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‘shop-till-you-drop,make-sure-everybody-is-totally-happy,gift-buying,food-gorging panic attack'calledChristmas.If,like me,you're exhausted already,then An EvenBetter Christmas is for you.This book guides us all into real'peace on earth,'starting way down deep in our hearts.”  \nRAY ORTLUND,Pastor,Immanuel Church,Nashville;President,Renewal Ministries  \n\"In An Even Better Christmas,Matt Chandler asks a life-changingquestion:in the Christmas story,are we less like the wise menand more like the religious leaders,who knew about God's Kingbut didn’t want to know him?Once that question is in yourmind,your Christmases will never be the same again.I'm sograteful to Matt for raising it,and it has made me much moreexcited about Christmas this year.\"  \nRICO TICE,Founder,Christianity Explored Ministries;Author,Capturing God and A Very Different Christmas  \n“At Christmas we celebrate God's intervention in world history.The shepherds and wise men were smart enough to check itout.Matt Chandler,who faced a head-on collision with life-threatening cancer,is so glad that he checked it out.Let meencourage you to read Matt's amazing story and check out theChrist of Christmas for yourself.God wants to intervene inyour life too.\"  \nTERRY VIRGO,Founder,Newfrontiers;Author,Life Tastes Better  \nMATT CHANDLER  \nAN EVEN  \nCHRISTMAS  \nthegoodbookCOMPA NY  \nAn Even Better Christmas◎The Village Church 2018  \nPublished byThe Good Book Company  \n)thegoodbook  \n## Websites\n\nNorth America:www.thegoodbook.com  \nCOMPANY  \nUK&Europe:www.thegoodbook.co.uk  \nAustralia:www.thegoodbook.com.au  \nThe VillageChurch Resources~  \nNew Zealand:www.thegoodbook.co.nz  \nUnless otherwise indicated,Scripture quotations are from The HolyBible,English Standard Version(ESV),copyright ◎2001 by Crossway,a publishing ministry ofGood News Publishers.Used by permission.Allrights reserved.  \nAll rights reserved.Except as may be permitted by the Copyright Act,nopart of chis publication may be reproduced in any form or by any meanswithout prior permission from the publisher.  \nISBN:9781784982881|Printed in India  \nDesign by André Parker  \nContents  \n1.Something Better7  \n2.God Gets Involved13  \n3.God Brings Joy27  \n4.God Is Worth It43  \n5.The Beginning,Not the End57  \n0  \n## SomethingBetter\n\n’ve always loved Christmas.But when I was growingLup,there were rules.  \nThe essential rules in the Chandler home werebasically:  \n·You don't steal.  \n·You don't kill.  \n·You don't do drugs.  \n·And you don't decorate for Christmas until afterThanksgiving.  \nMy wife,Lauren,isn't wired that way.She would startcelebrating Christmas in January if I wasn't such abastion of “not until after Thanksgiving.”  \nBut once we get past that last Thursday of November,I've always been all in.Near my house,there's a street  \nMATT CHANDLER  \nthat every year decorates their neighborhood withDisney characters and Christmas lights.Around 500times in the run-up to Christmas,my youngest daughterwill ask us on the way home to turn down that street soshe can see them.and about 412 of those requestsI’m going to say yes to,and we're just going to go downthere and watch it.  \nIf that doesn’t prove my commitment to Christmas,I'lllet you know that my family watches Elfevery year.Andby watch,I mean we watch it about a thousand timestogether.It's a tradition in the Chandler household thatearly in December,there's a conversation in my housethat goes something like this:  \nKids:“What are we going to do tonight?”  \nMe:\"I don't know.\"  \nKids:“We could watch El?”  \nMe:\"It's after Thanksgiving.Let's go.\"  \nI love Christmas.In fact,I love it more now thanwhen I was a kid.And I've even relaxed the \"notuntil Thanksgiving”rule (I'll tell you why in the lastchapter,and that can be your reward for readingbetween here and there).But please don't misunder-stand me.Christmas at the Chandlers isn't always—isn't ever—perfect.Far 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