Religious Festivals Books

With its beautiful, minimalistic design and simple, practical layout, The No-Nonsense Haggadah is a must-have at your Passover table.With the full text included in Hebrew and English and accompanied by transliterations for easy reading, your...

This book talks about a handful of things-with schemes to trap and catch Santa Claus, looking at Christmas dinner from the point of view of the humble vegetable, lessons on Christmas history, parables about the folly of the Yuletide season, playing with...

Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901-1953), distinguished musician, noted music educator and authority on folk music has assembled a collection of songs from the old-time Christmas, before Santa Claus came to America and neatly trimmed fir trees bloomed with...

At her first Passover Seder with John’s Jewish family in 1976, Christie had a divine encounter that took her completely by surprise. She found Jesus hidden in an ancient ceremony within the Passover called “Yahatz”, or...

Let's talk about symbols. You see symbols everywhere, and even religious celebrations are full of them. In this coloring book, let's discuss the symbols of Easter. Your 9-year-old will be able to understand the true meaning of Easter through the images...

This creative coloring book can be used as an introduction to Easter. Encourage your child to work on the images of this book on his/her own time and pace. Try not to suppress his/her creativity by setting rules of what colors to mix. Let your child find...

Here's a Christmas-themed coloring book that's ideal for older kids. Christmas is a fantastic theme in any activity book because kids can easily relate to the festivity. Meanwhile, coloring is an attractive activity because it's easy to do and there's...

Make everyday feel like Christmas by encouraging your child to color the images in this book. A coloring book helps improve your child's knowledge of colors and shapes and how they blend well with each other. Coloring also boosts motor skills, stimulates...

Rudolph is here again! His shiny red nose will help the rest of Santa's reindeer find the way to your house. You can help, too! You can color the way so they won't get lost. Pick up some crayons and fill the pages of this coloring book with all the hues...

The rich history of the Yuletide masterpiece in the "theater of the mind," both broadcast and on record from 1905 to today.With recollections by ARTHUR ANDERSON - LIONEL BARRYMORE - LONNIE BURR - TOMMY COOK - MICHAEL C. GWYNNE - VERE JOHNS - WILLIAM...

Listen to me -- I want to be king of your heart and your mind. I want to lead you to love God with all your strength and all your mind. I want to teach you to love your neighbor as yourself.-- words of Jesus from the serviceYour King Comes! is a complete...

Christ would like to so possess us, and cleanse us, and remake us, that everyone who sees us would say we are "new and improved."-- from the sermon for Lent 5Beginning with Ash Wednesday and continuing through Pentecost, Barbara Brokhoff challenges...

The year begins with the season of Advent, when we think of the first coming of Jesus into the world and the way in which it was prepared for his coming. Then follows Christmas, the well-known and popular festival when we remember the Saviour's birth to...

The Resurrection Tree a Countdown to Easter begins where Creation to Christmas around The Jesse Tree ends. Bring Jesus' time on earth to life with an activity children love -- adorning a resurrection tree-as you and your children experience Easter like...

Bring Jesus' family tree to life with an activity children love-adorning an advent tree-as you and your children experience the Advent like never before. Featuring 25 Christmas-themed excerpts starting at Creation and ending with the birth of Jesus...

Christmas is now a worldwide holiday! However, each country creates its own traditions and celebrates the birth of Christ in unique ways. This makes for an endlessly creative and diverse manifestations of this one holiday; here is just a few of the 195...

Many of us have had one bad holiday story they would like to share... this is one of them. Living in Southern California, strong Santa Ana winds are the norm. Combining them with a holiday can almost guarantee something good (or bad) would come out of...

Season of Joy is a collection of inspirational short stories that recount God’s blessings that poured out on author Miss Ava during a forty-day period. You will find yourself “happy tearing” over these stories about Miss Ava’s...

Jesus: God's Unlikely RevelationAdvent, Christmas, and Epiphany Services includes biblically-based sermons, suggested scriptures, children's time, hymn and prayers, as well as litanies for lighting the Advent wreath. Also included are suggestions...

The Freedom to Be Wrong provides exemplary model sermons for gospel texts in the last third of the Pentecost season (Sundays in Ordinary Time). Rueter shows himself to be a skilled wordsmith as well as a careful exegete in messages based on such familiar...

Lent is one of the three 40-day 'seasons' in the Church's year, besides Advent and the period from Easter to Pentecost. The name itself, Lent, derives from an ancient word meaning 'spring' or 'long', referring to the time of year when days are beginning...

