{"product_id":"a-promise-kept-at-christmas-christmas-eve-service-9780788000966","title":"A Promise Kept At Christmas: Christmas Eve Service","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Robert G. McCreight\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: CSS Publishing Company\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: CSS Publishing Company\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Christian Rituals \u0026amp; Practice - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWe approach the worship of God this evening with a hushed awareness of Christ's presence in our midst. God again breaks through the calm and darkness to reveal himself to us in the stillness of our hearts.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e -- from the order of worship \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLight and darkness is a powerful biblical metaphor to talk about God's compelling activity in the world. This Christmas Eve resource focuses on this metaphor. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Promise Kept At Christmas\u003c\/i\u003e offers congregations a complete order of service with suggested carols, lighting of Advent candles, and scripture readings from the Old and New Testaments using a narrator and lay readers. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eScriptures are from the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert G. McCreight\u003c\/b\u003e, Toledo, Ohio, is pastor of the Covenant Presbyterian Church. He received academic preparation at Muskingum College, Princeton Theological Seminary, and the University of Detroit. He has also been active in hospital chaplainry.","brand":"CSS Publishing Company","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47614904533143,"sku":"9780788000966","price":664.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780788000966.webp?v=1775097386","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/a-promise-kept-at-christmas-christmas-eve-service-9780788000966","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}