The Making Him Known Series
Authors Sally Michael, Jill Nelson, and Gary Steward guide parents and their young children through the basics of the Bible, exploring even complex theological topics in easy-to-understand, kid-friendly language. The books includes additional questions for reflection and family activities at the end of each ready-made lesson that will help children to remember what they have learned. These full-color, illustrated books are the perfect devotional tools for families with young children.
When you want to get to know someone, where do you start? How do you introduce yourself? Usually you start with someone’s name.
God knows this—and he doesn’t have just one name to share with us! The Bible gives us many names for God and tells us what they all mean. And when we learn a new name for God, we learn something new about him, too!
This book is for parents and children to read together. Every chapter includes questions for family discussion and an activity.
“The God Sally sees, savors, and sets forth here is unabashedly big. Not distant and uncaring. But great enough to make his caring count.”
—John Piper, Author, Pastor for Preaching and Vision, Bethlehem Baptist Church
“Sally Michael has done us a great service in writing God’s Names that we may tell our children not only that God is, but also who he is.”
—Tim Challies, Author, Blogger, Social Media Consultant
You have probably seen your children’s eyes light up at receiving a present. How excited would they be to get a present directly from God? God already has a present to offer your children. And you can be the one who helps them discover it!
God has given all his children many promises through his Word as gifts that flow from his goodness and love. Each one is backed up by his power and trustworthy character, so we can be confident in them.
This book, for parents and children to read together, will help children learn these promises and put their own confidence in them. Each chapter looks at a new promise and explores it in the context of a Bible story.
God has left his promises with his people so they can trust him…and through these pages your children can trust him too.
“This engaging, attractively illustrated book teaches not only the promises of the Bible, but also the character of the God who makes and keeps his promises.”
—Tedd Tripp, President of Shepherding the Heart Ministries
“This book is clear, profound, helpful, and at every point grounded with faith and confidence in who God is. A tremendous resource!”
—Elizabeth Groves, Lecturer in Old Testament, Westminster Seminary
All parents want their children to feel secure. How reassuring would it be for your child to know that nothing is outside God’s control?
Every person, every circumstance, and every action is part of God’s plan—a plan that works all things for the good of those who love him. This is God’s providence, a doctrine that brings us joy even as it staggers our understanding.
Can a child grasp this important, encouraging truth?
Sally Michael believes that a child who can embrace God’s providence can rest in God’s sovereign care, and she uses simple truths to help you explain God’s providence to your children. She moves on to show children how God’s providence applies to all of life and creation… including themselves.
How many fears, worries, frustrations, and tears would be spared if your children truly understood and rested in the providence of God?
“My heart soars with worship and joy and zeal as I page through Sally’s new book, God’s Providence. . . . Here is a foundation for life that is solid enough to sustain parents and children through the hardest times they will ever face. . . .And here is practical application for children and those who love them enough to teach them.”
—John Piper, Author; Associate Pastor for Preaching and Vision, Chancellor, Bethlehem Baptist Church
“Sally Michael has written a primer on God’s providence that is richly biblical and theological. This is a helpful resource for parents to introduce to their children God’s constant watching and working in our world, and one that provides numerous opportunities for reflection and discussion. I heartily commend it.”
—Brandon Crowe, Associate Professor of New Testament, Westminster Theological Seminary
Every day our children are confronted with the call of wisdom and the call of foolishness.
Which call will they answer?
All of us, down to the youngest child, start out on the path of foolishness because we are born with foolishness in our hearts. Only God can incline your child’s heart toward the path of wisdom—and he can use your example and diligent instruction to do it.
Through these teachings and stories from the Bible, Sally Michael describes for parents and children the characteristics of the foolish and the wise, contrasts for them the way of wisdom with the way of foolishness, and shows them the end result of each path.
Explore these two paths with your own child and let the words of Proverbs encourage them on the life-giving path of wisdom.
“Sally Michael seamlessly weaves New Testament and Old Testament stories together to teach biblical wisdom in a way that is clear, fun, and engaging for children. Her compelling word pictures and analogies make difficult concepts easier to grasp.”
—Marty Machowski, Pastor, Author of Long Story Short and The Gospel Story Bible
“Once again, Sally Michael has used her fervent love for Christ and her keen understanding of the Scriptures to help parents and children. . . . I’m very excited to put this book into the hands of parents.”
—Deepak Reju, Associate Pastor, Capitol Hill Baptist Church, Washington, D.C.
Parents work hard to protect their children from danger.
But are we helping to guard them in the spiritual battle that already rages around them?
Whether he consciously takes sides or not, every person is in the middle of spiritual warfare. None of us can choose to sit on the sidelines—and even our children are not exempt!
So rather than trying to shield them from the very real war around them, why not equip them, as early as possible, to take an active role and fight back?
