{"id":113137,"date":"2022-08-01T18:02:14","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T22:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=113137"},"modified":"2022-08-01T18:02:14","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T22:02:14","slug":"jac-filer-has-written-his-first-advent-devotional-book-preparing-for-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=113137","title":{"rendered":"Jac Filer has written his first Advent Devotional book, Preparing for Jesus."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Preparing for Jesus\u00a0<\/em>is a 28-day journey through Jesus\u2019 family tree, meant to turn your heart and mind toward the coming King as you prepare to celebrate his arrival.<\/p>\n<p>On this journey, you will encounter some familiar and not-so-familiar ancestors of Jesus, starting with Abraham and ending with Joseph and Mary. You will meet heroes and villains. And you will read stories of victories and failures.<\/p>\n<p>As you take this journey, reading each entry through the lens of the Christmas story and your own experiences, each day\u2019s entry will guide you as you take another step closer to Jesus and invite Him more fully into your heart, mind, and journey.<\/p>\n<p>The book is available through all book distributors on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Preparing-Jesus-Devotional-Jac-Filer\/dp\/1952481937\/ref=monarch_sidesheet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amazon<\/a>,\u00a0Baker &amp; Taylor, Follett, Ingram, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/brightcommunications.net\/our-books\/inspiration\/preparing-for-jesus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bright Communications<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About the Author<\/strong><br \/>\nJac Filer is a lifelong resident of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, where he presently lives with his family. Since 2020, he has been enjoying a second career as a freelance Christian writer, and is an ongoing contributor to multiple blogs, web sites, and devotional apps.\u00a0\u00a0<em>Preparing for Jesus<\/em>\u00a0is Jac\u2019s first book.<\/p>\n<p>Please visit Jac\u2019s LinkedIn account below to learn more about this author:<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>LinkedIn: \u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jacfiler\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Jac Filer<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jacfiler\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jacfiler\/<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Information provided to TVL by:<br \/>\nColleen Gorsky<br \/>\nCommunications Director<br \/>\nBright Communications<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/brightcommunications.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/brightcommunications.net\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Preparing for Jesus\u00a0is a 28-day journey through Jesus\u2019 family tree, meant to turn your heart and mind toward the coming King as you prepare to celebrate his arrival. On this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=113137\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jac Filer has written his first Advent Devotional book, Preparing for Jesus.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113139,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[69,482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-valley","category-press-release-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Jac-Filer.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113137"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/113139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}