The moral of the story
Subtitle: timeless tales to cherish & share
By: compiled and edited by Jerry Newcombe.
Contributors: Newcombe, Jerry.
Publisher: Broadman & Holman Publishers
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Nashville, Tenn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 448
Subjects: Christian fiction, American.; Didactic fiction, American.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Foreword
pagenum: xiii
authors: D. James Kennedy, Ph.D.; title: Introduction
pagenum: 1; label: Part I
title: The Imitation of Christ; label: Jesus Christ: His Birth (Christmas-Related Stories)
pagenum: 6; title: The Revolt in Heaven
pagenum: 7
authors: Samuel Kamaleson; title: "Why the Chimes Rang"
pagenum: 10
authors: Raymond Macdonald Alden; title: "If He Had Not Come"
pagenum: 15
authors: Nan F. Weeks; title: "The Innkeeper of Bethlehem"
pagenum: 18
authors: J. W. G. Ward; title: 'Merry Tifton!'
pagenum: 29
authors: D. James Kennedy; label: Jesus Christ: His Life and Ministry
pagenum: 35; title: "The Creation"
pagenum: 36
authors: James Weldon Johnson; title: "The Man Born Blind"
pagenum: 40
authors: J. W. G. Ward; title: The Startling Painting
pagenum: 47
authors: Fyodor Dostoyevsky; title: "Alive"
pagenum: 50
authors: Max Lucado; title: The Story of the Faithful Friend and Its Exegesis in a Medieval Sermon
pagenum: 53; title: Summary of Everyman
pagenum: 55; label: Imitating Christ
pagenum: 55; title: The Deaths of the Apostles
pagenum: 57
authors: John Foxe; title: "In the Arena"
pagenum: 66
authors: Chuck Colson; title: "The Ministry of Edward Spencer"
pagenum: 69
authors: Jerry Newcombe; title: "Father Zossima's Brother"
pagenum: 73
authors: Fyodor Dostoyevsky; title: In His Steps
pagenum: 78
authors: Charles M. Sheldon; label: Part II
title: The Seven Deadly Sins; title: Introduction
pagenum: 94; label: Pride
pagenum: 95; title: The Temptation of Christ
pagenum: 97; title: The Parable of the Pharisee and the Publican
pagenum: 99; title: The Casket Scenes from The Merchant of Venice
pagenum: 101
authors: William Shakespeare; title: Paradise Lost
pagenum: 104
authors: John Milton; title: Ben Franklin on Pride
pagenum: 110; title: Proclamation of a National Fast Day
pagenum: 113
authors: Abraham Lincoln; title: Our Solid American Citizen
pagenum: 116
authors: Ralph Linton; title: The Teapot
pagenum: 118
authors: Hans Christian Andersen; title: The Good Things of Life
pagenum: 121
authors: Arthur Gordon; label: Greed
pagenum: 127; title: Naboth's Vineyard
pagenum: 129
authors: from the Book of 1 Kings (NIV); title: The Healing of Naaman the Leper and the Greed of Gehazi
pagenum: 132
authors: retold by Jesse Hurlbut; title: The Widow's Mite
pagenum: 137
authors: from the Gospel According to Luke (NIV); title: Ananias and Sapphira
pagenum: 138
authors: from the Book of Acts (NIV); title: The Stolen Fruit
pagenum: 140
authors: from The Confessions of St. Augustine; title: The Pardoner's Tale
pagenum: 142
authors: by Geoffrey Chaucer; title: Ben Franklin on Greed
pagenum: 145
authors: from Poor Richard's Almanack; label: Envy
pagenum: 148; title: Cain and Abel
pagenum: 150
authors: from the Book of Genesis (NIV); title: Saul and David
pagenum: 152
authors: retold by Jesse Hurlbut; title: Little Snowdrop
pagenum: 157
description: A classic fairytale, retold by Dinah Craik; title: Iago's Intentions
pagenum: 167
authors: by William Shakespeare; title: Headmaster Bard
pagenum: 171
authors: by Bjornstjerne Bjornson, translated by Kirsti Saebo Newcombe; label: Anger
pagenum: 178; title: The Parable of the Unmerciful Servant
pagenum: 180
authors: from the Gospel According to Matthew (NIV); title: Michael LeFan on Anger
pagenum: 182
authors: by Michael LeFan; title: The Tell-Tale Heart
pagenum: 185
authors: by Edgar Allen Poe; title: The First Crèche
