![]() With a tagline that reads, “Every story whispers his name,” I should have acted on my suspicions and reviewed it more thoroughly. To be honest, I should have judged the book by its cover, enough so that I would never have started reading it in the first place. That’s because I explained that this book was not just “not good,” but actually “really bad.” But, when I broke the news to him, he took it very well. Yet, from the very first day that I began reading to my son, I knew we wouldn’t be revisiting it. ![]() Hearing that this product had a particular emphasis on Christ in all of Scripture was, of course, an appealing feature to me as I sought to guard against the kind of moralistic instruction that often masquerades as Christian discipleship. ![]() ![]() At that time, my older son and I had worked our way through several other children’s storybook Bibles, and I was excited for this to be the next step in preparing him for verse-by-verse exposition in a full-text Bible. Although it was first published in 2007, it wasn’t until around 2015 that I was first introduced to The Jesus Storybook Bible as an option for my kids. ![]()
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