. Each of the 15 sermons contains heart-rending illustrations and each sermon builds to a climax of meaning and emotion. Titles include: A Baby Isn't Quite What We Expected Isaiah 2:1-5 What Do You Want For Christmas -- Isaiah 35:1-10 Rejoice! -- Isaiah 9:2-7 Whispered Preaching -- Isaiah 42:1-9 What Does God Want From Us -- Micah 6:1-8 Getting It Right For All The Wrong Reasons -- Isaiah 58:3-9a When Conviction And Culture Collide -- Deuteronomy 30:15-20 On Turning On The Lights In The Church Building -- Exodus 24:12-18 R...read more

The Christmas story evokes many touching images. Halos, fresh hay, shepherds carrying newborn lambs, and young motherhood all bring tears to the eyes of Christmastime churchgoers.But the Christmas story is more than sentimental. It is powerful. It deals with real people. It involves pain. It is one of the most strikingly unusual stories in all of history. And its main emphasis is not on Jesus' infancy, but on his deity -- and why Deity took the form of an infant.In this collection of Christmas insights, Dr. James Montgomery Boice emphasizes the incredible implications of one of our favorite true stories: the Creator of the universe choosing to live among the people of Earth.The Christmas story has deep meaning today, not merely as a nice bedtime story for children or a narrative in a choral concert, but as a foundation point of your salvation and your new life in Jesus -- the omnipotent, omniscient, righteous Christ of Christmas.

Product Description: To open scripture is to step back into the events of the faith it describes and enter them as active participants," writes Glenn Schoonover. "We find the miracle of the message takes shape: The divine Word of God is capable of making the leap...read more

Product Description: Christmas Spoken Here is a book of fourteen Christmas sermons by John Killinger. Dr. Killinger is a master preacher and author. You will receive a number of great ideas for Christmas sermons from this book. You will also have many illustrations that you have not used before to enhance your sermons...read more

Product Description: Warren Wiersbe has compiled meaningful sermons from the church's great preachers in this topical series. Filled with illustrative materials for pastors. Also an excellent resource for personal devotions.

Product Description: After many years of preaching from the first three chapters of Luke and the first two chapters of Matthew, Frank Ramirez decided to preach about something a little different around Christmastime. What evolved was this series of seven messages for the Sundays beginning with Advent and ending with Epiphany...read more

Product Description: Liturgist J.D. Crichton has written a useful guide to the lectionary readings for the Sundays of Advent through the Christmas season. He lists each of the Scripture readings for each week, then outlines a sample homily to serve as a basis for a full sermon.

Product Description: Describing earthy events with celestial significance, Daniel Weitner discerns divine activity in some of life's most mundane moments. Curious Commercials, a cluster of Advent meditations, is an excellent exposition of Incarnation theology...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Here are sermons, which I can say proudly are by my pastor, which bury into some of the lectionary's Old Testament texts. They get at them in the context of the message of the whole gospel. They address the issues we face with candor...read more

Product Description: The Old Testament readings in the lectionary are often neglected during the Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany seasons in favor of the more direct and easier-to-preach New Testament passages. William Self brings his creative imagination to these scriptural passages and gives them new life for the preacher...read more

Product Description: “The celebration of Advent is possible only to those who are troubled in soul, who know themselves to be poor and imperfect, who look forward to something greater to come. For these, it is enough to wait in humble fear until the Holy One himself comes down to us, God in the child in the manger...read more

Product Description: These First Lesson sermons will make real for your congregation the anticipation and fulfillment of God's promise of salvation for his people. Thoroughly grounded in the Old Testament lectionary texts, these meditations look forward to the Good News of Christ's arrival, never losing sight of the vital Gospel message...read more

Product Description: Each of the 17 sermon topics in this book consists of a charge or a command. We might even call them messianic imperatives. Since Christ has come, will come and is coming, how shall we live? The messages are eminently practical, but they do not constitute a self-help book...read more

Product Description: With his usual flair and fascinating anecdotes, Fetty presents 16 Gospel-based sermons for the Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany seasons. Unforgettable in their power and witness, these messages hold the listener's attention from beginning to end...read more

Product Description: The old saw, that the preacher's task is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable, proclaims a profound theological truth. For when we are afflicted, that is when God comforts us. If we are comfortable, God must first penetrate our false security...read more