One Incredible Moment: Celebrating the Majesty of the Manger

by Max Lucado

Exquisitely redesigned, this updated version of Max Lucado's best-selling Christmas gift book delivers a unique combination of warm personal stories and insight into the incarnation.

Genres: Christmas, Christian, Nonfiction, Religion, Lds, Holiday

115 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2001

About the author

With more than 150 million products in print and several NYT bestsellers, Max Lucado is America's bestselling inspirational author. He serves the Oak Hills Church in San Antonio, Texas, where he lives with his wife, Denalyn, and their mischievous mutt, Andy. His most recent book published in August 2024 and is titled What Happens Next.

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Reviews

[Hannah · Rating 4 out of 5]

I may have teared up twice reading this entire book within an hour.

[Marylin · Rating 5 out of 5]

We read this as an advent book for this year and truly loved it.
Each chapter brought extra thinking regarding the incredible story of Christ's birth and His love for us.
Max Lucado's writing is beautiful and makes you think deeper about the Bible and its meaning to each of us.
This is a combination of sections from several of his books. I truly loved how it was put together with excellent artwork.
Pick this short book up and let it touch your soul!

[Elizabeth · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a hodge podge of collections from different book Lucado has written to tell the Christmas story and help the reader reflect through the sacrifice given laid upon the hay looking towards being laid upon a cross for the sins of the world.

[Greta · Rating 5 out of 5]

A compilation of short vignettes from other Max Lucado books. Found this on my shelf of Christmas books collected over the past years and I don't recall reading it before. It is a lovely Advent / Christmas devotional.

[Jacqueline Wright · Rating 5 out of 5]

Max Lucado describes thoughts the way no other does. Beautiful!

[Linda · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is an advent devotional taken from a variety of Max Lucado’s books on the theme of Jesus’ birth, life and death. I liked a few of the selections but found it overall uninspiring.

[Alex · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was an absolutely beautiful little book, and definitely put me in the Christmas spirit!

[Elaine Reinhard · Rating 5 out of 5]

Beautifully written and illustrated. So very inspirational.

[Reeca Ratcliff · Rating 4 out of 5]

Enjoyable quick read about Jesus birth and following him.

[Claire · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved this collection of Lucado's writing. Will probably do this one again in the advent season.

[Dianne Krueger · Rating 5 out of 5]

A wonderful, insightful book for Christmas or any time of the year.

[Guthrie Veech · Rating 5 out of 5]

Max is always amazing.

[Lynn Stuart · Rating 5 out of 5]

A beautiful devotional for Christmas time.

[Lea McKenna · Rating 4 out of 5]

One Incredible Moment by Max Lucado examines the commonness but also the magnitude of the birth of Christ. The author imagines the thoughts of those present as well as the effects on all who follow.

[Jennifer Barten · Rating 5 out of 5]

When I got to California my mother-in-law handed me One Incredible Moment by Max Lucado and told me to read it while there.
This wonderful book is filled with three sections of devotionals. The first was my favorite telling about Jesus's birth from different people's POV who were there that first night. The other two were from God telling about his love for us and why he had to send Jesus down.
I am going to buy this book so I can read one devotional a day during the Advent season.

[Sarah · Rating 5 out of 5]

Do you ever feel as though the Christmas story has become routine? I’ve read and heard it so many times that unfortunately now I often glance over it as if it is just another story. Max Lucado’s One Incredible Moment: Celebrating the Majesty of the Manger gave me a fresh look
at the awe-inspiring meaning of Christmas. Each chapter in this little book is an excerpt from Lucado’s previous books and is interspersed with photos, Bible verses, and Christmas carol lyrics.

In the book’s first section, the author looks at the Christmas story from the viewpoints of Mary, Joseph, Simeon, the shepherds, and the wise men. Imagining the emotions that each of these people must have felt reminded me that Jesus’ birth was real, not just a story that I hear each December. Jesus – God’s son, God made flesh – was born to a humble woman in a stable filled with animals. The one incredible moment of his birth changed the lives of each of the people mentioned in this book, and it has continued to change lives every since.

The next two sections of the book speak of God’s amazing and overwhelming love, his willingness to send his son to earth to suffer and die out of his eternal love for us. In response to this, the author encourages us to actively, diligently seek God in every moment of our lives, to seek Christ every day, not just on Christmas, not just during Advent.

This book truly does celebrate the majesty of the manger, finding God’s magnificence in the ordinary, in the everyday. God is all around us and is longing for us to reach out to him, to love him. He has given us his love and his grace through his son Jesus Christ. Thanks be to God for his gift that is too wonderful for words! (2 Corinthians 9:15)

(From my church's newsletter, December 2011)

[Terrie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Its not Christmas, but found this book in a thrift store and didn't want to wait til Christmas to read it.

I was expecting this to be like most books on Christmas, but was pleasantly surprised. The Christ child was a great gift to mankind, but His love for us to take on all our sins by dying on the cross and providing salvation and eternal life is the greatest gift of all. He did it for me and you.

[Shea · Rating 4 out of 5]

I actually created a Christmas play for our previous church loosely based on this book. I love reading about Christmas and even though I can't know while I am on this earth what really happened the night Christ was born, it is fun for me to imagine it.