Best children christian education books according to redditors
We found 31 Reddit comments discussing the best children christian education books. We ranked the 23 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
We found 31 Reddit comments discussing the best children christian education books. We ranked the 23 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
It sounds like an oxymoron, but non-religious prayers (i.e. not directed at any sort of god) can totally work. For example, expressing gratitude for a meal in the context of the Earth nurturing the plants that grew your food, the people who gathered it and transported it to your store, the family members who cooked it into a delicious dinner, etc. You can leave off the "amen" (or not, since literally it just means "so be it") and it becomes a lovely secular exercise in pausing to appreciate the good things in your lives. I also play what I call "the thank-you game" with young kids, finding things to be thankful for at random times during the day (stopped at a red light? "thank you car, for getting us where we need to go!" getting wet in the rain? "thank you rain, for making the plants grow and giving us water!" sitting around at home? "thank you house, for keeping us nice and warm!" etc).
You could also explore prayers from a variety of different religions (for example, check out a book like A Child's Book of Blessings and Prayers or A Child's Book of Blessings). I think this helps emphasize that prayers are a pretty universal way that humans across the centuries have sought comfort and self-reflection, regardless of the specific religious beliefs involved. Your little one might be a bit young for it right now, but I also have to recommend the book Grandad's Prayers of the Earth as a lovely non-religious interpretation of prayer. Going back to the theme of gratitude, The Secret of Saying Thanks is another beautiful book by the same author.
Contact the FFRF, the SSA, and AU for advice;
Also, check on ways to deal with the Good News Club. This may help;
There are a lot of questions that will start coming to you over the next few years. The important thing to remember is that it's just fine to have questions. God designed us as curious beings, and trying to find answers to the really big questions is part of going through life. People of all ages wonder and have moments of doubt and a hard time lining up all the answers sometimes.
A really important thing is to keep going to places where you can surround yourself with Christians who can help with these questions. Perhaps that might be your church. Perhaps there is a youth group or a kid's club that other churches might run that your parents will help get you to.
And remember, lots of people have gone through this struggle before you. A great habit to develop as a young man or woman is to learn how to read. By cultivating a habit of reading, you open up all the thoughts that people who have gone before you have written down. It's ok to chat about things online, but by finding good books, and trusted mentors or pastors, you're going to have a much easier time sorting a lot of things out.
Two books you might be interested in are these:
Answers Book for Teens 1
Answers Book for Teens 2
Perhaps you might find these at a library, or your parents or another relative might be willing to get these for you if you share with them that you have a bunch of questions and would love some help to read more about them.
It's a sensible thing to not want to go to hell, but it's really a bad reason for believing in God. When you study a little more, you'll see that lots of the evidence that 'prove' God doesn't exist require just as much faith to believe as it does to just believe in God. You'll see more and more complexity and will marvel at the complexity of creation and wonder just how anyone could ever think we are all here just from blind chance and luck.
And read your Bible, especially the Gospels and perhaps the Psalms. Some of it will make no sense, but the thing with reading is, you want to always be reading the hard stuff! That's how you grow. That's how your mind will expand and make all sorts of connections between all sorts of things. If we only watch TV and play Minecraft, as good as those things may be, it's a bit like not exercising and wondering why we can't run very far. Your mind is a muscle - make sure you're giving it a good workout!
Here are their top picks for each category:
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Apologetics/Evangelism - Evangelism in a Skeptical World: How to Make the Unbelievable News About Jesus More Believable
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Biblical Studies - Lexham Geographic Commentary on the Gospels
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Children and Youth - The Friend Who Forgives
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Christian Living/Discipleship - The Gospel Comes with a House Key: Practicing Radically Ordinary Hospitality in Our Post-Christian World
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The Church/Pastoral Leadership - Preaching as Reminding: Stirring Memory in an Age of Forgetfulness
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CT Women - Perfectly Human: Nine Months with Cerian
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Culture and the Arts - Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music?: Larry Norman and the Perils of Christian Rock
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Fiction - An Extra Mile: A Story of Embracing God’s Call
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History/Biography - The Spirit of Early Evangelicalism: True Religion in a Modern World
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Missions/Global Church - Megachurch Christianity Reconsidered: Millennials and Social Change in African Perspective
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Politics and Public Life - Scars Across Humanity: Understanding and Overcoming Violence Against Women
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Spiritual Formation - Subversive Sabbath: The Surprising Power of Rest in a Nonstop World
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Theology/Ethics - Seeing God: The Beatific Vision in Christian Tradition
I didn’t realise the year 8 kid at our youth group who looks up funny bible verses was on reddit!
