My Favorite Children's Storybook Bible

I have quite a few Children's story Bibles.  Some were gifts and some I bought myself.  Most are decent, but one of the ones I have really stands out to me.  It does an excellent job of showing children the overall theme of the Bible.  It is The Big Picture Story Bible by David Helm with illustrations by Gail Schoonmaker.

Here are the main things I am looking for in a Bible story book:

1. Good Story Content: They are definitely incomplete as they don't contain all of the Bible stories.  Of course, we all have our favorite stories that we would like to see included, but it's impossible to have them all in there.  However, it is good to have a wise selection of which stories to include.
2. Good Bible Interpretation: On top of that, Bible story books are not literal translations of the Bible so they are an interpretation of the author.  Therefore, you hope the author knows how to accurately translate the Bible.  
3. Good Story Telling: The text needs to be easy enough for a child to understand and 
4. Good Illustrations:  The pictures have to be well drawn and in a style that interests kids.

I felt like The Bible Picture Story Bible did an excellent job on all of these points and, in addition to those, it was able to keep "the big picture" or main theme of the Bible in view during all of the stories.

Bottom Line:
This is my favorite Bible story book that stands out above the rest that I own, it's simple text and beautiful illustrations capture and keep children's attention for them to hear and understand the overall story of the Bible.

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Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing

Robert Robinson (1735-1790) was young when his father died and he was disinherited by his wealthy maternal grandfather.  Without a father's influence, he fell in with a bad crowd.  However, after listening to a sermon by George Whitefield in 1752, he found God's grace and repented of his sin.  He went on to be a preacher and hymn writer, writing the hymn "Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing".

Here are some of my favorite versions:

Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing
by Robert Robinson

Come Thou Fount of every blessing
Tune my heart to sing Thy grace;

John 4:14 Jesus answered and said to her, "Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again; but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him shall never thirst; but the water that I will give him will be come in him a well of water springing up to eternal life."

Ephesians 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,

Streams of mercy, never ceasing,
Call for songs of loudest praise

Psalm 89:1  I will sing of the lovingkindness of the LORD forever; To all generations I will make known Your faithfulness with my mouth. 

Romans 15:9 and for the Gentiles to glorify God for His mercy; as it is written, "Therefore I will give praise to you among the Gentiles, and I will sing to your name."

Teach me some melodious sonnet,
Sung by flaming tongues above.

Revelation 5:9 And they [the twenty-four elders] sang a new song, saying, "Worthy are You to take the book and to break its seals; for You were slain, and purchased for God with Your blood men from every tribe and tongue and people and nation.

Praise the mount! I'm fixed upon it,
Mount of God's redeeming love.

Isaiah 54:10 "For the mountains may be removed and the hills may shake, But My lovingkindness will not be removed from you, And My covenant of peace will not be shaken," Says the LORD who has compassion on you.

Here I raise my Ebenezer;
Hither by Thy help I'm come;

After the Lord helped Israel defeat the Philistines, in 1 Samuel 7:12 Then Samuel took a stone and set it between Mizpah and Shen, and named it Ebenezer [literally - rock of help], saying, "Thus far the LORD has helped us."

And I hope, by Thy good pleasure,
Safely to arrive at home.

Isaiah 46:10 Declaring the end from the beginning, And from ancient times things which have not been done, Saying, 'My purpose will be established, And I will accomplish all My good pleasure';

Jesus sought me when a stranger,
Wandering from the fold of God;

Jesus said in Luke 15:4-6 "What man among you, if he has a hundred sheep and has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the open pasture and go after the one which is lost until he finds it? "When he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing. "And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, 'Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost!'

Jesus said in Luke 19:10 "For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost."

He, to rescue me from danger,
Interposed His precious blood.

1 Peter 1:18-19 knowing that you were not redeemed with perishable things like silver or gold from your futile way of life inherited from your forefathers,
but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and spotless, the blood of Christ.

O to grace how great a debtor
Daily I'm constrained to be!

Colossians 2:14 When you were dead in your transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He made you alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our transgressions, having canceled out the certificate of debt consisting of decrees against us, which was hostile to us; and He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross.

