Family Devotional Book for the Easter Season

Kids love this family devotional book for the Easter season. Fourteen stories with questions to cover Holy Week and the Resurrection.

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The Easter season is a special time during which we can point our kids to Christ and the sacrifice he made for our salvation. It’s also a wonderful time to create family traditions that focus on the Resurrection  of Jesus.

It’s so important that we read the Bible to our kids. Help Your Kids Learn and Love the Bible (Bethany House, 2021) is your family’s crash course to everything you need to know to read, memorize, and learn the Bible as a family. In Bible Road Trip™, your three-year family journey through the Bible, you’ll use the Bible to teach the Bible.

In addition to reading Scripture to our kids, Bible picture books can be especially helpful in our pursuit to teach the whole Bible to our kids. They love the pictures, the simplified explanations, and the strong themes that books about the Bible provide. As parents, we love the structure a book–like a family devotional–can provide during a special season like Easter!

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Family Devotional Book

Marty Machowski, a family pastor for more than 30 years and the author of a number of beautiful children’s books, has written an innovative and fun family devotional for the Easter season.

Darkest Night Brightest Day: A Family Devotional for the Easter Season (New Growth Press, 2022) is a lovely flip book. There are 14 four-page family devotions. Each devotion contains a re-told story of Jesus’ journey to the cross, his Crucifixion, Resurrection, and Ascension. The devotions are fully illustrated and there are three to four questions at the end of each one to help your children consider the most important aspects of the reading.

I love the fact that Marty Machowski has not just retold each story straight from one of the Gospels. Instead, he merges the story from each of the Gospels, including information that may have been omitted by one or two of the authors. Additionally, he adds information from other parts of Scripture to show how Jesus fulfilled prophecy or his own teachings. I love that!

Blood and water flowed, confirming his death. John was a witness and later wrote, “These things happened so that the scripture would be fulfilled: ‘Not one of his bones will be broken’ [Psalm 34:20] and… ‘ They will look on the one they have pierced'” [Zechariah 12:10] (John 19:36-37).

The Darkest Night side of the book covers Holy Week with seven four-page family devotions. Ideally, you’d want to start reading on Palm Sunday. Family devotions on this side include:

1. The Triumphal Entry
2. The Trap
3. The Betrayal
4. The Arrest
5. The Trial
6. The Cross
7. The Tomb

On Easter morning, flip the book over to reveal The Brightest Day, seven celebratory four page devotions that tell the story of Jesus’ Resurrection and Ascension. Stories covered are:

1. The Stone is Rolled Away
2. Jesus is Risen!
3. The Road
4. The Doubter
5. The Catch
6. The Ascension
7. Pentecost

The book ends with a clear presentation of the gospel (via Peter in Acts). It’s a great way to help kids truly understand the meaning of Christ’s Resurrection.

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Marty Machowski Books

Darkest Night Brightest Day: A Family Devotional for the Easter SeasonPromises Made Promises Kept : A Family Devotional for ChristmasOld Story New: Ten-Minute Devotions to Draw Your Family to GodLong Story Short: Ten-Minute Devotions to Draw Your Family to GodThe Gospel Story Bible: Discovering Jesus in the Old and New TestamentsThe Ology: Ancient Truths, Ever NewWonderFull: Ancient Psalms Ever NewGospel Story for Kids New Testament Coloring BookGospel Story for Kids Old Testament Coloring BookGod Made Boys and Girls: Helping Children Understand the Gift of Gender (God Made Me)God Made Me for Heaven: Helping Children Live for an Eternity with JesusWise Up: Ten-Minute Family Devotions in ProverbsThe Treasure: Ancient Story Ever New of Jesus and His ChurchParenting First Aid Devotional: Hope for the DiscouragedThe Shadow and the Promise (Redemption Tales)The Prophecy and the Hope (Redemption Tales)The Light and the Life (Redemption Tales)

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Teaching the Bible to your kids doesn’t have to be hard.

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The Easter Season | Family Devotional

The illustrations by Phil Schorr are fun with a contemporary 2-D style. Each spread does display a picture of Jesus, so if that’s an issue for you, you’ll want to take note of it.

I love this gift-quality, innovative family devotional. It’s a great way to create a new family tradition in which your kids will better understand the significance of the Crucifixion and Resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Darkest Night Brightest Day: A Family Devotional for the Easter Season

You’ll want to check out this fun video in which Marty Machowski shares how to use the devotional with your family this Easter season:

This beautiful family devotional is perfect for pointing your kids to Christ in the Easter season!

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Teach your kids the true meaning of Easter with a trio of Who What Why books on the disciples, the Cross, and the Resurrection!