Walking Backwards to Christmas
By: Stephen Cottrell
4.01
Format: 114 pages, Paperback
Using the simple device of telling the Christmas story backwards, Stephen Cottrell helps us encount…
Want to Read $ 10.16"Was it love? I don't know. Not yet. Love isn't a feeling. Love isn't just desire, though how I desired her. Love is the patient accumulation of shared memories, the joining together of two lifetimes into one, the weaving of separate stories into the story... [Love is] the greatest gift of all: a lifetime shared, to know and to be known."-Stephen Cottrell, Walking Backwards to Christmas
"Was it love? I don't know. Not yet. Love isn't a feeling. Love isn't just desire, though how I desired her. Love is the patient accumulation of shared memories, the joining together of two lifetimes into one, the weaving of separate stories into the story... [Love is] the greatest gift of all: a lifetime shared, to know and to be known."-Stephen Cottrell, Walking Backwards to Christmas
"Now it is night again, and I am waiting for the dawn of tomorrow. But it will not be the same. The sun will rise, but it will rise on a different world, a world into which a greater light has come. And in the revelation of tomorrow's dawn I will be embraced by God. It will burst upon me, but this time it will not be a portent of the future but confirmation of today's radiance. I will be gripped by the brightness of the morning sun and my years will slip away."-Stephen Cottrell, Walking Backwards to Christmas
"Now it is night again, and I am waiting for the dawn of tomorrow. But it will not be the same. The sun will rise, but it will rise on a different world, a world into which a greater light has come. And in the revelation of tomorrow's dawn I will be embraced by God. It will burst upon me, but this time it will not be a portent of the future but confirmation of today's radiance. I will be gripped by the brightness of the morning sun and my years will slip away."-Stephen Cottrell, Walking Backwards to Christmas
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Format: 296 pages, Paperback
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2. God on Mute: Engaging the Silence of Unanswered Prayer
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4.58
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3.85
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3.70
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
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4.33
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
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4.53
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3.95
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3.32
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3.90
Format: 415 pages, Kindle Edition
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4.60
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"We stick to the stones, stepping from one to the other, as does everyone else drawn along this thread of stone through the boglands. Isn't this the way humanity should approach everything we do on th…"-Raynor Winn, Landlines
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4.08
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"Fasting is abiding on a gut level—an empty gut level."-Wendy Speake, The 40-Day Sugar Fast: Where Physical Detox Meets Spiritual Transformation
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31. Walking Backwards to Christmas
By: Stephen Cottrell
4.01
Format: 114 pages, Paperback
Using the simple device of telling the Christmas story backwards, Stephen Cottrell helps us encount… read more
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"Was it love? I don't know. Not yet. Love isn't a feeling. Love isn't just desire, though how I desired her. Love is the patient accumulation of shared memories, the joining together of two lifetimes …"-Stephen Cottrell, Walking Backwards to Christmas
"Now it is night again, and I am waiting for the dawn of tomorrow. But it will not be the same. The sun will rise, but it will rise on a different world, a world into which a greater light has come. A…"-Stephen Cottrell, Walking Backwards to Christmas
"God is the end. I look into the myriad multitudes of the stars that shine like radiant beams of florid hopefulness, pinholes into heaven itself, and see that as God is my origin and the meaning to ea…"-Stephen Cottrell, Walking Backwards to Christmas
"And when I first heard these things, the words were like nails being driven into my head. That day in the Temple, when I first saw God's glory shining before me in terrible majesty and light, all I c…"-Stephen Cottrell, Walking Backwards to Christmas
