Books That Changed Me
- God’s Way Of Reconciliation by D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1)
- Basic Christianity by John Stott (2)
- The Forgotten Spurgeon by Iain H. Murray (3)
- The Gospel Story Bible by Marty Machowski (4)
- A Very Contemporary Mediaeval Saint (5)
- Phoebe- A Story by Paula Gooder (6)
I have long loved church-based Sunday School and children’s work. The book that has most influenced my approach to writing and preparing Bible teaching for children is a more recent publication, The Gospel Story Bible – Discovering Jesus in the Old and New Testaments by Marty Machowski. It is so exciting to teach children that there is a ‘big picture’ and a coherence to the narratives and texts of the Old and New Testaments: it is all about Jesus. This big picture approach is an antidote to the merely moralistic application of teaching the Old Testament. I love to teach from a timeline and show where Bible characters and passages fit into the big picture with the one overarching message: God’s great rescue plan.
