Mighty Acts. Good books.
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Crossway recently allowed me to review three books that I’ve been wanting to check out since I heard of 
them: Mighty Acts of God: A Family Bible Story Book
, God’s Mighty Acts in Salvation
, and God’s Mighty Acts in Creation
, all by Starr Meade. They were all I expected and more. Lots more.
Like The Jesus Storybook Bible
, this one focuses on God throughout the stories. In other words, God is the central character in the story of the flood
, not Noah. It doesn’t present each story like a character study of a biblical figure, like many kids’ Bibles do. Just as The Jesus Storybook Bible presents each as a study of THE Biblical Figure – that is, Christ – this one presents each story as a mighty act of God. I love the stories, but I also love that each story has a section at the end called “As For Me And My House…” which provides discussion points rooted in the Word to use during family devotion times. I also think it’s fantastic that each story has a focal verse straight from scripture, which allows this Bible story book to easily point to the Bible.
, this one focuses on God throughout the stories. In other words, God is the central character in the story of the flood, not Noah. It doesn’t present each story like a character study of a biblical figure, like many kids’ Bibles do. Just as The Jesus Storybook Bible presents each as a study of THE Biblical Figure – that is, Christ – this one presents each story as a mighty act of God. I love the stories, but I also love that each story has a section at the end called “As For Me And My House…” which provides discussion points rooted in the Word to use during family devotion times. I also think it’s fantastic that each story has a focal verse straight from scripture, which allows this Bible story book to easily point to the Bible. 
The other two books, God’s Mighty Acts in Salvation and God’s Mighty Acts in Creation, aren’t Bibles but rather devotions, but it shares the same “As For Me and My House” section. And, unlike most devotion books that seem story driven rather than Bible driven, they each take the child through a specific segment of the Bible (the Epistle to the Galatians for the salvation one and verses and passages relating to creation for the other, divided by day of creation into the topics light and water; land and plants; sun, moon, and stars; birds and fish; and animals and people.
Our kids aren’t yet old enough for these, but I look forward to using them! (The Bible storybook is recommended for ages 4-10, but we’re planning to continue using The Big Picture Story Bible
until Jocelyn is closer to five because the stories in this one are long. Then we’ll use The Jesus Storybook Bible and Mighty Acts of God: A Family Bible Story Book together. And, as for the other two books, their age range is 8-12, but I think that could be expanded to 6-13 and still be appropriate.)
until Jocelyn is closer to five because the stories in this one are long. Then we’ll use The Jesus Storybook Bible and Mighty Acts of God: A Family Bible Story Book together. And, as for the other two books, their age range is 8-12, but I think that could be expanded to 6-13 and still be appropriate.)The FTC requires that I let you know that Crossway provided these for my review. Crossway requires nothing, not even a positive review, other than my honest opinion. Therefore, I like Crossway better than the FTC, but I add this disclaimer because I like not being fined by the FTC too.