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Cover -- Contents -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER ONE -- PART I FIRST LESSON OF ADVENT, THE LESSON OF THE PROPHETS -- PART II THE FIRST LESSON OF BOOK OF PRAYER, THE PROPHET'S CANDLE OF HOPE -- PART III EVENING PRAYERS ISAIAH TWO -- PART IV SUNDAY GOSPEL READING MATTHEW 21 -- PART V THE EPISTLE READING FROM THE BOOK OF PRAYER, ROMANS 13:8-14 COMMUNITY, A NECESSITY OF LOVE -- CHAPTER TWO -- PART I THE SECOND LESSON OF THE FAITH, SEEKERS, WISEMAN'S AND SHEPHERD'S CANDLE -- PART II MORNING PRAYERS, ISAIAH CHAPTER 5 WHERE THE VINEYARD SPOILED GRAPESARE TRAMPLED Most people don’t realize Charles Dickens has a biblical foundation. Each of the spirits that appear in A Christmas Carol directly correlates with an Advent lesson that is found in the Church of England’s Book of Common Prayer. Perhaps that is what attracts Christians to the story of A Christmas Carol. Every Advent Christians revisit this old Victorian moral story with its images of snow covered English cobblestone streets, the sentimentally portrayed ragged poor, and its familiar story line doesn’t seem to grow tiresome through the years. We revisit this story because it echoes with the PART III EVENING PRAYERS, ISAIAH 32 -- PART IV SUNDAY GOSPEL READING JOHN 1, WHERE THE MESSIAH COMES TO REIGNIN THE HEART OF THE BELIEVER AND SCROOGE IS LED EVENTUALLY TO HOPE THROUGH REPENTANCE -- CHAPTER FIVE -- PART I THE CHRIST CANDLE, THE CANDLE OF CHRISTMAS, THE CANDLE OF THE NATIVITY, MORNING PRAYERS ISAIAH 9, THE LIGHT OF SALVATION -- PART II SUNDAY EVENING PRAYER ISAIAH 7 -- PART III SUNDAY GOSPEL READING LUKE 22, THE REASON JESUS CAME -- PART IV SUNDAY EPISTLE READING, TITUS 3 -- PART V SECOND EPISTLE READING FOR CHRISTMAS DAY -- APPENDIX A -- APPENDIX B -- APPENDIX C -- BIBLIOGRAPHY PART III EVENING PRAYERS, ISAIAH TWENTY FOUR -- PART IV GOSPEL READING, LUKE 21 -- PART V THE EPISTLE READING COMMON BOOK OF PRAYER -- CHAPTER THREE -- PART I THE THIRD LESSON OF BOOK OF PRAYER -- PART II MORNING PRAYER ISAIAH 25, GRIEVING WHAT HAS BEEN LOST TO SIN -- PART III EVENING PRAYER ISAIAH 26 -- PART IV SUNDAY GOSPEL READING MATTHEW 11"WHEN A GOOD MAN'S CITY IS LEVELED" -- CHAPTER FOUR -- PART I THE FOURTH LESSON, THE CANDLE OF PROCLAMATION OR JOY -- PART II MORNING PRAYERS IN ISAIAH 30,THE MESSIAH WITH THE WINNOWING FORKIN HIS HAND, THE JUDGMENT THAT LEADS US TO REDEMPTION
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