A Book Series That Will Shape Your Child's Faith with M.J. Thomas

Famous at Home

Josh + Christi Straub

Parenting, Relationships, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Kids & Family

4.9 • 653 Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

If you've found it difficult to get your kids to read the Bible, pay attention to you as you read it, or keep them engaged in learning about the faith, you will find great solace in this episode. Author and fellow Dad, M.J. Thomas is on this week's episode to talk about his book series The Secret of the Hidden Scrolls and how it helps kids travel back in time and explore major events in the Bible. This book series is a household favorite in the Straub home!

Josh and M.J. talk about:

* The power of engaging stories to help the Bible come alive for kids. * The inspiring story behind why M.J. Thomas decided to write The Secret of the Hidden Scrolls and how he was able to connect stories from the Bible to his real-life characters in the book series.* Helpful ways to help your kids tangibly comprehend the meaning of the Bible.

Show Notes:

PURCHASE THE SECRET OF THE HIDDEN SCROLLS BOOK SERIES BOX SET AND GET ONE BOOK FOR FREE AND AUTOGRAPHED! Join Peter, Mary, and their dog Hank as they discover ancient scrolls and travel back in time to stories in the Bible.

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0:00.0	You know, what I found when I looked out there, you know, as Christians, you want to be able to pass your faith, you know, to your kids.
0:09.6	And it's just hard to do.
0:12.2	I mean, there are so many distractions in life.
0:15.3	And, you know, especially when I found, you know, with that particular age group.
0:19.5	You are listening to the famous at home podcast with
0:23.0	dr josh and christie strob because when it's all said and done we all want to know that we were
0:29.3	famous at home welcome back to the famous at home welcome back to the famous at home podcast so today I have a special guest. A few months ago,
0:41.1	let me start with this story. First of all, a few months ago, I was having a conversation. In the book
0:47.2	writing world, we have literary agents and there are people who kind of help us in navigate the book
0:53.7	world. And I was talking to my literary agent,
0:57.4	Brian Norman, and he said, Josh, he said, do you ever have talk about children's books on your
1:03.4	podcast? And I was like, well, I was like, it depends. You know, we're really huge on making
1:08.2	sure that these are books that we read to our kids and that we love as well.
1:14.2	And he said, well, he said, I have a client who wrote a book series called The Secret of the Hidden Scrolls.
1:22.6	And if you could probably see my face when I'm having this conversation with him, it lit up like a Christmas tree.
1:31.2	He, because Landon, our son, at the time, was reading through these books, and they were the first set of children's books that are, you know, chapter books.
1:45.3	They're the first set of books that he was into when he learned how to read.
1:49.2	And I mean, he absolutely was so into them.
1:53.1	And I was like, oh, my gosh, we would absolutely have him on the podcast.
1:59.0	And so joining me today is Mike Thomas, author named M.J. Thomas,
2:05.0	to talk to us about the secret of the hidden scrolls. And if you have children,
2:12.4	you know, our son's nine, he's been reading these probably the last two years, I think,
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