Christmas by Heart: How to Memorize the Christmas Stories from Matthew and Luke: Learn One Verse Each Day Through Advent and Christmas

Don't let Advent and Christmas pass you by! Learn the Gospel stories of Christmas by heart. Every day during Advent and/or Christmas, you'll learn one new verse of the Christmas stories. This unique series of short, easy memory lessons will make the memorizing simple. Many books offer a daily verse, but how long do you remember what you merely read? Learning these stories, verse by verse, will lift your thoughts to a new level. As you renew these stories, you'll find new meanings and images in the familiar words. Think you have a bad memory? Impossible! You've just proven that your memory is excellent (see page 32). Christmas by Heart will show you how to use your memory in new ways. But don't worry, you won't need crazy memory tricks. Instead, you'll learn how to make the Bible come alive through expression, your imagination, and even rhythm (see page 23). With an innovative combination of simple techniques like these, you'll make these stories part of you. Advent doesn't have to blaze past. Christmas doesn't have to evaporate on December 26th. You can make these seasons come to life if you learn to think new thoughts. But you can only think with what you remember. ================================== PARTIAL TABLE OF CONTENTS: (Some sections omitted. For full contents, use "Look Inside!") Keeping the Seasons of Christmas Rituals Make It Real A Daily Christmas Verse The Perfect "Advent Sacrifice" An Exhortation to Party A Habit Worth Savoring How This Book Will Help You Learn the Christmas Stories The Stories of the Birth of Jesus Luke 2 (first half) Matthew 2 Books by Heart: Christmas Speaking Out the Verses Speak Out Loudly Slowly Rhythm Expression (These Words Are Alive) Now Speak Your Verse Your Memorizing Plan A Daily Verse Why Only One Verse a Day? Why You Can Memorize Your Daily Routine Stories, Not Memory Tricks Take the Verses In See the Words Hear the Words Feel the Rhythms Feel the Shapes of the Words in Your Tongue and Mouth Renew Your Verses Experience Move Through the Words into Thoughts Imagining Is a New Skill Imagining Is Connecting Imagining Brings Delight Your New Daily Routine Spaced Repetition and "Smart" Intervals A Simpler Method: Repeat Every Day Say Recent Verses More Often If Needed Your Daily Verse Routine Crafting Your Routine Daily Recitation Times + Chart = Habit Bible Stories Gospels as Stories Remembering Stories Reciting in Different Ways Renewing Is Its Own Reward A Beautiful, Old, Oral Translation Move With the Rhythms The Palaces of Memory What About Mnemonics? You've Learned How to Learn Verses! Keeping What You've Learned Use This Book Next Advent Celebrate What You've Learned Keep in Touch Other Stories of the Childhood of Christ Luke 1 Matthew 1 Luke 2 (second half) About the Author ================================== This book includes the Basic Books by Heart(tm) lessons. These lessons are specially adapted for these Christmas stories.