It’s important that our kids learn about Jesus, the Bible, and the gospel.
Bedtime is the perfect time to present our kids with truth they can fall asleep with. In just a few minutes a day, you can teach your kids theology with this great resource that provides you with more than a year of devotions for your family.
Theology for Children
My 1st Books and More by Carine Mackenzie and Philip Ross (CF4K, 2016) is an excellent resource; it’s a year of theology for kids, easily used in small chunks at family worship, morning devotions, or bedtime.
The 262-page book is divided into nine topical sections, with 371 short daily sections and a weekly question, answer, and memory verse section. It’s the perfect way to introduce your kids (from preschool through elementary–or even middle school) to biblical theology. Each daily section addresses an aspect of the topic being addressed.
The sections include a verse or short passage in ESV, NIV, NKJV, or KJV, and a short explanation of the concept in language that is both understandable and relevant to children. You are encouraged to look up the verse in the Bible version of your choice and read the accompanying passage as time allows.
About every seven sections (so once a week), there is a short Question, Answer and Memory section with two or three questions and a verse. The idea is that this section be memorized. You can work on memorization daily as you work through the section. The back of the book has several pages of bible drawings you can copy and color in as kids memorize successfully.
- Let’s Think About Christian Values
- Let’s Think About the Gospel
- Let’s Think About the One True God
- Let’s Think About the Church
- Let’s Think About Jesus
- Let’s Think About Bible Promises
- Let’s Think About the Bible
- Let’s Think About Bible Prayers
- Let’s Think About the Psalms
I found the topics in My 1st Books and More to be helpful and well-organized. The writing is accessible and engaging for kids without condescension, and the theology is sound and altogether helpful. My 1st Books and More is an excellent introduction to theology for kids.
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These look like a great resource!
This looks like a wonderful resource to supplement or help with planning for a children’s church.
I love that this book simplifies the process of teaching sound theology to my kids. The simpler a book makes things for me, the more likely I’ll follow through with it!
This is intriguing! I would love to have a copy!
i like having an additional resource to help my kids understand our beliefs
Oh yes!!! I have been looking for something just like this. We NEED this. Thank you for the giveaway.
I like how it can be used with young children!
This book looks great.
I love that this will work for a broad age range!
Always looking for hood sources to teach biblical theology!
Daily exposure to Jesus is what appeals me the most! Great giveaway!
What appeal to me most about My 1st Books and More is that it is written with younger children in mind. I believe it is never too early to start teaching biblical theology and this is a great resource to have. As a mother of a 7, 5, and 4-year old, this is right up my alley!
Theology is a subject I would like to teach in our homeschool. With this resource, I do not have to figure out which book or books would work best for us.
Great for young kids to read and learn.
I like the different topics. The book seems to cover the basics of our faith in an appealing way.
Would love to use this resource with my Sunday School classes…early elementary ages!
The whole thing is great
This looks like a good book worth trying!
This looks like a good book to try with my little guys.
I am just now getting into teaching my daughter the bible outside of church. This seems pretty amazing.
So cute! I think this would be neat to begin with
What appeals most is how easy it looks to implement and the clean layout. I love simple!
Looks like fun
This book seems like it will be a grat resource to teach children about biblical truth. Although I do not know much about the content of the book, the topics alone especially “Let’s Think About the One True God” makes it very encouraging to find out more about the book. Thanks for this giveaway….
I like that teaches a difficult subject to children in a manner that is not overwhelming.
This looks perfect for my kiddos! I love it!
I really like the idea of a theology curriculum that I can incorporate into non-school related things such as bedtime and evening prayer time instead of making it seem like an “added topic” in our regular school time. Thank you for all your great information and giveaways! I truly appreciate them!
My oldest is in preschool and I have been looking for something like this. I hope I win!!
i like how it’s already laid out for daily use. easy!
I think what I like most is that my son who is mentally challenged will pick up this book and actually read it.
Always love new resources to teach kids theology! Thank you for doing this giveaway!!
This is a great introduction to theology.
Thank You
Marion
This looks great!
We are working on devotionals for Zach. These look great for homeschooling!
The idea that it is written in a way that it is understandable and relevant to children.
How wonderful to teach our children God’s Word and the principles within. Thank you for this opportunity
I work with kids between 1st and 5th grades at church. That this can be used for multiple ages is great. Also, I can see how it could be good at home.
These look like a great set of books that offer a great layout and easy to follow.
It is suitable for many ages so it would be great for my kids.
I need a way to explain this to my autistic daughter and this looks like it would be very helpful.
This looks like a great way to start the school year!
