I have been reading "The Chronicles of the King" sereis by Lynn Austin and have been so excited by them that I have a set that seems to be usually loaned out...my husband just finished reading it and he never gets so absorbed in books. My son jsut e-mailed me that he read the entire set. Three women at church just finished them. Yesterday, I loaned my copy of book#1 to a friend I see regularly at meetings for work.
You learn about Bible history, you have an exciting story and you learn much about faith. In fact, I quoted something from one of the books in a prayer requst I made to the prayer group I belong to. We are praying for a little boy with cancer that I often had a hard time praying for as I wondered at putting him through so much pain with so little chance of recovery..but if his mother had the faith to believe he could recover; that is how I would pray. Anyway, I was encouraging them to keep praying with this quote from one of the books...the young king is asking his grandfather why God allowed the destruction of his people. The grandfather said, "because no one asked Him for help". The people no longer believed and never thought to pray to Him. By the way, please pray for this little 2-year old. He is going through round #6 of chemo today 9-13, followed by surgery to remove the tumor and then another round of radiation to kill any remianing cancer. He has 1 kidney that is good and can take over for the one that is removed and has no further hearing loss, so he will be able to talk and does respond to sounds. Those are positive signs versus what was predicted by the doctors. Thanks!
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