Marty MachowskiLong Story Short: Ten-Minute Devotions to Draw Your Family to God

If you are looking for a book to help you teach the Old Testament in a Gospel Saturated, God -Centered way you have found it! Each story points to Jesus!The book is chronological, teaching 78 of the main stories and characters of the Old Testament. Each week one story / character is taught. 3 days are spent on the actual story, one day is spent seeing how this story points to Jesus, and the 5th day a different Bible passage is read with the purpose of seeing what it teaches about Jesus.This book is appropriate for preschool - elementary children as written. It could be modified fairly easily for younger and older children so the whole family can learn together.Each week starts with an object lesson of some type. This relates to the story for the week. There are (usually) short passages from the Bible to read each day. (This is important, we want children to hear God's Word.) Then, the author does a brief recap of what the Scripture says. I have found these recaps to be very accurate and worded in ways that will help children understand. Next there are a few focus questions to discuss the story. Finally there is a prayer suggestion. The book claims to be "Ten-Minute Devotions" and it is possible that it could be finished in 10 minutes. I believe that many parents and children will stretch the 10 minutes!I love the way the author teaches great truths about God drawn from the story or character being studied.The one weakness I see is that there are no pictures! The book is intended for adults to read to children, but many children will benefit from pictures to help them understand the story. A Bible story book is due out in about a year from the same author that will have pictures. This will greatly help families with younger children to teach this material. Until then, families could use other picture story Bibles for the illustrations, and use the content of this book.Any Sunday School teacher, parent, or other adult working with children can greatly benefit from using this book. This book will be a great blessing to the body of Christ.

We LOVE this book/devotion. We have been searching for a good daily devotion for our young kids to start our homeschool day. This. Is. The. One. It not only keeps the attention of our two year old (because they are short and sweet), but has plenty of discussion questions for a variety of ages that can be easily modified based on your family dynamics. The questions have really opened up my 4 and 5 year olds' minds to amazing things! They are excited to read each day and we look forward to what's to come!

Great book. Easy to understand for little children.

If you are looking for a book to help you teach the Old Testament in a Gospel Saturated, God -Centered way you have found it! Each story points to Jesus!The book is chronological, teaching 78 of the main stories and characters of the Old Testament. Each week one story / character is taught. 3 days are spent on the actual story, one day is spent seeing how this story points to Jesus, and the 5th day a different Bible passage is read with the purpose of seeing what it teaches about Jesus.This book is appropriate for preschool - elementary children as written. It could be modified fairly easily for younger and older children so the whole family can learn together.Each week starts with an object lesson of some type. This relates to the story for the week. There are (usually) short passages from the Bible to read each day. (This is important, we want children to hear God's Word.) Then, the author does a brief recap of what the Scripture says. I have found these recaps to be very accurate and worded in ways that will help children understand. Next there are a few focus questions to discuss the story. Finally there is a prayer suggestion. The book claims to be "Ten-Minute Devotions" and it is possible that it could be finished in 10 minutes. I believe that many parents and children will stretch the 10 minutes!I love the way the author teaches great truths about God drawn from the story or character being studied.The one weakness I see is that there are no pictures! The book is intended for adults to read to children, but many children will benefit from pictures to help them understand the story. A Bible story book is due out in about a year from the same author that will have pictures. This will greatly help families with younger children to teach this material. Until then, families could use other picture story Bibles for the illustrations, and use the content of this book.Any Sunday School teacher, parent, or other adult working with children can greatly benefit from using this book. This book will be a great blessing to the body of Christ.

I have found this devotional to be very helpful with my family. However, I will say some of it is a little too simple in my opinion. I really like the question time at the end of each devotional, but some of them are way too simple for older kids. My kids still enjoy doing it every night though.

This is a wonderful devotional for families! I love how each weeks theme points to Jesus. The devotions are short but meaty. Our kids are 8,6,4 and this is perfect for our age range!

Après avoir lu un excellent commentaire sur ce livre sur le site ToutPourSaGloire.com il y a quelques années, je l'ai acheté et m'efforce de le traduire jour après jour depuis des semaines!Un outil tout simplement génial pour approfondir de façon simple et efficace et pour se poser des questions sur La Bible.Je voudrais juste signaler une petite erreur week 48 jour 5/week49 jour 1...où dans la version ebook, il manque le titre. Par contre dans la version papier, c'est ok!J'espère un jour pouvoir tout avoir traduit et pourquoi pas le publier....n'hésitez pas à prier pour que j'y arrive!!!

Es gibt eine erdrückende Fülle von Andachtshilfsmittel für die Familie. Jedes kommt noch poppiger, noch farbiger und noch leichter verständlich daher. Hier sind einige Gründe, warum meine Frau mit unseren fünf Kindern regelmässig zu "Long Story Short" greift:1. In der Kürze liegt die Würze. Es ist von grossem Vorteil, kurz und regelmässig durch biblische Themen zu gehen. Dieses Hilfsmittel leitet in diesem doppelten Bemühen an.2. Erfahrene Väter, die regelmässig Andacht halten, sind rar gesät. Marty Machowski gehört zu ihnen. Ich habe sein Facebook-Account abonniert. Es ist ermutigend zu sehen, wie der Vater einer Grossfamilie das umsetzt, wovon er schreibt.3. Ein zentrales Kriterium eines Andachtsbuches ist die Bibel- und Christus-Fokussierung. Das ist keineswegs selbstverständlich. Manche Bücher lenken durch eine unzulässige Vereinfachung und moralistische Appelle geradezu vom Zentrum ab.4. Kinder (und Erwachsene) tun gut daran, regelmässig in der Bibel selbst zu lesen. Dieses Buch führt zur Bibel hin.5. Wer nicht viel Zeit zur Verfügung hat, ist froh um einen guten Vorspann (um die Kinder an das Thema heranzuführen) und um einige Leitfragen, um den Brücke zum Leben herzustellen.FazitDieses Andachtsbuch stellt relevante Fragen und führt zur Jesus und zum Lesen der Bibel hin. Was will man mehr?

Fantastic tool to build godly concepts early into a childs life. A must for all christian households with young children.

This was the comment of the preson who received this book at Christmas and has since commented on how much they have enjoyed it since. Apart from that I cannot comment further as I have not read it.