Christmas Is Not Your Birthday: Experience the Joy of Living and Giving like Jesus [NOOK Book]

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Every year, we say we’re going to cut back, simplify, and have a family Christmas that focuses on the real reason for the season—Jesus. But every year, advertisements beckon, the children plead, and it seems easier just to indulge our wants and whims. Overspending,
overeating, materialism, and busyness rob us of our peace and joy and rob Jesus of his rightful role as the center of our celebration.

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Christmas Is Not Your Birthday: Experience the Joy of Living and Giving like Jesus

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Overview

Every year, we say we’re going to cut back, simplify, and have a family Christmas that focuses on the real reason for the season—Jesus. But every year, advertisements beckon, the children plead, and it seems easier just to indulge our wants and whims. Overspending,
overeating, materialism, and busyness rob us of our peace and joy and rob Jesus of his rightful role as the center of our celebration.

This Christmas, cut through the hype that leaves you exhausted and broke at the end of the year. Instead, experience the peace of knowing that God is truly with us, the joy of giving sacrificially, and the love of a Savior who gave everything he had for us. In five short, engaging chapters, Pastor Mike
Slaughter inspires readers to approach Christmas differently, and be transformed in the process.

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781426748646
  • Publisher: Abingdon Press
  • Publication date: 8/1/2011
  • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
  • Format: eBook
  • Pages: 112
  • Sales rank: 63,026
  • File size: 866 KB

Meet the Author

Mike Slaughter, lead pastor at Ginghamsburg Church, is the three-decade dreamer of Ginghamsburg Church and spiritual entrepreneur of ministry marketplace innovations. His life-long passion to reach the lost and set the oppressed free has made him a tireless and leading advocate for the displaced children, womenand men of Darfur, Sudan, named by the U.N. as the worst humanitarian crisis in the world today. Under Mike’s leadership, Ginghamsburg Church has become known as an early innovator of small group ministry, the Church “media reformation” and cyberministry, with the Ginghamsburg website averaging 50,000 visits monthly from around the world. Since initiating The Sudan Project in January 2005, Ginghamsburg has invested over $5 million into humanitarian relief in Darfur. The resultant agricultural project, child development program and safe water initiative are expanding to reach a quarter of a million Sudanese refugees and villagers. As a mentor, Mike travels globally to speak and use his “gift of irritation” to equip ministry leaders to minimize brick and maximize mission so that they may fully deploy the mission of Jesus into the world. Mike is the author of multiple books for church leaders including Change the World, Spiritual Entrepreneurs, Real Followers, Momentum for Life, UnLearning Church, and Upside Living in a Downside Economy. For more information about Mike, visit www.mikeslaughter.com

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Table of Contents

Introduction: Christmas Is Not Your Birthday! ix

1 Expect a Miracle 1

2 Giving Up on Perfect 19

3 Scandalous Love 39

4 Jesus' Wish List 55

5 By a Different Road 71

Notes 93

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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 30, 2012

    highly recommended

    this is a short and powerful book it makes you remember what is the true meaning of christmas.It made me relalize how selfish society has become.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 4, 2012

    Are you Courgeous?

    It's about time that the simple focus returns to Christmas! What is the historical significance of celebrating Christmas? The reader is challenged to think and recall how the role of a changing culture may be the reason for the lack of the season. Not a book for everone, however a challenging and thought provoking read.

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    Posted December 28, 2011

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