Product Details
- Cover Type:
- 83 Pages
- Publisher: New Growth Press
- Publication Date: October 2013
- ISBN: FESTESSTBETTERDECEMBERPROVER9781936768677
A Better December: Proverbs to Brighten Christmas
Publisher's Description
For All Who Long for True Comfort And A True Home
Combining true stories with pen–and–ink illustrations, this book uncovers our December longings. In bite–sized chapters of Solomon’s advice to frazzled, lonely people at Christmas, Steven Estes presents the ancient sage as penning his blockbuster Proverbs to help future readers through the year's shortest days and longest nights. Meant to be shared with all who wish for a better December, it points the way to real comfort and a true home.
Includes a Foreword by Joni Eareckson Tada
Steven Estes is the author of Called to Die (the Chet Bitterman story) and coauthor with Joni Eareckson Tada of When God Weeps and A Step Further. As a pastor, he has walked with others through both sad Decembers and “holidays worthy of Currier and Ives.” He and his wife Verna have eight children and live in Elverson, Pennsylvania.
Sarah Bland Halulko lives in Pennsylvania with her husband and twin daughters. Her favorite forms of artistic expression, influenced by her mentors and life experiences, include pen and ink drawing, watercolor, and photography.
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“Between the pages of this special little book, you'll find a genuine guide to the purposeful and peaceful holiday we all long for. Who'd ever have thought Proverbs would make a good Christmas read?! But it does.”
Joni Eareckson Tada
best–selling author, radio host, and founder of Joni and Friends
“In listening and in reading I respond to brevity, clarity, conviction, common sense and love. That describes both the Proverbs of Solomon and my friend Steve Estess A Better December. In this little book Steve applies his heart to blending Proverbs with Christmas and delivers a strong dose of longing and joy.”
Max McLean
President and Artistic Director, FELLOWSHIP FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
“It was way past my bedtime and I opened the book a crack for an idea of tomorrow's reading. I was hooked. Estes threaded the loose beads of Proverbs on a string and strung me along till the last word of the last page. I cried like a baby starting at the chapter called ‘Longings.’ I love this book; and consider it one of God's little kisses to me that I ever came across it.”
Andree Seu Peterson
Senior Writer, World Magazine
“In a uniquely original style, Steve seamlessly merges poetry, narration, and Scripture, with strikingly creative phrasing. A master of prose, poetry, and the Bible, Steve has written a little book that bends and blends genres. A Better December is a winning combo of insightful content about how to ‘do life’ (Steves phrase) and innovative style. We enjoyed this little book so much that when we finished it, we immediately reread it—for its profound biblical tracing from Solomon to Someone, for its emphatic message about ‘unstuffing’ life, and for its fresh use of language and memorable style.”
Don and Jenny Killgallon
coauthors, Sentence-Composing textbook series
“Ive found it! The perfect gift for special friends at the season of the year thats so full of delights and stresses. This unique little gem of a book seems to have managed lightning strikes on every page—surprise lightning strikes of wit and wisdom that wouldnt let me put it down until Id explored it to the end, an end that came all too soon. Steve, youve done it again—invented a new genre and made it soar.”
J. Robertson McQuilkin
President Emeritus, Columbia International University
“Heres a book like youve never read before. It meets us at the intersection of ancient biblical wisdom and the dreams, struggles, and disappointments that are part of our Christmas season. With humor, poignancy, and clarity, Estes demonstrates that Solomon knew things about our holidays that we all need to know. With the help of Solomon, Estes shows you how you can have a Christmas that actually matches the message of the season you are celebrating.”
Paul Tripp
Paul Tripp Ministries; best–selling author
Product Description
Publisher's Description
For All Who Long for True Comfort And A True Home
Combining true stories with pen–and–ink illustrations, this book uncovers our December longings. In bite–sized chapters of Solomon’s advice to frazzled, lonely people at Christmas, Steven Estes presents the ancient sage as penning his blockbuster Proverbs to help future readers through the year's shortest days and longest nights. Meant to be shared with all who wish for a better December, it points the way to real comfort and a true home.
Includes a Foreword by Joni Eareckson Tada
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Product Details
- Cover Type:
- 83 Pages
- Publisher: New Growth Press
- Publication Date: October 2013
- ISBN: FESTESSTBETTERDECEMBERPROVER9781936768677