I have recommended these a lot of Facebook and realized I haven’t talked about them here on the blog. I was looking for a daily devotion we could do with the girls that wasn’t going to dumb things down for the kids or gloss over sin like so many of the kiddie Bibles out there do and this was a perfect fit.
“Long Story Short” is a 72 week devotional with 5 devotions per week – which only take about 10 minutes per day. You can easily do them at mealtime and you read the Scripture from the Bible translation of your choice. It took us about 20 months to get through it. We started when Amelie was 3 and Nadia was 5.5. In the beginning Amelie just listened, but by the end she was answering questions too. The basis of the devotion is to show that throughout the Old Testament the stories point forward to Jesus and God’s promise to send his Son. There are a lot of reviews online about it, but trust me when I say that this is a great devotion.
We are now on week 8 of “Old Story New” which contains 72 weeks in the New Testament. It’s been just as good as “Long Story Short.”
There is also a companion “Gospel Story Bible” by the same author and when we finish a week in the devotion we find the corresponding week and read the review and answers the questions. It’s great to reinforce the parts of Scripture they have been hearing over the course of the week.
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