Jesus Storybook Bible

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She also admired the way Keller “never uses jargon, but always finds a way to say it in a different way, and always uses metaphor. In my business, that’s the way you get truth across.” If the Bible tells you all the things you have to do right, and I’m not doing it right, God can’t be pleased with me,” Lloyd-Jones explains her 6-year-old reasoning. “When I go to churches and schools and say, ‘How many people here think you have to be good for God to love you?’ they’re raising their hands. These are children who know the Bible stories.”

The Jesus Storybook Bible has been translated into 66 languages, and today 64 foreign language editions are available or in production. Yes, above all, it's missing the complete gospel message, sin, redemption through Christ, transformation by the Holy Spirit, glorification. Children aged from 4 upwards will understand and love the stories shared with them by a grown up reader, and children from 6 upwards will be able to read the straightforward words and sentences for themselves. Even the youngest will be drawn in by the bright and bold pictures of award winning children's artist and native of Cornwall, Jago. Melina Luna Smith believes that art is a powerful tool that can open the door to the heart and allow kids to connect with stories from the Bible in a fun and engaging way. She has dedicated her creative skills to interactively recreating Bible stories for children through her company, Storymakers. Melina shares with us some of her imaginative ways to retell God’s stories and connect with our kids (or adult friends!) about faith.I knew the Lord, but I’d never heard grace preached like that,” said Lloyd-Jones, who would drive an hour and a half into the city from her place in Connecticut each Sunday morning. By now she actually knows some Bible stories pretty well, and the JSB has actually contributed to that. She's old enough to grasp what's going on in the story, and if she convolutes the imagination in the JSB with what's actually in the Bible, my dad and I just tell her the truth. I think about that gentleness and this beauty, this tenderness that seems to be very consistent with what Jesus says about how He knows His sheep. He knows them by name and He calls them, and He tenderly cares for us just like that. That seems to resonate so deeply.” - Nathan Tasker A couple months ago, my wife and I bought the Jesus Storybook Bible to read to our son (18 months old). While it’s probably still a little beyond his current comprehension, it sure is a lot of fun! I’ll really enjoy watching him and our future children grow into it.

The publishing team told her to change them to complete sentences, so she did. Until a friend said, “It’s not going to work. It’s turning into a big mess.” What makes this collection unique is that each story points to Jesus, showing how Biblical history is redemption history. For instance, the story of the tower of Babel, begun so the people could reach heaven, ends: People could never reach up to Heaven, so Heaven would have to come down to them. And one day, it would. (p.54) I believe in the impact of beauty and what beauty means to the person, what beauty means to the soul, and what beauty means to civilization.” - Eric Genuis The book “emphasizes the primacy of God’s love in an imbalanced manner,” New Testament professor Charles Lee Irons wrote. “[B]y completely avoiding God’s judgment and by putting a deliberate emphasis on God’s love for his children ‘no matter what,’ Lloyd-Jones distorts the character of God in a way that, in the end, makes it logically impossible to believe that he is a God of holiness, wrath, or judgment.”With anxiety and depression on the rise, we want to be those people who are listening and praying and knowing really where the hearts of our kids and teens are. So stay engaged. Tune in to what your kids and teens are into. Meet them where they are.” - Melina Luna Smith When kids understand that God is in pursuit of them in the good, the bad, and the ugly, when they can connect to those moments, and then they can see what God did for characters like Rahab, characters like Jacob when he was super jealous and not behaving properly, or David. In all of those stories, the Bible is really the key, and the crown jewel in knowing how God moves in our lives and loves us and pursues us relentlessly.” - Melina Luna Smith Featuring the beautiful writing of New York Times bestselling author Sally Lloyd-Jones and the award-winning art of Jago, The Jesus Storybook Bible, Read-Aloud Edition tells the Story beneath all the stories in the Bible, inviting children to join in the greatest of all adventures. edit, and sometimes write Sunday school material for children. It is very hard to find (or even produce) material for children that doesn't essentially contain the message “Be good, so that God, your heavenly Father, will love you, and your earthly parents will be happy with you, too.” Children will love the vivid illustrations and animated videos that bring to life Bible stories from both the Old and New Testament. They’ll learn that every story in the Bible points to Jesus — and what that means for them!