Features ninety devotions about people in the Bible and their stories of triumph and failure, as well as a section in each devotion that helps readers apply the lessons from each story to their own lives.

Get to know the amazing Heroes that inspired The Bible! The Bible is filled with complex stories. It's easier to understand these stories when you get to know the people in them. Heroes of The Bible fills you in on the most well-known heroes (and some not so heroic people) in The Bible. As part of our 'Made Amazingly Simple' series, we've simplified the complex histories for 28 of your favorite heroes, into enjoyable and easy to understand summaries. Each page is laid out in beautifully designed, single page cheat-sheets, so you can: ‣ Uncover when in time they lived and where ‣ Enjoy learning their origin stories ‣ Master their scriptures and quotes ‣ Discover what made them special ‣ Visualize these heroes with custom illustrations This isn't a substitute for reading The Bible, but it will give you a head start into uncovering what The Bible is trying to teach us.

Selections from The Bible story volumes.

These books offer great role models (male/female) for toddlers. These simple stories are easily accessible for preschoolers and include a key Bible verse and now have QR codes that will make the stories come to life right before their eyes!

Approaching the Bible in an original way—comparing biblical heroes to heroes in world literature—Elliott Rabin addresses a core biblical question: What is the Bible telling us about what it means to be a hero? Focusing on the lives of six major biblical characters—Moses, Samson, David, Esther, Abraham, and Jacob—Rabin examines their resemblance to hero types found in (and perhaps drawn from) other literatures and analyzes why the Bible depicts its heroes less gloriously than do the texts of other cultures: * Moses founds the nation of Israel—and is short-tempered and weak-armed. * Samson, arrogant and unhinged, can kill a thousand enemies with his bare hands. * David establishes a centralized, unified, triumphal government—through pretense and self-deception. * Esther saves her people but marries a murderous, misogynist king. * Abraham's relationships are wracked with tension. * Jacob fathers twelve tribes—and wins his inheritance through deceit. In the end, is God the real hero? Or is God too removed from human constraints to even be called a “hero”? Ultimately, Rabin excavates how the Bible’s unique perspective on heroism can address our own deep-seated need for human-scale heroes.

Features the stories of Bible heroes who fought on God's behalf and villains who fought against him.

Five stories from the Bible, retold by legendary actor and acclaimed author Kirk Douglas