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TODAY’S CHRISTMAS COUNTDOWN STORY: MISTLETOE Jack Stebbins smiled. His plan was in place, and all was ready. It was the evening of the annual Christmas party for the servants of the Witherspoon manor house. Jackhad worked as a stable boy since he was twelve, but,...

Christmas trees are reminders of the lamp stand in the tabernacle (Ex. 25:31–39), which was made in the form of a symbolic almond tree, and the flowers of which were lamps, Thus, it was a lighted tree, like a Christmas tree. As the lamps symbolically watched over the...

TODAY’S CHRISTMAS COUNTDOWN STORY: THE CANDY CANE Choirmaster Schäfer had a problem. Christmas Eve, in the Year of Our Lord 1670, was coming up, and with it the annual Living Nativity service at the Cologne Cathedral in Germany. That wasn’t the problem, of course....

Melchior smiled. He had made his decision. Of all the rich gifts in the world, he had chosen the one he himself would take on their long journey. A journey to meet a king. Caspar had chosen gold—to pay tribute to the King of Kings. Balthazar had chosen Myrrh—to honor...

baby to sleep, and, seeing the look, she wondered what was on her husband’s mind. “What is it, my love?” she asked. Berinhard was staring at the evergreen tree he had just brought into the house to serve as their Christmas tree in the year of our Lord 1559, in the...