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Exploring Advent
with Luke
Four Questions for Spiritual Growth
Timothy Clayton
Contents
Forewordc
by Paula Huston
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Introductionc
Engaging the Story of This Great Season
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Christmas Dayc
Rejoice in the Romance
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Conclusionc
Going Ahead with Courage and in Joy
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Notesc
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Forewordc
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be?), or the diplomatic inquiries of foreigners whove spotted a mysterious new star in the East. Through illustrations rooted in personal experience, he demonstrates how
to respond to these questions within the circumstances of
our own lives (What am I being called to seek? What am I
being called to relinquish? What am I being called to do?).
And then he leads us into the heights and depths of Lukes
great Christmas canticles, where hope eternally abides.
At least once each Advent season, I think of that
anguished priest, so determined to make us see what weve
lost. I wish I could find him and give him this book.
Paula Huston
Author of Simplifying the Soul
Introductionc
Engaging
the Story
of This
Great Season
hristmas is the season that promises to touch our deepest needs and to meet our deepest longings; it is the
story of God remembering us, caring about us, and squeezing himself into time and space, drawing near, even as one
of us. If we are remembered, loved, and known by the One
who is our ultimate source of life and destination, who
exists beyond all time and constraint, then all worries, fears,
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Introduction
Do I Dare to
Open Myself
to God?
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