Dwell: Celebrating The Arrival Of Advent At Home

With cozy images and biblical truths, this full-color Advent gift book ushers in the arrival of this sacred holiday season, guiding readers in welcoming Christ into every space of the home.

Where family and friends coexist, worship, and play, there too is room for Christ to dwell. In Dwell: Celebrate the Arrival of Advent at Home, readers are invited to spend five weeks preparing for Christmas. Each of the five weeks moves through the rooms of a homethe Living Room, Dining Room, Kitchen, Activity Space, and Christmas Spacewith five days of entries for each week.

These daily readings will provide readers and homemakers with biblical truths, memorable activities, and images that are both cozy and inviting, guiding families through the Advent season. The themes of each week follow the timeline of Christ's arrival to center readers' thoughts on the sacredness and joy of the season:

Anticipation
Arrival
Awakening
Anointing
Adoration

These themes will help to guide thoughts, conversation, and celebration, as readers prepare for the Messiah's arrival and begin a new Christmas tradition.

Praise for Dwell

Years ago, in younger ministry days, I read a stat that helped me draw this conclusion: Christ-following parents almost universally agree that we are to be the primary disciple makers of our families. Conversely, Christ-following parents almost universally agree that we don't know practically how to do that. Dwell isn't a holiday book you display but a process you engage. How do you welcome Christ's coming into your home and heart at Christmas? This resource offers dozens of application ideas using the rooms in your house and the traditions you enjoy as celebratory signposts for God's Son coming into the world. It's a book you can use year after year and a gift you can give to others who share your desire to not only celebrate Christmas, but be discipled by Christmas.

Nic Allen, Nashville Campus Pastor of Rolling Hills Community Church, Nashville, Tennessee

Among all of the names given to Christ in the Bible, Immanuel or God with us' is prominent. There is no better time of year than the holidays to be reminded of the with-ness' of Christ as streets, shopping malls, places of worship, and our homes are transformed into demonstrations of his coming. In a most intentional, creative, lovely, and memorable way, Dwell: Celebrating the Arrival of Advent at Home serves as a guide for transforming every room in the home to a dwelling place for our King. For those who wish to prepare a place for the One who has also gone to prepare a place for us, this is the resource to help them do just that.

Scott Sauls, Senior Pastor of Christ Presbyterian Church in Nashville, Tennessee and author of several books, including Jesus Outside the Lines and A Gentle Answer

"Advent is such a beautiful and special time of our year. As we celebrate the Incarnation of Jesus' first coming, we are filled with the longing and anticipation of His second coming. Advent reminds us of ImmanuelGod with us. We need God, and He is here with us in the waiting. Whatever you are facing today, God is with you. This wonderful Advent book, Dwell, does an amazing job of leading us through this Season. Dwell focuses us on Jesus. He is the Joy and Hope we so desperately need today. I encourage you to read this book and to share a copy with a friend. May God meet you in this book as well as in this special Season. Come, Lord Jesus.

Jeff Simmons, Lead Pastor of Rolling Hills Community Church in Franklin, Tennessee and author of Immeasurably More

Dwell invites us into the Christmas season by setting our focus on our Savior. When December's activities pull us in countless directions, this 25-day devotional invites us to set our gaze on the person of Christ.

Kelly Minter, author of numerous books including Finding God Faithful: A Study on the Life of Joseph