Experiencing Christmas, Matt Rawle
Experiencing Christmas, Matt Rawle
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Experiencing Christmas
Christ in the Sights and Sounds of Advent

Author: Matt Rawle

Narrator: Tom Parks

Unabridged: 3 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 10/24/2023


Synopsis

Discover how everything changed when God was born.

Everything seems different at the end of the year. We put lights on our houses to dispel the growing darkness, Christmas music floods local radio stations, apple cider and cranberry sauce are again on the menu, and wrapping paper and tape are always ready. Things just look, smell, and taste differently during the Advent and Christmas season, and these differences are a sign to us that God is about to do something radical and different. Christmas is when God surrounded the divine with senses of his own. That first noel was when God had eyes to see suffering, ears to hear our cries, and hands to hold those in need, and all of these senses were bundled in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger. "This will be a sign to you," the angel told the shepherds, and they traveled to Bethlehem and found a child. What signs do you see during the Advent and Christmas season that point you to the divine?

About Matt Rawle

Matt Rawle is Lead Pastor at Asbury United Methodist Church in Bossier City, Louisiana. Matt is an international speaker who loves to tell an old story in a new way, especially at the intersection of pop culture and the church. He is the author of Jesus Revealed: The I Am Statements in the Gospel of Luke as well as the Pop in Culture series, which includes The Heart that Grew Three Sizes, The Faith of a Mockingbird, Hollywood Jesus, The Salvation of Doctor Who, The Redemption of Scrooge, What Makes a Hero?, and The Gift of the Nutcracker.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Eileen

A good Advent study, focusing on the senses and how it relates to our experience and expectation of the coming Christ child.......more

Goodreads review by Will

This book provides a great reminder of how our senses are on over-drive during the Christmas season and help us prepare for the coming of our savior. Wonderful book!......more