here’s a book you’ll enjoy 👍
This book is fantastic...
https://www.amazon.com/Bible-Tells-Me-Catechizing-Scripture/dp/1475296657
"The Bible Tells Me So"
Granted, it's written to a younger audience than you may be targeting, but I used it for RCIA and just changed the language when appropriate. It is written in spoken-word style (as though someone transcribed his classes) so I just took the core of the material and rewrote it to be appropriate. Something that he might cover in an hour, I could distill down to 15-30 mins usually.
Anything with videos is generally more captivating than a book series, and could be good to supplement that book with something directly focused on Confirmation. Two that I've used bits and pieces of before are...
Chosen by Ascension Press
Decision Point by Dynamic Catholic
And Formed.org, if your parish has it, is full of really solid resources. The Symbolon series would be good for Confirmation candidates as wood Bishop Barron's Catholicism series. If they are academically advanced enough, anything by Brant Pitre on there is just fantastic, especially on the Jewish roots of the Eucharist. Granted, it's not Confirmation related, but if they're up for it, it will get them on fire for their faith and the Eucharist.
If you're OK with giving a Catholic spiritual gift, you could consider giving some of the St. Joseph board books. (There are a total of about eight available, for $5 each). https://www.amazon.com/dp/089942841X/
I am skeptical of this. I only found this "fact" on the simple wikipedia, and the source is a book about weather that has a religious slant.
I have heard a lot of people say different things about youth ministry, and most of them fall flat. One thing that most people seem to be agreeing on these days is that the current direction of youth ministries is not enough.
But will forcing kids to sit with their parents in church make them more likely to stay in the church? I have not seen that work very well. Church needs a sense of community, and like it or not, most kids are not going to get that if you try and make them hang around old people all the time.
The best book I have read on this subject is Simple Student Ministry. It basically says that most youth groups have just become entertainment centers for teens who will gladly move along when something better presents itself, but we need to be intentional about what we want to get done and look into cutting out the unnecessary and distracting programs. This, and more so the book before it, Simple Church, have excellent principles which can be applied to all parts of ministry within the church.
Also, Christianpost did get it right in claiming that this takes students away from their parents. Parents should be the primary spiritual influence in their kids lives, and youth ministries should be supplemental to that. But when parents refuse or are not in the church or not really in the picture at all, a good focused youth ministry can have powerful results.
I probably would not still be in the church today were it not for the influence a youth group had on me. A real genuine community that I loved to be a part of. Serving with those brothers and sisters in Christ, almost all of whom are still in churches today, gave me a passion for the ministry. ANY ministry done wrong will have negative results, but perhaps some ministries, although they can be frustrating at times, can be powerfully used if they are refocused a little.
I read The Good News Club earlier this year and was totally scandalized by what this group is trying to do in our public schools. If you're unfamiliar with this issue, please check out the book. http://www.amazon.com/The-Good-News-Club-Christian/dp/B008SLSAY6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1348606181&sr=8-1&keywords=the+good+news+club
*ok, my brain just fell out, I didn't even notice it was the same person who wrote the book writing the article. Sorry!
Stephen R. Lawhead is a Christian author who's written a lot of fairly well-regarded high fantasy, like the Pendragon cycle. Or there's John White's Archives of Anthropos, which I recall fondly from my childhood.
I won't pretend to fully understand but I've heard from people who probably do.
You might want to get in touch with former Pentecostal preacher turned atheist activist Jerry Dewitt
https://m.facebook.com/jwdewitt?id=100000098176237&refsrc=http%253A%252F%252Fwww.google.com%252F&_rdr
You can also find many of his talks on YouTube.
Then there are resources such as
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1908675047/ref=redir_mdp_mobile/179-6042562-2585327
Sorry, I live in a diff city and it was relayed to me by my parents. My mom is quite Christian, and she was helping my nephew w/his homework. But she said she refused to help him learn it because the book was so absurd.
My brother is pissed, too. Not for the first time...I don't know the title of the "science" book, but my nephew likes dinosaurs and brought home this book from their library one time. It says dragons were real:
https://www.amazon.com/Dragons-Legends-Dinosaurs-Laura-Welch/dp/0890515581
I Love Sci-Fi/Fantasy so here is my completely biased list of Orthodox Writers...
