Feeling sad because no one chooses it as a Christmas tree, a bedraggled forest pine discovers the importance of being appreciated all year long.

The letters of the alphabet are represented by words, set in short rhymes, relating to Christmas, with accompanying scripture and commentary.

Abraham is the first of the Hebrew patriarchs and a figure revered by the three great monotheistic religions--Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. According to the Bible, Abraham left the idol worshipping region of Mesopotamia, to establish a new nation in an undesignated land that he later learned was Canaan. He is identified as the father of faith through unquestionably obeying even the most difficult commands of God, including offering up his own...

God creates the physical world, the vast cosmos and then He creates mankind in his image. But this beautiful display of creation is soon marred by temptation as sin enters the world and tragedy occurs within the first family. But even in this tragedy God's plan for redemption is foreshadowed.

Passion Week 3 - As Jesus is left to die on the cross, he offers eternal life to a thief on the cross beside him and asks the disciple John to take care of his mother. Judas Iscariot hangs himself. An angel visits the tomb where Christ is buried and rolls away the stone. Mary sees the risen Christ, as do the disciples. Christ reinstates Peter, tells his disciples to go throughout the world with the good news of salvation through Christ and ascends...

"THE HEALER" Jesus Christ raises to life a twelve-year old girl who has died, heals the blind, feeds 5000 people, and then shows his authority over the elements as he walks on water. He goes to a mountain and is transfigured before Peter, James and Jon and when he comes down from the mountain, he casts out a demon his disciples could not cast out. Special addendum on the healing of the woman with an issue of blood, "Unclean."

The great story of the building of the early church continues. False witnesses and testimony result in Stephen being stoned to death and becoming the first martyr of the church, with Saul standing there approving of his death. As persecution breaks out and the disciples are spread out Philip encounters an Ethiopian who is seeking God and baptizes him. But God is not finished with Saul who encounters the risen Christ on the road to Damascus and loses...

Questions from the Bible answering questions such as "What is the origin of the different races? What were the high places in the Bible? How did Satan fall form Heaven? How does God speak to us? And what happens to those who have never heard about Jesus Christ?"

The days of the judges were termed the days when "everyone did what was right in their own eyes." The people of Israel began following the customs and gods of the nations around them. So God began sending judges to deliver His people. Judges 2 covers the time of the judges Gideon, Abimelech and Jephthah.

After his great triumph over the Philistine giant, Saul brings David into his house and into his service. The people find a national hero in David but as the people praise him it inspires jealousy in King Saul. David marries one of the king's daughters but still finds himself an object of King Saul's temper and jealousy outbursts. David begins to gather a ragtag army around him and this group of adventurers follows him as he flees from place to place...