Our Bible lessons have reached the end of our study of Genesis, and before we dive into the next book take a minute and look at an overview of the next book so the kids and I have an idea of what we’re about to study in our family discipleship. There are several great resources, and I just recently was introduced to another one, 66 Books One Story, which I decided to use this time.
My friend Danika, over at Thinking Kids (incidentally check out her Bible Road Trip posts, they’re great) reviewed 66 Books One Story
How 66 Books One Story is set up
- each book has a one-phrase summary
- then there’s background info, who wrote it, why, to who, when
- An overview of the book in about 2 paragraphs
- why do we still care about this book (this is especially important for Old Testament books, cough Leviticus cough cough)
- how the book relates to God’s salvation, if there is a unified thread through all 66 books, then it should all point to Jesus, and it does
- a key verse from the book that’s good to memorize, hmmmm…… I might need to steal that.
How I’m using 66 Books One Story
Obviously, I’m writing my own Bible curriculum, so why do I need someone else’s stuff?
- First, I’m not infallible, I make mistakes, and reading other people’s thoughts helps keep me in line.
- Next, I like to have overviews to introduce books, some books I’m not planning on covering, cough Numbers cough cough, and this lets the kids learn about these books that I couldn’t figure out a good way to teach/wasn’t able to fit into our 2-year cycle (and that’s a hard and fast time frame because that’s how long I have my Sunday School class, 102 lessons, no more, possibly no less).
- There are great black and white pictures throughout the book, and I’m going to copy them for the kids to color and add into their Bible notebooks (I’m sure that’s not what the creators were thinking when they made it, but they’re a great resource)
- Now that I’ve thought about it in the midst of writing this post, we are totally memorizing the suggested verses. SCORE! 2 Timothy 3:16-17 in action. More verse puzzles to make.
Where to get 66 Books One Story
- 66 Books One Story: A Guide to Every Book of the Bible
(affiliate)
- 66 Books One Story (CBD) {I should be an affiliate for them, I shop there often enough}
- 66 Books One Story (Barnes and Noble, so much money spent there)
But if you leave out Numbers you have to skip Balaam and his talking donkey!
Ha! So true, but then you don’t have to deal with all of the long lists of names……
Can’t you compromise and leave out the long list of names and focus on the donkey! My guys love that story.
Hmmm…….. Maybe I’ll add that in sometime later on, for my “official” curriculum there’s no time in it if you’re doing one lesson a week, it’s 104 lessons, and I’m bumping right up at 104, and may be over by a week or so…….
This book sounds interesting – and a great way to introduce kids to the ENTIRE Bible.
That’s what I”m thinking, I love things like this.