Big Truths for Little Kids

I was asked recently for a recommendation on a good family devotional book. I read quite a bit and love to find good books for our kids. Big Truths for Little Kids: Teaching Your Children to Live for God is an excellent primer for younger children as well as parents for night time or after dinner family devotions. Each day there is a little story that follows a group of kids through normal modern, everyday life and chronicles the spiritual decisions that they are faced with. At the beginning of each story is a series of questions from the Westminster catechism that have been simplified for a younger audience.

Amazon lists the reading level as baby to preschool, but seriously any child up to 9 or 10 will love this book. I know as a parent it has taught me much about applying theology to everyday life. For 36 chapters this book did not dumb down Christian Theology or be so dry that it lost anyone's attention. My 3 year old, 7 year old and 8 year old all enjoy it and are greatly rewarded in a sense of accomplishment as they memorize the answers to the questions.

I have highly recommended this book to parents in the past as they have taken God's call seriously to train their children in the ways of the Lord and I continue to recommend it today.