Making Christmas Meaningful: Preacher's Kit

Making Christmas Meaningful Preacher's Starter Kit

Our surveys reveal that pastors want preaching helps for Christmas more than at any other time of the year. Making Christmas Meaningful meets that need head on.

This innovative Christmastime series covers the four Sundays of Advent plus a Christmas Eve or Christmas Day theme. The Pastor's Manual provides you with complete messages to reference, additional sermon outlines, and a wealth of preaching illustrations that give you a great jump start on the Advent season. We also include optional sermons for Thanksgiving and New Year's Eve services. In addition to that, you have everything you need to create Sunday services that are thematically supportive of your sermons to get your messages across with even greater impact. These ideas include themed music suggestions, dramas, calls to worship, dynamic scripture readings, and much more.

Order your Making Christmas Meaningful series Starter Kit today. Contents include:

Get a Resourceful Pastor's Manual
Receive a wealth of December preaching aids including suggested texts for each theme above, complete sermon manuscripts you can use as is or rework, alternative sermon notes, illustrations, and quotations that give you more than enough material to choose from in preparing your own messages.

Receive Worship Ideas coordinated with your sermons that your people will remember for years to come. These include mood setters, creative Scripture readings, children's sermons, church and home Advent candlelighting ceremonies, music suggestions, prayers, and much more. These elements also are tied into the devotional calendars your people follow at home each week.

Get Devotionals for Pastors that minister to you in special ways during the winter season, when you have more than enough to do.

Distribute our Devotions for December Calendars
The Advent Calendar is a practical devotional tool for December that can help your families make this Christmas the meaningful observance their hearts desire. Beginning four Sundays before Christmas Day and continuing through New Year's Day, this calendar will lead you or your congregation through the entire holiday season. Each day you'll discover carefully selected Scripture readings, prayers, and points to ponder. Practical suggestions for singles, couples, and families, as well as home ceremonies and discussion questions, will broaden your thinking and deepen your practice of this eminently holy time. After all, that's where our word holiday comes from.

An Implementation Guide for the Advent Administrator
During the busy pre-Christmas season, it's easy to let details fall through the cracks. That's why we've designed this Implementation Guide to help you. Maybe your'e the Advent administrator who heads up the organization and basic running of this series. Or perhaps you're the Publicity person who helps to get people excited about the Seasonal Advent Celebration. Or possibly you're acting as both. In any case, this Implementation Guide is intended to make things simpler for you.

Upgrade your Starter Kit for only $20 more and receive your Pastor's Manual also on CD-ROM. Simply cut and paste from the Pastor’s Manual with this time-saving tool. ($79.95 Kit plus $20 CD-ROM only $99.95 total)

Here's a fresh, new concept in boosting your sermon and worship service: short video segments that guarantee your people won't forget the message that Christ makes Christmas meaningful. Complete with live interviews, a gospel music video, and interpretive collages, these scenarios range from fast-paced to sensitive, contemporary to nostalgic, so they'll appeal to everyone in your congregation. Show them in your worship service, as an introduction to your preaching, or anytime during the sermon to get your point across!