A Long-Ago Birth in a Right-Now World

“For pastors grappling for novel insights on the Christmas story, this book is a welcome addition to your library. With his wisdom and wit, Brown fleshes out the familiar passages by engaging fresh images and inspiring stories. Brown has the unique ability to weave the ancient texts with relevant anecdotes and gently lead us to experience the Christmas story anew.”


—Lara “Willis” Greene, senior minister, First United Methodist Church





“These reflections on the familiar Christmas stories remind us of what we already know with fresh and imaginative insight that sparkle on the page. Reading these pages is like pulling up a chair with someone of uncommon wisdom and listening to the familiar with renewed wonder and discovery. Michael Brown’s wide and ever-growing audience will return to these pages again and again!”


—W. Douglas Hood, senior pastor, First Presbyterian Church





“Each Michael Brown sermon is a master class in preaching. Here, with sermons put to page, the depths of God’s Spirit will call to the depths within you as Brown retells the backstory and understory of God’s in-breaking that we have come to know as the Christmas story. Be prepared to be awakened to the miracle that is Christmas.”


—Preston Davis, minister, High Point University





“In this relevant devotional collection, Brown reflects on the Christmas story of yesterday and today. . . . Brown’s meditations remind us to absorb the warmth of the incarnation into the precious parts of our spiritual, psychological, and social well-being. Biblically sound, historically accurate, philosophically profound, and pastorally practical, A Long-Ago Birth in a Right-Now World invites the reader to worship and


reflect.”


—Micah L. McCreary, New Brunswick Theological Seminary