The book of Revelation is exciting! Yet, too many today think it to be boring and hard to understand! I think it is just the opposite. If you take the book from a literal perspective, the "unveiling" fits, and it creates a perfect panorama of man's final days. long with the text, I have created a practical application for our lives today. Revelation is relevant, and it permeates the reader with God's last word to mankind.....His Son Jesus Christ! The final invitation alone is worth the tim...

Betty Kowalski isn't looking forward to the holidays. She just can't seem to find Christmas in her heart. There's church, of course. But who can she bake for these days? And who would care whether or not she pulled out the Christmas decorations? Her new neighbor just adds to the problem. He's doing home improvements that don't appear to be improving much of anything. These days when Betty looks out the window, she sees a beat-up truck, a pile of junk, lots of blue tarps, and--horror of hor...

The small town of Parrish Springs is not ready for Matilda Honeycutt. A strange older woman with scraggly gray hair and jewelry that jangles as she walks, Matilda is certainly not the most likely person to buy the old Barton Building on the town's quaint main street. When it becomes apparent that her new shop doesn't fit the expectations of Parrish Springs residents, a brouhaha erupts. After all, Christmas is approaching, and the last thing the town needs is a junky shop run by someone who...

Readers have enjoyed Melody Carlson's Christmas novels for years. Now six of these beloved stories are available in two handsome value-priced 3-in-1 editions. The Joy of Christmas includes An Irish Christmas, The Christmas Dog, and All I Have to Give. The Treasure of Christmas includes The Christmas Bus, Angels in the Snow, and The Gift of Christmas Present. Perfect as gifts, these volumes will be cherished parts of th...

Here you will find all the Christmas stories written by Lucy Maud Montgomery. - The Red Room - A Christmas Mistake - A Christmas Inspiration - The Josephs' Christmas - Aunt Cyrilla's Christmas Basket - The Osbornes' Christmas - Bertie's New Year - Ida's New Year Cake - The Christmas Surprise at Enderly Road - Clorinda's Gifts - The Falsoms' Christmas Dinner - The Unforgotten One - Christmas at Red Butte - Uncle Richard's New Year's Dinner

IT was Christmas Eve. The snow had clad the rolling hills in white, as if in preparation for the sacred morrow. The winds, boisterous all day long, at fall of night ceased to roar amidst the naked forest, and now, the silent industry of the falling flakes made of pine and spruce tall white tents. At last, as the darkness grew, a deepening stillness came on hill and valley, and all nature seemed to wait expectant of the coming of the Christmas time. ...

Although they lived nearly 800 years ago, Saint Francis and Saint Clare of Assisi serve as excellent guides for the modern Lenten journey. Saint Francis and Saint Clare of Assisi abandoned their comfortable lifestyles and embraced lives of poverty, humility, and penance to better follow the call to Christian discipleship. Both saints underwent powerful conversion experiences in their lives. In the course of their conversions, they ignited a movement that reformed the medieval Church and th...

In "Miss Muffet's Christmas Party," readers are likely treated to a charming and whimsical tale set during the holiday season. The story may revolve around Miss Muffet, a character based on the nursery rhyme figure Little Miss Muffet, as she plans and hosts a festive Christmas party for her friends and neighbors.Crothers' writing is likely characterized by its playful humor, clever wordplay, and gentle satire. Through his storytelling, he may offer readers a humorous and heartwarming depic...

One of the best-loved and most quoted stories of "the man who invented Christmas"--English writer Charles Dickens--A Christmas Carol debuted in 1843 and has touched millions of hearts since. The familiar story of cruel miser Ebenezer Scrooge who never met a shilling he doesn't like. . .and hardly a man he does. . .and who hates Christmas most of all, has inspired this keepsake devotional God Bless Us Every One! Alongside scenes from the beloved Dickens classic, you'll lea...

Does the holiday season conjure up images of perfect families, perfect lives, and perfect loves?Few of us measure up to those standards, so we sometimes feel a degree of angst, disappointment, or even depression during the holidays.If God chose us and called us for a purpose, as the Bible says, then why aren’t our lives perfect? If we were in God’s plan, wouldn’t life be easy sailing? Does our struggle to overcome obstacles mean we are out of favor with God...

From the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Battle for Christmas, here is the story of America's first reported Christmas tree: a tale of antislavery and radical German philosophy, a popular British travel writer and Boston Brahmin elites, the education of nineteenth-century children and candles blowing in the wind.Now-forgotten chronicler Harriet Martineau immortalized what became known as the first American Christmas tree, set up in the house of her friend Charles Follen. But s...

This classic edition of Christmas stories is written in the English language. Show casing eleven classic stories.This collection of eleven classic Christmas novels include Shakespeares Christmas Gift to Queen Bess, Christian Gellerts Last Christmas, Christmas Holidays at Merryvale, Two Christmas Celebrations, The Potato Child & Others, The Goblins Christmas, Christmas Sunshine, Man in his Element, Nibsys Christmas, Old Peabody Pew, The Lost Word.All of the books have been w...