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Bible Reading Challenge, Week 29

By emily | Jul 30, 2012

Guys, I want to apologize. This week has been extra busy as we've prepared for 50 Shades and dealt with technical woes. We also still ...

By Janie Cheaney | Jul 22, 2012

THE PROPHETS: Jonah, Amos, Hosea Anybody for minor prophets? When naming the books of the Old Testament, that's the category where we often stall out, ...

By emily | Jul 16, 2012

THE PROPHETS: Elijah ?The great days of the kings are over. God promised to divide the kingdom after Solomon's time, doctor and (surprise!) that's just ...

Bible Reading Challenge, Week 26

By emily | Jul 9, 2012

THE KINGS: Solomon's Fall ?It's clear this week that although Solomon was the pinnacle of earthly kings, he wasn't the King the Israelites were waiting ...

By emily | Jul 2, 2012

THE KINGS: Wisdom Solomon was the wisest earthly king ever before or ever since. Where did he get that wisdom? And how can we get ...

Bible Reading Challenge, Week 24

By emily | Jun 25, 2012

THE KINGS: Solomon and the Temple This week we come to the apex of Israel's earthly glory: Solomon's reign as symbolized by the construction of ...

Bible Reading Challenge, Week 23

By emily | Jun 17, 2012

THE KINGS: David's Fall David sees something he wants. Something he really, really wants. And now we see writ large why, though he is called ...

Bible Reading Challenge, Week 22

By emily | Jun 11, 2012

THE KINGS: David We've already seen King Saul and what happens when he follows his own heart instead of God. This week we'll see how ...

By Janie Cheaney | Jun 8, 2012

Summer- camp stories are a staple in children's literature--we reviewed one worthy example on Tuesday. But for today, let's look at "real life." Do your ...

Bible Reading Challenge, Week 21

By emily | Jun 3, 2012

THE NATION: Failure Thanks to Janie for covering for me this week! I've been on a very blessed reprieve this week, but Janie and Carl ...

The Bible in Brickbats

By Janie Cheaney | May 29, 2012

The Brick Bible: A New Spin on the Old Testament, as told and illustrated by Brendan Powell Smith. Skyhorse Publishing, 2011, 270 pages. In his ...

Bible Reading Challenge, Week 20

By emily | May 27, 2012

THE NATION: Saul The people wanted a king, so God let them have their way. Saul is crowned, and everything is coming up roses for ...

Bible Reading Challenge, Week 19

By emily | May 20, 2012

THE NATION: Samuel First and Second Samuel represent a transition period from the time of the judges to the first earthly king of Israel. Before ...

Bible Reading Challenge – Week 18

By Janie Cheaney | May 13, 2012

THE NATION: RUTH Happy Mother's Day! This week's Bible Reading Challenge is actually appropriate for the Mother's Day--as long as we include mothers-in-law. How do ...

Bible Reading Challenge, Week 17

By Janie Cheaney | May 6, 2012

THE NATION: FAILURE! Remember that promise the people made to Joshua after his farewell speech: "We will serve the Lord"? Well, they did, sort of. ...

Interview with Avengers Illustrator, Sergio Cariello

By emily | May 2, 2012

Who is Sergio Cariello? With The Avengers movie opening in theaters this weekend, I invited Sergio Cariello--a Marvel comics illustrator who worked on Avengers comics--to ...

By emily | Apr 29, 2012

WEEK 16: THE NATION--HOME AT LAST Joshua is installed as leader of the Israelites, and it's time for them all to enter the Promised ...

Bible Reading Challenge, Week 15

By emily | Apr 23, 2012

WEEK 15: BLESSINGS AND CURSES This week we're reading through Deuteronomy, in which the Israelites are almost ready to enter the Promised Land. Moses ...

Bible Reading Challenge, Week 14

By emily | Apr 15, 2012

THE NATION: Sacrifice How can an unholy people approach a holy God? Leviticus helped God's people answer that question many years ago, and even though ...

