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December 2024 Book Club Recommendations
Our goal in the Foundation Worldview Book Club is to provide resources for you to have meaningful, literature-based worldview discussions with the children God has placed in your care. We work hard to choose books with insightful, truth-based themes. However, we know that our subscribers will have different convictions about the content they allow in their homes, churches, and classrooms. We encourage you to read the recommended books ahead of time, to ensure that the content fits within the framework you have already established in your ministry context. Please also note that by recommending a certain book, Foundation Worldview is not endorsing every work published by a particular author. Some of the links below are affiliate links. This means that, at zero cost to you, Foundation Worldview will earn an affiliate commission if you click through the link and finalize a purchase.
Book for Adults
Emmanuel: An Invitation to Prepare Him Room at Christmas and Always
Ruth Chou Simons
Emmanuel is a 25-day journey designed to focus our hearts and minds on the wonder of the Incarnation.
Book for Children Ages 8-12
The Bible Recap for Kids: A 365-Day Guide Through the Bible for Young Readers Ages 8-12
Tara Leigh Cobble
The Bible Recap for Kids is a 365-day devotional that will take you and your children through the entire Bible in a year. This book contains activities and questions. However, the foundation of it all is reading multiple chapters of Scripture together each day. This book makes a wonderful Christmas gift as you plan out your family Bible reading plan for the upcoming year.
Book for Children Ages 4-7
If He Had Not Come
David Nicholson
Bobby cannot wait to go to bed on Christmas Eve, eager to wake up and discover what is in all the packages underneath the tree. However, Bobby is surprised the next morning when he discovers that no one in his house or the surrounding town knows what Christmas is. It doesn’t take long for Bobby to realize what life would be like if Jesus had never come.
Question 1 - Why was Bobby surprised when he woke up on Christmas morning?
Discussion Guide - Discuss how no one knew what Christmas was or who Jesus was.
Question 2 - What are some things that Bobby discovered would be different if Jesus had never come?
Discussion Guide - Discuss how he learned that places of care such as hospitals, children's homes, and homeless shelters would not exist. If you are reading this book with children 6 and up, discuss how it was Christians in the first centuries who started hospitals, orphanages, systems to care for the poor, universities, and many of the other parts of society that we take for granted.
Question 3 - Why is it that Jesus changed the world in such an important way?
Discussion Guide - Read Jeremiah 31:31-34, Ephesians 2:4-10, and John 13:34-35. Discuss how Jesus died to pay the penalty for our sin and give us new life. Then, discuss how he has commanded us to love one another.
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