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by Gwen Ellis
The Read and Share Toddler Bible provides the perfect tool for bonding with your little one, while creating a lifelong love of God’s Word.
In the tradition of the best-selling Read and Share Bible comes the Read and Share Toddler Bible. This book and DVD combination offers two entertaining ways for child to begin learning about God and His Word. Inside are 40 short Bible stories, just the right length for toddlers’ attention spans, a 60-minute DVD with animated Bible characters your children will love, Old and New Testament stories, including the Creation, Noah, Abraham, Moses, Jesus, and many more. Also included are interactive learning suggestions that not only reinforce biblical stories and concepts, but also encourage parent/child together time. The colorful illustrations and animation are designed to engage your toddler’s interest.
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Family Bible Study
These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up (Deuteronomy 6:6-7, NIV).
Okay, okay, we all know we should get our kids together for a family time around the Word of God and prayer. When my kids were small, I knew it was important. Sometimes we did it . . . for a while and then our resolve petered out and soon the only thing going on was guilt that we should be doing more. Now, why is this? The reasons are numerous. Let’s see:
§ We are too busy.
§ The kids have so many activities.
§ I can’t find anything simple enough for my young kids.
§ I can’t find anything to keep the kids attention. They don’t want to just sit and listen.
§ I guess I’ve never considered a family Bible time all that important.
In a nation where we have dozens of good Bible translations and where you can buy a Bible at any store from K-Mart to Barnes and Noble, Bible illiteracy among kids raised in Christian homes is pretty shocking.
We say we are basing our Christian life on the Word of God because we believe it is the truth. If that’s the case, then we must believe the Deuteronomy scripture is true. Hmm. If it is our job as parents and grandparents to teach the next generation about the love of God and about his ability to help us in any situation of life, maybe, just maybe, we should take having a family Bible time a little more seriously—perhaps as seriously as a T-Ball game or ballet lessons. We make sure the kids don’t miss those.
I agree with you that it’s tough to find good material for families and young kids. I agree with you so much that I wrote such a book. It’s called Our Together-Time Bible, and it is based on the increasingly popular Read and Share Bible storybook. Here’s how it works:
§ There are 52 Bible topics in the book written to involve young children,
§ Every “lesson” has a modern day story about a kid’s life at home, or a recipe that you to make together, or a poem, or some other fun information or activity.
§ Next comes a short and simple Bible story that features an underlying idea such as prayer, honesty, or God’s love.
§ Then in the “Our Together Time” part of the lesson, kids have a chance to participate by answering questions about the story they have just heard.
§ In the “Share God’s Love” section of the lesson, there are fun ideas for ways to apply the lesson—a game, an experiment, or a craft.
§ Last there is a simple prayer the family can pray together.
Now, here’s the important part for time-challenged parents and kids. You can do one lesson a week and go through all the sections of that lesson at one time. Or, you can split up the sections (activities, story, poems, etc.) and do one section a day. The Read and Share, Our Together-Time Bible is the perfect tool to use at the dinner table before everyone scatters to play and get ready for bed. The book is flexible and the way you use it is up to you. But please, use it and help our kids learn important lessons from the Word of God that they can begin to put into their lives right away.
Here is another book that Gwen has written that will help you in your quest for a family Bible reading time:
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