“If I finish my vegetables, I get dessert,” says Caleb, 8. “But Jesus didn’t get dessert. He got a spear in his side.” Caleb’s comparison might sound humorous, but it reminds us that when Jesus said, “It is finished,” on the cross (John 19:30), he wasn’t talking about ending a small task. He was talking […]

“People hate Jesus because they want to be their own god,” says Jaiden, 8. The idea of needing a savior goes against everything in us that wants control. Yet, it should be obvious we’re not in control. The daily barrage of bad news from the media verifies this. Statistics show that one of the most […]

“If you love Jesus, you keep his commandments, and he will give you a helper,” says Vincent, 7, If you want to make people angry, tell them what to do. Give them some commandments. If you want to make people fighting angry, tell them there’s nothing they can do to earn an eternal home in […]

In the 1976 movie, The Outlaw Josey Wales, Clint Eastwood plays the role of Josey Wales, who rides into a Comanche camp to make peace. After hearing Wales, Chief Ten Bears said: “There is iron in your words of death for all Comanche to see and so there is iron in your words of life. […]

“So the story is that the religious leaders were planning to kill Jesus, but when the day came, nobody could find Jesus,” says Eli 10. If you look at the Gospels as a game of hide-and-seek, Jesus always wins. He mastered the art of hiding from religious and political leaders, but revealing himself to seekers […]

“God promised he would never flood the Earth again,” says Katie, age 7. “He put a rainbow in the sky. God told Joseph to build an ark. It was hard for Joseph, but he did it.” Katie, you left out the part about Joseph painting the ark many colors. Actually, it was Joseph’s coat that […]

“Jesus is on top of my ship. We are going to go to heaven,” says John, 5. Yes, Jesus is the captain of our salvation. Apart from him, we are ships in a storm headed for the rocks. A famous Spanish captain searched for the Fountain of Youth in Florida. Ponce de Leon never found […]

“Just like children imitate their parents, Jesus imitated His Father,” says Holly, 12. “We are the children of God. We can be loving, patient, caring and compassionate and have the love of God in our hearts.” No one has ever lived a more balanced life than the Lord Jesus. His love and righteousness balanced each […]

“Well, being born again doesn’t mean to go back into your mother’s stomach,” says Taylor, 11. “It means being born into the family of God.” Unlike Taylor, the religious leader (Nicodemus) who came by night to talk with Jesus missed the point entirely. Jesus spoke of being born again spiritually. Nicodemus thought Jesus spoke of […]

Why does God let us sin? Read how some children responded and what the Bible teaches us about our freedom to make our own choices. (I Corinthians 15:22; Matthew 23:37)