Annotation: In this very timely Christmas book, Rick Warren, the noted pastor and author of THE PURPOSE-DRIVEN LIFE, presents a simultaneously challenging and supportive message that Christmas is the birthday party for Jesus and that he should remain the central focus of the holiday. Warren argues that our self-will is the source of many or most of our difficulties and he shows how we can move toward the freedom that results from realizing that we are here not to do our will but to do God's. His chapters contain biographical information to introduce or support the main idea, and they build upon each other to the end--where he shows how reconciliation and world peace is possible if we want it.