Dan Metzger
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Dan Metzger is the Senior Pastor of St. Marks United Methodist Church in Findlay, Ohio. After receiving his Masters of Divinity from Asbury Theological Seminary, Dan began serving churches throughout west Ohio. Dan and his wife Holly have three amazing daughters: Adelyn, Renee, and Emilia. Dan is passionate about helping people find and tell their own stories of life change through Jesus.
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The How (Not) to Ruin Christmas Kit
Don't Miss the Miracle of God's Greatest Gift
Forget peace on earth — you just want some peace at your dinner table!
Dan Metzger’s How Not to Ruin Christmas is a funny, hopeful and heartwarming little book that names the real reason why so many of us struggle during the holidays. Share the message of the book with your entire church this year. Help your community shift their perspective, reclaim the wonder of the season, and experience Christmas like never before…from the inside out.
In this kit you will find all the goals, strategy, and tactical steps you need to make it happen.
The kit includes:
- One paperback copy of the CORE BOOK, How Not to Ruin Christmas by Dan Metzger
- One digital (EPUB) copy of the CORE BOOK, How Not to Ruin Christmas by Dan Metzger
- A 30-day Advent DAILY DEVOTIONAL, based on the material from the book
- A leader’s START HERE guide including welcome, overview, sermon notes, an advent candle lighting liturgy, and a small group study
- DIGITAL ASSETS for promoting the campaign to your church and community, with a QR code for accessing exclusive digital files
- A 30-day fillable JOURNAL with quotes from How Not to Ruin Christmas
- A How Not to Ruin Christmas BOOKMARK with peelable tabs
- Information on BULK COPY DISCOUNTS of the book and devotional
- Commemorative ink PEN
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New Release
How (Not) to Ruin Christmas (Paperback)
Don't Miss the Miracle of God's Greatest Gift
You want to have a good Christmas. Really, you do. But every year, something steals your joy. Could that something be you?
At Christmas, there’s lots of talk about comfort and joy…but the reality of the season is often less-than-jolly.
The holidays have a way of underscoring grief, magnifying divisions, and creating chaos in the fragile balance of our busy lives.
Forget peace on earth — you just want some peace at your dinner table.
Is there anything you can do to make Christmas all you wish it could be?
How (Not) to Ruin Christmas is a funny, hopeful, and heartwarming guide that will help you replace worry with hope, conflict with peace, misery with joy, and selfishness with love, even in the chaos of the holiday season.
Through humorous personal tales and the unedited, messy story of the first Christmas, you will discover that Christmas was never about the absence of pain and struggle but about God’s light piercing the darkness – a light that still shines in our lives, 365 days a year.
Without adding one more thing to your to-do list, How (Not) to Ruin Christmas will inspire you to shift your perspective, reclaim the wonder of the season, and experience Christmas like you never have before…from the inside out.
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How (Not) to Ruin Christmas (ePUB)
Don't Miss the Miracle of God's Greatest Gift
You want to have a good Christmas. Really, you do. But every year, something steals your joy. Could that something be you?
At Christmas, there’s lots of talk about comfort and joy…but the reality of the season is often less-than-jolly.
The holidays have a way of underscoring grief, magnifying divisions, and creating chaos in the fragile balance of our busy lives.
Forget peace on earth — you just want some peace at your dinner table.
Is there anything you can do to make Christmas all you wish it could be?
How (Not) to Ruin Christmas is a funny, hopeful, and heartwarming guide that will help you replace worry with hope, conflict with peace, misery with joy, and selfishness with love, even in the chaos of the holiday season.
Through humorous personal tales and the unedited, messy story of the first Christmas, you will discover that Christmas was never about the absence of pain and struggle but about God’s light piercing the darkness – a light that still shines in our lives, 365 days a year.
Without adding one more thing to your to-do list, How (Not) to Ruin Christmas will inspire you to shift your perspective, reclaim the wonder of the season, and experience Christmas like you never have before…from the inside out.