By emily | Apr 8, 2012

No new material this week. We're celebrating the risen Lord--in my case by worshiping and then taking a Sunday nap! If you don't want to ...

Bible Reading Challenge, Week 13

By emily | Apr 1, 2012

THE NATION: TABERNACLE It's clear God's people can't keep the law. They aren't worthy to be His people. So, is God going to ...

Kingstone Part 2: Interview and Babylon

By emily | Mar 29, 2012

By Redeemed Reader intern Jack Mertens Today I continue my series on Kingstone Comics, begun on Monday with reviews of two of Marvin Olasky's graphic ...

Bible Reading Challenge, Week 12

By emily | Mar 25, 2012

THE PEOPLE: FAILURE! After receiving the law from God on Sinai, this week we learn about how the Israelites experience ...

A Children’s Guide to Pilgrim’s Progress

By emily | Mar 20, 2012

Last October, Janie and I celebrated Reformation Day with a read-along of Pilgrim's Progress for families. Janie covered the original book for older kids, while ...

Bible Reading Challenge, Week 11

By emily | Mar 18, 2012

The Lord leads His people to the same mountain where he spoke with Moses from the burning bush--Mt. Horeb, also called Sinai. Israel is in ...

Bible Reading Challenge, Week 10

By emily | Mar 11, 2012

THE PEOPLE: Deliverance This week we go deeper into Moses' story, and how God used him to bring His people out of slavery and on ...

Bible Reading Challenge, Week 9

By emily | Mar 4, 2012

THE PEOPLE: Moses Today we look at how God grew Israel's family into a new "people", and how God worked deliverance for them ...

Bible Reading Challenge, Week 8

By Janie Cheaney | Feb 26, 2012

This week we look at that boy with the amazing technicolor dreamcoat! But what's really important about Joseph is not his fancy coat. God has ...

By Janie Cheaney | Feb 12, 2012

Last week as you recall, we made a switch from "Problem" mode to "Promise" mode--we made the problem, God will fix it. Abraham was the ...

By emily | Feb 5, 2012

Thanks again to picture book illustrator, Kevin Luthardt, for creating our Story Bible art today! To read more about him and his advice for your ...

By emily | Jan 29, 2012

Study Guides: .pdf Download: Ages 4-8, Week Four .pdf Download: Ages 9-13, Week Four Make Your Own Story Bible Resources: .pdf Download 1: Story Bible ...

By emily | Jan 22, 2012

Wow, week 3! This week we'll be studying Noah, so put on your rainboots! Study Guides: .pdf Download: Ages 4-8, Week Three .pdf Download: Ages ...

By emily | Jan 15, 2012

Can't believe week two is already here! Study guides: .pdf Download: Ages 4-8, Week Two .pdf Download: Ages 9-12, Week Two FYI: The Make-Your-Own-Story-Bible directions ...

By emily | Jan 8, 2012

I'll go ahead and admit it. Janie and I really aren't fully prepared for this post. We birthed the Reading Challenge idea roughly two weeks ...

By Janie Cheaney | Jan 6, 2012

I was raised in a denomination that took the Bible very seriously: “We speak where the Bible speaks, and are silent where the Bible is ...

By emily | Jan 2, 2012

ONE STORY, ONE BIG ADVENTURE Judging by the success of Sally Lloyd Jones' The Jesus Storybook Bible and R. C. Sproul's new book, What's in ...

The Word of God for Kids

By emily | Dec 19, 2011

ESV Seek and Find Bible. Crossway Bibles, 2010. 1, 888 pps. Ages 5-up. The Action Bible. David C. Cook, New edition 2010. Illustrated by Sergio ...

By Janie Cheaney | Dec 16, 2011

The December 21 opening of The Adventures of Tintin: the Secret of the Unicorn, should focus attention not only on the boy from Belgium ...

By Janie Cheaney | Dec 14, 2011

The Voice Bible proposes to do something new: present God’s word narratively rather than propositionally. That may be an overstatement, as the Bible is propositional ...