Dobrica Ćosić- various Historical Fiction books published, must read for history buffs...
Milovan Glišić- After Ninety Years: The Story of Serbian Vampire Sava Savanovic
Boban Knežević
R. L. Copple
Sue Dent takes a little to load
[Demetrious Glimidakis- The Crimson Knight](https://www.amazon.com/Crimson-Knight-Demetrious-Glimidakis/dp/1617399574?ie=UTF8&qid=1304459201&ref_=sr_1_1&s=books&sr=1-1)
[Donna Farley- The Ravens of Farne: A Tale of Saint Cuthbert](https://www.amazon.com/Ravens-Farne-Tale-Saint-Cuthbert/dp/0982277059?ie=UTF8&qid=1466021370&ref_=la_B001K80TNY_1_3&s=books&sr=1-3)
[Nick Mamatas- Insults Every Man Should Know](https://www.amazon.com/Insults-Every-Should-Pocket-Companions/dp/1594745242?ie=UTF8&ref_=asap_bc) tons of books published...
and how could forget... our favourite [Yevgeny Zamyatin- WE](https://www.amazon.com/We-Yevgeny-Zamyatin-ebook/dp/B00KR3HV3O?ie=UTF8&qid=1466021671&ref_=la_B000AQ1TZY_1_1&s=books&sr=1-1) -seriously... ★★★★★ prefigured Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, and inspired George Orwell's 1984*
First google result for "board book of saints"
https://www.amazon.com/Friends-Saints-Joseph-Board-Books/dp/0899428444
First result for "board book of the rosary" (and a couple clicks to get you to the list of just books):
http://www.catholicchild.com/searchprods.asp
Oh man, I'll have to go check the book out. It really is what I say but I'm glad you're skeptical.
The reason I picked it up in the first place was to look for ideas about drawing dragons. It looked pretty normal, just glancing through, but then I kept seeing mentions of God and the bible. I didn't have time to take more pictures at that moment, but I'll be sure to check it out tomorrow.
For now, here's it's Amazon listing.
http://www.amazon.com/Mom-Dad-Im-Atheist-Non-believer/dp/1908675047/ref=sr_1_sc_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1373766433&sr=8-1-spell&keywords=mom+dad+I%27m+atheisy
If you sincerely wish to help your daughter, I very strongly recommend this book. You need to have these heart to heart talks with your daughter, starting like 4-5 years ago. It's certainly not too late. God bless, and good luck.
Let me guess they’re part of the Good News Club:
https://www.amazon.com/Good-News-Club-Christian-Americas/dp/1586488430/ref=nodl_
and just read this piece of trash, AKA Reefer Madness 2.0:
https://www.amazon.com/Tell-Your-Children-Marijuana-Violence/dp/1982103663/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1549143003&sr=1-1&keywords=tell+your+children+the+truth+about+marijuana
You should find exactly out who told this to the kids and ensure they are made to retract those statements and reeducate the assembly in a balanced manner.
What other lies are your kids being fed? Get to the bottom of this. Discuss it with other parents at the school.
but seriously, this is a good year to review salvation history in preparation for Confirmation.
Here is a book suggestion, if you are interested. "Mom, Dad, I'm an Atheist: The Guide to Coming Out as a Non-believer" by David G. McAfee. It's not a big book, but it has a lot of good tips and good advice. The author has a degree in Religious Studies, but had to fight to stay in the program because he was (still is) openly atheist. https://www.amazon.com/Mom-Dad-Im-Atheist-Non-believer/dp/1908675047/ref=sr_1_4?crid=2CA2NJNVT9B9U&keywords=david+mcafee&qid=1554237368&s=gateway&sprefix=david+mca%2Caps%2C178&sr=8-4
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Great answers! Hey OP, If I can recommend a book to you, theologian Bruce Ware has a book aimed at kids called Big Truths for Young Hearts that might just be good for discussion in your class. It's a theology overview with a section on the Trinity. Hope that helps.
For the older kids.
My kids love this book at ages 9 and 10
I have this book. Scary as hell.
The Good News Club: The Christian Right's Stealth Assault on America's Children by Katherine Stewart
http://www.amazon.com/The-Good-News-Club-ebook/dp/B0073XR7BM/ref=tmm_kin_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1346464049&sr=8-1
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Why don't you order the book — break that piggy bank of yours?