8 Reasons the Old Testament Should Matter to Moms | Ep. 67
Risen Motherhood
Emily Jensen & Laura Wifler
4.9 • 6.8K Ratings
🗓️ 7 June 2017
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Any mom who reads to her children knows that you wouldn't start a storybook right in the middle! If you skipped the first half, your kids would miss important aspects of the plot and the character development. Instead, you would start at the very beginning and view all of the parts as a whole. But for some reason, when it comes to the bible, we often toss that concept aside and go straight for the easier-to-understand New Testament books. In this episode, Emily and Laura make a case for the Old Testament, citing eight reasons why it really matters! Processing the entire bible in light of the cross is critical for mom (and her kiddos) to rightly understand God's epic redemption story.
Articles & Resources:
- Teaching Theology to Children - Nancy Guthrie interviews Marty Machowski on her podcast, Help Me Teach the Bible
- Show Them Jesus - Jack Klumpenhower
- Women of the Word - Jen Wilkin
- A Christian's Pocket Guide to Loving the Old Testament - Alec Motyer
- A Peculiar Glory - John Piper
- From Garden to Glory - Courtney Doctor
- Seeing Jesus in the Old Testament - Nancy Guthrie (this is a whole bible study / book series)
- God's Glory, Illustrated for Kids - Ask Pastor John
- The Gospel Project for Kids - A Video + Curriculum and resources
- Is the Bible Too Violent for Kids? - Trevin Wax
- Children's Bibles & Books:
- The Biggest Story - Kevin DeYoung
- The Jesus Storybook Bible - Sally Lloyd Jones
- The Big Picture Story Bible - David Helm
- The Gospel Story Bible - Marty Machowski
- The Garden The Curtain and The Cross - Carl Laferton
- More From Risen Motherhood:
- Teaching Our Children About Jesus - RM Episode 4
- Kid's Inductive Bible Study Card - RM | Equipping
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Motherhood is hard. One second, we think we're doing a good enough job and the next we feel |
| 0:09.8 | like the worst mom on the planet, which is why we need the refreshing truth of the gospel |
| 0:14.9 | to be repeated over and over, giving us hope in the everyday moments. So, mama, whether |
| 0:20.9 | you're sipping cold coffee or doing a sink full of dishes, we hope you'll find true, |
| 0:25.9 | encouragement and laughter here. This is the Risen Motherhood Podcast. Thanks for joining us. |
| 0:39.1 | Well, hello, hello and welcome to another episode of Risen Motherhood. I have my beautiful sister |
| 0:44.4 | and law Emily Jensen here with me. Oh, well, thanks. Glad I showed you today. So that's a |
| 0:49.5 | little bit true than normal, maybe. You're looking good. You know, eight months pregnant or whatever you |
| 0:57.7 | So we are excited to be here today. We are going to be talking about the Old Testament and why moms |
| 1:05.2 | should love it. But first, we have a little exciting announcement to talk about. We finally launched |
| 1:11.2 | the inductive Bible study method. There is a full tutorial on our website, RisenMotherhood.com. |
| 1:17.5 | And then we also created a little printable as like a reference guide so that there's a lot of steps |
| 1:23.6 | to the inductive method and we really want to make it easy for you. So we created this really exhaustive |
| 1:28.5 | tutorial where it's like you've never done it before. You can do this. We promise you, you can do it. |
| 1:34.1 | And then we have this printable so that it's a quick reference sheet that like I've been doing the |
| 1:38.0 | inductive method. I don't know how long you've been doing it in but we've been doing it for a long |
| 1:41.2 | time and we still kind of need prompts to just remember, oh yeah, that's something else I can do, |
| 1:47.4 | totally. I'm still using the prompt sheet. Yeah, definitely me too. So print that out. It's |
| 1:53.2 | kind of a front back sheet and we hope that you'll head over there and access this way to study |
| 1:58.7 | the Bible and it's something that you can apply immediately after the show. We're going to be |
| 2:02.1 | talking about the Old Testament and you can use it to study the Old Testament. So let's dive in though |
| 2:08.4 | for why a mom should love the Old Testament. Which we hope this is a super fun show if at the title |
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