Lessons in Morals and Virtues - Joe Baker - Bog

This unique book gives Christian parents a new resource for teaching morals and virtues to their children and young adults. The cool and unique feature of this book is that the moral lessons of the Bible are collected and presented by topic or subject. More than twenty topics such as honesty, justice, forgiveness, modesty, and service are discussed. Each lesson can be covered in about fifteen minutes.Illustrated Bible stories, parables, and folk stories from around the world are used to keep things interesting and to make the topics come to life. More than one hundred illustrations accompany the text. This book is much more than just a collection of stories. Instead, the stories follow an introduction of the topic and the stories serve to illustrate the points of the topic. Each story has a message and the moral of each story is discussed. To engage the readers, discussion questions follow each chapter. The chapters end with a suggested prayer.There is no job more important than parenting. But parenting takes a lot of work and a lot of time. It can be especially tough to teach life lessons to children. The good news is that this book of lessons gives you a nicely organized resource to make the teaching job easier.Although young adults can read this book on their own, this book is really intended to be read together as a family. In reading together, the messages are strengthened, shared, and commonly understood. Hopefully, the lessons will serve as a family "code of conduct" and set of values.Although many of the stories in this book could be enjoyed by toddlers, this book is really targeted at older children in the approximate age range of 7 to 15 years.There are many moral story books for kids that contain collections of timeless stories and poems that have important lessons. Of course, the most popular ever is Aesop's Fables, which contains stories like The Tortoise and the Hare. A popular story collection book is William Bennett's book, The Children's Book of Virtues, which is a nice collection of stories and poems from around the world. The color illustrations are beautiful. I read this book to my children and it is fully suitable for toddlers and older children.This book, Lessons in Morals and Virtues, differs from the "story collection" books in several ways. Story collection books are just that - story collections - and they are usually free of commentary or story analysis. Most do not use religious material or make reference to the Bible or God. So, story collection books usually do not talk about New Testament teachings such as forgiveness, loving your neighbor, or "doing unto others."This book contains lessons primarily and stories secondarily. The stories bring to life the points of the lessons. Further, the stories are discussed. This book is certainly a religious book. Bible stories are often used and Bible teachings are paramount.As the saying goes, "necessity is the mother of invention." The author wrote this book because he was looking for a book, arranged by topic, which taught the main lessons of the New Testament. Not finding such a book led to the development of this book. Of course the Bible contains the lessons. The problem is that the Bible is not arranged by lesson topic, rather it chronicles periods and events. So, if you want to learn about a topic such as jealousy, arrogance, or forgiveness, you have to dig around or use some other Bible reference guide.Parents get started right away. The lessons are here for you!