The Manger on the Mantle
A Christmas Tale based on Two True Stories

The Manger on the Mantle:
A Christmas Tale based on Two True Stories


by Bill Wylson
In his latest book, Bill Wylson recounts the tragic life of Mark Spencer, a man raised with an idyllic small town childhood who somehow becomes very lost in the massive city of Los Angeles. The problem is he didn't become geographically lost; he became spiritually lost.

As his family falls apart and his world collapses, Mark begins to realize just how tainted and disgraceful his life has become. He has strayed so far from the innocence of his youth and now he fears he may never find his way back.

That's when Mark meets a sockless, root-beer-float toting ex-hippie by the name of Marvin. Together they journey the road to Bethlehem as they ponder the purpose of a birth that took place in a lowly manger.

The Manger on the Mantle is a beautiful story of hope and redemption and the joyous possibility of being given a second chance.

Other Books by Bill Wylson

Elder Hammond and 
The Inspector
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They say that God works in mysterious ways, which is just another way of saying, “I don’t understand what God is up to.” In my brief and puerile twenty-one years on this planet, I have seen some of the mysterious ways of God and the resultant miracles that follow, but whatever God was up to in the small town of Villa Mercedes, it was definitely a mystery to all of us. 
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Give Place in Your Heart
31 Promises from the Book of Mormon
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All of us are familiar with Moroni’s promise that Christ will manifest the truth of the Book of Mormon to us by the power of the Holy Ghost. This is just one of many promises the Lord has made regarding the Book of Mormon. In this volume, Bill Wylson outlines 31 promises, with their attendant blessings and conditions.​

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Hieroglyphs, Golden Plates & Typos
How Corrections in the Book of Mormon Prove its Authenticity

On the inside cover of his first leather-bound Book of Mormon my father had written the following quote from Joseph Smith: "I told the brethren that the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth".
Directly below this he had complied a list of scriptures labeled: "Mistakes in the Book of Mormon". These 'corrections' actually testify to its truthfulness and authenticity.

Three Minutes Eighteen Seconds
A Prophet's Final Message to the World
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Words are extremely powerful. Lord Byron poetically portrays this truth: "But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think." 
Three Minutes Eighteen Seconds examines three “small drops of ink” that are, simultaneously, extremely powerful words spoken by President Thomas S. Monson in the April 2017 General Conference.
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Tres Minutos con Dieciocho Secundos
El Ultimo Mensaje del Profeta al Mundo
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Las palabras son muy poderosas. Como explica el poeta Lord Byron: "Pero palabras son cosas, y una pequeña gota de tinta, Cayendo como rocio sobre un pensamiento, produce lo que causa a miles, quizás millones, a pensar."
Tres Minutos con Dieciocho Segundos examina tres "pequeñas gotas de tinta" dichas por el Presidente Thomas S. Monson en la Conferencia General de Abril 2017, que son, a la vez, palabras extremadamente poderosas.
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