Your Kids (and You!) Might Need this Book: The Biggest Story – How the Snake Crusher Brings Us Back to the Garden

Do you ever feel like going to church is like walking into a movie after missing the plot set up?  People use words that you never hear in normal life and the characters in the Bible seem sort of…  uninspiring.

I’ve got a book for you.  I mean, for your kids, of course.

Kevin DeYoung has created, along with illustrator Don Clark, a book that frames the Bible from 30,000 feet.

The Biggest Story: How the Snake Crusher Brings Us Back to the Garden

is  ostensibly a kids’ book.  But as I’ve been reading it to my seven year old, I have to admit that my voice has gotten a little shaky with emotion.  The book, as many kids’ Bible books do, begin in the Garden of  Eden and follows the Biblical story throughout the Bible…  but in the most CURSORY way possible.  So you’re not getting bogged down in the sometimes headscratching stories of the Old Testament — or the New for that matter.  It’s an overview of what God was doing.

The illustrations, by Don Young, avoid the almost-always odd pictures associated with kids’ Bible stories by using whimsical, gorgeous images:

C.S. Lewis said, “Human history is the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.”

Well, the Bible is the long terrible story of man trying to save himself.  Thankfully, he doesn’t have to.

The snake crusher shows up.  (It happens in Chapter 8, so make sure you’ve got the Kleenexes ready.)

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