The accesibility of the teaching to younger kids makes this really appealing to me!
I’ve been looking for something like this to do all 3 kiddos at once and start our day off right!
This would be perfect for my daughters!
I like that each day is brief and easy to understand. Not overwhelming or to much to comprehend.
This looks perfect for our kids right now – we are wanting a little bit more formal study of theology than JUST Bible stories, but they aren’t old enough for long drawn out lessons. Thanks for the chance to win it!
The books looks simple and engaging for kids. Thank you.
These look like a fantastic resource!
I would love to win this! I am always on the lookout for resources that can help teach my kids apologetics. Thanks for hosting this giveaway!
This would be wonderful for my children. We would never be able to get something like this, thank you for helping to make sure that everyone has this opportunity to hear and understand God’s Word, no matter their age.
looks like a wonderful resource
Looks as if it is appropriate for so many ages and engaging on so many levels. Something I have been searching for to concrete a better understanding of theology for my children.
Looks like a great way for children to learn theology. So important in our shifting culture.
Wow, this looks like a great resource!
Looks like a great resource!
This would add a little more structure to our family Bible time.
Ive been looking for good books to teach my kids theology! Thank you for showing me a great option!
Thanks, this looks like a wonderfully clear resource to help our kids learn deep theology, in an understandable way. Very excited and interested in learning more!
I like that this is short and yet solid. I’m tired of finding only “fluff” when looking for something for my kids.
i love how these books seem to be comprehensive, scriptural, yet on a child’s level. sometimes i make it more complicated when i try to explain things in my own words!
This looks like a very helpful tool for teaching my daughter about God. Thanks for the opportunity to win it.
This looks like a wonderful tool for us.
Wow, looks like a great resource!
I really like the way the books are set up!
Hi, thank you for your wonderful blog! we are a homeschooling fam in the Philippines. i’m praying that homeschooling will be accepted soon. thanks!
Having this book would make teaching Christian thology to my grandchildren so much easier. I do not have a lot hof money so winning this book would be a blessing. Thank you for having is giveaway and I hope I will be to one chosen.
Sounds like something I could really use for children’s ministry
Looks like a great resource!
I like how they are short lessons that small children will be able to “digest”.
We have My First Book of Questions by the same author. This looks like a great tool for beginning theology. My friend and I were just considering what we could do devotionally with our kiddos.
This looks like a great resource. I would love to use it with my younger children.
This looks a good fit for our bible time! I’ve been having a hard time finding resources for kids in NIV, which is what I’m used to reading.
Topics in short lessons that I can use with Daniel this year !
Linda Marie Finn
This sounds like a fabulous book! I often struggle to teach these things to my children on their level and this book would address that!
I like that it is short, so we can add it to what we already do, and it will work my children’s attention spans.
It looks like a fun and easy resource for teaching a very important topic to my kids!
This would be great for my homeschooled grand kiddos!
I would love this for my kiddos!
We have some other books by this author and we love them! This would be a great resource for our family!
I like that it is a short daily activity with weekly questions at the end of seven sections. It looks like it covers so much in a great way for younger children.
We’d love to go deeper into God’s character and word with our very young children and this may be what we’re looking for.
I struggle with deciding where to start, so I like the structure of this book.
I like that this book explains things to kids without dumbing it down.
I like the fact that they are Christ based. We need Christ now and in the future.
This looks like a great resource when planning topical Sunday School lessons. I am working on doing a one-year Big Picture of the Bible overview lesson plan (chronological walk through the Bible, trying to hit most of the major stories) and found a great resource for that on another site that has free Sunday School lessons. However, I’m also trying to do a one-year topical/theological overview. The kids I teach really range in age and ability as well, since I teach Kindergarten through 2nd Grade. This book looks like a great resource for introducing the kids to theological concepts.
Looks like a fun, Christ-centered book!
My oldest son LOVES the Bible. He would love to study Theology. Looking forward to this giveaway.
It would be awesome to win this great resource. Thank you for doing such a great giveaway!
I like the order of topics and e s see of use.
I’m not even sure how I stumbled onto this, but this looks perfect.
I’ve been doing so much research trying to find something for my 2 kids to do and this looks great.
A great resource – thanks!
Theology at the younger levels – the more resources the better; would be easy to adapt for different teaching arenas.
Perfect! thanks for letting us know about this title!
This looks like a great tool I can use to help my children understand the Bible and theology.
This looks like a very simple way for our family to help explain our faith to others.
This looks like a simple and great way to teach Theology to my youngest children. I would love to have a resource like this to help with how to word things for my little ones.
Always looking for good resources.