Author: Janelle

Bring the Miracle to Life

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GabriellaBring the miracle of Christmas to life this year! Conversations with Gabriella takes you above the scenes where you’ll experience Christmas from a fledgling angel’s viewpoint as she quizzes Gabriel about his secret missions to earth.

Designed to delight as it highlights God’s incredible plan for redemption, this four-part drama offers fresh insights on God’s mysterious interactions with Zachariah, Mary, Joseph, and the shepherds. It can be staged in five-minute segments each week in Advent or used as a stand-alone program for a memorable outreach event.

Although it can be staged as a delightful 30-45 minute program when combined with musical interludes, it can also be performed effectively as readers theater with simple staging and passionate reading. Take a look at the script and let your artistic creativity imagine how you could bring Conversations with Gabriella to life this Christmas season. It has the potential to penetrate hearts and change lives in a generation where many are obsessed with the supernatural but clueless about what it means to know the living God.

And if you don’t think Conversations with Gabriella is right for your situation, please check out the other monologues and two-piece dramas available for Christmas. They’re a bargain at 50% off!

Christmas: God’s Great Drama. Surprising or Scandalous?

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Scandalous! Is that a word you associate with Christmas?

I’m reading a series of Advent devotionals this year that uses the word repeatedly. To be sure, it catches my attention. That the Creator of the universe willingly chose to clothe Himself in helpless infant flesh shocks me. That He chose a young woman with no special pedigree, an honest but humble carpenter, and shepherds who were regarded as the lowest of the low to be the main characters in this greatest of all dramas stuns me.

But scandalous? The 136 synonyms in my thesaurus all have negative connotations. Would God ever do anything that is disgraceful, shameful, or dishonorable? Of course not. But would His methods be so unorthodox that people in power might view them as scandalous? Quite possibly.

Mary, Joseph, the angels, the shepherds, the townspeople, Herod, the Magi . . . who among them really understood what was happening?

God surprised them. He continues to surprise us. Drama sketches of Bible characters allow us to see the situation from their viewpoint. As we do, we discover truths that transcend the centuries. We also find  we’re faced with the same dilemma they faced: Will we trust the God who orchestrated this great drama of redemption, or will we judge Him as scandalous? Which is, if you think about it, quite scandalous!