What God Has Always Wanted: The Bible's Big Idea from Genesis Through Revelation - Hardcover

Charles F. Boyd

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1572297255 ISBN 13: 9781572297258

Publisher: Familylife, 2006

Synopsis

Retells the biblical story from Genesis to Revelation, focusing on God's desire to have a good relationship with his beloved people, and to have them with him always.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

If a child asked, "What's the Bible all about?" how would you answer? This could be more difficult than you think..."Uh, well, the Bible is about...God, Jesus, sin, salvation...going to heaven...being good...doctrine." All those are important, yet none qualify as the Bible's "big idea."

Part of the problem is how we've come to view the Bible. We see sixty-six separate books instead of one story--God's Story. Because we've not been clear on this ourselves, we've not been able to make it clear to our children. As a result, kids raised in the church hear a lot of Bible stories. But rarely do they see how these fit together into one story. In other words, we teach Bible stories, but not the Bible's Story.

So what is the Bible all about? Simply this -- God wants to live in friendship (relationship) with us both now and forever. We see this in Genesis where God walked in the garden with Adam and Eve and in Revelation: "Behold, the tabernacle of God is among men, and He will dwell among them" (Revelation 21:3).

What God Has Always Wanted highlights God's desire to live with His people using a kid-friendly storyline. This overview of the Bible will help you and your child see what the Bible is really all about.

About the Author:

Dr. Charles Boyd, author of What God Has Always Wanted, is the Teaching Pastor at Southside Fellowship church in Greenville, South Carolina. He graduated with high honors from Dallas Theological Seminary with a Masters of Theology and earned his Doctor of Ministry from Gordon-Cromwell Theological Seminary. He is the author of Different Children, Different Needs, which has sold more than 100,000 copies and has been translated into several languages. He and his wife, Karen, have three children.

About this edition

• Publisher: Familylife
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1572297255
• ISBN 13: 9781572297258
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 22
• Illustrator: Dennas Davis