Customer Review
- Reviewed in the United States on November 27, 2011This book is incredible. Parents seeking to share the gospel with their children need this book. This is God's story of romance and redemption, broken down into 70 scenes, each with it's own beautiful full page painting.
The seriousness of sin and how it separates us from God, our creator, is not simply sugar glossed over. The first 19 scenes gets us up to Adam and Eve being banished from the garden.
Did you catch that? 19 pages {out of 70!} to tell us about God's plan for creating the world and the fall of mankind.
If there is one thing I want my sons to understand it is their complete and utter need for a Savior. Those first 19 pages of the book clearly and brilliantly pave the way into the rest of the story - the story of a King who is romancing and wooing a fallen and broken world back to Himself.
King of Glory is not a cutesy children's Bible - and well it should not be. For the Bible itself is not cutesy.
"Our Creator God is holy. This means He is pure, clean, perfect and righteous. Because of His holy nature and holy laws, He must punish sin with death - separation from the Source of Life." -from pg 50
The focus of the first half of the book is man's need for a Savior - that the sacrifices, laws and prophecies of the Old Testament all point towards the need for a Savior.
The focus of the second half of the book is about the Savior, Jesus Christ, that came as a babe to then die on the cross to redeem mankind, rose again and will one day return as King.
"Do you remember how the innocent ram was sacrificed on the wood on an alter to ransom Abraham's condemned son? Now the sinless Son of God was being sacrificed on a wooden cross to ransom Adam's condemned descendants. God spared Abraham's son, but He "did not spare His own Son, but gave Him up for us all." (Romans 8:32)" -from pg 136
"One of these days while the world is busy with its trivial pursuits and false religions, the King of glory will return to Earth, but not on a lowly donkey, nor to be mocked and crowned with thorns." -- from pg 154
Each scene is written in an easy read-out-loud format with opportunities for feedback from the listener and, in the back, one or two questions to ask for each scene to encourage further discussion.
Each scene is beautifully illustrated with beautiful, detailed paintings {and the wise men scene? More than three are shown in the accompanying picture!}
P.D. Bramsen's writing style is conversational, rich - picture painting. This book has captured the attention and hearts of our family.
