"Christmas is a time of stories. The celebration of Jesus' birth, the coming of God's anointed, the Christ, is beyond explanation. Thoughts and ideas fail. Facts falter. The truth of Christ's arrival is best borne in stories. Interestingly, storytelling is the method that Jesus himself used extensively. He began and ended many conversations with a parable. After his death and resurrection, others wrote down his stories and then told stories of Jesus himself. In this book, master storyteller Charles Maynard shares fourteen ...
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"Christmas is a time of stories. The celebration of Jesus' birth, the coming of God's anointed, the Christ, is beyond explanation. Thoughts and ideas fail. Facts falter. The truth of Christ's arrival is best borne in stories. Interestingly, storytelling is the method that Jesus himself used extensively. He began and ended many conversations with a parable. After his death and resurrection, others wrote down his stories and then told stories of Jesus himself. In this book, master storyteller Charles Maynard shares fourteen new stories of Christmas, each told as if the storyteller was with you, sharing the story directly. Tidings of Comfort and Joy is destined to become a classic, to be opened and read each year as Christmas approaches"--
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