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Max LucadoThomas Nelson / 2013 / HardcoverOur Price$12.494.5 out of 5 stars for The Christmas Candle. View reviews of this product. 10 Reviews
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angelfriendHillsboro, KansasAge: 55-65Gender: female5 Stars Out Of 5Story holds your interest.January 13, 2014angelfriendHillsboro, KansasAge: 55-65Gender: femaleQuality: 5Value: 4Meets Expectations: 5This is an excellent book that is well worth reading.
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AnonymousSeattle, WA5 Stars Out Of 5Great book!December 29, 2013AnonymousSeattle, WAQuality: 5Value: 5Meets Expectations: 5Great book by a great author! This book is easy to read in one sitting. Inspirational and uplifting. Now I would like to see the movie.
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Heart2HeartVictorville, CAAge: 45-54Gender: female5 Stars Out Of 5This will be a Christmas classic!!!October 19, 2013Heart2HeartVictorville, CAAge: 45-54Gender: femaleQuality: 5Value: 5Meets Expectations: 5What I love most about any of Max Lucado's books, is that they follow you wherever you go. The message you are bound to find will undoubtedly find its way into your heart and soul. What I have discovered is the perfect gift for those that love a great book just in time for Christmas. One that you can incorporate into your family devotions as well as a late night reading for your family next to a warm fire on a snowy night. The best part is that this is finding its way into being made into a movie so that it can enjoyed in a multitude of ways for Christmas.
In The Christmas Candle set in the late 1600's in Cotswald, England, we meet when the story originated with a candle maker and his wife. They are awakened in the middle of the night by a heavenly angel that appears and touches just one candle before disappearing, ensuring that the candle maker knows just which one was touched. The candle is then given to a woman who is desperate for food. She has no means to find money to help her children out and the candle maker instructs her to light the candle and pray to God for help. The next day at church service in St. Mark's the widow informs the church of the Christmas miracle that happened when she did just what the candle maker told her to do. She was given a farm by a wealthy uncle she didn't know so she can live in it and provide for her children without payment.
Now the legend continues in the small town that whenever the church service begins each 25 years, a Christmas miracle occurs by whomever the candle is given by the candle maker's family. This year however much has changed. Will the miracle of the Christmas candle still work in the hearts of the people living in the town of Gladstone? You'll have to pick this one up and find out.
I received The Christmas Candle by Max Lucado compliments of Thomas Nelson Publishers for my honest review. I did not receive any monetary compensation for a favorable review and the opinions expressed here are strictly my own. This is such a wonderful and heartwarming story that I can see it becoming a Christmas tradition much like the reading of The Christmas Story or the Night Before Christmas. It definitely opens up the conversation around what happens in the book and compels us to look deep inside our hearts to see how wonderful the birth of Jesus Christ was so many years ago and how even today, that miracle still works the lives and hearts of those that believe in Him. Hands down a perfect 5 out of 5 stars! What a life-changing book this would make as a gift for someone this Christmas! -
Deb ElizabethSouth Central, KentuckyAge: 55-65Gender: female5 Stars Out Of 5Great BookJanuary 9, 2023Deb ElizabethSouth Central, KentuckyAge: 55-65Gender: femaleA very stirring, deep story. Well worth the read.
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BekeSpringfield, MOAge: 35-44Gender: female5 Stars Out Of 5Just in time for Christmas!November 3, 2013BekeSpringfield, MOAge: 35-44Gender: femaleQuality: 5Value: 5Meets Expectations: 5Are you ready to heat up the wassail and put on your favorite Christmas carols? I just had the chance to review a novella that is perfect for the Christmas season.
Max Lucado has truly a gifted writer. I've enjoyed many of his books and The Christmas Candle is no exception.
This story begins in 1664. A candle maker and his wife are visited by an angel in the middle of the night. The angel touches a candle and it begins to glow. Because of a kindness the candle winds up in the hands of a needy widow. That candle will wind up changing her life.
You see, whoever receives this special candle receives an answer to their most earnest prayer.
For the next 200 years, a descendent of the candle maker is visited every 25 years and touches a candle. The people who live in the little village of Gladstone have come to anticipate the miracles of the candle.
But times have changed. A young new reverend has come to town and is a bit too sophisticated to believe in such a silly old story.
What happens next is truly inspiring. It left me with a smile of my face and a little hope in my heart.
This is a wonderful Christmas novella. I think it would be a wonderful gift for the Christmas season to friends and family.
I received this book free from the publisher through the BookSneeze.com® for my honest opinion.
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