Top Ten Quotes: It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas
Long-time readers know my love for British pastor and author Andrew Wilson. His book God of All Things is one of my favorites.
He just dropped an incredibly short book specific to the season. It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas: Joys That Make the Season Special is designed as an outreach tool for skeptics and unbelievers. And yes, you should use it as that. But it’s also a great little book to get believers’ heads in the game for the approaching holiday.
Right now it’s just four bucks on Amazon (three bucks for Kindle). Grab a copy – or several – today.
Here are my top ten favorite quotes:
- …all these Christmas joys only make sense—and in fact life only begins to make sense—if we understand the meaning of the first Christmas.
- …where you look for light will be directed by what you think the root of the problems in your own life or in this world are.
- People often think that the Christmas story is schmaltzy and sentimental…In fact, though, the Christmas story is a brutally honest account of how dark the world really is.
- To be really human is to be surrounded by messy realities. The only place where people get to live without complexity and difficulty is in fictional fairy stories.
- Jesus is not ashamed of failures or frightened of complexities. He even puts them in his family tree.
- The angels use all the great slogans of the day. Here is a birth that brings “good news of great joy”. Here is a Saviour. Here is peace in human form. But they’re not talking about Augustus. They’re talking about Jesus.
- We need saving from darkness, from death—and no leader we can find can deliver that.
- Here is Matthew, a Jew, writing an account for Jewish readers of a man who he says is the King of the Jews. And it is non-Jews who worship him first.
- Often the people who most clearly see how exciting the coming of Jesus is are those who have only just encountered him.
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