Immanuel: A Daily Guide to Reclaiming the True Meaning of Christmas - Audiobook (Unabridged)Ann Spangler believes its possible to transform the crazy, wonderful, stressful season we call Christmas into one of greater peace and deeper joy by recovering the gift of Advent. For hundreds of years, Christians have prepared for Christmas by carefully observing the four week season leading up to it. Whats more, when Christmas did arrive, they celebrated not just for one day but for twelve! So four weeks for Advent and nearly two weeks for Christmas

In her moving spiritual memoir

In these pages you’ll find out why leading isn’t always what we expect—and how leaders aren’t always who we expect them to be

Set in the American Middle-West in the first half of the Twentieth Century

and women have always been called to make a significant contribution to the ministry of the church

Sound too good to be true

this angelic being is sent to guide them toward the healing and abundant life promised in God’s Word-if only they will listen

and her English companion

a ribbon marker

or entrepreneurs launching a new venture

Is it a matter of not making money

and human trafficking

Somewhere in the middle was a complex woman whose embrace of paradox has much to say to a new generation of readers today