I have been collecting Bible story books over the past several years to help me understand the market better and to get illustration ideas for my own Bible story books. I thought I would comment on some of them here. I feel it might be helpful to share my feelings about Bible story books in general so you will better understand where I am coming from when I make my comments. I realize that not everyone agrees with me on some
Yesterday I wrote about the Genesis account of how God created the heavens and the earth. I wanted you to see the order God used so I didn’t want to write about everything at once. Today I want to talk about something very important about how God made everything. Look at the first chapter in Genesis. (It’s the first chapter in the whole Bible.) Each day of creation begins with the words “And God said…” So how did God put everything
How old does somebody have to be to be old? 40 years? 50 years? 70 years? 90? over 100? It’s funny, but when I was a little girl I thought 30 and 40 was old. But when I reached 30 I didn’t think it was old at all. I kept on having more birthdays until now I think 90 is old. The Bible says the first people God created got much older than people do today. Adam lived to be 930 years old
Where did the earth come from? What about the sun and the moon and the stars? Who made the plants and animals and people? In the first chapter of Genesis (the first book in the Bible) we read that God made everything. Here is some of what the Bible tells us. In the beginning God made the heavens and the earth but at first everything was dark and like nothing at all. Like a spirit God floated over deep waters before he
If I gave you a penny would you get all excited about it? Probably not. One day Jesus watched a poor widow put two tiny coins worth less than a penny into the offering. Other people gave lots of money if you count how much it can buy, but Jesus wasn’t thinking about that. Jesus knew that the other people had much more money and they only gave a little part of what they had. But this woman was very poor,