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Memory verses and devotions that will write God’s word on your children’s hearts.
In this 52-week devotional for children, author Holly Hawkins Shivers adapts the gift book The Joshua Code (written by her father, O.S. Hawkins) into a devotional that will help kids learn and live the scriptures. Using kid-friendly language, I Can Learn the Bible teaches scriptures in a way children can understand. Each week, kids will commit a new scripture to memory by reading a fun, engaging devotional that’s doable for a child. Matthew 7:7 will remind kids to always ask God for help. Philippians 1:6 will teach them that God is always working in their lives. And 50 more scriptures will continue to write the truth on their hearts so that they will remember it forever.
Parents using the gift book will love using the kids’ book as a discussion tool for the entire family. A great gift for baptisms, confirmations, and any special occasion, I Can Learn the Bible includes clever tips for memorizing scripture. Each new day and each new verse will reinforce to young readers that “God’s Word is FOR ME and TO ME, it is IN ME and working THROUGH ME, and just like His love, it goes on and on forever!”
Trim Size: 5.5 x 7.5
- Sales Rank: #39882 in Books
- Brand: HarperCollins Christian Pub.
- Published on: 2014-11-11
- Released on: 2014-11-11
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 7.76" h x .87" w x 5.75" l, 1.35 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 224 pages
About the Author
Holly Shivers is the author of I Can Learn the Bible and I Can Learn to Pray. Holly has served as a staff wife for over a decade at Prestonwood Baptist Church, where she stays involved in women's and children's ministries. She received her Master’s degree in counseling. Holly enjoys contributing to various writing projects and ministry blogs but is most passionate about writing to kids. Some of her favorite things are Dr. Pepper, rainy days, family time, and especially those Dallas Cowboys! Holly lives in Texas with her husband and four kids.
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32 of 33 people found the following review helpful.
Not as Great as I Had Hoped it Would Be...
By SparklingSAHM
I Can Learn the Bible: 52 Scriptures Every Kid Should Know sounded like a book with a lot of potential. Right off the bat, I spotted several attributes in this book that I thought were very positive. First of all, I love that this book tackles "weighty" subjects. Instead of just providing fluff for kids, topics such as modern day idols, understanding the role of God when bad things happen, evangelism, sin, and how to live the Christian life are tackled with ease and in an easy to understand format. I also really like the idea of the kids memorizing a Bible verse a week. Each week's devotional is short enough that a child could easily get through it in less than a week and is also laid out in a way that the child could choose to read under one of the headings each day. The recommended reading plan is for a parent to read the devotion on Monday and introduce the Bible memory verse. Then, the child works on the verse throughout the week, and the parent rereads the devotional at the end of the week. I like that plan a lot. Another part of this book I liked is the section in the appendix which contains tips for how parents can help their children memorize scripture.
What I don't like is that most of the verses are not in a commonly known translation that the children might run across in other settings; they are from the International Children's Bible which, to my knowledge, is not a very common translation. Yet, the forward in the beginning of the book quotes a verse in the NIV translation. If only the entire book could have followed suit...or at least if different translation options were available to purchase. I also don't like the content of the one devotional that states, "God gives us keys to a happy life. Really, He does!" (203). I know God promises us "joy" in His Word, but I think stating that God's plan is for us to be happy is very misleading and, to be quite honest, kind of dangerous. However, perhaps the author simply mistakenly used "happy" for a synonym for "joy," a word that kids might not understand as well. That was a little bit of a theological concern on my part, though. Christians might not always be happy, but they can certainly experience His joy no matter what is going on in their lives.
So, for this book, I would give it a 3 out of 5. I think it could have had a lot of potential. While some families may find that it meets their needs, I feel that others will not find it usable due to the choice of translation.
Disclosure of Material Connection: I received this book free from the publisher through the BookLook Bloggers book review bloggers program. I was not required to write a positive review. The opinions I have expressed are my own. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR, Part 255 : “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising.”
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful.
A spring board for pondering God's word with children
By Emily Parrino
As a mom of three little boys, I'm always on the lookout for devotional materials for the preschool and kindergarten set. With my oldest, I've read several children's bibles, such as The Big Picture Bible, The Jesus Storybook Bible, I Can Read New Testament, and Jesus Calling Bible Storybook to name some. Holly Hawkins Shiver's I Can Learn the Bible: 52 Scriptures Every Kid Should Know, is a children's adaptation of her father's popular devotional, The Joshua Code. It is listed as being for ages 4-8, so I was keen to get my hands on it. The book is designed to be used over the course of a year, but I decided to test out a few of the devotions on my 6-year-old and 3-year-old over the course of a week. As with all devotions and children's story Bibles, I feel that the key is to adapt the material to my children's level of comprehension and interests. In Shiver's new resource, I found plenty of material to help my boys ponder their Maker, but most of that required me to be a very active reader, tweaking some of the wordings and being open to their honest questions. Here's some of the highlights and hiccups we encountered:
Highlights
I've not read The Joshua Code, so I can't comment on how much of Shivers' exposition is her original insight or thoughts adapted from her father's book. However, I liked the way she explained Romans 8:28 by comparing God's working all things for good to cooking up a batch of homemade biscuits. While individual ingredients, such as baking powder or flour would taste awful by themselves, Shivers explains, "Like those yucky ingredients, some things in life 'taste' bad to us or make us very sad" (31). I thought this was clever, and my 6-year-old was held by the metaphor. Other deep yet kid-friendly moments included Shiver's use of "Opposite Day" to describe God's Kingdom, in which the King is a servant, the greatest shall be the least and the first last. In week 17, Shivers presents the Bible's famous shortest verse, "Jesus cried." She explains that Christ's tears were not because he was sad that Lazarus died, after all, he could easily resurrect him. Instead, Jesus was feeling empathy for his friend's bitterly grieving sisters. This opened up a moment for me to ask Stephen whether he'd ever cried when someone else was very sad. My son couldn't relate to this, but quickly came up with his own example of how he laughs when his friend laughs or feels happy when those he cares about are happy.