pagenum: 191
authors: by Arthur Gordon; title: The Hammer of God
pagenum: 195
authors: by G. K. Chesterton; title: Tropical Paradise Lost and Found
pagenum: 201
authors: retold by Jerry Newcombe; label: Lust
pagenum: 216; title: The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah
pagenum: 218
authors: from the Book of Genesis (NIV); title: Joseph and Potiphar's Wife
pagenum: 221
authors: from the Book of Genesis (NIV); title: David and Bathsheba
pagenum: 224
authors: retold by Jesse Hurlbut; title: Amnon and Tamar
pagenum: 227
authors: from the Book of 2 Samuel (NIV); title: The Roman Feast
pagenum: 230
authors: by Henryk Sienkiewicz, translated by Jeremiah Curtin; title: St. Augustine's Struggle with Lust
pagenum: 240
authors: from The Confessions of St. Augustine; title: Alypius and the Gladiators
pagenum: 246
authors: from The Confessions of St. Augustine; title: Ben Franklin on Lust
pagenum: 249
authors: from Poor Richard's Almanack; title: Freed from Lust
pagenum: 251
authors: by Steve Gallagher; label: Gluttony
pagenum: 254; title: The Bible on Gluttony
pagenum: 256; title: Ben Franklin on Gluttony
pagenum: 258
authors: from Poor Richard's Almanack; title: The Disappearance of Augustus Gloop
pagenum: 260
authors: by Roald Dahl; title: Forty-One Sausages in One Sitting
pagenum: 267
authors: by William Trevor; title: Lenny's Last Meal
pagenum: 273
authors: by Robert Newcombe; title: Betty and the Pigs
pagenum: 280
authors: by Lily Guzman; label: Sloth
pagenum: 284; title: Ben Franklin on Sloth
pagenum: 287
authors: from Poor Richard's Almanack; title: A Tale of Two Diaries
pagenum: 290; title: How Stonewall Jackson Got His Name
pagenum: 294
authors: by Robert Folsom; title: My Intense Longing to Learn to Read
pagenum: 302
authors: by Booker T. Washington; title: The Actor Who Gave His All
pagenum: 311
authors: by Lee Buck with Dick Schneider; title: The Diligence of a Polio Victim
pagenum: 314
authors: by Michael LeFan; label: Part III
title: Faith, Hope, and Love; label: Faith
pagenum: 320; title: Peter Walks on the Water
pagenum: 321
authors: from the Gospel According to Matthew (NIV); title: Captured by Giant Despair
pagenum: 323
authors: by John Bunyan; title: The Celestial Railroad
pagenum: 331
authors: by Nathaniel Hawthorne; title: God Lives
pagenum: 349
authors: by Hans Christian Andersen; title: The Conversion of Adoniram Judson
pagenum: 351
authors: by E. Myers Harrison; label: Hope
pagenum: 354; title: The Impotent Man of Bethesda
pagenum: 355
authors: by J. W. G. Ward; title: The Healing of the Leper Woman
pagenum: 362
authors: by Lew Wallace; title: I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day
pagenum: 366
authors: by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; title: The Cave Scene
pagenum: 368
authors: by C. S. Lewis; title: Go Down Death - A Funeral Sermon
pagenum: 378
authors: by James Weldon Johnson; title: Though He Slay Me
pagenum: 382
authors: by B. J. Hoff; label: Love
pagenum: 386; title: The Prodigal Son
pagenum: 387
authors: retold by Charles Dickens; title: Terje Vigen
pagenum: 389
authors: by Henrik Ibsen, translated by Kirsti Saebo Newcombe; title: The Mansion
pagenum: 396
authors: by Henry Van Dyke; title: First Hunt
pagenum: 414
authors: by Arthur Gordon; label: Part IV
title: Just for Fun; title: Alice and the Cheshire-Cat
pagenum: 420
authors: by Lewis Carroll; title: Peter Dass Outwits the Devil
pagenum: 422
authors: retold by Kirsti Saebo Newcombe; title: Reinert Meets the Cannibals
pagenum: 424
authors: retold by Kirsti Saebo Newcombe; title: The Cop and the Anthem
pagenum: 426
authors: by O. Henry; title: The Innkeeper's Wise Daughter
pagenum: 433
authors: by Peninnah Schram; label: Appendix
title: The Most Wonderful Story
pagenum: 439; title: Acknowledgments
pagenum: 443