Reflections of Messiah: Contemporary Advent Meditations Inspired by Handel

By Jim Melchiorre

If guilt creeps into your holiday cheer, you're not alone. Advent is the time to prepare for the arrival of the Messiah, yet instead, most of us are swept away by the hyper-busyness of the holidays.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0835898563
• ISBN13: 9780835898560
• Release Date: July 2003
• Publisher: Upper Room Books
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.0" x 7.4"

Customer Reviews

Christmas Spirituality!

What a nice book this is! Melchiorre helps move us through and beyond the commercialism of the Christmas season to a sense of Christmas as a time to reach out to others in service as well as to reach out to God in prayer. Melchiorre connects Bible passages with real life. I appreciate his insights into life in the city. I also appreciate the way he connects these Bible passages and contemporary reflections with the traditional music of Christmas. I've listened to Handel's Messiah, but always that music has been tied to sentimentality. After reading this book, I will hear that music from the perspective of a great incarnational faith rather than simple traditionalism.This simple book has a great depth of spirituality to it!