I love Liz Curtis Higgs . I knew I would love her holiday book The Women of Christmas: Experience the Season Afresh with Elizabeth, Mary, and Anna and jumped to review it.
It’s a quick read, only took me a couple evenings. I love her conversational style of writing. It’s like she’s just telling me a story. I want to curl up on her sofa with some tea or coffee and just chat.
This is not the typical advent study. It does discuss Elizabeth, Mary, and Anna, but it’s so refreshing to hear this spin on it.
These women are brought alive in the books as we ponder each verse, each event, the omissions as well as the details. Even thought I’ve read the verses in the Bible numerous times and taught them to my children each holiday during our advent studies, I learned so much and prayed through this book that it would touch my girls’ hearts this season. I plan to read a chapter or so each day for my girls. I just know they’ll love it!
Each chapter open with a beloved Christmas carol or hymn and those set the themes for the chapters. Love this! I’m also fascinated by the description of the angels and the important they play in the Christmas story. Interspersed are encouraging and enlightening quotes from women from Liz’s online Bible study. Women just like you!
Silence is just as important as shouting in the Christmas story and in our Christian lives. The ultimate theme in the book for me was the difference in voices, all important to God in their own way: struck silent, singing, praising, shouting, praying, pondering, worshiping.
I love how God uses the ordinary in extraordinary ways. We idolize people in the Bible stories, imagining they were so different and we could never do that, but oh, yes we can! These women were faithful. Elizabeth’s husband questioned. Mary’s betrothed worried. Despite it all, they were obedient. I pray that I could be obedient and faithful too. God can use anyone for His purposes.
Eight wondrous chapters tell the tales of these three ordinary women surrounding the coming of Christ as a babe. A study guide helps us on the journey to celebrate this event with joy.
Click over here to download a free Leader Guide!
224 pages
$14.99 Hardcover
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