Hiccups
As much as I liked Shiver's treatment of the Lazarus story, I couldn't completely rely on the text to enlighten my children. The book's illustrations are in a quirky, whimsical style and employ a mix of animal and human characters. Because "Jesus Wept" is accompanied by a cat crying a puddle of tears, my 3-year-old innocently asked, "Is that Jesus?" We all got a good belly laugh out of that. Additionally, the second part of the devotion shifts to talking about Psalm 56:8, in which God keeps our tears in his bottle. At this, my oldest shouts, "His bottle?! Does God drink our tears?" In my own reading of the psalms, I've always found this wording a little bit weird and figured something must be lost in the translation. So I told Stephen that the psalm also says God writes our cares in his book, an idea that is a little easier for him to grasp and conveys the spirit of the verse without conjuring up Alice in Wonderland scenes.
I didn't read the entire book to my boys, but read through it myself--something I recommend doing for all devotionals parents plan to read to their kids! There are a few other weeks I might skip or verbally rewrite when I do get a chance to share them with my boys. For example, week 26 features God looking at our hearts rather than external appearance in 1 Samuel 16:7. I think this an entirely appropriate topic for children, however Shivers writes that, "You might think things like, I am too short, I am too skinny, or My hair is ugly" (116). This gave me pause. Many children between the ages 4-8 are still blissfully unaware of their physical appearance. My 6-year-old has always been at least a head shorter than his classmates, but only recently realized it and doesn't see it as a flaw. For some children, hearing that they might think these negative thoughts would actually be their first introduction to these thoughts. As a side note, this is why it's so important that we as parents don't practice negative self-talk in earshot of our kids. Other parents may have kids who have already expressed discontentment with their physical appearance, and this would be a perfect devotion to read with them.
My final critique is Shivers' exposition of "God's phone number," Jeremiah 33:3. The verse reads, "Pray to me, and I will answer you. I will tell you important secrets. You have never heard these things before" (54). Despite the obvious emphasis on God speaking and, presumably, the praying person listening, the entire devotion emphasizes that we can talk to God and tell him everything and get things off our chest, and thank him when we're done. She writes, "When you are talking to a friend, one of you is talking and the other is listening. That is the way communications works. Well, prayer is the talking part of our relationship with God" (55). She also implies that God's answer is simply that He picks up the "phone" and will always be ready to listen to us whenever we pray. I don't dispute any of this, of course. But Shivers implies that we do all the talking. And, if I'm honest, many of my prayers are one-sided conversations. This is why I've been intentional about encouraging my son to listen for God's still small voice. To hear God's answers to his questions, and to even, like Samuel, hear God's speaking when he hasn't asked for an answer.
In conclusion, I plan to continue using I Can Learn the Bible with my sons because it is a book that opens up space to talk about God's word with simple metaphors and playful images. However, this book, like all children's bibles, requires that I tune into God's moment-by-moment rhema word to be able to flesh out some of the devotions and trim others to best meet my children's needs.
*Thanks to BookLook Bloggers for sending me a copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.*
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful.
Enjoyable
By Diane Estrella
Enjoyable.
Although this book is recommended for ages 4-8, any form of Scripture is beneficial for all ages. This book does have simple terms of defining truths, but for my 12 year old son, sometimes simpler is better. Because of my son’s age, instead of spending a week on one devotion we do it in one day. Every day we review all of the Bible Scriptures and will do so until we get to 52. I am hoping by then, he and I both, will have many to most of them memorized. We are making it work well for our family.
The illustrations included are beautiful also. Each one is precious and lovely.
My only critique with this book, is that I wish all of the Bible verses that are included were NKJV or other, and not the International Children’s Bible©. Instead of the more commonly known, “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth,” sky is substituted for heavens. I think for down the road when he is older, the more common versions would be more beneficial, but that is just my opinion. Otherwise, a beautifully made and wonderfully sound book.
Tommy Nelson sent me the above book for review purposes. It will allow me to keep the book. I have no other connection to and have received no other compensation from Tommy Nelson.
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