The messiah. To us a child is born of hope / John Morrison -- A light shining in the darkness / Isaiah -- The light of the world / Isaiah -- Understanding prophecies in light of their fulfillment / Wolfgang Trilling -- O come, O come, Emmanuel / John M. Neale -- A joy that filled her soul and spirit / Alois Stöger -- Delivered from bondage in Egypt / Hosea -- A voice in the wilderness / Isaiah -- Jesus : he was indeed the coming one / F.F. Bruce -- Describing his mission in words taken from Isaiah / Alois Stöger -- A new and faithful son / Paul and Elizabeth Achtemeier -- From the cross an echo / Psalms -- The exalted messiah / Psalms -- His only begotten son / Psalms -- A messiah for all nations / Isaiah --

The nativity. The answered prayer / Pearl S. Buck -- Struck dumb for his disbelief / Herman Hoeksema -- The annunciation / Edwin Muir -- Blessed among women / Fulton Oursler -- The three miracles / Martin Luther -- His unworthy servant / Marjorie Holmes -- The annunciation / Theodosia Garrison -- Too much to expect of any man? / Fulton Oursler -- Doubt, sadness, then joy flooding his heart / Alice M. Darton -- Joseph's suspicion / Rainer Maria Rilke -- Seeking one who could understand / Samuel D. Gordon -- Raising her voice in a song of praise / Sholem Asch -- The magnificat / Luke -- Willing to be a maid / Martin Luther -- A name from heaven / Herman Hoeksema -- In obedience to the imperial edict / Denis O'Shea -- Bound for Bethlehem / Daniel-Rops -- The saddest words of all / Fulton J. Sheen -- At the manger Mary sings / W.H. Auden -- Doing the right thing / Jean Jones Andersen -- When the time grew short / Jim Bishop -- A hymn for the nativity of my Saviour / Ben Jonson -- Winter turned to spring / Sholem Asch -- Christmas carol / J.R. Newell -- Too glorious for mortal eyes to look upon / Washington Gladden -- While shepherds watched their flock by night / Margaret Deland -- Hark! The herald angels sing / Charles Wesley -- Silent night, holy night / Joseph Mohr -- It came upon a midnight clear / Edmund Hamilton Sears -- The first shadow falls / Alice M. Darton -- Finding their way / Elizabeth Goudge -- Lord, when the wise men came from far / Sidney Godolphin -- The heavenly stranger / Ada Blenkhorn -- Gifts for the King / Marjorie Holmes -- The gift / Laura Spencer Portor -- The wrath of Herod / Jim Bishop -- Herod's suspicion / Richard Crashaw --

The hidden years. Taming beasts, finding succor on the road to Egypt / The gospel of Pseudo-Matthew -- When a king greater than Solomon passed by / Selma Lagerlöf -- All the road to Egypt / Katharine Lee Bates -- The windflowers and the sage / Laura Spencer Portor -- Waiting for more miracles / John Haynes Holmes -- A very special son / Marjorie Holmes -- A gift for Melchior / Coningsby Dawson -- In the carpenter's shop / Sara Teasdale -- Child / Carl Sandburg -- An eager young mind thirsting for knowledge / Elizabeth Goudge -- Jesus in the temple / John Donne -- Coming home to his father's house / Edna Madison Bonser -- The little child / Albert Bigelow Paine -- Passing from boyhood into his sublime manhood / Winifred Kirkland -- A farewell to carpentry / Edwin McNeill Poteat -- The hidden years at Nazareth / Allen Eastman Cross --

His ministry on Earth. Behold the Lamb of God / Lew Wallace -- A voice from the desert / William Drummond -- In token of repentance : baptism / Edgar J. Godspeed -- Waiting for his hour to come / François Mauriac -- The heavens opened, the light shone down / Elizabeth Goudge -- Meeting the master he sought / Jean Steinmann -- The baptism of Christ / Nathaniel Parker Willis -- Standing on the heights with evil itself / Fulton Oursler -- The wilderness / Caroline Hazard -- Testing the strength of an unconquerable will / Jean Steinmann -- Temptation / Winifred Ernest Garrison -- Making them fishers of men / François Mauriac -- What good can come from Nazareth? / Frederick Buechner -- On the road / John Oxenham -- Are your shoulders strong enough? / Robert Payne -- On the even of the first miracle / Ivan Nazhivin -- Water into wine / Agnes Sligh Turnbull -- A prophet without honor in his own country / Robert Payne -- Dropping pearls of wisdom in prodigal profusion / Joseph Jacobs -- A chronology of Jesus' ministry -- Doing good, teaching love / Charles Dickens -- How he came / W.J. Dawson -- The power that flowed from him / Edmond Fleg -- The master's touch / author unknown -- One who came to bring life / Manuel Komroff -- Blind Bartimeus / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- The woman who came behind him in the crowd / George MacDonald -- The daughter of Jairus / Elizabeth Stuart Phelps -- A stranger in her garden / Kahil Gibran -- Were not the sinful Mary's tears / Thomas Moore -- Washing his feet with tears / anonymous -- Meeting Jesus by night / Eleanor Stock -- Whom he gives to drink will thirst nevermore / Edmond Rostand -- When a young girl danced / Fulton Oursler -- None greater than the baptist / Edgar J. Goodspeed -- Demanding John's head on a platter / Frederick Buechner -- As he walked with us / Harry Webb Farrington -- A lad with loaves and fish / Agnes Sligh Turnball -- Barley bread / Hilda W. Smith -- Don't be afraid, it is I / Dorothy L. Sayers -- Walking on the sea / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Even the winds and sea obey / Marjorie Holmes -- Christ stilling the tempest / Felicia Dorothea Hemans -- The fishers / Josephine Preston Peabody -- Lessons from a boat / Cynthia Pearl Maus -- The prodigal son / James Weldon Johnson -- The teller of tales / William Ellery Leonard -- The unclean spirit whose name was Legion / Sholem Asch -- Swine rushing to the sea / anonymous -- The Lord's prayer / Roger L. Shinn -- The Lord's prayer ; The beatitudes / Matthew -- We are sick, he alone is well / W. Russell Maltby -- To Martha / Mabel Munns Charles -- Choosing the better part / Eleanor B. Stock -- The resurrection and the life / Dorothy L. Sayers -- Lazarus and Mary / Nathaniel Parker Willis -- This is my beloved son / Marjorie Holmes -- According to St. Mark / Thomas S. Jones, Jr. --

