God's Promises for Boys

I received God's Promises for Boys by Jack Countryman and Amy Parker.  The book is 127 pages of pictures, poems, and scriptures.  Each page deals with a different subject such as God's Promises About God's Grace or God's Promises When You are Worried.  Each page has a short poem and several verses pertaining to the subject.

It seems that the book is meant more as a gift book instead of a devotional appropriate for helping to exhort, instruct, and disciple your child.  That, to me, was a bit disappointing.  Anyone can go to the back of their Bible and find verses on a certain subject, but this didn’t seem to appeal to a child’s heart.  Instead it is a cutesy concordance.  However, this could be a great book to use as just that.  If you want to teach your child how to use a concordance to look at what God says about certain subjects, this book with poetry and pictures would be very appealing to a child.  Children need to be taught to search the scriptures to answer their questions instead of taking an adult’s word for it.  If this is your goal, use this book as a tool, but teach your child to use his actual Bible to look up the verses in context.

I received this book free from Thomas Nelson Publishers as part of their BookSneeze.com book
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