Let that grace now like a fetter,
Bind my wandering heart to Thee.

Philippians 4:7 And the peace of God, which surpasses all comprehension, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it,
Prone to leave the God I love;

Jeremiah 17:9 "The heart is more deceitful than all else And is desperately sick; Who can understand it?

Romans 7:21-23 I find then the principle that evil is present in me, the one who wants to do good. For I joyfully concur with the law of God in the inner man, but I see a different law in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin which is in my members.

Here's my heart, O take and seal it,
Seal it for Thy courts above.

Ephesians 4:30  Do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.

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By Your Side by Tenth Avenue North

By Your Side

by Tenth Avenue North

Why are you striving these days?

Why are you trying to earn grace?

Romans 11:6 But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works, otherwise grace is no longer grace. 

Why are you crying?
Let me lift up your face, just don't turn away

1 Chronicles 16:11 Look to the LORD and his strength; seek his face always.

Why are you looking for love?
Why are you still searching as if I'm not enough?

1 John 4:7-10 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.  The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love.  By this the love of God was manifested in us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world so that we might live through Him.  In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

To where will you go child?
Tell me where will you run, to where will you run?

Speaking to Jesus, John 6:68 Simon Peter answered Him, "Lord, to whom shall we go? You have words of eternal life.

'cause I'll be by your side wherever you fall

Psalm 37:24  When he falls, he will not be hurled headlong, Because the LORD is the One who holds his hand.

In the dead of night whenever you call

Psalm 88:1  O LORD, the God of my salvation, I have cried out by day and in the night before You.

And please don't fight these hands that are holding you

2 Chronicles 13:12  "Now behold, God is with us at our head and His priests with the signal trumpets to sound the alarm against you. O sons of Israel, do not fight against the LORD God of your fathers, for you will not succeed."

My hands are holding you

Isaiah 41:10 'Do not fear, for I am with you; Do not anxiously look about you, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, surely I will help you, Surely I will uphold you with My righteous righthand.'

Look at these hands at my side

John 20:27 Then He [Jesus] said to Thomas, "Reach here with your finger, and see My hands; and reach here your hand and put it into My side; and do not be unbelieving, but believing."

They swallowed the grave on that night

1 Corinthians 15:54-57 But when this perishable will have put on the imperishable, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then will come about the saying that is written, "DEATH IS SWALLOWED UP in victory. "O DEATH, WHERE IS YOUR VICTORY? O DEATH, WHERE IS YOUR STING?" The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law;  but thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. 

When I drank the world's sin

About Jesus in 1 Peter 2:24 and He Himself bore our sins in His body on the cross, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness; for by His wounds you were healed.

So I could carry you in and give you life

I wanna give you life

1 John 5:11 And the testimony is this, that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.

And I'll be by your side wherever you fall

Psalm 145:14 The LORD sustains all who fall And raises up all who are bowed down.

In the dead of night whenever you call

1 John 5:14 This is the confidence which we have before Him, that, if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us.

And please don't fight these hands that are holding you

Proverbs 21:30 There is no wisdom and no understanding And no counsel against the LORD.

My hands are holding you

Psalm 13:10 Even there Your hand will lead me, And Your right hand will lay hold of me.

'Cause I love you, I want you to know

John 15:13 Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends.

That I love you, I'll never let you go

Deuteronomy 31:8 "The LORD is the one who goes ahead of you; He will be with you. He will not fail you or forsake you. Do not fear or be dismayed."

And I'll be by your side wherever you fall

Psalm 146:8 The LORD opens the eyes of the blind; The LORD raises up those who are bowed down; The LORD loves the righteous;

In the dead of night whenever you call

Luke 18:7  now, will not God bring about justice for His elect who cry to Him day and night, and will He delay long over them?

And please don't fight these hands that are holding you

Acts 11:17 "Therefore if God gave to them the same gift as He gave to us also after believing in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I that I could stand in God's way?"

My hands are holding you

Isaiah 42:6 "I am the LORD , I have called You in righteousness, I will also hold You by the hand and watch over You, And I will appoint You as a covenant to the people, As a light to the nations,"

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