Bible habit in 5 weeks
They’re saying ‘No!’
Little children enjoy you reading them a book to them at bedtime. But some evenings they find ways to avoid the Bible story that you’d like to read to them. And you can’t force them to listen. Your demands won’t build a love of God’s Word in their hearts.
The stories on this site might help you build that habit of reading evening Bible stories with your children aged from, say four to about seven. The habit-forming years.
How to use these stories
OK. Bed time has arrived.
- First you have a happy time reading a secular bedtime book with your four to seven year old.
- Next you open your phone and read a story from this website. Each one is about a brother and sister who often go up the hill behind their home where they have marvelous adventures and return to tell mum and dad. It becomes obvious these two kids enjoy regular Bible stories at bed time. This makes it natural for you to then …
- Pick up your family’s Children’s Bible and read from it, from wherever you left off reading last time.
When this sequence happens often enough your children will have the habit of evening Bible stories. They’ll be looking forward to Jesus at bedtime.
How often? After a month? Try it and see. Here are 30 stories about two children who enjoy hearing Bible stories at bedtime.
Stories tested for two generations
Now, any story could bridge from their story book to your Children’s Bible. But the adventures on this website are special. Let me tell you why.
When my family lived in South Asia and the Middle East, our three then-little children would often ask me to make up and tell them a story about three little children who got up to simple, impossible adventures on a hill above their home.
Each story was about the same three children, their mum always gave permission for that day’s adventure and they ended with the children returning breathless to a mother who was never entirely sure if their report of the adventure was totally accurate. (“Are you kids joking with me?”)
Those quirky stories delighted our kids and now, 30 years later, I’ve noticed our grandchildren are delighted with the same kind of made-up stories. So I wrote the stories on this website about two children who have adventures on the hill above their home.
Each one’s written to be read aloud. My family likes them. Try them out on your children. They may also enjoy them.
Prayer for your children
I pray these stories will help you transition tonight from a bedtime book to God’s rich Word. Start here. And, if you’d like to, let me know how you go!