Widely embraced by homilists and those interested in reflectingmore deeply on the daily Lectionary readings, Bishop RichardSklba's Fire Starters: Igniting the Holy in the Weekday Homilyhas served as a practical resource for preparing engaging...

Using vignettes set in or near his monastery in downtown Newark, New Jersey, Benedictine monk Albert Holtz helps us to see that the Easter mystery, which can often seem abstract and distant, is in fact present all around us. As we accompany him through...

In Awesome Glory, Abbot Jeremy Driscoll offers readers a deep dive into the mystery of the Resurrection of Jesus. Starting from the conviction that the liturgy is meant to be for Christians an immediate and effective contact with the Resurrection, this...

This full-color book is an up-close, personal, artistic, and unique look at Jesus' death and resurrection through the different characters of the story from Matthew's gospel.Three Nails One Purpose can be used for personal or family devotions and your...

"It was a night before christmas When all through the town Every creature was stirring And shocked at the sound Of a maid in a stableHer cries did resoundAs she labored by manger With cattle aroundThe lowest of places The...

Having lost her own mother at age nine, Debby Morris wanted to take her mothering seriously and wanted her children to grow up in a loving, Christian home. This included teaching them about advent, the arrival of a notable person, thing, or...

Unveiling the Messiah in the Spring Feasts is a beautiful sound of the shofar awakening the Bride of Messiah to see Our King Yeshua's Face, "lechem hapanim." This book is a valuable resource on the Biblical Feasts, insightfully written, and...

God became flesh at Christmas. But how does God, who created all things, live within the limitations of humanity - limitations that humanity itself o en resents and tries to transcend? And what does it truly mean to be human? As contemporary society...

We don't know why the Grinch hated Christmas. We just know he did. If we're being honest, there's probably something within the Christmas season celebration that awakens a Grinch within all of us. Maybe the gift we unwrap was all wrong, or memories that...

 Christmas Abiding: Stories of Blessings Bestowed is a magnificent holiday collection of five short stories about ordinary people touched by the extraordinary. They are of poignant moments and blessings bestowed in the least likely places:...

O, for goodness sake, what am I going to write to this church of mine? Church? No, it's more than a church. This is my family. These are my children! Yes, I gave birth to this family of faith at Corinth.-- opening lines from the monologueRobert J...

This book is full of symbols that represent Easter. Easter is about new beginnings, and this book will showcase them. Coloring is a beautiful experience as it is natural for children to do. So while your child is having fun, he/she is also getting...

Catch that bunny to give it the color it needs on its fur! Coloring is a great Easter activity that is often overlooked. If your little ones loved to color Easter eggs, then they would also love this book. Coloring promises several benefits, including...

Yum! This book is yummy because it features all the delicacies prepared at Hanukkah. It's okay if you don't know what these treats are because you can always ask or do a research yourself. When it comes to coloring, your imagination is the limit so you...

Who brings Christmas cheer? Santa and his elves do! They bring gifts for children to enjoy and they bring magic to trees and the air. With this book, your child can create his/her own interpretation of Christmas. Allow him/her the freedom to use colors...

Themed coloring books are full of symbolism, and they open the floodgates of knowledge on a particular subject. The act of coloring boosts hand to eye coordination, motor skills and confidence. With every completed image, your child's "I can do it!"...

When you're building a real snowman, you only get the white one. But when you're building one in paper, you can have as many colored and multi-colored snowmen as you like. Coloring is a means of self-expression, which is important to young children who...

Parable Poems is a book of religious, family-based stories in a poem format. Some poems are from my own personal experiences and the personal experiences of family and friends. All my poems are inspired by God, meaning he has given me the words to...

Welcome to Olivia's Magical Moment. Olivia and her Pre-Kindergarten friends engage in a winter class project. See how the class work together, step by step to create a wonderful snowman and what SPECIAL thing happens when he is sprinkled with MAGIC. ...

It's was made for Christmas Party or someone who just likes to relax coloring.Reindeer in zentangle pattern style with heartwarming quotes.It's the best gift for your Holiday season friends and family members.

Americans are mired in idolatry. This is perhaps at no time more evident than during the Christmas season.<br><br>What idols do we worship? We often point out the consumerism that eclipses the meaning of the holiday, but as Mary Austin points...

Though it is perfect for the Easter season, this series of monologues about the lives of the disciples following Christ's death, resurrection, and ascension, may be used any time throughout the year. Congregations will learn the often overlooked...

“Go against the grain.”This is what Mark Ellingsen wants your church to hear in A Rebellious Faith. It isn’t merely odd or contradictory in the eyes of the world to live a Christian life. It is offensive.To go against the grain –...