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Title: Training Hearts Teaching Minds: Family Devotions Based on the Shorter Catechism by Starr Meade ISBN: 0-87552-392-7 Publisher: P & R Press Pub. Date: September, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.75 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Help for a grieving child
Comment: In June of this year, My brother was in a house fire. My wife and I cared for his 7-year-old daughter while he recovered in ICU. We decided to use this book to give our niece some foundational training in the Christian faith. After 13 weeks fighting for his life my brother died. Immediately after the funeral, we skipped to Question 37, "What benefit do believers recieve at their deaths?". Once our niece moved away her school guidance counseler asked her, "How are you dealing with the death of your father?". Her immediate response was, "Question 37." She proceeded to assure her that question wasn't the only question she knew. She is now teaching the questions she knows to her teachers!
This has really shown me the benefit of teaching the catechism. Teaching it prepares our young ones to make sense of this world. I highly recommend this book.
Rating: 4
Summary: A Helpful Aid in Christian Nurture
Comment: One of the shortcommings of the Westminster Shorter Catechism is that when compared with the Heidleberg Catechism and Luther's Shorter Catechism one can feel as thought they have just exchanged the warmth and vibrancy of the Christian faith for a list of words and their definitions. This has often made the catechism difficult to use in the context of discipling young children.
With this book, we should all be extremely grateful to Starr Meade for this very helpful devotional. The author covers each question from the Westminster Shorter Catechism over six lessons. This enables families to take an entire week to reflect and think about how each question is drawn for the Scriptures and how they might apply to our lives and Christians.
As a pastor, I am always looking for material that can encourage families in their devotions. This is a welcome volume. My only quibbles are that each lesson is very short and I would like to have see more Scripture used for each study. But these last comments shouldn't dissuade anyone from buying this book.
Rating: 5
Summary: EXCELLENT BOOK FOR 'DINNERTIME' DEVOTIONS
Comment: "Those of us who care about passing on the baton of historic Christian truth must awaken to the importance of faithfully imparting its doctrines to our children... Children need a grid through which to sift all that they see and hear. We must provide this for our children while they are still young. Doctrine cannot wait until children are teens, because adolescents are making major life decisions. The theological framework on which to base those decisions, the biblical worldview, must already be in place."
So writes Starr Meade in his book Training Hearts Teaching Minds: Family Devotions Based on the Shorter Catechism, a book that provides short devotions on the questions and answers contained in the Shorter Catechism. There are six devotions (Monday thru Saturday) along with highlighted scripture references for each of the 107 catechism questions and answers (642 devotions in all), making the book an excellent resource for 'dinnertime' devotions with your children.
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Title: The Westminster Shorter Catechism in Modern English by Douglas F. Kelly, Philip B. Rollinson, Frederick T. Marsh ISBN: 0875525482 Publisher: P & R Press Pub. Date: July, 1990 List Price(USD): $1.75 |
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Title: Big Truths for Little Kids: Teaching Your Children to Live for God by Susan Hunt, Richard Hunt, Richie Hunt ISBN: 1581341067 Publisher: Crossway Books Pub. Date: September, 1999 List Price(USD): $15.99 |
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Title: My ABC Bible Verses: Hiding God's Word in Little Hearts by Susan Hunt, Yvette Santiago Banek ISBN: 1581340052 Publisher: Crossway Books Pub. Date: July, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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Title: Leading Little Ones to God: A Child's Book of Bible Teachings by Marian M. Schoolland, Paul Stoub ISBN: 0802851207 Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. Pub. Date: July, 1995 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Rediscovering Catechism: The Art of Equipping Covenant Children by Donald Van Dyken ISBN: 0875524648 Publisher: P & R Press Pub. Date: October, 2000 List Price(USD): $8.99 |
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