Thoughts to Make Your Heart Sing

by Sally Lloyd-Jones

Overview

From Sally Lloyd-Jones and Jago, the creators of the bestselling The Jesus Storybook Bible, comes a gorgeous and innovative collection of 101 simple-yet-profound thoughts on faith, to turn the reader’s eyes toward the God who loves them with a Never Stopping, Never Giving Up, Unbreaking, Always and Forever Love.

Thoughts to Make Your Heart Sing shares:

• Profound spiritual truths from the Bible in a conversational tone—drawing insights from creation, history, and science
• The writings of great thinkers, preachers, writers, and more—to remind children that God loves them with a Never Stopping, Never Giving Up, Unbreaking, Always and Forever Love

This wonderful collection:

• Contains 101 readings on a variety of topics that will help you and your children look at the world in a new, fresh way
• Teaches children ages six and up about God’s love through word and image
• Is perfect for family devotions, bedtime, story time, or even as an inspirational companion to The Jesus Storybook Bible
• Includes beautiful, colorful artwork on every page
• Has a sturdy binding and pages that hold up to years of daily use, even with little hands
• Makes a wonderful gift for Christmas, Easter, baptisms, and birthdays

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780310740513
Publisher:	Zonderkidz
Publication date:	11/20/2012
Sold by:	HarperCollins Publishing
Format:	eBook
Pages:	224
File size:	475 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	6 - 10 Years

About the Author

Sally Lloyd-Jones is a New York Times bestselling writer of over 30 books for children. Her work has been critically acclaimed by the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times and includes: The Jesus Storybook Bible, ALA Notable and Platinum Book Award winner; Thoughts to Make Your Heart Sing, Association of Christian Publishers Adult Devotional Book of the Year; and the Christopher Medal winner, Baby Wren and the Great Gift. Sally was born in Kampala, Uganda, raised in East and West Africa and at a boarding school in the New Forest, England, studied at the Sorbonne, and now lives in New York City. She can be found at sallylloyd-jones.com.

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Thoughts to Make Your Heart Sing

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By Sally Lloyd-Jones

ZONDERVAN

Copyright © 2012 Sally Lloyd-Jones
All right reserved.
ISBN: 978-0-310-72163-5

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Chapter One

DANCE!

In the beginning, God sang everything into being—for the joy of it!—and set the whole universe dancing!

God was in the center, at the heart of everything.

Like the dance of the planets before the sun—turning, spinning, circling, wheeling, revolving, orbiting around and around—God made everything in his world and in his universe and in his children's hearts to center around him—in a wonderful Dance of Joy!

It's the Dance you were born for. Dance!

"The morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy." Job 38:7 (KJV)

THREE SMALL WORDS

"[Treasure] these words of mine in your heart and in your soul." Deuteronomy 11:18 (ESV)

What words does God want you to treasure in the deepest part of you?

"Be good"? "Do it better"? "Try harder"? are those the words God wrote in the Bible for us, to rescue and free us?

No. Those words only show us what we can't do.

The words God wants us to remember are just three small ones: "I love you!"

They are the words that stop the Terrible Lie that Satan whispered to eve in the garden: "God doesn't love you!" They are the words that heal the poison in our hearts that stops us from trusting God.

They are the words that Jesus came to tell us with his whole life.

They are the words he died to prove.

What words will you treasure today?

(Continues...)

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