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Summary: An Antidote to Our Crazy World and Times
Review: I just loved this book! The stories were heartwarming, gentle, kind and loving --the way the world used to and should be. I recommend this book for anyone of any denomination who wants to escape into a world where people care and do the right thing. These are stories you want to read over and over and share with everyone you know.
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Summary: Savoring the Miracle
Review: It is both as simple and as magical as a child's uplifted face savoring a captured snowflake. In this collection of Christmas stories, the familiar and cherished tale is told and retold again and again a dozen times, but each telling freshly reveals the old, old story. Not once, but twelve times, with gentle humor and quiet wisdom, the author movingly, repeatedly invokes for us the miracle of the season. Experience Steve Burt's, A Christmas Dozen from the Christmas Story Pastor. Share these warm and thoughtful stories with family and friends. Read them aloud; make them your own. It will be the start of a new holiday tradition.
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Summary: A Christmas Tradition
Review: Of all Steve Burt's wonderful books, "A Christmas Dozen" is my family's favorite. Compassion, love, giving and faith are some of the lessons learned as we read Burt's stories aloud last Christmas Eve- and the kids can't wait to read them again this year! This is a family tradition that will remain with this family forever. I highly, highly reccommend "A Christmas Dozen" to you, your family, friends, neighbors and church. This gift gives much, many, many times over!
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Summary: Year's Best Inspirational Book, Honorable Mention
Review: On March 28, 2003 Writer's Digest announced that A Christmas Dozen won the Honorable Mention in Best Inspirational Book category of its Self-Published Book Awards. (author note)
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Summary: Inspirational Stories about the True Spirit of Christmas!
Review: Pastor Steve Burt has shared twelve tales from his Christmas pulpit with us. All twelve have a Christian context, but also a broader humanitarian one. Whatever your faith, you will be moved by the potential for all of us to care for one another.Christmas 1944 involves a lost soldier seeking shelter in an abandoned barn. Before the night is over, his perspective is changed forever on what war is all about. The Magi's Gift looks at a child on his way to the Christmas pageant, who finds an opportunity to play the real role of the magi. The Blessing Bell introduces you to a tradition of having a young boy ring a special bell in the church steeple on Christmas eve to bless the community for the year to come. Suddenly, the intended boy is very sick. Will he live? How can he ring the blessing bell? The Thumb Island Elephants explains the mystery of how two paper mache elephants ended up in the creche since early in the 1900s. This story develops the theme of how people of all races and faiths can come together in a spirit of true sharing. Christmas Mouse puts you in the role of a lonely mouse left alone on a ship in a foreign harbor. What can cheer him up? Perfect, Just Perfect is the story of how we can connect with one another in more ways. Grandpa's perfect beard and face provide the spirit of Santa Claus for a little girl. The title story, A Christmas Dozen, has the family dog mistakenly left beside the road. As he huddles to keep warm, he unexpectedly makes 13 new friends. Christmas Prayers is a humorous story of mix-ups involving Father Jack and Pastor Tom that provide much continuing happiness for all involved. This is one of the best Christmas stories I have ever read. Christmas Eve, 12 Plus 97, is about a great grandmother and great grand child spending their last Christmas eve together when they were 97 and 12. One Maine Christmas explores how children overcame the discomfort of a sad black child. In Christmas Special Delivery, the town's postman who had always run the Christmas pageant is in the hospital, without even his cat to comfort him. Suddenly he has a front row seat at the pageant in a truly beautiful and memorable performance. Pastor Cheese's Christmas Eve Communion takes the pastor across the intelligence barrier to experience a totally new and more profound communion. Whatever day of the year it is, these stories will gladden your heart and help you practice the Christmas spirit. What could be nicer on a cold Winter's day? After you finish reading and enjoying these stories, I suggest that you think about some new Christmas tradition that you could establish that would add great joy for many people. It's never too early to get started!
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Summary: CHRISTMAS STORIES
Review: PASTOR STEVE'S COUNTRY-STYLE STORY-TELLING AT ITS BEST. SMILES AND TEARS, QUIET FAITH, INSIGHTS INTO BEING JUST "FOLK". SUPER COLLECTION OF READ ALOUD, SHORT STORIES TO SHARE WITH EVERYONE. [RATED G FOR GENERAL AUDIENCES.]
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Summary: The perfect gift for the holidays
Review: Perhaps the best collection of Christmas stories ever published in one book! Burt's easy-to-read (larger print), heart-warming stories are appealing to adults and children alike, capturing the essence of the season in twelve entirely different ways. Perfect for cuddling up with family near the fireplace, reading aloud in church services, or sharing to a group of senior listeners or children. You'll never run out of people to give this book to! If you're looking for the next "classic," this is it!
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Summary: Perfect - Perfect
Review: Playing these tapes in my car gives me the feeling of having my own personal counseling session. The Story-telling and stories are supberb. While listening - you smile, giggle,laugh and cry. They are fantastic. I recognize areas, names and characteristics of many of the locals on the east end. Thank you Steve.
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Summary: Perfect - Perfect
Review: Playing these tapes in my car gives me the feeling of having my own personal counseling session. The Story-telling and stories are supberb. While listening - you smile, giggle,laugh and cry. They are fantastic. I recognize areas, names and characteristics of many of the locals on the east end. Thank you Steve.
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Summary: I can recommend this collection
Review: Simple little stories? Yes they are, which renders them understandable to any child. But that quality did not alienate me. Entertaining? Yes they are. I particularly enjoyed "The Thumb Island Elephants." The accident that put the circus elephants in peril brought many people together in a way their social circumstances didn't. Somehow I got the distinctive feeling that there is a strong thread of truth in this story. I can recommend this collection of stories. Put the volume in a place where you spend thoughtful moments and you might find yourself picking it up and enjoying the next in line of the dozen -- a few minutes well spent.
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