Daily Bible reading notes with a helpful commentary and guidelines for prayer and reflection. Songs of joy are sung in palaces and in prisons, in holiday camps and in refugee camps, in waiting rooms and in war zones. Songs of joy are sung to express welcome as life begins, and to say farewell as life ends. Songs of joy are heard in the deepest moments, sung by the most unlikely people. This Advent edition of Words of Life features some of the great songs of joy found in Scripture. Also included are a prayer series on the faces of God and a perspective on angels, together with studies on the birth narrative from Luke's Gospel, the story of the fiery prophet Elijah, Paul's first letter to Timothy and a selection of Psalms.