O Come Emmanuel: A Musical Tour of Daily Readings for Advent and Christmas by Gordon Giles is an innovative Advent devotional that is a musical mystery tour of daily readings for the season, which will help draw readers closer to God through what they sing and hear at this time of year.
You can make Christmas special this year by exploring the legends, message, and theology behind some of your favorite carols and hymns. O Come Emmanuel: A Musical Tour of Daily Readings for Advent and Christmas by Gordon Giles is a book of daily devotions that will take you from the first days of Advent, through Christmas, ending at Epiphany.
Each day, Gordon Giles invites you to draw closer to God through spiritual and historical explorations of beloved, familiar music. As you read O Come Emmanuel: A Musical Tour of Daily Readings for Advent and Christmas by Gordon Giles, and reflect, you will be asked to consider the meaning of some of the famous Christmas carols that we sometimes sing without a passing thought. You will be introduced to obscure saints as well as living poets and musicians of faith, and you will hear the timeless truths of love and forgiveness, pain and loss, darkness and light.