Buy God’s Story, Our Story Family Devotional and Journey Cards together and save!
The Journey Cards are the perfect companion to this 9-week journey through the whole Bible, helping families build a visual timeline of the Bible’s big story. They include memory verse cards and simple summaries of each section, making it easier for children to understand and remember what they’ve learned.
Use the devotional and cards together to help children see how the whole Bible fits together — and how God’s story connects with your family’s story today.
(Review written for 'God’s Story, Our Story')
God’s Story, Our Story is a wonderful journey through the Bible for your family. Written by Charlotte Ollerton and Andrew Ollerton, this family devotional shows how the whole Bible fits together.
Meant for busy families, each 15-minute devotion includes teaching, discussion questions, prayer, and activities. I especially appreciated how the devotions focus on a specific Bible character, event, or theme. This makes each devotional unique and memorable.
The Larger Story
Audio readings are also integrated into each devotion, and video is provided for the first week of devotions. Sold separately, the God’s Story, Our Story Journey Cards represent the day’s theme and are a great way to reinforce the lessons and visually engage with the Bible.
God’s Story, Our Story combines biblical depth with an engaging, accessible format. Help your family see how each Bible story fits into the larger story of Scripture.
I received a media copy of God’s Story, Our Story and this is my honest review. @diveindigdeep
(Review written for 'God’s Story, Our Story')
I have three girls, ages 12, 10, and 7, so finding a book to meet all three of their spiritual needs can be challenging.
I am always on the lookout for books that aren’t just devotional in nature but are rooted in Scripture. God’s Story Our Story touches on both of my struggles by equipping parents to help their children develop a better understanding of HOW to study God’s Word and HOW to apply its timeless truths to their lives.
...Highlights:
9 Weeks of study- broken into 5 days- that will take about 15 minutes to go through.
Format stays the same every day:
Our Story, God’s Story, Bible Story, God’s Story, Our Story, Read it ( Bible Verse), Discuss it, Pray it, Do it.
Often, our children are taught stories in Scripture as stand-alone events and don’t see how they are connected to one another—this book helps them see the grand narrative of Scripture. God’s whole story of redemption and where they fit in. It’s both theologically deep and attentive to the target audience’s age, yet also rich in practical application.
I found the connection stories engaging for both parents and children, and the “do it” section ( putting into action what you learned) achievable and things we would actually do.
While the book is written in a daily format to be covered weekly, it is easy to pick up and put down, something our family needs. You can keep the conversation going throughout the day by doing one section at a time—Read the Bible story in the morning, discuss in the afternoon, pray at bedtime, etc.
Highly recommend for children 8-12/13, but might be a bit juvenile for a teen with a faith foundation. However, if someone is new to the faith and wants a basic overview of Scripture, how to see God in the text, where we fit in, and how that should change our lives, this is a great resource!
(Review written for 'God’s Story, Our Story')
Enthusiastically appraised by Christian parents, children’s workers and church leaders alike, this nine-week course, broken down into five-day, fifteen-minute chunks takes readers on a multi-media ride through the whole bible for the whole family. The Ollertons have recognised the crisis in children’s reading in this generation and produced a realistic resource that will appeal to boys and girls (5+) by linking the text of the book (using QR codes) to optional video and audio resources as well as further materials for church or home use.
For the purist, it also stands very much on its own as a book to read from cover to cover and offers no cheap alternative to grappling with the text of scripture which is encouraged on day five of each week - Memory-Verse day.
The chapters follow an identical and memorable structure weaving our own experience together with the stories in the bible, tying them to God’s broader purposes and looping back again to accessible application. Four actions round things up: Read It (the passage itself is printed for you), Discuss It (assuming a parent’s guidance); Pray It (a suggested text is provided) and finally, Do It (an action is suggested).
Written in a gently humorous but biblically rigorous style, the particular strength of this book is that it does just what it says on the tin - it shows how God’s story links with our story today as followers of Jesus.
