Description: This volume is tightly packed with surprising insights one simply does not normally hear from the pulpit, but yet are so obviously implied in the biblical narratives of Christmas and Easter. Dr Ellens has a unique way of cracking open familiar biblical sentences and stories and spilling out an entirely fresh cornucopia of life-changing insights about the radical nature of the good news about Godâ (TM)s grace. Ideas and metaphors from the Bible that we have heard or read so often that they have become routine and clichÃ(c) suddenly flower with refreshing new meanings and intimations. Dr Ellensâ (TM) carefully and cogently expressed biblical interpretation and sermon oratory incarnate Godâ (TM)s truth and bring to lively new vitality a vivid experience of God as the driving force of Divine Spirit in our personal lives and in history. Preaching has seldom been this engaging, powerful, and spiritually empowering.