Xander: “Mommy, can I stay up late tonight?”
Before I can respond with a negative, he quickly adds, “I’d like to study the Bible with you.”
Rich and I can delay our War Horse movie night. How could I say no to such a request???
As you can imagine, we had a wonderful time digging into the Word.
As we snuggled together on the lazy boy that night, I offered two options: reading a passage of his choice from the Bible or pull out and explore our new Child Training Bible. He excitedly told me that he wanted to read from our new tabbed Child Training Bible.
So I had him read through the list of topics and choose one. As he poured over his choices, he told me that he wanted to see what the Bible had to say about discouragement because he had been struggling with that lately.
So we curled up together and found encouragement in Scripture:
“I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come? My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth.”
{Psalm 121:1-2}
“He helps me, doesn’t He Mom?”
“That’s right, son. See that mountain out our back window?”
“Yes”
“When you feel discouraged, you can just look to the mountains around us and remember that the all-powerful, all knowing Creator is there -ready to help, ready to comfort.”
“Heather,” that still small voice tugs at my heart, “Have you been looking to the hills? Take heed what you read and remember.” (His lessons become a lesson for me, yet again.)
We continue to flip through all of the green tabs, finding encouragement for our souls, gratitude welling up within our hearts.
I asked him if he wanted to pick from another category. He looked up at me with serious eyes and told me that he had been disobedient and wanted to see what the Bible had to say about that.
When I first saw the Child Training Bible, I was intrigued. There has been much curiosity about this new teaching/training tool as it has taken shape over here.
What exactly is The Child Training Bible?
It is a helpful tool that you put together to aid in drawing your family into Scripture as you walk through daily life. Oh to have scripture at my fingertips to address so many of the struggles we have in life and to give my children a clear idea of what God has to say about how He wants us to live as ambassadors for Him in this world.
For $9, Child Training Bible sends you:
To get started I needed to gather the following items:
Once it is set up, it is so simple to just grab the Bible and have at your fingertips 5-10 verses on a given topic. No need to go find a concordance or use another resource. You can draw your children (or yourself) directly into the living Word of God!
As I set to the task of highlighting the various scripture passages I realized how much work it was going to take to finish it. Inside I sort of wished I could have bought one already compiled. But I found as I looked up verse after verse pertaining to these categories that my heart was convicted and encouraged at the same time. Time spent in the WORD is always a beautiful thing! Recently, I had been struggling with anger. As I read verse after verse about anger, I found my heart softening as God brought his gentle but firm conviction to my heart about recent responses to my family. I put aside my excuses of sleep deprivation and the craziness of raising little ones and found myself crying out in repentance while drawing hope in God’s promised help in this area. As was evidenced from that night of exploring scripture with my son, it is encouraging to see it have the same effect on him.
My boys were intrigued as I worked and came alongside asking to help. Xander enjoyed looking up verses and Keegan, my artist, enjoyed carefully coloring in the specified passages for a while.
As I finished, I sat there praying and seeking God on how He wants me to use this wonderful tool. As always, He is faithful to speak to me.
Now my experiences with it so far haven’t been as dramatic as that initial experience with Xander, but I know our delving into Scripture will not return void. I am excited to see that as we think deeply about His Word that we will become like a tree planted by streams of water that yields fruit in due season. (Psalm 1:3) Oh what a glorious promise. He is in the process of changing us, refining us and equipping us to represent Him to the world around us.
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This looks great!
Looks fantastic!
I love to see that your kids are doing it for themselves. We can get so caught up in trying to make everything perfect and doing things FOR our kids, that we miss the point of letting them feel included and powerful in learning God’s word! Thanks for the giveaway.~Linda
I love to see that your kids are doing it for themselves. We can get so caught up in trying to make everything perfect and doing things FOR our kids, that we miss the point of letting them feel included and powerful in learning God’s word! Thanks for the giveaway.~Linda
what a simple and purposeful tool. we’ve used charts for 5 years now, but i’ve always struggled with taking them to ‘chart’ rather than taking them to ‘the bible’. thank you making this accessable to families! bless you.
Thank you for the giveaway. I want one for myself. so God can work on my heart. At the same time I can them show the kids and instruct and guide them! 🙂
I have a 6 year old that we are homeschooling in a bible based curriculum and feel this would definately benifit me and him.
It would be amazing
My son has mental health behavior problems, most likely being diagnosed with bipolar disorder in future years. i think it would help us learn to deal with feelings, emotions, and appropriate actions and behavior.
What an amazing tool. I have 3 sons ages 1,3,5, and i would love something like this to teach them to not only to read the Bible,but to become Godly men. Thanks for sharing this.
The Bible is best tool to use with my children. This is great!
Thanks,
Caterina
I think it is a great way to show how alive a Bible is to our children.
I would love this! So exciting to see how it has already been encouraging to you!
I would love to set up a CTB for my boys with their own Bible.
I’ve been wanting to get one of these. I keep hearing great things!
Thank you for an opportunity to win a CTB!! Would love to get it for my girls!!
I looks like a fabulous teaching tool.
How exciting. Another chance to Win.
I am so fascinated with Child Training Bible! I would love to win a set to begin building a library for our future family 🙂
I linked it to my Facebook, I am just not sure if I did it the right way. I just copied and pasted the URL to my Facebook.
I would love to have this set to make it simple and easy to search out and teach the children about sin and character issues. With children 10, 4, 2 and 1, I need all the help I can get to simplify all that we do and get the Word rooted and grounded deep within them.
