Another good Christmas read is Because of Bethlehem by Max Lucado. Excerpt:
• This time of year babies take center stage. And well they should. Is not Christmas the story of a baby…On a starlit night in the company of sheep, cattle, and a bewildered Joseph, Mary’s eyes fell upon the face of her just born son. She was bone-weary, surely. In pain, likely. Ready to place her head on the straw and sleep the rest of the night away, probably. But first Mary had to see this face. His face. To wipe the moisture from his mouth and feel the shape of his chin. To be the first to whisper, “So this is what God looks like.” • All the love of God was in Jesus. All the strength of God was in Jesus. All the compassion and power and devotion of God were, for a time, in the earthly body of a carpenter…What started in the Bethlehem cradle culminated on the Jerusalem cross.
Excerpt:
• This time of year babies take center stage. And well they should. Is not Christmas the story of a baby…On a starlit night in the company of sheep, cattle, and a bewildered Joseph, Mary’s eyes fell upon the face of her just born son. She was bone-weary, surely. In pain, likely. Ready to place her head on the straw and sleep the rest of the night away, probably. But first Mary had to see this face. His face. To wipe the moisture from his mouth and feel the shape of his chin. To be the first to whisper, “So this is what God looks like.”
• All the love of God was in Jesus. All the strength of God was in Jesus. All the compassion and power and devotion of God were, for a time, in the earthly body of a carpenter…What started in the Bethlehem cradle culminated on the Jerusalem cross.
Link: https://www.amazon.com/Because-Bethle...