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Introduction

This storybook was developed as an answer to a request from my middle daughter. Although she and her siblings were raised in a home punctuated by three-times-a-week church attendance, like many young families today, she and her husband are not raising their two boys to attend any church services regularly. However, she expressed a strong desire for her boys to hear and learn from the stories she remembered from her childhood.

Having three other grandchildren, I was inspired to write a collection of old favorite Bible stories, selected to convey a message and teach basic values and principles in language that the child of today can understand and relate to. In keeping with this modern approach, I have incorporated simple versions of modern ideas, such as intelligent design, evolution, the big bang theory, and even quantum physics that fit seamlessly with the overall story of the Bible.

These are stories about Bible events. While things could have happened the way I’ve portrayed them, I’m not proposing that they did happen that way. And although the language is simple enough for an older child to read, each chapter is designed to be read as a bedtime story by an adult with an opportunity for questions and discussions along the way.

As I worked through the process of creating this storybook, it occurred to me that there are probably many families who would enjoy and benefit from these timeless lessons on faith, hope, love, obedience, forgiveness, and salvation. We all want our children to be moral, honest, decent, and loving individuals. And all children ask the eternal question—why? “Why must I do this? And why should I behave like that?”

We are not here by accident. There is a purpose to life, and I have endeavored to provide material and guidance to give young families who may lack the training necessary to fill in the gaps left by sectarian education and hopefully provide, not just my grandchildren, but many others as well, with an answer to the child’s perpetual why? in an interesting and entertaining way. Above all, my purpose in writing this collection of stories is to possibly create an interest in things spiritual and spark curiosity to study the Bible for themselves as they grow older.