Enjoy Your Eleventh Literary Gift – My Other Book Published this year! I am author Andy Zach and I earlier this year I self-published The Gospel Medley, my first non-fiction book.
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What’s it all about?
Are you curious about Jesus Christ? Do you struggle to understand the Bible? The Gospel Medley includes the four Gospels in a single narrative, faithfully pulling the text from the World English Bible. You are now able to read all the gospel as a single, easy-to-read story.
Each Gospel describes Jesus’s life from a different point of view with different details and insights. The Gospel Medley combines every word into a single perspective with all details and events arranged chronologically.
Unlike other harmonies, The Gospel Medley doesn’t put the four gospels in columns or rows. Instead, the text is integrated word by word into a smoothly flowing narrative. Further, each paragraph references the four gospels so you can read the original citations. You also get footnotes of all the quotes from the Old Testament, giving you the context of Jesus’s words.
For a unique perspective of the four gospels, read ‘The Gospel Medley’ today.
From the Gospel Medley
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My past gifts to you are here:
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- Your Second Literary Gift! – 24 Gifts to Christmas.
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- Your Eighth Literary Gift! – 17 Gifts Until Christmas
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I’ll give you Jesus’s nativity from my book, which merges Luke 2 and Matthew 1.
Your Eleventh Literary Gift: Jesus’s Nativity
If you think it will be hard to understand, compare this famous Christmas cartoon quoting from Luke with my book.
The Conception of Jesus
Luke 1:26–56; John 1:14
26 Now in the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee, named Nazareth, 27 to a virgin pledged to be married
to a man whose name was Joseph, of David’s house. The virgin’s name was Mary. 28 Having come in, the angel said to her, “Rejoice, you highly favored one! The Lord is with you. Blessed are you among women!”
29 But when she saw him, she was greatly troubled at the saying, and
considered what kind of salutation this might be. 30 The angel said to
her, “Don’t be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. 31
Behold, you will conceive in your womb, and give birth to a son, and
will call his name ‘Jesus.’ 32 He will be great, and will be called the
Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give Him the throne of His
father, David, 33 and He will reign over the house of Jacob forever.
There will be no end to His Kingdom.”
34 Mary said to the angel, “How can this be, seeing I am a virgin?”
35 The angel answered her, “The Holy Spirit will come on you, and
the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore also the
holy one who is born from you will be called the Son of God. 36
Behold, Elizabeth, your relative, also has conceived a son in her old
age; and this is the sixth month with her who was called barren. 37
For nothing spoken by God is impossible.”
38 Mary said, “Behold, the servant of the Lord; let it be done to me
according to your word.”
14 The Word became flesh . . .
After Jesus’s Conception
38 The angel departed from her. 39 Mary arose in those days and went
into the hill country with haste, into a city of Judah, 40 and entered
into the house of Zacharias and greeted Elizabeth.
41 When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped in her
womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit. 42 She called
out with a loud voice, and said, “Blessed are you among women, and
blessed is the fruit of your womb! 43 Why am I so favored, that the
mother of my Lord should come to me? 44 For behold, when the voice
of your greeting came into my ears, the baby leaped in my womb for joy! 45 Blessed is she who believed, for there will be a fulfillment of the things which have been spoken to her from the Lord!”
“My soul magnifies the Lord. 47 My spirit has rejoiced in God my
Savior, 48 for He has looked at the humble state of His servant. For
behold, from now on, all generations will call me blessed. 49 For
He who is mighty has done great things for me. Holy is His
name. 50 His mercy is for generations and generations on those who
fear him. 51 He has shown strength with his arm. He has scattered the
proud in the imagination of their hearts. 52 He has put down princes
from their thrones, and has exalted the lowly. 53 He has filled the
hungry with good things. He has sent the rich away empty. 54 He has
given help to Israel, His servant, that He might remember
mercy, 55 as He spoke to our fathers, to Abraham and his
offspring forever.”
56 Mary stayed with her about three months, and then returned to her
house.
Joseph Finds Out – Your Eleventh Literary Gift
Matthew 1:18–25
18 Now the birth of Jesus Christ was like this; for after his mother,
Mary, was engaged to Joseph, before they came together, she was found pregnant by the Holy Spirit. 19 Joseph, her husband, being a righteous man, and not willing to make her a public example, intended to put her away secretly.
20 But when he thought about these things, behold, an angel of the
Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, son of David, don’t
be afraid to take to yourself Mary, your wife, for that which is
conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit. 21 She shall give birth to a son.
You shall call his name Jesus, for it is He who shall save His people
from their sins.”
22 Now all this has happened, that it might be fulfilled which was
spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying,
23 “Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and shall give birth to
a son. They shall call his name Immanuel8 which is, being
interpreted, ‘God with us.’”
24 Joseph arose from his sleep, and did as the angel of the Lord
commanded him, and took his wife to himself; 25 and didn’t know her
sexually until she had given birth to her firstborn son. He named him
Jesus.
The Birth of Jesus – Your Eleventh Literary Gift
Luke 2:1–39; Matthew 1:25
1 Now in those days, a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all
the world should be enrolled. 2 This was the first enrollment made
when Quirinius was governor of Syria. 3 All went to enroll
themselves, everyone to his own city. 4 Joseph also went up from
Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judea, to David’s city, which
is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family of David;
5 to enroll himself with Mary, who was pledged to be married to him
as wife, being pregnant.
6 While they were there, the day had come for her to give birth. 7 She
gave birth to her firstborn son. She wrapped him in bands of cloth, and
laid him in a feeding trough, because there was no room for them in
the guest room.
25 He [Joseph] named him Jesus.
A Heavenly Host of Angels
8 There were shepherds in the same country staying in the field, and
keeping watch by night over their flock. 9 Behold, an angel of the
Lord stood by them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and
they were terrified.
10 The angel said to them, “Don’t be afraid, for behold, I bring you
good news of great joy which will be to all the people. 11 For there is
born to you today, in David’s city, a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.
12 This is the sign to you: you will find a baby wrapped in strips of
cloth, lying in a feeding trough.”
13 Suddenly, there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly
army praising God, and saying, 14 “Glory to God in the highest, and
on earth peace, among men of good will.”
15 When the angels went away from them into the sky, the shepherds
said to one another, “Let’s go to Bethlehem, now, and see this thing
that has happened, which the Lord has made known to us.”
16 They came with haste, and found both Mary and Joseph, and the
baby was lying in the feeding trough.
17 When they saw it, they publicized widely the saying which was
spoken to them about this child. 18 All who heard it wondered at the
things which were spoken to them by the shepherds. 19 But Mary kept
all these sayings, pondering them in her heart. 20 The shepherds
returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had
heard and seen, just as it was told them.
Here Ends Your Eleventh Literary Gift
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