"Read Characters Around the Cradle and Christmas will live for you in a new way. Perhaps as never before you will realize that the Christmas story was a real happening that can make a difference in your real life today!"--Leighton Ford President, Leighton Ford Ministries, Charlotte, North Carolina
'Christmas always stirs the imagination, but Tom Houston stirs the readers with reflections from the real biblical characters who surrounded the birth of Jesus ...A lively read that warms the heart.'--Chris Wright International Ministries Director, The Langham Partnership International
'Familiar with the Christmas story? Maybe. But we can miss the extraordinary human drama that surrounds the most remarkable event this world has yet witnessed.'--Jonathan Lamb, Langham Preaching international director.
'It's hard to put this book down, because the imagination is charged by the stark reality of the characters portrayed. Yet this is no mechanical exercise what he does is to give fresh insight and new understanding.'--Clive Calver Senior Pastor, Walnut Hill Community Church, Bethel, Connecticut