The final days. The presentiment of an appalling fate / Ivan Nazhivin -- She who came beforehand to anoint him for burial / Martin Luther -- The triumphant entry / Henry Vaughan -- One more important than a king / Lloyd C. Douglas -- An upstart named Jesus / R.A. Edwards -- The donkey / G.K. Chesterton -- Like the coming of a storm on a cloudless day / Robert Payne -- The anger of Christ / Richard Watson Gilder -- For someone without fear, one place is as safe as another / Edwin McNeill Poteat -- The last supper / Helen Welshimer -- An underlying tension at the Passover feast / Jim Bishop -- Ministering to those in the upper room / Toyohiko Kagawa -- A plea for action rejected / anonymous -- Thirty pieces of silver for Jesus / Helene Mullins -- If not tremendous delusion, then the grandest affirmation / Elizabeth Stuart Phelps -- 'Tis midnight, and on Olive's brow / William B. Tappan -- Deep in the realm of agony / Jim Bishop -- Thy will be done / G.A. Studdert-Kennedy -- Abandoned by his friends, denied by the world / Lew Wallace -- Determined to have his life / Ernest Renan -- A sinner only in his own innocence / Taylor Caldwell and Jess Stearn -- The accused : bold, resolute, defiant / W.P. Crozier -- By order of Pontius Pilate : thirty-nine strokes / Edwin McNeill Poteat -- A man who bled like everyone else / Robert Payne -- The man who shared his burden / Frank Harris -- Simon the Cyrenian speaks / Countee Cullen -- At noon : a twilight out of time / Lew Wallace -- There is a green hill far away / Cecil B. Alexander -- A toss of the dice for a seamless garment / Lloyd C. Douglas -- The seven last words of Jesus / Luke, Matthew, and John -- Cataclysms of nature announce his death / Daniel-Rops -- Calvary / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- Explaining things to Pilate / Mary Borden -- Crucifixion to the world by the cross of Christ / Isaac Watts -- A seed for the fostering Earth / Daniel-Rops --

Savior and redeemer. Dead, and yet alive again / Mary Austin -- Mary Magdalene and the other Mary / Christina Rossetti -- Easter / Edmund Spencer -- When the heavens were seen to open / Gospel of Peter -- Easter morning / Phillips Brooks -- A guard of the sepulcher / Edwin Markham -- A fear that made them dead men / The acts of Pilate -- An astonishing discovery / Mary Borden -- Joy crowding her heart / Toyohiko Kagawa -- A dream to alter the face of the Earth / Anonymous -- Mary Magdalene / Richard Burton -- Easter chorus / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -- Easter hymn / Henry Vaughan, Charles Wesley -- Chorus for Easter / David Morton -- A song at Easter / Charles Hanson Towne -- Joined by a stranger on the road to Emmaus / Robert Payne -- Slow to perceive that he was alive / Elizabeth Stuart Phelps -- The walk to Emmaus / William Cowper -- Love and joy struggling with fear and incredulity / Bonnell Spencer -- The man who could not believe / William Barclay -- Unbelieving Thomas / Thomas Dale -- At daybreak, fish and bread with Jesus / Robert Payne -- Lovest thou me? / Julian Cramer -- Going home to his father / G.M. Anderson -- Away / James Whitcomb Riley -- After forty days, carried up into heaven / Bonnell Spencer -- Blasphemy that must be stopped -- The gift of tongues / Charles Jenner -- Christianity's first martyr / Sholem Asch -- Yielding to the boundless power of truth / Rex Miller -- The conversion of St. Paul / John Keble --

Jesus among us. The Jesus on his birthday / Edna St. Vincent Millay

The first Christmas tree / Eugene Field

The flight into Egypt / Thomas Merton

When the miracle worker smiled / Frank Norris

All are his brethren / Albert Schweitzer

Jesus her patient / Mother Teresa

Behind every saying in the gospels : one man's experience / Dag Hammarskjöld

In the silence of prayer, the presence of Christ / Simone Weil

They knew not what they did / Martin Luther King

Citizen of the world / Joyce Kilmer

Obeying a tap on the shoulder / Peter Marshall

How to hide Jesus / Steve Turner

Jesus : the man who belongs to the whole world / Mohandas K. Gandhi.