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    Mom’S New Testament Bible Stories: Heroes and Scoundrels
    Mom’S New Testament Bible Stories: Heroes and Scoundrels
    Mom’S New Testament Bible Stories: Heroes and Scoundrels
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    Mom’S New Testament Bible Stories: Heroes and Scoundrels

    By Shirley Fillmore Ness

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    In the Old Testament, we read how God made the heavens and the earth, the galaxies, animals and mankind. We see how man decided that he wanted to be his own God. Instead of obeying the creator God, he chose to disobey God and sold himself to sin, bringing sin into the world. How God promised that He would send a savior to buy people back from sin.
    The entire Old Testament is showing us the great lengths that God went to, to find the right time and the right people to be parents to his Son,whom He was sending into the world to be our Savior.
    The New Testament is Gods answer to our sin problem. God sent Jesus to become a man so we could see the face of God. Jesus shows us how much God loves us, enough to take our sins on himself and die in our place so we can be forgiven. Jesus wants us to learn to follow Him back to God, His Father.

    This book has stories from the New Testament about heroes and a few scoundrels to avoid. It repeats in places like the Gospels do, each seeing the same thing from a little differnt angle. My kids loved these stories. I think that your kids will love them too, Just tell, or read them these stories.

    Bible Heroes who stood up for God are the best heroes a child can have. Hearing about people who stood up for God even when things were hard, gives a child courage to stand up for what is right in his world today.
    Kids need heroes.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateJan 21, 2013
    ISBN9781481708159
    Mom’S New Testament Bible Stories: Heroes and Scoundrels
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    Shirley Fillmore Ness

    I grew up in Mitchell, South Dakota where my father was the YMCA secretary and my mother was YWCA secretary all my growing up years. At home, my mother told us Bible stories, so interestingly that I began to read the Bible for myself at an early age. I found the Old Testament stories fascinating. They explained how others had dealt, both good ways and bad, with some of the problems that I was having growing up. These are the heroes from our culture. The greatest art and music of the past is based on them. Our kids need to know about them. My husband, Maynard, and I raised four children on our farm about 10 miles north of Fulton, SD. With 6 of us in the family, we had a lot of dirty dishes. My kids hated to dry dishes, so I started using that time to tell them Bible stories. It kept them interested and willing to help. My son later said that he never heard a Bible story in church that he hadnt first heard at home. I have taught Sunday School classes to children, quizzing to teens, and adult Sunday school class for 60 years. I love the Bible. It has been a joy trying to put it into language our kids will understand, empathize with, and hopefully, find a hero they can learn from and copy, as it fits their own lives. Kids need heroes. They are finding too many of them who lead them astray. Bible heroes lead them to a life that is useful, loving, and Godly. Christian young people need to know about these Jewish Heroes who kept the faith, so that God could bring Jesus into the world. Jewish young people need to know their own history. All of us need heroes.

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      Mom’S New Testament Bible Stories - Shirley Fillmore Ness

      © 2013 by SHIRLEY FILLMORE NESS. All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

      Published by AuthorHouse 01/14/2013

      ISBN: 978-1-4817-0816-6 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4817-0815-9 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2013900946

      Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Thinkstock are models, and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only. Certain stock imagery © Thinkstock.

      Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

      Scripture taken from the Holy Bible, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION, Copyright

      1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc. All rights reserved worldwide. Used by permission.

      Other Scripture Quotations are taken from the King James Version (KJV) of the Bible-Public Domain.

      Foreword

      In the Old Testament God created the heavens and the earth and everything in them simply with the word of his mouth. He breathed out planets, galaxies, and creatures. In his great creative genius, he made mankind with such a brain that even Modern computers can’t begin to compare.

      He gave man a choice, whether to be God’s friend, serve and love Him, or go his own way and walk away from God. Man wanted to be his own god, so he walked away.

      God knew that the kind of life we would build, away from our creator, would make man miserable. So after man sinned and went out on his own, God told man that he would send us a savior.

      The whole of the Old Testament is God calling out a people, developing a relationship with them, and preparing them to bring his son, Jesus our savior, into the world. God keeps His word.

      The New Testament shows the culmination of that promise: God’s Son, Jesus, coming into the world to save the world, being rejected by the very people who had been looking for him for generations because He didn’t come the way they expected him to, or do things the way they thought he should do them.

      God knows our needs and sent his son to meet our needs. Our greatest need is to get right with God again, and let him be our God.

      We see the heroes and a few scoundrels in the new Testament as Jesus comes, lives, and dies for our sins, and God builds the church so that all people everywhere can return to their creator and be accepted as God’s dearly loved children. It is our choice.

      Stories and quotes are from the King James and NIV Bibles

      MOM’S NEW TESTAMENT BIBLE STORIES HEROES AND SCOUNDRELS

      BY SHIRLEY FILLMORE NESS

      A hero is someone worthy of trying to copy. Someone who can do things that you thought you could never do, someone who does wonderful things in life: physical abilities, mental abilities, spiritual abilities above and beyond what most of us can accomplish. We tend to make them our heroes. It is good to have heroes who inspire us to be more than we thought we could ever be. We see many of them in the Bible. We are going to look at some of them in this book. I hope you enjoy seeing them as I do.

      The first Hero of all in the Bible is GOD. We start out with him because who else could ever look out on total darkness and envision a world with stars, galaxies of stars, suns, moons, and an earth with creatures on it! And if you could imagine it, how could anyone build it? Yet God did. He only had to speak it into existence when He said, Let there be light and there was light. So who is this God with such power who could build a universe, lose it to the enemy he had created, and find a way to win it back that cost him his own human life? Our God did!

      The entire Bible is trying to show us this God. In the Old Testament, He is the creator God. He does not have a body like we do. God is Spirit. God is three in One, much like we are. We have a spirit, mind and body. God is the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. He has always been. He will always be! God is LOVE. (I didn’t say that love is God.) God is Love! Don’t get it confused. God is Holy Love. Love that loves unconditionally, not because the loved one is worthy, but because the lover is worthy and has ability to love so much. Love that does whatever is best for the one who is loved even if it hurts the lover. Love, that is described in I Corinthians 13.

      All other religions have a god who must be found and appeased. Our God, is the only one who came to his creation in love to save it.

      The New Testament is all about God keeping his promise to Adam and Eve, Abraham, David, and the prophets and the people of Israel who had been waiting for thousands of years for this savior that God promised them was going to come through their family.

      In the New Testament, God gives himself a human body so that men can see Him and see what He is really like. He is saying to all the people in the world again, Let there be light He is the light. He can no longer be thought of as a ‘far off" God who doesn’t care about them. He is a ‘right here’ God who

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