Thoughts on A Christmas Carol: Reading and Watching

By Janie Cheaney | Dec 7, 2011

Charles Dickens, unlike other great authors like Herman Melville, had the good fortune of enjoying widespread fame and popularity during his lifetime. A Christmas Carol ...

By Janie Cheaney | Dec 5, 2011

On Friday we looked at some very popular picture books that you just might find under your tree. Some of them are better than others, ...

He’s Coming!

By Janie Cheaney | Nov 29, 2011

In the fundamentalist church where I grew up, we never did advent. I never even understood what the word meant until well into my twenties, ...

By emily | Nov 28, 2011

We've written a number of articles about Bibles and Bible-related kids' books over the past year. Here are a few that might make great Christmas ...

By Janie Cheaney | Nov 1, 2011

If you're just joining us, here's the Introduction, Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3. For the Project Gutenberg online version, go here. The worst ...

By Janie Cheaney | Oct 25, 2011

Introduction Part One Part Two (The online text we're using is located at Project Gutenberg, here.) Vanity Fair After leaving Talkative behind, Christian and Faithful ...

By Janie Cheaney | Oct 19, 2011

Introduction Part One Slackers and Interlopers Right away, Christian learns that salvation is not for sissies! The sleeping men have for various reasons failed to ...

By Janie Cheaney | Oct 13, 2011

This is Part One of our read along of The Prilgrim's Progress for high school age and up. Here's the Introduction. The City of Destruction ...

By Janie Cheaney | Oct 10, 2011

John Bunyan was a dissenting pastor of the mid-17th century: “dissenting” meaning that some of his biblical interpretations differed from those of the established (state-supported) ...

The Lord Saves

By emily | Sep 22, 2011

The Lord Saves: A Reflection on "YA Saves" Francis Schaeffer's Insight Francis Schaeffer once wrote that in his generation, serious art required someone standing on ...

By Janie Cheaney | Sep 6, 2011

Images of God for Young Children, by Marie-Helene Delval (illustrated by Barbara Nascimbeni) Eerdmans, 2011. Brother Sun, Sister Moon, by Katherine Paterson, illustrated by Pamela ...

By emily | Aug 11, 2011

In my last post of this series, I looked at two ways that the Lord wrote Christ in the Old Testament: historically and symbolically. As ...

By emily | Jul 7, 2011

In my previous post, I tried to show that Sally Lloyd Jones uses two broad ways of finding Christ in the Old Testament: 1) historical ...

By emily | Jun 16, 2011

Will, God's Mighty Warrior by Sheila Walsh, Ages 4-7, 32pgs. “This book is a favorite with my boys, 2 and 5. They really like ...

By Janie Cheaney | Jun 14, 2011

Of all the charges hurled against Christianity in the modern age, one of the most potent is "paternalistic." Christianity, it's said, has kept women in ...

By emily | Jun 2, 2011

I have recommended The Jesus Storybook Bible by Sally Lloyd Jones in numerous posts on this blog. That doesn't mean I think it is perfect, ...

By emily | May 16, 2011

“They know bits and pieces of the Old Testament—how God created the heavens and the earth, what rules he wants us to follow, how he ...

By Janie Cheaney | Apr 26, 2011

As our readers probably know, this spring marks the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible, and celebrations are going on throughout the English-speaking world. ...

By emily | Mar 30, 2011

“I just ordered Happy and Honey, Bob Books set 1, and the Starfall readers—books you recommended—for Lois's and my African-American great-grandson. Could you recommend an ...

By emily | Feb 16, 2011

It may be my freshman attempt at an interview, but Kevin Twit is no novice when it comes to focusing his listeners' attention away from ...

By emily | Jan 10, 2011

The claim that a story Bible isn’t actually a Bible may seem a bit shocking at first. I mean, it’s got the word "Bible" right ...

By emily | Dec 16, 2010

You’re a new parent. You’ve got the baby crib with a fancy name, the swing, the bouncer, the burping pads. Now it’s time to choose ...