Testimonials
If you are one of the millions of Christian parents looking for a way to engage and understand the Bible together as a family, The Family Reading Bible is the Bible to meet your needs. Throughout the development of this unique Bible, the special content (reading paths, questions, fun facts, and more) was tested by Christian families just like yours, who provided insightful feedback and help in order to make this Bible useful for you and your family in everyday life.
The Family Reading Bible is designed to help parents use the Bible itself as their family devotional tool. A reading system with three easy-to-use paths allows parents to accommodate children of various ages and stages. Readings of manageable length along with age-appropriate, engaging questions will encourage and maintain your kids’ interest in God’s Word.
The Family Reading Bible is the perfect tool for parents in their role as the spiritual leaders of their home.
Margaret C., Creative Madness Mama blog
Basic practices like Bible reading have an impact on our children’s faith commitment. You can impact your child’s faith-life by reading and teaching the Bible at home.
More importantly, God has in-trusted and commissioned you (not the youth minister or the Sunday school teacher) with this awesome task.
Voddie Bauchem. Family Driven Faith. Crossway Books, Wheaton, IL, 2007.
What book can take us farther than the Bible? It carries us back in history to the very birth of the earth and forward to the magnificent throne of God. It’s a shame to neglect such a marvelous, true adventure. We must make time to share it with our children. The Bible contains adventure, humor, and romance. Written in both prose and poetry, it is a source of history, wisdom, and prophecy. More importantly, the Bible is the very word of God, and we are admonished to “hide it in our hearts” (Psalm 119:11).
What better start toward a deep relationship with our Savior could you give your child than reading God’s word with him?
If you have made family Bible reading time a habit in your child’s life, the door will open to discuss God’s Word with your teenager. One of the biggest thrills was when my son would bound into the apartment and ask where to find something in the Bible or say, “I know what I believe about this, but I need you to help me look in the concordance and find where the verses are to share it with my friend.” Together we would search the Word for answers to the problems encountered during those tough years between childhood and adulthood. I gave him a True Love Waits Bible for Christmas one year. The study helps and candid articles opened up topics I trembled to tackle. However, talking about purity with him was much easier in the context of scripture discussion.
Reading the Bible with your children, will show them that God’s Word is important to you. “Children learn what they live,” one poem states. Therefore, live reading the Bible with your children; and they will learn to live according to God’s word. Travel through the ages as you turn the pages of the Bible with your child and watch as God makes an eternal difference in not only his life, but yours.
Karen Sue Hale, Christian Women Today,
adapted from: http://powertochange.com/experience/family/studybible/?section_id=32
Children’s and Family Bible Time
As our children became older, the Lord was pulling our hearts away from the fluff of other books for family Bible time. In our large family, using Bibles for family time meant that our youngest children-who were then babies, toddlers, and preschoolers-were involved in Bible time using real Bibles. We were amazed. We were shocked. We were dumbfounded. Our preschoolers most certainly weren’t fitting the model set out earlier for us. They liked Bible time with the family and with Bibles.
Our little children could understand much of what we were reading. They would ask questions about what they didn’t understand. They did great. When Mary was four years old-long before she could read-she would still participate in our family’s tradition at the end of our Bible reading. After reading the chapter for that night, each family member picks out a verse that applies to his life in some way and shares it with the rest of the family. Scripture gives us a good basis for reading the Bible with our children and teaching them from it.
“And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works” (2 Timothy 3:15-17).
Our younger children…. have grown up with real Bibles and have been a part of the family reading the Bible together. They have been able to understand the Word without needing pictures and stories. Some have participated in family Bible time since the day they were born, once we had instituted reading the Bible with the children. God’s inspired Word has filled their minds and consequently taught their hearts from infancy. They truly love God’s Word.
Teri Maxwell – author and mother of eight children
Adapted from:http://www.titus2.com/corners/4-05-m.htm