The Christmas Cross
By Max Lucado
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The Christmas Cross is a story about finding your way home for the holidays, told in the context of one man's journey in a small Texas town. Unique interactive elements inside this book-including envelopes with pullout letters and surprises-makes this a one-of-a-kind Christmas treasure.
Max Lucado
Since entering the ministry in 1978, Max Lucado has served churches in Miami, Florida; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; and San Antonio, Texas. He currently serves as the teaching minister of Oak Hills Church in San Antonio. He is the recipient of the 2021 ECPA Pinnacle Award for his outstanding contribution to the publishing industry and society at large. He is America's bestselling inspirational author with more than 150 million products in print. Visit his website at MaxLucado.com Facebook.com/MaxLucado Instagram.com/MaxLucado Twitter.com/MaxLucado Youtube.com/MaxLucadoOfficial The Max Lucado Encouraging Word Podcast
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Reviews for The Christmas Cross
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A Chicago journalist is in a small Texas town on Christmas Eve. While there he encounters many strange and unusual happenings. This trip holds the key to his future........enjoy.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A journalist pursues a personal quest to find out what's so important about Clearwater Lutheran Church with regard to his own history. He finds the truth about his biological family and is reunited with his grandfather. Lessons learned from the grandfather's rendition of how the hand-carved nativity set came to be also save the journalist's marriage.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This is the poignant story of a man who finds himself lonely and alone in a small Texas town on Christmas Eve. He encounters the elderly custodian of a Lutheran Church who explains the story of the skillfully carved Nativity figures which grace the front of the church. This trip holds the key to the young man's past and a scarlet cross shows him the way home. This story puts the true Christmas story in perspective; God's love and forgiveness shines throughout the book's pages.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Short and to the point. This book gives us a look into someone else's life and we see our own and the things that we have done and haven't done. Tugs at your heart and makes you think about how precious life can be.
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The Christmas Cross - Max Lucado
Dedicated to all single parents.
May God give you strength.
Contents
DEDICATION
FOREWORD
LETTER FROM THE PUBLISHER
BORN CRUCIFIED
DISCUSSION GUIDE
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FOREWORD
In the mystery of Christmas, we find its majesty. The mystery of how God became flesh, why he chose to come, and how much he must love his people.
Such mysteries can never be solved, just as love can never be diagrammed. Christmas is best pondered, not with logic, but imagination.
This book contains Christmas imaginings. Since its release in 1998, God has used it to stretch minds and warm hearts. My earnest prayer is that it does both for you.
—Max Lucado
I lowered my windshield visor, both to block the afternoon sun and retrieve the photo. With one hand holding the picture and the other on the steering wheel, I inched my rental car down Main Street.
Clearwater, Texas, was ready for Christmas. The sky was bright winter blue. A breeze just crisp enough for a jacket swayed the large plastic bells hanging beneath the lamp lights. Aluminum garlands connected the power poles, and Frosty the Snowman chased his hat on the Dairy Kreem window. Even the pick-up truck in front of me had a wreath hanging on its tailgate. This central Texas town was ready for Christmas. But I wasn’t.
I wanted to be back in Chicago. I wanted to be home. But things weren’t so good at home. Meg and I had fought. Weeks of suppressed tension had exploded the day before. Same song, second verse.
You promised to spend more time at home,
she said.
You promised not to nag,
I replied.
She says I work too much. I say we’ve got bills to pay. She feels neglected. I feel frustrated. Finally, she told me we needed some—what was the word? Oh yeah, we needed some space
. . . some time apart, and I agreed. I had an assignment in Dallas anyway, so why not go to Texas a few days early?
So, it was the fight with Meg that got me to Texas. But it was the photo that led me to Clearwater. My dad had received it in the mail. No return address. No letter. Just this photo: a black-and-white image of a large, stone building.