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Jesus and the Early Church

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To go along with our study of Hero of Alexandria we learned about Jesus the and the early church.

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At first I thought we would just read the bible but just reading one chapter after another of the new testament was not working.

So I bought “Case for Christ for Kids (Case for… Series for Kids)” by Lee Stobel

 

 We had really enjoyed “Case for a Creator for Kids (Case for… Series for Kids)” by Lee Stobel for our Creation Study.

Case for Christ for kids was a great book!

It laid out the argument against Christ and used logic to look at the fallacies in a kid friendly way.

Both of his kids books we have read have been a great intro into Apologetics.

The Adventures in Odyssey has several audio shows about Jesus as well that would be great for this study.

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For the history of the Early Church we read, “The Ides of April (Ray, Mary, Roman Empire Sequence.)” and “Beyond the Desert Gate” by Mary Ray, “Attack at the Arena (AIO Imagination Station Books Book 2)” an imagination station book,

and “For the Temple A Tale of the Fall of Jerusalem” by G.A. Henty(which you can get free for your kindle).

His books seem to be more geared towards 10+, but my oldest(8yrs old) enjoys them.

They are just a bit more of a challenge for him.

I also bought “Spartacus (Young Reading Series Two)” by Russell Punter since it was during that time period.

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Cleopatra, Julius Caeser, and the Birth of Jesus

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Cleopatra can be a hard subject to broach with kids.

“You wouldn’t want to be Cleopatra!” was a big hit, just like the others in this series.

The other book on Cleopatra was filled with information but was too dry to interest them right now so I did not push it.

My boys really like the “Who Was…” series so they both read “Who Was Julius Caeser?” without any prompting from me.

My oldest had also read “The Eagles have Flown” by Joanne S. Williamson and really liked it.

It is about a servant in Brutus’ household during the time of Julius Caseser and introduces a lot of important historical figures of that time.

We also watched “Cleopatra’s Alexandria“ on Amazon Prime.

“The Bronze Bow.” by Elizabeth George Speare follows a Jewish boy in the time of Christ.

I had both boys read it and the both seemed to get a lot out of it.

I only became interested in history after I read some really good historical fiction so I try to have the boys read a lot of historical fiction to go with what we are learning about.

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“Danger on a Silent Night” by the Imagination Station is an easier read that is a great intro into the birth of Christ.

We used a Bible Atlas to see what Israel looked like during that time.

We also read the biblical account of the birth of Christ during this study.

As well as reading this two online bios on Herod, here and here.

I was pretty excited to have our study land right before Christmas break!

 

Do you like historical fiction?