Literature and Bible Study

Posted by Cindy on May 3, 2007

A couple of years ago, I was looking for a way to gently incorporate more Bible study and character training into our day. As I was reading aloud one day from a picture book it hit me. “Almost every book we read has some sort of moral lesson in it. I can use these to bring more Bible into our day!”

So, very simply, after Bible time, I started reading a “Bible Book of the Day”. That’s what we called it anyway. My kids were still pretty young, so each day brought a new picture book. It was their job to decide what good or bad quality was portrayed in the story. We would talk about the quality, then using For Instruction In Righteousness, we would look up a couple of verses or talk about a Bible story that went along with the quality.

My kids loved this approach! They felt very wise as they “diagnosed” a book character’s problem. Little did they know, I usually picked books with characters who were dealing with some of the same problems we had around here! Anybody ever hear of The Little Red Hen’s lazy friends???

Hey, I think I’ve just talked myself into doing Bible Books of the Day again! This time we’ll probably use chapter books. Maybe we’ll even find some characters who change from bad to good over the course of the story. Won’t that be fun!

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