Welcome to Verity. I'm your host, Felicia Masonheimer, an author, speaker, and Bible teacher.

This podcast will help you embrace the history and depth of the Christian faith,

ask questions, seek answers, and devote yourself to becoming a disciple of Jesus Christ.

You don't have to settle for water down Christian teaching. And if you're ready to go deeper,

God is just as ready to take you there. This is Verity, where every woman is a theologian.

Hi friends and welcome back to Verity podcast. So today's episode is a little different than usual.

I know that so many of you have enjoyed my book recommendations and the reviews that I have posted

on the blog. Full disclosure, I have not been writing a ton on the blog lately, hoping to get back

to that. But in the meantime, I thought why not bring my book recommendations and reviews to

the podcast. So I'm thinking once a month or every six weeks, I will do a book recommendation

episode. And that's what this one is all about. Now in this episode, I'm talking about books

for children, books about God, scripture, the Bible, and children's Bibles. But I realize

that not everyone listening has children. So if you do listen to this, here are some ways

this may be helpful to you. If you have friends who are having kids, these would make great gifts

for a baby shower. If you are involved at your church and want to donate a book to their nursery

or recommend these books or this podcast episode, that would be another way that you could use it.

Or if you're just planning ahead and just want to know what these are or how to even share them

with foster or adoptive families that would like to use these resources or able to use these

resources, all of those would be ways to use the information this this podcast episode. So

I only have a few. I made myself only pick seven books and Bibles, but you know that I could

easily talk for hours about all of the different children's books and Bibles that I love.

I have restrained myself. So we will talk about seven that I've picked. We're going to start with

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