The Advent Sequence
Title | The Advent Sequence PDF eBook |
Author | David Ogden |
Publisher | |
Pages | 116 |
Release | 2009-07-14 |
Genre | Advent music |
ISBN | 9780854021703 |
This new sequence of words and music provides the framework for a devotional service and a wide range of choral resources for use during Advent.Structured around the great Advent Atiphons, known as the Great ‘Os’, this service of darkness to light provides readings and music to complement the Antiphons, and help us reflect on the theme of the Chris who comes to judge and save his people.The choral music offers flexibility in a wide range of styles and levels of difficulty for choirs of all standards. Congregational items include established Advent hymns and contemporary worship songs.The Advent Sequence includes music by:• John Barnard• Jon Banks• George Guest• Simon Lole• Peter Moger• David Ogden• Richard ShephardThe Advent Sequence provides a valuable addition to the music and liturgy of Advent for churches of all sizes.
Waiting on the Word
Title | Waiting on the Word PDF eBook |
Author | Malcolm Guite |
Publisher | Canterbury Press |
Pages | 176 |
Release | 2015-08-31 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1848258003 |
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. A scholar of poetry as well as a renowned poet himself, his knowledge is deep and wide and he offers readers a soul-food feast for Advent. Among the classic writers he includes are: George Herbert, John Donne, Milton, Tennyson,and Christina Rossetti,as well as contemporary poets like Scott Cairns, Luci Shaw, and Grevel Lindop. He also includes a selection of his own highly praised work.
Jotham's Journey
Title | Jotham's Journey PDF eBook |
Author | Arnold Ytreeide |
Publisher | Kregel Publications |
Pages | 168 |
Release | 2008-08-26 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 0825441749 |
In this widely popular, exciting story for the advent season, readers follow ten-year-old Jotham across Israel as he searches for his family. Though he faces thieves, robbers, and kidnappers, Jotham also encounters the wise men, shepherds, and innkeepers until at last he finds his way to the Savior born in Bethlehem.
Ishtar's Odyssey
Title | Ishtar's Odyssey PDF eBook |
Author | Arnold Ytreeide |
Publisher | Kregel Publications |
Pages | 176 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 0825443938 |
A new Advent family devotional from the author of Jotham's Journey! Fourth in a set of Advent adventure books for families, Ishtar's Odyssey follows the ten-year-old son of a Persian wise man as their caravan follows a star across the desert. Ishtar would just as soon stay in the comfort of the palace, but slowly he learns that there's much to see, do, and learn in this world that can't be experienced in school. He eventually meets Jotham, Bartholomew, and Tabitha as he follows his father and uncles in their search for a newborn king. Arnold Ytreeide's family advent devotionals have become a much-loved Christmas tradition, enjoyed by multiple generations. With over 100,000 in print they include Jotham's Journey, Bartholomew's Passage, and Tabitha's Travels. - See more at: http://www.kregel.com/childrens-story-books/ishtars-odyssey/#sthash.UaTgkA6T.dpuf A new Advent family devotional from the author of Jotham's Journey! Fourth in a set of Advent adventure books for families, Ishtar's Odyssey follows the ten-year-old son of a Persian wise man as their caravan follows a star across the desert. Ishtar would just as soon stay in the comfort of the palace, but slowly he learns that there's much to see, do, and learn in this world that can't be experienced in school. He eventually meets Jotham, Bartholomew, and Tabitha as he follows his father and uncles in their search for a newborn king. Arnold Ytreeide's family advent devotionals have become a much-loved Christmas tradition, enjoyed by multiple generations. With over 100,000 in print they include Jotham's Journey, Bartholomew's Passage, and Tabitha's Travels. A new Advent family devotional from the author of Jotham's Journey! Fourth in a set of Advent adventure books for families, Ishtar's Odyssey follows the ten-year-old son of a Persian wise man as their caravan follows a star across the desert. Ishtar would just as soon stay in the comfort of the palace, but slowly he learns that there's much to see, do, and learn in this world that can't be experienced in school. He eventually meets Jotham, Bartholomew, and Tabitha as he follows his father and uncles in their search for a newborn king. Arnold Ytreeide's family advent devotionals have become a much-loved Christmas tradition, enjoyed by multiple generations. With over 100,000 in print they include Jotham's Journey, Bartholomew's Passage, and Tabitha's Travels. - See more at: http://www.kregel.com/childrens-story-books/ishtars-odyssey/#sthash.UaTgkA6T.dpufA new Advent family devotional from the author of Jotham's Journey! Fourth in a set of Advent adventure books for families, Ishtar's Odyssey follows the ten-year-old son of a Persian wise man as their caravan follows a star across the desert. Ishtar would just as soon stay in the comfort of the palace, but slowly he learns that there's much to see, do, and learn in this world that can't be experienced in school. He eventually meets Jotham, Bartholomew, and Tabitha as he follows his father and uncles in their search for a newborn king. Arnold Ytreeide's family advent devotionals have become a much-loved Christmas tradition, enjoyed by multiple generations. With over 100,000 in print they include Jotham's Journey, Bartholomew's Passage, and Tabitha's Travels. - See more at: http://www.kregel.com/childrens-story-books/ishtars-odyssey/#sthash.UaTgkA6T.dpuf
Wake Up to Advent!
Title | Wake Up to Advent! PDF eBook |
Author | John Sentamu |
Publisher | SPCK |
Pages | 103 |
Release | 2019-08-15 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0281083533 |
‘This is the hour of crisis: it is high time for you to wake out of sleep, for deliverance is nearer to us now than it was when first we believed.’ St Paul's encouraging words to the Christians in Rome are the springboard for the Archbishop of York's Advent book for 2019. With prayers and stimulating questions for reflection at the end of each daily meditation, here is fresh spiritual food for the Advent journey – pressed down, shaken together and running over. ‘Wake up! Clean up! Feed up! Grow up!’ Walk alongside Archbishop Sentamu this Advent, as he discusses the meaning and influence of those four gospel imperatives in this lively and invigorating book.
Tabitha's Travels
Title | Tabitha's Travels PDF eBook |
Author | Arnold Ytreeide |
Publisher | Kregel Publications |
Pages | 162 |
Release | |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 082548961X |
Curious, competent, and courageous Tabitha is the daughter of a shepherd who is taking his family on caravan to his birthplace. Along the way, she meets and becomes friends with Jotham and Bartholomew, watches as Romans take her father prisoner, spends time with Zechariah and Elizabeth, helps Mary and Joseph just before Christ’s birth, and ends her travels at the stable in Bethlehem.
The Story of Christmas
Title | The Story of Christmas PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Workman Publishing |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9780761152507 |
Advent calendar with 24 books to be used as tree ornaments depicting the events in the Christmas story, set into a board cover with brief text on the flaps and back cover. Each book ornament has a gold cord to hang it on a Christmas tree.