Keeping Christmas Well: Living in Light of the Incarnation of Christ
Written by Mark Roberts
Wouldn’t it be wonderful to keep Christmas well, not just on one special day or during one special season of the year?
In Charles Dickens’s beloved story, A Christmas Carol, Ebenezer Scrooge starts out as anything but a lover of Christmas. For him, Christmas is a “Humbug!” But, after his encounter with the Spirits of Christmas, Scrooge is a changed man. As Dickens observes, Scrooge “knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge.”
What would it mean to live each day in light of the fact that God came to dwell among us in the baby born in a manger? Our hope is that this devotional guide will help you to pause and reflect as you determine what it would mean for you to "keep Christmas well".
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What's Inside?
- Easily printable format (8.5″x11″ portrait)
- 14 devotions containing scripture, reflections, and prayers.
This devotional can be used in a variety of ways:
- By yourself: Use the devotional every day starting two weeks before Christmas, or at your own pace in the weeks throughout the Christmas season (or any time of the year you see fit).
- In a group: Go through the guide, one week at a time, with a small group.
About the Author
Dr. Mark D. Roberts is Senior Strategist for Fuller’s Max De Pree Center for Leadership, where he focuses on the spiritual development and thriving of leaders. He is the principal writer of the daily devotional, Life for Leaders, and the founder of the De Pree Center’s Flourishing in the Third Third of Life Initiative.
With years of experience as a pastor and non-profit leader, as well as a mentor to leaders in business and other fields, Mark is deeply committed to serving leaders in the marketplace, education, government, non-profits, arts, family, and the church. He envisions leaders flourishing in every part of their lives as well as their leadership, thus contributing to God’s work throughout the world. Mark has a growing commitment to helping leaders who are entering the “third third” of life to flourish in new ways as their relationship to compensated work changes.
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