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The Jesus Storybook Bible Gift Edition: Every Story Whispers His Name
Sally Lloyd-Jones
4.74 AVERAGE
93 reviews for:
The Jesus Storybook Bible Gift Edition: Every Story Whispers His Name
Sally Lloyd-Jones
4.74 AVERAGE
For the last three years my wife and I have read this book with our daughter (and now son) during Advent. It works out quite well as the total Old Testament chapters plus the three about Jesus' birth total 24. So, and this should be obvious, you get one for each day of Advent! This is the first year that we are managing to keep it going and to read the second half of the book, the stories of Jesus. I give credit to my daughter, for she wants to keep reading!
Like any children's bible, there are certainly things here that any adult with a halfway decent Christian theological understanding could be picky about. For some it might come across too "liberal" and for others, too "conservative". That said, in general I think most readers would find this to be one of the best, if not the best, bible for children out there.
Like any children's bible, there are certainly things here that any adult with a halfway decent Christian theological understanding could be picky about. For some it might come across too "liberal" and for others, too "conservative". That said, in general I think most readers would find this to be one of the best, if not the best, bible for children out there.
No, the Bible isn’t a book of rules, or a book of heroes. The Bible is most of all a Story. It’s an adventure story about a young Hero who comes from a far country to win back his lost treasure. It’s a love story about a brave Prince who leaves his palace, his throne–everything–to rescues the ones he loves. It’s like the most wonderful of fairy tales that has come true in real life!
You see, the best thing about this Story is–it’s true.
There are lots of stories in the Bible, but all the stories are telling on Big Story. The Story of how God loves his children and comes to rescue them.
I love this children's storybook bible. Author Sally Lloyd-Jones shows how each story points towards the metanarrative of Scripture and the good news of the Gospel. It is full of colorful and whimsical illustrations that kids will love. As with any paraphrase, there were a few artistic licenses taken--however nothing majorly problematic. I found the Unneccesary Capitalizations a little annoying (but that's just personal preference). All in all, an excellent children's bible and imo, an essential part of every Christian family's library.
After spending several weeks reading this book to my daughter, I've come away with very mixed feelings about it. I'll begin with what I liked about it.
What Lloyd-Jones does very well is show how "every story whispers His Name." The tales about Noah's ark and David's bout with Goliath aren't presented as ends in themselves but as types and shadows of the Gospel. The art's pretty cute, too.
On the other hand, there were multiple times throughout the book when I found myself thinking, "This isn't *wrong*, but I don't like the way she *said* it." Other times, I felt the chosen words were perhaps too loose -- that they could be easily misconstrued as presenting some heresy (such as Universalism, not that I think the author is a Universalist). Still other times, I cringed at statements that were truly unbiblical (such as referring to all humans indiscriminately as "God's children"). Finally, I occasionally found myself scratching my head at how certain narratives were interpreted (e.g., Jesus fed the 5,000 because He "knew the One who in the very beginning had made everything out of nothing at all. How hard would something like this be for Someone like that?", which implies that it wasn't Jesus Himself who created ex nihilo, and that it wasn't Him who multiplied the fish.).
In the end, I'm really not sure I can give an unqualified recommendation. I can't decide for myself if I'll continue to use it with my daughter. This book is great at what it's great at, but I feel certain it could have been done better.
What Lloyd-Jones does very well is show how "every story whispers His Name." The tales about Noah's ark and David's bout with Goliath aren't presented as ends in themselves but as types and shadows of the Gospel. The art's pretty cute, too.
On the other hand, there were multiple times throughout the book when I found myself thinking, "This isn't *wrong*, but I don't like the way she *said* it." Other times, I felt the chosen words were perhaps too loose -- that they could be easily misconstrued as presenting some heresy (such as Universalism, not that I think the author is a Universalist). Still other times, I cringed at statements that were truly unbiblical (such as referring to all humans indiscriminately as "God's children"). Finally, I occasionally found myself scratching my head at how certain narratives were interpreted (e.g., Jesus fed the 5,000 because He "knew the One who in the very beginning had made everything out of nothing at all. How hard would something like this be for Someone like that?", which implies that it wasn't Jesus Himself who created ex nihilo, and that it wasn't Him who multiplied the fish.).
In the end, I'm really not sure I can give an unqualified recommendation. I can't decide for myself if I'll continue to use it with my daughter. This book is great at what it's great at, but I feel certain it could have been done better.
This audiobook is so incredibly, beautifully, narrated. I definitely recommend listening to it— even grown ups!
informative
tense
fast-paced
My knowledge wasn't beyond to read this, so I would like to re-read and absorb it deeply later.
EVERYONE needs this book. Child. Adult. Believer. Nonbeliever. EVERYONE. Most beautifully written retelling of the Bible I have ever read. Each page nearly brings me to tears with the exquisite simplicity of the words she chose. Jesus in every page of the Bible. He's there. It's His story.
I've been reading this to my toddler, one chapter at a time, and I love the text. It brings Jesus into the Old Testament, showing how the seeds of prophecy, how God planned to bring Jesus to us, were there right from the start. Some of the parallels I hadn't even noticed myself!
The "stories" are well-chosen, and reworded to explain and make sense as a story, not a record.
The only thing that annoyed me was the overuse of partial sentences. This is a book for children, and they don't know when it's allowed to break grammatical rules for effect, so I'd prefer that good grammar be modeled far more than it was. But aside from that, I was very pleased. (I also bought a copy for my niece, and hope she enjoys it as much as we have.)
The "stories" are well-chosen, and reworded to explain and make sense as a story, not a record.
The only thing that annoyed me was the overuse of partial sentences. This is a book for children, and they don't know when it's allowed to break grammatical rules for effect, so I'd prefer that good grammar be modeled far more than it was. But aside from that, I was very pleased. (I also bought a copy for my niece, and hope she enjoys it as much as we have.)
hopeful
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
The more I read and understand the Bible, the more I find it difficult to teach certain stories to kids and feel that I'm being honest to the meaning. Think of the stories that we teach in Sunday School:
1. the garden of eden (nudity, disobedience, stealing)
2. Noah's ark (death and distruction on an epic scale with a smiling family sailing atop bloated corpses)
3. Joshua and the Battle of Jericho (prostitution, warfare)
4. David and Goliath ("its ok to hit bad people as long as God tells you too...")
etc, etc.
You get the picture. Many Children's Bibles have sanitized them so that they have to make up morals or lessons to impose on the story. "When you are afraid, little Billy, be brave like David was..."
What I love about this Bible is that it tries to uncover the underlying theology in each story and tie it back to Jesus. I Don't agree with all the choices but it ties together the grand narrative of Scripture in a way few if any children's Bibles do. Excellent.
1. the garden of eden (nudity, disobedience, stealing)
2. Noah's ark (death and distruction on an epic scale with a smiling family sailing atop bloated corpses)
3. Joshua and the Battle of Jericho (prostitution, warfare)
4. David and Goliath ("its ok to hit bad people as long as God tells you too...")
etc, etc.
You get the picture. Many Children's Bibles have sanitized them so that they have to make up morals or lessons to impose on the story. "When you are afraid, little Billy, be brave like David was..."
What I love about this Bible is that it tries to uncover the underlying theology in each story and tie it back to Jesus. I Don't agree with all the choices but it ties together the grand narrative of Scripture in a way few if any children's Bibles do. Excellent.