A Light Has Dawned

Meditations on Advent and Christmas

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A Light Has Dawned: Meditations on Advent and Christmas

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Contents

INTRODUCTION | Carolyn Arends

NOVEMBER 27 | Alice Slaikeu Lawhead

Advent

NOVEMBER 28 | Stanley Grenz

Drive-Through Christmas

NOVEMBER 29 | Katelyn Beaty

The Poverty of Christmas

NOVEMBER 30 | Tim Stafford

Bethlehem on a Budget

DECEMBER 1 | Mary Ellen Ashcroft

Away from the Manger

DECEMBER 2 | Wendy Alsup

Saved through Child-Bearing

DECEMBER 3 | Leigh C. Bishop

Christmas in Afghanistan

DECEMBER 4 | Mary Ellen Ashcroft

Gift Wrapping God

DECEMBER 5 | Eugene H. Peterson

Christmas Shame

DECEMBER 6 | Donald J. Shelby

Christmas on Tiptoe

DECEMBER 7 | Charles Colson with Catherine Larson

A Cosmic Culmination

DECEMBER 8 | David Neff

Misreading the Magnificat...