Rev. Kay Horner will be available for book signings of her book “The Christmas Dance” at the White Wing Bookstore on Keith Street on Friday from 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m., and the White Wing Store in Bradley Square Mall on Saturday from 3-5 p.m.
The book will be marketed through Walmart, Sam’s Club, Barnes and Nobel, Amazon, ChristianBook.com and other retail outlets.
“The Awakening America Alliance, the ministry for which I serve as executive director, will be blessed with proceeds from the sales,” Rev.
Horner said.
Review of "The Christmas Dance"
The genesis of “The Christmas Dance” came one cold, rainy December afternoon about eight years ago when the Rev. Kay Horner struggled to focus on writing the message she was to deliver at a Christmas brunch for the Peerless Road Church. In a kind of mental dance, her thoughts turned again and again to the “Doctrine of the Holy Spirit,” the course title of a class in which she was enrolled at Lee University.
That class had been dialoguing about the relational aspect of the Trinity — Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. The Greek theological term used by early church fathers to describe this oneness or interpersonal communion simply meant “to give way” or “make room.” It could also be translated “rotation” or “a going around,” which was why they compared this divine interplay to a dance.
While those thoughts of divine interplay filled her mind, the embryo of a book began growing in her heart.
As she reflected on the fact that the Triune God was complete within Himself and yet through creation, He invited weak, frail humans to join into an ongoing communion and conversation in the heavens.
“I was overwhelmed,” she said, remembering how something new and refreshing warmed her heart.
Adam and Eve made choices that changed the course of human history. In response, God sent His Son into the world, robed in human flesh, to invite humanity once again into the “dance” — an interpersonal relationship with Him.
This “dance” began before the foundation of the world. Introduced in Genesis, the preparations for the coming of the “Divine-Human Dancer” is woven throughout many of the Old Testament character’s lives such as Abraham and Sarah, Joseph and his brothers, Ruth, and Boaz to name a few.
The music became strangely silent during the intertestamental period (about a 200 year span between the Old and New Testament), but soon, Elizabeth and Zechariah stepped onto the dance floor as Gabriel issued a personal invitation for Mary to join the dance like no one ever had before. Most people know how the story goes from that moment forward. Eventually, little hands stretched from a cradle in Bethlehem to grasp a cross on Golgotha and the invitation envelope was sealed with Christ’s blood.
“As I tried to put this invitation to the dance into words to share at the brunch, ‘The Christmas Dance’ began to flow,” Horner said. “The Bible contains hundreds of accounts about people whose roles demonstrate the differences of being willing or unwilling participants in the story and the dance.”
“The Christmas Dance” retells stories of beloved Bible characters, revealing how they danced with God to usher in the birth of Christ; how they moved with Him on earth; and how God invites everyone to follow His lead into the full purpose for each individual’s life.