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CHRISTMAS IS FOR THE YOUNG...WHATEVER THEIR AGE
by William Powell Tuck

REVIEW BY - Bruce Gourley


A long-time pastor and seminary professor, Tuck has "always loved the Advent and Christmas season." A timely arrival, this volume from CSS Publishing is a compilation of "16 Christmas Sermon Stories" intended to be "a source of inspiration for personal meditation or small group studies." Whereas Christmas day has long been a special time for Christians at large, many Baptists in recent years have come to a greater appreciation of the larger Advent season. Tuck helps the reader personally engage in the Advent and Christmas season, pointing the way to the simplicity and mystery of the incarnation, drawing upon the scriptures and imagination to invoke the true meaning of the the holiday celebration. In the midst of the busyness that marks the holidays, it is worth taking the time to read Christmas is for the Young.
from the Baptist Bulletin -BAPTIST TODAY- Mercer University Baptist Center- by Bruce Gourley



ALSO A Review By: Dr. John Robert McFarland Iron Mountain, MI, November, 05 2007
CHRISTMAS IS FOR THE YOUNG... WHATEVER THEIR AGE. By William Powell Tuck, APC. Lima, Ohio: CSS Publishing Company, Inc. 2007. Paperback. 172 pp. $15.95.

Christmas preaching is a challenge. Everybody who wanders in is full of eggnog, fatigued by the constant stereophonic exploits of The Little Drummer Boy, and already knows the story, about how Rudolph red-nosed the three wise guys from Orientar to the stable where the shepherds washed their sox by night. And despite their extensive scriptural knowledge, or perhaps because of it, half the people in the pews you won't see again for six months, if that soon.

Bill Tuck says he has always loved that challenge [7]. That is a good thing for those of us who face the challenge but are not sure how to preach the same old message with new joy. Get Christmas is for the Young... Whatever Their Age and your Christmas preaching is set until retirement, or at least sixteen years, which is the number of sermons in this book.

It is clear that Bill Tuck loves not just preaching about Christmas, but Christmas itself. He is himself a good example of remaining young for Christmas, regardless of age. These sermons do not, however, see life through nostalgia-misted red and green bubble lights. They face head-on the difficult questions and problems Christmas calls forth, like "Can There Be Peace on Earth? [Chapter 13] and "the slaughter of the innocents" in "Christmas and the Beast" [Chapter 12], and Mary's revolutionary Gospel [Chapter 4].

Other sermons deal with the music, gifts, and sounds of Christmas, readiness for Christmas, Joseph's disturbing dream, the angels' song, and the mystery of Bethlehem. Since I have always had a problem with receiving gifts, I especially appreciated the insights of "Christmas Gifts" [Chapter 14].

There are "pointers" on every page. [Since people remember the so-called illustrations more than the so-called points of a sermon, I refer to the illustrations as pointers.] I thought I had heard, and used, every sermon pointer ever uttered in the English-speaking pulpit, but not so. Bill's pointers are new and fresh. I especially enjoyed the little girl in the impromptu family nativity play who played all three wise men and brought "gold, circumstances, and mud." [159]

Tuck is a scholar. He knows the Scriptures and their problems. He knows the theological issues of incarnation. However, you hear the scholarship that under girds these sermons, from Loren Eisley to Paul Tillich, only in the footnotes. These are sermons for any congregation. Anyone can read or hear these words with profit.

The author, as retired as he is ever likely to be, is a distinguished pastor, a renegade Baptist [Is that redundant?], past-president of APC, a sometime preaching professor, and the author of a dozen other books.

Be sure to ask Santa for this book. If you have been a good boy or girl, you will get it. [Oops. That's from a different book.] Then preach these sermons. It's not stealing, just accepting a Christmas gift from a master preacher who has been around the pulpit a time or two but still finds it exciting to look for what will show up on the next trip.

Rev. Dr. John Robert McFarland, FAPC, retired from The Illinois Great Rivers Conference of The United Methodist Church and living in Iron Mountain, MI, where he is Theologian in Residence at the Moose & Bear Coffee and Deerskinning Emporium.

This book is apt to become a classic for anyone interested in the gospels, especially if they are also interested in flow of events in conjunction with the movement of stars and planets in the heavens - a mystical must read!

In The Chrysalids John Wyndham takes the reader into the anguished heart of a community where the chances of breeding true are less than 50 per cent and where deviations are rooted out nad destroyed as offences and abominations. The narrator of The Chrysalids is David, who can communicate with a small group of other young people by means of 'thought shapes'. This deviation from a cruelly rigid norm goes unnoticed at first. But sooner or later the secret is bound to be discovered, and the results are violent, horrific... and believable.

Academy Editions has done a fabulous job in creating a fine documentation of architectural innovations pertaining to modern places of worship. Whether you're an architect or not, you'll find this fascinating.

Throughout the first third of the book, Edwin Heathcote exhibits a broadly based and well-researched background in covering the advancement in concepts which influenced church design and construction through the 1900's. Citing numerous architectural trend setters, Mr. Heathcote describes in an eruditious manner the relationship between theology, liturgical reform, and modernism, and how they contributed to the "expression of piety" seen in today's church building throughout the world.

The remainder of the book is entitled "Movements of the Spirit," in which Iona Spens compiles a series of "portfolios" from noted architects/firms, and supplements her text with excellent photos, plans and elevations. The color photography, both of interiors and exteriors, is downright breathtaking in many cases, and does great justice to the defining, creative aspects of each church.

This is the second "Builders" book I've bought (the other being "Airport Builders"), and I like this one the best simply because the photography is more easily able to capture the essence of the architectural creation. As with the other, this edition is of the highest quality: bound well, and printed on the best paper. Highest recommendation.

Heather O'Hagan, a midwestern girl new to Los Angeles, finds driving in the fast, heavy traffic scary. When an accident happens ahead of her, she brakes just in time to prevent her car running over a motorcyclist. While she tries to help the downed rider who happens to be gorgeously blond with mesmerizing blue eyes, her car deflects traffic from harming them. Later she learns she helped the man who owns Ambercrombie-Pheps, the company where she works in the secretarial pool. Circumstances lead him to cast her as the model for a new French fashion designer's line of `Cinderella Fashions.' Heather just can't understand how Chic can be so warm and loving, then turn so cold and indifferent the next time she meets him.

Chester `Chic' Ambercrombie dubs the beautiful, redheaded young woman who saves him on the highway his guardian angel. She makes him think of being with that one special person for the rest of his life. So far his life has been about dancing, modeling and the adulation the exposure brings him -- totally unlike his sober identical twin brother Charles who runs the family company.

CINDERELLA AND THE STRIPPER is a captivating story filled with mischance, misunderstanding and circumstances that will pull you into the real fantasy world of life as a fashion princess in Los Angeles. An ordinary secretary with no career plans, Heather becomes the Cinderella of fashion promotion, a pampered but hard-working princess. Her pumpkin coach is a humorously appropriate VW while her white knight prince charming is the star of the Prancing Stallions strip show. What fun!

Great characters are only part of CINDERELLA AND THE STRIPPER's fairy-tale twist. Fabulous writing and wonderful settings place you in the world of business, fashion, work and beach life in California. You will enjoy everything about this spellbinding story.

The issue addressed here has created much pain and disorganization in families. The book's importance lies in the authors' unique and excellent insights into the internal dynamics of individuals involved in substance abuse, and how those personal dynamics lock them into old and unfulfillable expectations. For anyone involved in treating the abuser, it provides critical guildelines for successful intervention.