Thoughts to Make Your Heart Sing

by Sally Lloyd-Jones, Jago (Illustrator)

Overview

From Jago and Sally Lloyd-Jones, the creators of the bestselling Jesus Storybook Bible, comes this gorgeous and innovative collection of 101 simple-yet- profound thoughts on faith. Thoughts to Make Your Heart Sing shares profound spiritual truths from the Bible told in a conversational tone—drawing insights from creation, history, science, the writings of great thinkers and preachers and writers, and more—to turn the reader’s eyes toward the God who loves them with a Never Stopping, Never Giving Up, Unbreaking, Always and Forever Love.

Perfect for family devotions, bedtime, story time, or even as a companion to The Jesus Storybook Bible, this accessible yet theologically rich book reveals biblical truth in word and image-all working together and designed to do one thing: to make the reader’s heart sing.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780310721635
Publisher:	Zonderkidz
Publication date:	10/09/2012
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 7.60(h) x 0.80(d)
Age Range:	6 - 9 Years

About the Author

Sally Lloyd-Jones is a leading writer of inspirational books for children. She is the author of three bestselling children’s Bibles, including the Moonbeam Award winner and ALA notable The Jesus Storybook Bible, as well as Thoughts to Make Your Heart Sing, winner of the ECPA Inspirational Book award. She has written many picture books for children, such as the critically acclaimed New York Times bestseller How to Be a Baby: By Me, the Big Sister and Song of the Stars. Sally was born and raised in Africa, was schooled in England, and now lives in New York City. She can be found at http://www.sallylloyd-jones.com.

Jago is an accomplished illustrator with several prestigious awards to his credit, including a Macmillian "Highly Commended" Award for Children’s Illustration in 2003, an AOI Silver Award in 2004, and the National Literacy Association Wow! Award. Jago lives in Cornwall, England, with his wife and daughter.

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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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