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Touching Wonder: Recapturing the Awe of Christmas
by
John Blase
This bold retelling of Luke 1-2, based on Eugene Peterson's "The Message" translation, reads like a novel and invites readers to experience the Nativity with fresh wonder. Amanda Jolman's lively line-drawings make this book a fitting gift families will treasure for years to come.
Hardcover, 128 pages
Published
September 1st 2009
by David C. Cook
(first published 2009)
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Little children understand how amazing the Nativity story is. But, sometimes, as we become men and women, we put away the childlike with the childish. The result? We lose something vital—the wonder of it all.
When author John Blase went looking for the lost wonder of Christmas, he went back to the place he’d last seen it—the stories from Luke 1-2. What he found fills the pages of his new book, Touching Wonder: Recapturing the Awe of Christmas (David C Cook, September 2009...more
Touching Wonder
Recapturing the Awe of Christmas
John Blase
2009
David C. Cook
Non Fiction/Religion/Holidays/Christmas
Reviewed by Cindy Loven
A small, nearly pocket sized book, nothing special to distinguish it from the outside as anything spectacular, UNTIL, you open it and begin reading. John Blase, has brought us the Christmas story, told in a way I have never heard or read before.
Speaking/writing in the third person, he brings us...more
Recapturing the Awe of Christmas
John Blase
2009
David C. Cook
Non Fiction/Religion/Holidays/Christmas
Reviewed by Cindy Loven
A small, nearly pocket sized book, nothing special to distinguish it from the outside as anything spectacular, UNTIL, you open it and begin reading. John Blase, has brought us the Christmas story, told in a way I have never heard or read before.
Speaking/writing in the third person, he brings us...more
A short novella book featuring the human side of the birth of Christ. Each chapter leads with a verse/scene from Luke and then the human story, from the person's perspective, then a note from the author in the form of a letter to God (one wishes that the author had better penmanship). The birth of Christ has attained story-telling, mythic proportions these days and this little book brings it back to a humanized situation. A story of a family where an old man and an old woman suddenly receive the...more
John Blase describes the many characters in the reading of Jesus’ birth and brings them to life in his narration. He extols their doubts, fears, concerns, excitement, apprehension, rage, and hope–from ‘Speechless’ Zachariah all the way to ‘Jerusalem’s Freedom’ Anna, the prophetess. You won’t want to miss the rich characters he describes in between.
What I like, in addition to his rendition of the story, are his personal prayers at the end of each character’s portion. They bring the ...more
What I like, in addition to his rendition of the story, are his personal prayers at the end of each character’s portion. They bring the ...more
Review can be found here: http://quivermom.blogspot.com/2009/12/fi...
This book is so timely for Christmas, and it's beautiful cover could actually decorate a coffee or side table or propped up next to a Nativity scene. The book beautifully expounds on the Christmas story and I found myself evisioning Mary and Joseph and the innocent children at the end of Herord's rage. While the Scripture was taken from The Message paraphrase (I much prefer the KJV or NKJV) it was still beautiful to...more
This book is so timely for Christmas, and it's beautiful cover could actually decorate a coffee or side table or propped up next to a Nativity scene. The book beautifully expounds on the Christmas story and I found myself evisioning Mary and Joseph and the innocent children at the end of Herord's rage. While the Scripture was taken from The Message paraphrase (I much prefer the KJV or NKJV) it was still beautiful to...more
I think this is one I'll re-read each December.
A recommended stocking-filler for the fast-approaching Christmas Day. A wonderful, heartfelt retelling of the story of Christmas with passages taken from The Message Bible translation and at the end of each chapter, an honest prayer written by the author. John Blase's Touching Wonder: Recapturing the Awe of Christmas does just what it promises and is a book that you will want to re-read each year.
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