I would love to have a set b/c I think this would make Bible learning FUN! And FUN is always important when working with 3 and 5 yr olds!
I’ve been wanting one of these to help us raise my 3 yr old daughter. Awesome product!
Looks like a great tool for teaching according to scripture!
Been trying to win one to try out for my MOMS Club group.
I would really love to win this! What a great tool for teaching my children in the ways of the Lord while also giving them the tools to refer to scripture themselves as they grow.
This looks fantastic!! What a great help!
thank you for another chance to win the child training bible. it will be a blessing to win!
thanks for the giveways this would be a blessing to our family:) the_tabers@comcast.net
I would love to have this tool to really help my kids see just how “ALIVE” God’s word is and how we can look to it for everything we need!
Discovered your blog through CTB and loved it! I have been eyeing the CTB for awhile now, hoping to one day be able to purchase it. We are struggling in our home to get our girls to have respect for one another. I want to dig into the Word with them so that they can see what God says about different issues they are having. I also think this would help them to get great character training through Scriptures.
I would love to win this bible to use at home and also I think it would be a useful tool for our Sunday School class at church since the kids are always asking where to find verse over something. I also think me and my husband could learn alot from this too.
I’d love to have one of these to help with teaching my kids!
My husband and I are trying to come up with several go-to verses for training our girls and this would be a wonderful aid! Thanks for the giveaway!
What a wonderful way to explore the Scriptures!! My kids are a little ways off from this level of study, but I could certainly benefit from it!
This looks like an amazing Bible study tool! I find myself wanting to refer to scripture, but unable to find exactly what I’m thinking of when I need it. This would be a great help with that.
I love these! I’ve seen them online before and have really wanted them. My plan would be to use them with a special “school Bible” that we would use just for school.
I want to win because this would be a big help as my husband & I raise our 4 kids and teach them how God wants them to live.
What an exciting giveaway! Thanks for the chance to win it!
My husband and I have a 5 year old daughter. We want to raise her to love the Lord and to always rely on Him and His word. This would be a great teaching tool for that. Thank you!
Awesome giveaway!
Erika K
I would love to win this for my girls.
{Momoftwingirls}
what a wonderful resource!! would love to see this in use in our house 🙂
This is great!
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It sounds like a wonderful resource! I have 4 kids & see this being especially useful with youngest girls! 🙂
Your blog totally inspires and encourages me! I can’t wait to share God’s Word with my daughters!
I would enjoy this, I am hoping she comes out with one veered to teens as well. Rbhofmcpa@aol.com
I would love to win this to use with my kiddos as we help them learn about God’s Word and how to apply it to our lives.
I appreciated your story and review! 🙂 This would be such a blessing to our family. I am trying harder, with the Lord’s guidance, to use Biblical parenting rather than selfish, worldly parenting. I am so selfish at times, and didn’t realize this until very recently. My biggest hope in this entire world is for my son (and any other children we are blessed with) to love the Lord with ALL of his heart. Thanks again, and God bless! 🙂
This would be such a great resource for me and my family. I have 4 boys ages 6 and under and I sometimes struggle coming up with a verse for the actions that need to be corrected, especially with God’s word!
I would enjoy having this resource as I’m trying to teach my two year old God’s word (and while disciplining).
This would be a very well used tool both from our kids and those we will be serving in the fields!
Actually want to win this for a friend and her family. I shared ours with our small group Sunday night and they loved it. The family I would love to win this for is a single income family that is really struggling financially right now but really wants to bring their kids up in the Lord’s word. So winning this and blessing them would be so much fun.
What an amazing tool to show the Living Word!
want to win this for our family!! we so need a ready-to-use discipleship tool.
This would be a great resource to learn how to discipline our child using the Bible. Tranhasmail@gmail.com
Heather, this intrigues me! What a simple way to inspire the word in a child’s heart. I am contemplating getting one to have available to use with the grandboys. AND I loved reading how the word worked in you as you put it together. To be honest this is something I would have loved to have had with my own children as they were growing up ;p
This looks awesome! : ) Thanks Heather!!
what a great resource! If i don’t win, i think i’ll buy one anyways.
This looks like a wonderful tool to use with my children.
This looks like something I would like to do with Both my daughters! Thank you for sharing:)
Love this idea. I have a feeling it would teach me right along side my 5, 4, & 2 year old! 🙂
This seems like such a great tool to navigate through His Word. So exciting.
Jean Maez
I SO need this! I am not exactly a new Christian–but I’m new to studying and applying the Word in every situation–and a mom of three little ones–and I need help! SO need this!
I’d love to have one of these for our family. It would be so much more effective than “because I told you so and God said we’re in charge”.
This looks wonderful … thanks for sharing!
I actually bought a set for myself, but would love to give a set to my sister! Thanks for hleping to make that much easier to use God’s word with our children.
i want to win because the actual Bible is better than any discipline, self-help or parenting book out there!
neenee838 at gmail dot com
After thousands of nights studying the Bible with my teens, I’m left wondering….when do I get to study the Bible w/my husband who I haven’t done so with in so many years??? Empty nest is nowhere near as I still have little ones. Having trouble prioritizing time: after all, these children will be gone soon, right? As if I have my husband forever…he’s already cheated death a few times (cancer, accident). We’ve finally started a once/month date night and have succeeded for 4 whole months! Oh to keep a balance of time for everyone and still get all my work done…..
This sounds like such a helpful tool! I’m always thinking “I know there’s a verse about this” without knowing where to look.
What a fantastic Bible study product!