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    The Christmas Troll: Sometimes God's Best Gifts Are the Most Unexpected
    The Christmas Troll: Sometimes God's Best Gifts Are the Most Unexpected
    The Christmas Troll: Sometimes God's Best Gifts Are the Most Unexpected
    Audiobook19 minutes

    The Christmas Troll: Sometimes God's Best Gifts Are the Most Unexpected

    Written by Eugene H. Peterson

    Narrated by Eugene H. Peterson

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    About this audiobook

    It's Christmas Eve and Andrew is upset. His father won't let him open his gifts early. So Andrew and his little sister, Lindsay, run away to the woods...

    As they venture deeper into the forest, Andrew and Lindsay hear a thundering, gravelly voice, "Who's s-s-s-sitting on my b-b-b-belly?" It was a troll with orange spiky hair! The two siblings receive quite a fright until they realize the troll isn't mean at all. He's ugly, but nice. The funny-looking troll proves to be an incredible gift and makes Andrew revisit his feelings about presents and Christmas.

    The first children's book by acclaimed author and Bible translator Eugene H. Peterson, The Christmas Troll is a story that reminds readers young and old to keep their eyes open for God's most surprising gifts. "Gifts are for giving and receiving, not for grabbing and getting."

    ©2005 Eugene Peterson; (P)2005 Oasis Audio LLC

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOasis Audio
    Release dateAug 1, 2005
    ISBN9781621882046
    The Christmas Troll: Sometimes God's Best Gifts Are the Most Unexpected
    Author

    Eugene H. Peterson

    Eugene H. Peterson (1932–2018) was a pastor, scholar, author, and poet. He wrote more than thirty books, including his widely acclaimed paraphrase of the Bible, The Message: The Bible in Contemporary Language, his memoir, The Pastor, and the bestselling spiritual formation classic A Long Obedience in the Same Direction. Peterson was founding pastor of Christ Our King Presbyterian Church in Bel Air, Maryland, where he served for twenty-nine years before retiring in 1991. With degrees from Seattle Pacific, New York Theological Seminary, and Johns Hopkins University, he served as professor of spiritual theology at Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia, until retiring in Lakeside, Montana, in 2006.

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