One Christmas book · two editions
Before it all began,
it was finished.
The manger was not a beginning. It was an arrival.
The title song of the book
“Before it all began, it was finished”
The song that gave the book its name. The title is sung exactly once, right at the end.
Just imagine ... the greatest event in human history, and you are there.
At Christmas, up close.
But there is more to discover: a line that begins long before the first star. Come along, let's follow it together.
It is already finished. But we get to live it, because God wants to share it.
No lack drives him.
The joy of giving himself drives him.
The same story in both editions: the garden, the tent, the manger, and at the end God dwells with men. Told once for you, once for your child.
This book is inspired by the jesusTALK Christmas songs, and of course by the Bible.
What you'll understand afterwards
You know the Christmas story.
But do you really know it?
Five things almost everyone overlooks, and they change everything:
- Why the manger was no beginning: it was decided long before.
- Why shepherds of all people had to be the first witnesses, and what the swaddling clothes really mean.
- Why the stable was no accident.
- When the wise men really came, and what their gifts reveal.
- The one line through the whole Bible: from the garden to the manger, and beyond.
And why the last word on the cross is the very title of this book.