Choice Stories For Children

by Ernest Lloyd

This book contains nearly 40 short stories written during the late 1800s. Every story has an important lesson to build good character. The stories were selected from four out of print books; Scrap Book Stories; Golden Grains vol. 1 and vol. 3 and Lost Jewels.

Stories will convey character traits such as how to avoid temptation and respecting property rights. They are great reads to children and grandchildren!

You can use these stories as a template to come up with more to teach your children.

To order this book, just click the link below:

https://biblesabbath.org/shopping/pgm-more_information.php?id=46&=SID

Children’s Bible Resources

There are many Bible-based resources on this site to share with your little ones!

An example of some items on this site:

• Bible Question and Answer on important subjects like Angels and Baptism
• Bible Games
• Bible Stories
• Prayer Requests

http://www.kidsbibleinfo.com/

Why You Need Hope — More than You Realize

R. Herbert

“Hope is neither faith’s distant cousin nor love’s poor relation. Here’s what hope is and why you need it…

The words of the apostle Paul in the thirteenth chapter of 1st Corinthians are familiar to all of us: “And now these three remain: faith, hope and love…” (1 Corinthians 13:13). Paul goes on, of course, to stress that love is the greatest of this triad of spiritual qualities. Faith, too, is praised in the scriptures as of tremendous spiritual importance: “Without faith it is impossible to please God” (Hebrews 11:6). So where does this leave hope, the third member of Paul’s trio of most important qualities? In the minds of most of us, hope comes in as a kind of distant third place winner. It is like a spiritual bronze medalist that does well, but is always eclipsed by the silver and gold placement of faith and love. But we should be careful not to think of hope this way.

When we put all of Paul’s words together, we find a very different picture and we realize that hope is of immense importance. It is true that faith and love are often juxtaposed in the scriptures, but we find hope filling an equally important role…”

(this article is an excerpt from the May–June 2014 edition of the Sabbath Sentinel)

To read the rest of this article, which starts on page 15, click this link:

http://biblesabbath.org/media/TSS_lowres_3-4-14_No-567.pdf

When God Slept

By Lenny Cacchio

Faith sometimes takes a strange shape.  One time early in Jesus’ ministry he and his disciples boarded a ship on the Sea of Galilee, when a windstorm blew and buffeted the ship unmercifully.  Several of the disciples were seaman and surely had weathered such storms that frequent that sea, but this apparently was worse than most.  The boat was filling with water and was in danger of sinking.   But through it all, Jesus was in the stern of the ship, fast asleep.  They cried, “Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?” (Mark 4:35-41)

I find it easy to identify with the disciples’ reaction.  Like them, I know that Jesus is the Christ.  I have seen him doing his work in others’ lives and my own.  He tells me that he will never leave me nor forsake me.  I understand that there is a grand purpose in this scheme called life and for this planet called earth, yet often when I am beaten about by the storms of life I feel I must wake him from a sleep and ask him why he doesn’t seem to care that we are perishing. Why does he seem to be asleep when the storm is at its worst?

And make no mistake. It does seem sometimes that he is sleeping in the stern while my ship is going down. But maybe his calm in the midst of the storm shows something more profound than potential indifference.
Jesus knew the end from the beginning in the matters of his life.  He knew that his life on earth had a certain destination that would end with a bright light in a garden tomb three days and three nights after Golgotha.  He knew that the storms surrounding him and his disciples would not alter that destiny, and so he slept in the faith that God would see them through.  In fact it almost seems like a rebuke when he asks his disciples, “Why are you so fearful?  How is it that you have no faith?” (Verse 40)  They believed Jesus enough to wake him for help, but not enough to know that the storm could not halt the march of history.
So here we have two examples of faith.  We have Jesus’ perfect faith, echoed in Hebrews 11:1, which says, “Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.”  Jesus knew where things would lead and had the faith in his Father to bring it about.  And then there is the faith of the disciples, which is very much like my own.  I know what Jesus says, but my nature fails to grasp the evidence of things not seen.  In my weakness I doubt, but I have faith enough to rouse Jesus from his apparent complacency and cry, “Lord, do you not care that I am perishing?” That’s faith too, but of a different kind.  And it’s a kind that he still honors.
You can follow Lenny through his blog Morning Companion: http://morningcompanion.blogspot.com/

(Originally Published Feb 3, 2018)

Tiger And Tom And Other Stories For Boys

By J.E. White

This book is available to order through the Bible Sabbath Association. In it, you will find character-building stories for boys.

Read one of the recommendations of this book:

“I have spent literally $1,000.00’s on educational and character building materials for our son… and none have been as encouraging, nor as influential as your old time stories.”

These stories were compiled from orphanage stories used in the United States many years ago. Fortunately, Godly character does not have a time period attached to it. These timeless stories will encourage boys to choose right from wrong. Read them to your children and even grandchildren!

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