Anticipating the Advent (eBook)

Looking for Messiah in All the Right Places

William Varner (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
Fontes Press (Verlag)
978-1-948048-47-7 (ISBN)

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Most Christmas books focus on the light and joy of the season. Anticipating the Advent, however, portrays the dark side of Christmas because only then will the Light shine the brightest. On the night when the host of heaven sang "e;Glory to God in the highest,"e; they were arrayed to do battle with the evil forces who wanted to kill the promised child. This seed of Eve was coming to crush the enemy's head (Gen 3:15) and destroy the Devil's power (Heb 2:14). Old Simeon would tell the young mother Mary that, because her son would be the Messiah, a sword would pierce through her soul (Luke 2:35). In so many ways it was a "e;Not So Silent Night."e;

Inhalt

Foreword

Preface

Chapter 1: A Holy Heartburn

Chapter 2: A Woman's Seed

Chapter 3: A Lion or a Lamb

Chapter 4: A Star and a Scepter

Chapter 5: A House of Bread

Chapter 6: A King before the KING

Chapter 7: A Not so Silent Night

Chapter 8: A Christmas for Old People

Chapter 9: A Great Herod?

Chapter 10: A Mythology of the Magi

Chapter 11: A Messiah for the Rest of Us

Chapter 12: A Son of God

Chapter 13: Epilogue: Will the Real Messiah Please Stand Up?

Further Reading on the Messiah

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.11.2020
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
• Themenwelt: Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Liturgik / Homiletik
• Schlagworte: Advent • Christmas • Judaism • Messiah • New Testament • Old Testament
• ISBN-10: 1-948048-47-7 / 1948048477
• ISBN-13: 978-1-948048-47-7 / 9781948048477