These cues provide child-friendly (but also, adult-friendly!) guides for a contemplative reflection on the story.

These cues are maps, family trees, or other graphics that help give you and your child a visual representation of when and where these stories are taking place.

All of Scripture takes place in a specific place in the ancient world, but what else was happening around the globe at the time these stories were written? These cues offer insight into the world that surrounded ancient Israel.

This cue is a fun “extra” tidbit of information about something specific to the story you read.

Grown-ups! Tips for you and the questions your kids may ask. Sometimes the story you read will raise some tough questions coming from your child. These cues will address what those questions might be and offer some helpful tips on how to navigate those trickier topics.

We don’t want to forget about you, the grown up! These cues offer you a bit more to consider about the God’s Story you’ve read, to supplement your reading experience.

This cue includes an age-specific set of questions for you to ask your younger kids and an age-specific set of questions for your older kids as they reflect on the story in their developmentally unique ways.

Here, you’ll find a bit more info about each author who adapted the specific God’s Story you are reading and what makes them uniquely qualified to tell the story they do in the book.

Because the Bible is an ancient book written in ancient times to ancient people, there are going to be some WEIRD things that may seem out of place to us in our modern context. Here, you can learn more about those “weird” parts of the stories and what they may have meant in the time they were written.

Doing, and not just talking, can make ideas stick in an even more powerful way. These cues are activities that partner with the story and drive the concepts home.