A 25-Day Advent Devotional
An old English carol counted four thousand winters between Eden and Bethlehem. Across twenty-five mornings, this devotional follows the promise of Christ from Genesis through the prophets and the long silence before his birth. Christmas morning arrives with the whole story behind it.
Paperback · 112 pages · twenty-five dated readings
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Plate 139, The prophet Isaiah (Isaiah 9:6). Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Die Bibel in Bildern, 1860. The engraving that faces this reading.
December 21 · The Shortest Day
“The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.” Isaiah 9:2
We may keep God for the daylight, and treat the dark parts of life as places he has not yet come.
Which part of your life do you treat as too dark for God to have reached yet?
I bring you the parts of my life I have kept out of your light.
Plate 166, The Nativity (Luke 2:10-12). Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Die Bibel in Bildern, 1860. The engraving for Christmas Day.
Every reading faces a full-page wood engraving from Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld’s Die Bibel in Bildern, published in 1860. All twenty-five plates are from that one volume.