Black Christian News: http://www.BCNN1.com / Black Christian Book Company: http://www.BlackCBC.com (Based upon Amazon.com rankings, BarnesandNoble.com rankings, and BlackCBC.com rankings.)
Bestselling
authors, Anthony Bradley (Keep Your Head Up: America's New Black
Christian Leaders, Social Consciousness, and the Cosby Conversation --
Nonfiction) and Victoria Christopher Murray and ReShonda Tate
Billingsley (Sinners and Saints -- Fiction) lead the bestsellers list of
Black Christian authors on the January 2012 edition of the Black
Christian News/Black Christian Book Company National Bestsellers List.
While they faithfully looked after their sheep at night in the fields outside of Bethlehem, suddenly "the glory of the Lord shone round about them," and an angel proclaimed in their ears a message of good tidings for all.
Children and retailers love it. Parents spend months paying for it! Still, when it's all said and done--and paid for!--Christmas means family, friends, gifts, and lasting memories. Ever wonder what Christmas means to God? After all, it began as the celebration of His Son's birth. The Christ Child is more than just a convenient backdrop for holiday festivities. In fact, Jesus Christ came to earth on a mission. His birth set in motion a plan that eventually led Him to die...for all of us. The real meaning is not wrapped up in the Baby in a manger, but in what His birth, life, death, and resurrection accomplished.
During the Christmas holiday, it is so easy to get caught up with all
of the commercialism that surrounds the season. We sometimes get so
focused on shopping, finding the right gifts, and getting together with
family and friends, that we forget that the Reason for Christmas came
to earth over 2000 years ago as a lowly baby in a stable surrounded by
animals.
Christmas is a season of great joy. But what is the real meaning of Christmas? Christmas is when we celebrate the birth of the Christ child. Jesus was born so one day the price could be paid for the things we have done that are wrong.
Shepherds gathered their flowing robes to hurry to Him; the Magi braved deserts and mountains to find Him; in the blazing noonday sun a defeated Samaritan woman came to Him; a skeptic exclaimed, "my Lord and my God" when he found Him. And today millions on every continent acknowledge with the Apostle Paul that He is "the Son of God, who loved me, and gave Himself for me".
He is ranked as one of the greatest and most innovative coaches in NFL history. He invented the now popular 4-3 defense, and the "flex defense" system made famous by the "Doomsday Defense" squads he created during his 29 year tenure with the Dallas Cowboys.
