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Looking Forward to the Nativity
During the season of Christmas, it's so difficult to find time to help your family meditate on the true meaning of Christmas. The short devotions in Looking Forward to the Nativity help you show your kids how people throughout the Bible looked forward to the coming of the Nativity—the birth of Jesus Christ. Each day illustrates how the baby Jesus fulfilled everything God had promised from the beginning. This short twenty-five-day devotional capitalizes on the natural wonder children have as Christmas approaches during the month of December.
- GenresChristmas
128 pages, Hardcover
First published October 14, 2006
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December 27, 2015
We used this book as our family advent devotional this year and overall I really liked it and will likely use it again.
There is a reading for each day which includes a short Bible story, a short passage of scripture, a prayer, and a family activity. The family activities vary significantly from day to day including things like singing a particular Christmas hymn together, making an ornament, preparing gifts for teachers, and making snow angels. I really liked the variety and also that most of the activities require minimal preparation.
The key feature I appreciated about this book is that the readings for the first half of advent are from the old testament. It hits key passages of prophecy as well as pictures of Christ from the old testament (like the Passover and Boaz). There were one or two selection I found a little odd (like the selection about Eli's sons the bad priests, in contrast to Christ who would be the perfect priest), but overall I liked the big-picture perspective that it offered.
To round this book out for our advent activities, I purchased a wooden puzzle of the nativity that has 24 pieces. Each day I created a 4-clue treasure hunt that ended in finding one puzzle piece with the scripture reference for the day written on the back. The kids loved the treasure hunt and the puzzle was intended to drive home the idea that each story and prophecy from the old testament provided a piece of the picture that culminated in Christ's birth.
There is a reading for each day which includes a short Bible story, a short passage of scripture, a prayer, and a family activity. The family activities vary significantly from day to day including things like singing a particular Christmas hymn together, making an ornament, preparing gifts for teachers, and making snow angels. I really liked the variety and also that most of the activities require minimal preparation.
The key feature I appreciated about this book is that the readings for the first half of advent are from the old testament. It hits key passages of prophecy as well as pictures of Christ from the old testament (like the Passover and Boaz). There were one or two selection I found a little odd (like the selection about Eli's sons the bad priests, in contrast to Christ who would be the perfect priest), but overall I liked the big-picture perspective that it offered.
To round this book out for our advent activities, I purchased a wooden puzzle of the nativity that has 24 pieces. Each day I created a 4-clue treasure hunt that ended in finding one puzzle piece with the scripture reference for the day written on the back. The kids loved the treasure hunt and the puzzle was intended to drive home the idea that each story and prophecy from the old testament provided a piece of the picture that culminated in Christ's birth.
December 25, 2023
Basically a kid‐ friendly recording of the various Bible passages. The closing prayer was nice. What was disappointing was the activity suggestions, which were not very creative and didn't really have any good questions/discussion starters.
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