The Jesus Story Book Bible
Every story whispers his name
WRITTEN BY
Sally Lloyd-Jones
ILLUSTRATED BY JAGO
For Harry, Olivia, Emily, Eleanor and Jonathan Because the Fairy Tale really does come true!
SLJ
For Alex, my lovely wife, without whose help I could never have completed such an enormous book.
Jago
Table of Contents
The young hero and the horrible giant
A little servant girl and the proud general
Daniel and the scary sleepover
A little girl and a poor frail lady
The man who didn’t have any friends (none)
“Jesus said, ‘I am the Beginning and the Ending.’”
Revelation 22:13 (paraphrase)
“Beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, Jesus explained to them what was said in all the Scriptures concerning himself.”
Luke 24:27 (NIV)
“Jesus said, ‘God loved the people of the world so much
that he gave his only Son.
So that anyone who believes in him
will have eternal life and never really die.
He did not send his Son into the world to punish people.
He sent him to rescue them.’”
John 3:16 – 17 (paraphrase)
“Jesus said, ‘I am the light that has come into the world.
No one who believes in me will stay
in the dark hiding anymore.’”
John 12:46 (paraphrase)
“The Sovereign Lord will wipe away
all the tears from all the faces.”
Isaiah 25:8
“I had always felt life first as a story:
and if there is a story there is a story-teller.”
G K Chesterton
Introduction from Psalm 19 and Hebrews 1
The Heavens are singing
about how great God is;
and the skies are shouting it out,
“See what God has made!”
Day after day…Night after night…
They are speaking to us.
Psalm 19:1-2 (paraphrase)
God wrote, “I love you”—he wrote it in the sky, and on the earth, and under the sea. He wrote his message everywhere! Because God created everything in his world to reflect him like a mirror—to show us what he is like, to help us know him, to make our hearts sing.
The way a kitten chases her tail. The way red poppies grow wild. The way a dolphin swims.
And God put it into words, too, and wrote it in a book called “the Bible.”
Now, some people think the Bible is a book of rules, telling ...
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About The Jesus Storybook Bible: Every Story Whispers His NameThe Moonbeam Award Gold Medal Winner in the religion category, The Jesus Storybook Bible tells the Story beneath all the stories in the Bible. At the center of the Story is a baby, the child upon whom everything will depend. Every story whispers his name. From Noah to Moses to the great King David---every story points to him. He is like the missing piece in a puzzle---the piece that makes all the other pieces fit together. From the Old Testament through the New Testament, as the Story unfolds, children will pick up the clues and piece together the puzzle. A Bible like no other, The Jesus Storybook Bible invites children to join in the greatest of all adventures, to discover for themselves that Jesus is at the center of God's great story of salvation---and at the center of their Story too. |
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