Sally Michael provides the framework for parents to train their children in the fight of faith. In this full-color, illustrated “battle plan,” she uses the gospel message to introduce children to the state of their hearts, then awakens them to the many battlegrounds that surround us—both from our own sinful hearts and from the enemy’s attacks.
She then encourages children to be fighters, giving them a biblical battle strategy to depend on God, resist the enemy, and stand strong!
“The Christian life is no Disney adventure. It’s a dangerous journey to the Celestial City, and we spend much of it fighting for faith and for the faith. Our children need to learn early on what the battle is all about, what it’s like to fight, and how to survive.”
—Jon Bloom, President, Desiring God
“God’s Battle is a theologically rich resource for parents and pastors who want to give children a God-sized vision to fight the good fight of the faith. I highly recommend it.”
—Josh Mulvihill, Pastor to Children and Families, Grace Church, Eden Prairie, Minnesota
Parents celebrate both the sons and the daughters that God gives them.
It’s more important than ever to teach those sons and daughters to celebrate who God made them, too.
Through this illustrated guide, parents can begin the discussion with both boys and girls about God’s wise and beautiful design for them. Wrong ideas about gender identity are lining up to influence our children, and they are no longer too young to learn what it means to be men and women!
Sally Michael and Gary Steward partner to bring a male-and-female approach to the topic of gender roles—one that is united together under the authority of God’s plan in His Word. Through examples and stories from Scripture, they present this difficult topic delicately and in a way that even the youngest children can understand.
Don’t leave your children to be confused or ashamed of who they are—help them to rejoice in who God designed them to be!
“A user-friendly, Scripture-saturated guidebook for young children, while still challenging older children and even parents to embrace God’s plan with joy and thanksgiving. An essential resource for Christian families in an increasingly sexualized and gender confused culture.”
—Candice Watters, Author, Start Your Family and Get Married
“This wonderful little book brims with wonder at the Lord’s creative intelligence. It savors the way that Christ renews manhood and womanhood, calling us all to a better plan and a grander design than the world offers.”
—Owen Strachan, President, The Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood
In God’s Gospel, Jill Nelson guides parents and their young children through the basics of the gospel, exploring even complex theological topics in easy-to-understand, kid-friendly language. At the end of each ready-made lesson, Nelson includes additional questions for reflection and family activities that will help children to remember what they have learned. This full-color, illustrated book is an ideal devotional tool for families with young children. Covering such questions as “What is sin?” and “Why did Jesus die on the cross?,” God’s Gospel leads kids through God’s plan to save his people from their sins,directing readers to Jesus as their personal Savior.
“Tackling the difficulty of helping children understand the significance of the cross, Jill Nelson clearly and carefully leads her audience through their plight (the bad news of sin) and the rescue promised in the garden (the good news of salvation through the death and resurrection of Jesus). God’s Gospel presents the breadth of the gospel by including teaching on the Creator, sin, God’s promise, sacrifice, the law, the birth of Jesus, the sufficiency of Christ, the death and payment for sin on the cross, and the resurrection and promise of eternal life to those who repent and believe. By emphasizing key biblical truths written winsomely in a style children can understand, God’s Gospel is an excellent primer on the good news of salvation in Christ.”
—Sally Michael
We all make sure our children know the stories from the Bible.
But can they understand their meaning and know the Storyteller behind them?
Sally Michael shows us that even young children can understand the Bible’s message of sin and redemption, because God wrote it to everyone, young and old. In God’s Word she provides a captivating, child-friendly resource for parents to approach the Bible with their children and to involve them in reading it for themselves.
Her exploration of the Word addresses how it came to us, what it tells us about its Author, what it tells us about ourselves, and why it is the most special book ever written. After children learn about the Bible and how to read it, she takes them a step further and teaches them to be doers of what they read.
Give your children a firm, early foundation on the truth—introduce them to God’s Word!
“Many adults do not have a good understanding of the doctrine of the Word of God. Sally Michael has written an easy-to-read devotional book that will help parents teach their children about the properties of Scripture. God’s Word shouldn’t be intimidating. A proper knowledge of the Bible gives us hope, helps us to identify false teaching, increases our gratitude and trust in God, and results in his Word becoming more precious to us. Don’t you want that for you and your family? What are you waiting for?”
—Aimee Byrd, Author of Housewife Theologian, Blogger, Contributor to Mortification of Spin Podcast
Harry L. Reeder III (MDiv, DMin) is senior pastor of Briarwood Presbyterian Church in Birmingham, Alabama. He has written extensively on the topic of church revitalization, taught on the topic at the seminary level, and led conferences both nationally and internationally.
David Swavely (MDiv) was the founding pastor of Faith Church in Sonoma, California, and planted a church in the Malvern area near Philadelphia. He has also written Decisions, Decisions: How (and How Not) to Make Them and coauthored, with Wayne A. Mack, Life in the Father’s House: A Member’s Guide to the Local Church.
