“The Greatest Gift : unwrapping the full love story of Christmas”
by Ann Voskamp
Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. 2013
Reviewed by Diane Busch
Reading this book daily for the month of December was a
great way to prepare for Christmas. It is an advent devotional. Each day along with the
reading of a scripture passage, a devotional thought, and a pertinent
quote, an ornament can be added to your Jesse Tree. There are reflective
questions and even an action item to do each day.
Ann has an amazing way with words to make you think anew
about things you may take for granted or things you had never pondered before.
She begins by explaining the great importance of the genealogy of Jesus, which
we so often gloss over. And how
making a Jesse Tree traces the family line and heritage of our own forever
family—the family of God. Out of
the stump of Jesse “comes forth one tender branch that will grow into a crown
of thorns…a rugged cross…your ladder back to God. Out of the stump of that fallen tree, watered with living
waters that flow from the depths of his grace, a twig sprouts. That twig will be the scepter that
defeats your sin…and lets you grow again.”
Plan now to enrich your advent season next year with this
book, or read it any time of year to be encouraged by how much God loves you.
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