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Birth of Jesus is Elegantly Presented in “The Original Christmas Story”


The Original Christmas Story is now available from Amazon & other booksellers.

The Original Christmas Story is an inspiring presentation of the simple, unadorned origins of Jesus the Messiah. Drawing on The Common Gospel, this biblically true account is set in ancient Galilee and includes the miraculous conception of Jesus in his mother Mary’s womb, the support of Joseph (Mary’s betrothed), Mary’s visit to Elizabeth (the mother of John), John’s birth, and Mary and Joseph’s travel to Bethlehem. These events lead to the austere birth of Jesus, whereupon he is recognized as the Messiah by the righteous and honored by shepherds and magi from the east. When King Herod seeks to have the child killed by ordering the execution of all male children under the age of two years, the Holy Family flees to Egypt, where they remain until King Herod’s death. The Holy Family then returns to Galilee, where Jesus the Messiah continues to grow “in wisdom and stature, in human favor and in favor with God.”

The Original Christmas Story is an authorized selection from The Common Gospel, which itself is a complete work that combines the four traditional Gospels and presents the Good News of Jesus in a single, unified book. In so doing, it brings clarity and focus to the history of Jesus the Messiah as it assembles the original gospel fragments to frame a naturally flowing lifeline for the Son of Man – from his humble and holy birth through to his crowning glorification. The panoramic view that results is extraordinary and casts Jesus the Messiah in new and revealing light. The Original Christmas Story is Part 1 of this larger, sixteen-part work.

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Paperback – ISBN 978-09908547-5-3 – 5.5″ wide x 8.5″ tall – 24 pages – List Price $5.95

Individual copies of The Original Christmas Story are available from Amazon and other booksellers.

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  • Honeyed words like bees, gilded and sticky, with a little sting. –Elinor Hoyt Wylie, Pretty Words
  • It is not of so much consequence what you say, as how you say it. Memorable sentences are memorable on account of some irradiating word. –Alexander Smith, “Dreamthorp,” On the Writing of Essays
  • Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictory word, preserves contact. It is silence which isolates. –Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
  • The writer doesn’t want success ... The writer wants to leave a scratch on the wall of oblivion that someone a hundred or a thousand years later will see. Kilroy was here. –William Faulkner, Faulkner in the University
  • Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled. –Horace, Epistles
  • Prête-moi ta plume pour écrire un mot. Lend me your pen to write a word. –Au Clair de la Lune
  • Watch your thoughts, they become your words. Watch your words, they become your action. Watch your actions, they become your habits. Watch your habits, they become your character. Watch your character, it becomes your destiny. –Anonymous
  • Words are our most inexhaustible source of magic, capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it. –Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
  • All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind. –Kahlil Gibran, Sand and Foam
  • To call forth a concept, a word is needed; to portray a phenomenon, a concept is needed. All three mirror one and the same reality. –Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, Traité Elémentaire de Chimie
  • My words fly up, my thoughts remain below. Words without thoughts –never to heaven go. –Shakespeare, Hamlet
  • “When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.” “The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.” “The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master—that’s all.” –Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
  • In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God. –The Common Gospel, “Eternal Word”
  • The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof, shit detector. This is the writer’s radar and all great writers have had it. –Ernest Hemingway, Paris Review
  • The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenement halls and whispered in the sounds of silence. –Paul Simon, The Sound of Silence
  • So is a word better than a gift. –Apocrypha
  • And many a word, at random spoken, may soothe a wound or heart that’s broken. –Sir Walter Scott, Lord of the Isles
  • How long a time lies in one little word! Such is the breath of kings. –Shakespeare, King Richard II
  • Light dies before thy uncreating word; Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall, and universal darkness buries all. –Alexander Pope, The Dunciad
  • Man’s word is God in man. –Alfred Lord Tennyson, “Idylls of the King,” The Coming of Arthur
  • Omit needless words. –William Strunk, Jr, The Elements of Style
  • Life's like a movie. Write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending. –Jim Henson, The Muppet Movie
  • Good words are worth much … and cost little. –George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum
  • Nature fits all her children with something to do, He who would write and can’t write, can surely review. –James Russell Lowell, A Fable for Critics
  • I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and long Words Bother me. –Alan Alexander Milne, Willie-the-Pooh
  • A writer lives in awe of words for they can be cruel or kind, and they can change their meanings right in front of you. They pick up flavors and odors like butter in a refrigerator. –John Steinbeck, “In Awe of Words”
  • Words are like leaves and, where they most abound, much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. –Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism
  • In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature. –Wallace Stevens, Opus Posthumous
  • The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work and that writing didn’t require any. –Russell Baker, Growing Up
  • Sweet religion makes a rhapsody of words. –Shakespeare, Hamlet
  • How many verses have I thrown into the fire because the one peculiar word, the wanted most, was irrecoverably lost. –Walter Savage Landor, Verses Why Burnt
  • Choice word and measured phrase… above the reach of ordinary men. –William Wordsworth, Resolution and Independence
  • Word is a shadow of deed. –Democritus

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