This study edition is specially designed to help persons in prison prepare for freedom and get parole. It is based on the short-story collection Manna Stories. These are old stories about lives made new. A man whose young son tragically suffers. A woman under the death penalty for a crime she didn't commit. A hard-luck lawyer. A woman facing death for adultery. A rich young man who can't sleep for worrying. A man healed long ago, who must now give his testimony to the Roman general who has shattered Jerusalem. These stories are based on the New Testament Gospels. They reverently imagine the...

A man's son suffers, and he suffers worse every year. A stranger offers him a cure that he cannot accept. Told that his son will die soon, he journeys to save his son's life. A woman is caught in adultery, the penalty for which is death by stoning. Men burst in on her are manhandling her through the streets. She thinks that they are taking her to kill her, but instead they carry her up into the Temple. A woman's daughter has a frightening illness. She hears about a miracle worker. She goes to him, but she is dismayed at his response to her. A man was healed many years ago, after he had been...

This is a LARGE PRINT EDITION of Manna Stories: Journeys Toward the Heart of Jesus Christ. It is set in 18-point Calibri type. This edition has a glossary and a collection of scriptures that these stories are based on, which are set in 16-point Calibri type. We meet people in the New Testament who come and go in the Gospels, but we don't know where they come from or where they go afterward. These are people like the man with a son who has seizure-like symptoms; the woman caught in the act of adultery; the blind man outside of Jericho; the man paralyzed for 38 years; the lawyer who asks, "But...