Top 150 Bible Stories
To
Parents:
G.K. Chesterton, an English writer and defender of the
Christian faith once wrote, “I had always felt life first as a story; and if
there is a story there is a storyteller.”
Kids love stories! If
there is one thing that I have learned in my years of working with children, it
is that kids love stories. And I know why! It is because God gave stories to us. God Himself is the Master Storyteller. He created life as a story and has preserved
these individual life stories for us in the sacred Scriptures.
Real life is full of stories that pose specific problems
that, in turn, create personal, emotional and spiritual tension that need
resolution. Bible stories, in
particular, tell us about the history of the problem of sin; the tension it
causes in personal lives; and how God is always working toward a
resolution. That resolution comes in the
birth, life, death, and resurrection of His Son—the story of the life of Jesus
Christ.
Kids love Bible stories!
They need to know them. As they
read, they learn at least three things. First,
they learn who God is. They need to know
the Storyteller. Second, they
learn that God is active in history as He works to redeem His people. And third, they learn what God
requires of them, in other words, how to think and act. Bible stories are essential to the education
of the next Christian generation.
So I have compiled my top 150 (actually 156) of them and set
them in a format that can be used for their reading in one year. If your family reads three stories per week,
you can accomplish this important task.
On this blog, the stories will be posted each week along
with a short devotion to highlight the three categories of learning suggested
above. I have underlined my suggestions
to highlight them and to make them simple to see.
I pray that your family’s time in these stories will be
blessed by God.
Dan Edwards (Mr. Dan)
Pastor to
Children & Families
