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Christmas is best pondered, not with logic, but with imagination. In the mystery of Christmas we find its majesty. The mystery of how God became flesh, why he chose to come, and how he must love his people. Such mysteries can never be solved, just as Love can never be diagrammed. Three Christmas...

Spiritual beings populate the stories of Scripture. Angels singing. Demons infecting. Heavenly hosts fighting . . . Ignore the armies of God and Satan and you ignore the heart of Scripture. Ever since the snake tempted Eve in Eden, we've known: there is more to this world than meets the eye. In...

From New York Times bestselling author Max Lucado comes a timeless message that will warm your heart. “The Christmas Candle shines with a radiant insight. Written with Max Lucado’s signature style of sincerity and spiritual perception, this story will warm the reader’s heart with the...

John Cross is a small-town pastor, bent on leading his flock to follow God's calling. He's not the sort of man one would expect to have a checkered past. But the truth is that the man behind the pulpit preaching to his sheep was once a wolf - an assassin for the CIA. When John decided to follow Christ, he put that work behind him, determined to do penance for all the lives he took. He vowed never to kill again. Now someone wants the peaceful pastor to pay for his sins with his own life. And when a terrorist out for revenge walks into the church, John's secrets are laid bare.

"Hi, ich bin Jesus. Ich wohn' jetzt hier." Mit diesen Worten zieht Jesus eines Tages bei Jonas und seiner Freundin ein. Während sie gemeinsam durch die Pubs ziehen, Netflix schauen und Stimmung in den Seniorenkreis bringen, kann Jonas seinem neuen Mitbewohner endlich die Fragen stellen, die ihm schon lange unter den Nägeln brennen: Wie findet Jesus eigentlich unsere Gottesdienste und Krippenspiele? Was sagt er zum Klimaschutz? Hat der Himmel eine Obergrenze und was hat es eigentlich mit dem Heiligen Geist auf sich?

Gerd Theißen erzählt von Jesus und seiner Zeit. Die Rahmenhandlung ist fiktiv: Ein junger Jude, Andreas, wird von Pilatus dazu erpresst, Material über neue religiöse Bewegungen in Palästina zu sammeln. Dabei stößt er auf Jesus und reist ihm hinterher. Aus Berichten über Jesus rekonstruiert er dessen Leben. Ein fesselndes Hörspiel, in dem Verkündigung und Geschick Jesu aus der Perspektive eines jüdischen Zeitgenossen erzählt und im Rahmen der religiösen und sozialen Welt des Judentums verständlich gemacht werden.

Santa Claus lives in the Laughing Valley, where stands the big, rambling castle in which his toys are manufactured. His workmen, selected from the ryls, knooks, pixies and fairies, live with him, and everyone is as busy as can be from one year's end to another. One would think that our good old Santa Claus, who devotes his days to making children happy, would have no enemies on all the Earth; and, as a matter of fact, for a long period of time he encountered nothing but love wherever he might go.