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But the message is getting out because God's able to do something with the words that we proclaim from the scripture that we can't do.

He can make somebody come alive.

If we're being faithful to the text,

if we're being faithful to share the gospel, then we need to put our trust in God and keep

plugging away.

Welcome to Help Me Teach the Bible. I'm going to help me teach the Bible. I'm Nancy Guthrie. Help Me Teach the Bible is a production of the Gospel Coalition sponsored by Crossway, a not-for-profit publisher of the ESB Bible Christian Books and Tracks. Learn more at crossway.org. On this episode of Help Me Teach the Bible, I have as my guest today, Marty Machowski. Marty has written curriculum and books

for teaching the Bible to kids. So, Marty, thank you for being our guest on Help Me Teach the Bible to help us teach the Bible specifically to children.

It's my pleasure to be here with you, Nancy, and look to serve pastors and parents and Sunday school teachers or whoever else might be listening in.

Terrific.

Well, you are family life pastor

at Covenant Fellowship Church in Glen Mills, Pennsylvania, and you've been there for 20 years,

and you're also the author of the gospel story for kids series, which has a number of things as a part of it,

the gospel story Bible, long story short, old story new, the gospel story

curriculum. And then a short time ago, you wrote theology, a beautiful illustrated storybook

for kids that actually teaches systematic theology to kids. And then you're married to your wife,

Lois, and you have six children. So you know a little bit about teaching the Bible to children from just your own family.

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