Seasoning the Season Preacher's Kit

Seasoning the Season Advent Starter Kit

The month of December can pose some real problems for pastors: Where do you find fresh sermon material about the Christmas story? How do you keep people enthusiastic about a message they have heard many times before? What's the secret to staying focused on Christ throughout the holidays? Seasoning the Season: Bringing Out the Flavor of Christ in Christmas Traditions brings you innovative answers. This worship series offers a creative package of resources to be used in seven services throughout the Christmas season to help your congregation bring out the flavor of Christ in their Christmas traditions. Craft entire worship services around messages that hit home. Order the Advent Starter Kit. It comes complete with a Pastor's manual that includes sermons and sermon outlines, sermon illustrations, calls to worship, Advent candlelighting ceremonies, suggested children's sermons, drama scripts, creative Scripture readings, prayers, and much, much more.

Order your Seasoning the Season series Starter Kit today. Or, download your favorite weekly sermon and service themes below. 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
Give your people a practical way to practice what you preach and stay Christ-focused at Christmastime by using the Seasoning the Season Devotional Calendar (see facing page for more details and excerpt).

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.

Seasoning the Season: Pastor's Manual on CD-ROM

The Mood Setters and Sermon Boosters for Seasoning Your Season video brings you an innovative way to capture your congregation's attention while reinforcing your basic sermon message. Show each week's video vignette before, during, or after your sermon to communicate to people of every learning style and drive your preaching topic straight into your listeners' memories.