God Is With Us by Robin Wilson

God Is With Us by Robin Wilson

God Is With Us, originally published in 2016, invites you to explore your longing for God's presence through a study of the lectionary Bible readings for Advent and Christmas. The hope of Advent is the fulfillment of that longing; we await the coming of Jesus as Immanuel, God With Us. Each week's Scriptures call us to praise God as we actively await the coming of Christ and prepare our hearts and lives for his arrival. Through the readings, we hear the invitation to claim and celebrate the new hope we have in Jesus Christ.

The season of Advent offers opportunities to prepare for God's coming in human form in the infant Jesus and for the fulfillment of God's kingdom with the second coming of Christ. Hope is the focus of Advent worship, study, and prayer. We will discover the light that began in the manger, which continues as we look forward with hope to Christ's return.

God Is With Us is based on the Revised Common Lectionary Scriptures for church year A, the first of a three-year cycle of Bible readings. The study includes commentary and reflection on readings from the Old Testament, the Gospels, and the Epistles. It offers the opportunity to explore these Bible readings in a five-session study. It will help participants understand, appreciate, and engage in meaningful and joyous celebrations of Advent and Christmas and to live each day in God's hope through Jesus Christ.

Robin Wilson's thesis on number theory earned him a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. He is a former Fellow of Keble College, Oxford University, and an Emeritus Professor of Pure Mathematics at the Open University. He is also an Emeritus Professor of Geometry at Gresham College, London. He is also a Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics. He has published and edited over 40 books on the subject, including Lewis Carroll in Numberland (Penguin, 2008), Four Colors Suffice (Princeton University Press, 2009), Combinatorics: A Very Short Introduction (OUP, 2016), and Euler's Pioneering Equation (OUP, 2018). He has received the Lester Ford award and the Pólya prize from the Mathematical Society of America for his excellent expository writing, as well as the Stanton Medal from the Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications for his outreach initiatives in combinatorics. Erdos 1 is his number.