Old Story New, New Testament: Ten-Minute Devotions to Draw Your Family to God
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Old Story New, New Testament: Ten-Minute Devotions to Draw Your Family to God  -     By: Marty Machowski

Old Story New, New Testament: Ten-Minute Devotions to Draw Your Family to God

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Encourage your children's spiritual growth as a family with Old Story New: Ten-Minute Devotions to Draw Your Family to God. Using the same 10-minute-a-day structure as Long Story Short, this devotional will connect kids to living gospel truth through 78 New Testament stories. Each devotional features simple discussion questions, Scripture references, and more.

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Title: Old Story New, New Testament: Ten-Minute Devotions to Draw Your Family to God
By: Marty Machowski
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 418
Vendor: New Growth Press
Publication Date: 2012
Dimensions: 10.88 X 7.50 (inches)
Weight: 1 pound 12 ounces
ISBN: 1936768666
ISBN-13: 9781936768660
Ages: 4-12
Stock No: WW768660

Publisher's Description

Best-selling children's book author Marty Machowski helps families connect to the Bible with a theologically robust yet simple and relatable devotional program. Old Story New is designed to explain God's plan of salvation through the New Testament.

Suited for children from preschool through high school, this gospel-focused book is full of ten-minute devotions to continue the gospel story that began in Long Story Short. The consistent and short structure helps children walk through the life-changing truths of the Christian faith in the New Testament—without overwhelming them.

The gospel story told through Old Story New is filled with adventure, suspense, drama, and mystery, captivating young readers. Machowski makes it easy for parents and caregivers to stay on the life-giving course of sharing the gospel with their families.

Through 78 New Testament stories, Old Story New does the hard work for moms and dads. Simple discussion questions (and answers!) for each day's devotion help children understand and connect with Jesus's life, death, resurrection, and the birth of the Christian church.

Old Story New isn't devotional material preaching half-truths and moralism. This creative devotional program helps parents shepherd their children to see redemptive history, with the central theme of Jesus illuminated clearly in every story.

Don't give up on your family devotions. Machowski recognizes how well-intended parents and caregivers can struggle to maintain a family Bible study. A fuller, richer understanding of the gospel will be found in Old Story New.

Author Bio

Marty Machowski is a Family Life Pastor at Covenant Fellowship Church in Glen Mills, Pennsylvania, where he has served on the pastoral staff for over thirty years. He is the author of The Gospel Story Bible, Long Story Short, Old Story New, the Gospel Story Curriculum, the Prepare Him Room advent devotional and curriculum, Wise Up family devotional and curriculum, Listen Up family devotional and curriculum, Dragon SeedThe Ology, Don't Blame the Mud, Parenting First Aid, and Parenting First Aid Study Guide. He and his wife, Lois, have six children and two grandchildren, and they reside in West Chester, Pennsylvania.

Endorsements

"Marty Machowski has done it again! This book, along with the earlier Old Testament devotional book, Long Story Short, is another masterful devotional book for families. It is simple without being shallow. It is theologically robust without being pedantic. It is comprehensive without being overwhelming. Best of all, it is doable for busy parents with children."
--Dr. Tedd Tripp, Pastor; conference speaker; best-selling author of Shepherding a Child's Heart

"Marty Machowski 'gets' families. Even more importantly, he knows how to connect them to the Bible with simple, relatable New Testament studies that make much of Jesus in every lesson. If you want your kids to see the Savior through his Word, spend some time in this exciting new devotional."
--Dave Harvey, Church Planting and Church Care, Sovereign Grace Ministries; author of When Sinners Say I Do: Discovering the Power of the Gospel for Marriage

"Finding time for family devotions is a high hurdle. But finding something enjoyable to do as a family that also illuminates God's Word can be an even higher impediment. In this wonderfully helpful book, you've found the answer to the second challenge. And Marty's clear writing and creativity will help you make the time (even if you don't think you have it) to clear the first hurdle. It's my pleasure to recommend this book and the devotional experience it provides to you and your family."
--Dr. Robert Wolgemuth, Author of The Most Important Place on Earth: What a Christian Home Looks Like and How to Build One

"So much of the family devotional material available today does little more than use the Bible to teach half-truths and full-out moralism. The reason my wife and I love Marty Machowski's books and the reason they have become important resources as we seek to raise our children in 'the discipline and instruction of the Lord,' is their consistent focus on the big picture of the Bible's big story. Old Story New is yet another wonderful resource that we gladly commend and look forward to reading with our children."
--Tim Challies, Author; pastor; blogger

"The church wants parents to lead their homes spiritually; the parents don't know how. Marty Machowski's Old Story New is the answer for both church and parents. Marty has invested his time in the best way possible helping parents shepherd their children with more than stories and morals, but with the central theme of Jesus illuminated clearly in every story."
--Scott Thomas, Pastor, The Journey Church, St Louis, MO; author of Gospel Coach: Shepherding Leaders to Glorify God

"Marty Machowski's Old Story New, like Marty's children's ministry curriculum and Old Testament devotional, Long Story Short, is a great asset to parents, pastors, and children's ministry teachers. I am particularly excited about the way Marty connects each New Testament story to the gospel of Christ. Marty's book will help your kids learn to see Jesus as the center of every part of the Bible. And what might God do with such a generation raised to rightly handle the word of truth, the gospel of our salvation?"
--Josh Blount, Pastor, Living Faith Church

"Nurturing our children requires us to gain the attention of their hearts as soon as possible. So, what should we use to seize their interest? Thinly veiled morality tales that leave our children wandering in a desert of demands? In Old Story New, Christ is the beacon that captures the imagination of our children. Let this beautiful book lead your children out of the desert and into the oasis of Jesus, so he can quench their thirsty hearts."
--David E. Tate, Pastor, Manor Presbyterian Church

About the Author

Marty Machowski

Marty Machowski is a Family Life Pastor at Covenant Fellowship Church, a Sovereign Grace Ministries church in Glen Mills, Pennsylvania, where is has served on the pastoral staff for over twenty years. As leader of their children's ministry, Promise Kingdom, he has worked for many years to develop kids Bible curriculum and devotional material that connect church and home. His passion is equipping families to understand the Bible as one gospel story and help them share that with their children.

"We get to tell God's story to our children - the mighty life-transforming message of the gospel," says Machowski. "We are sowers who plant the seeds of faith each time we speak the truth of God's story to our children. Like a farmer sprinkling the newly planted seed with his watering can, we send our prayers to God while we keep our eyes fixed upon the soil of their lives, waiting to rejoice with the first sprouting leaves. Even then, though we've sown the seeds of the gospel, we still marvel and wonder about how they sprouted. That is where I hope Old Story New can help make sharing the Bible with your children a whole lot easier."

Press Release

Who can resist a story filled with adventure, suspense, drama and mystery? A story with these elements easily captures our attention, no matter how old or young we may be. However, we often forget that the gospel story has all of these characteristics, and it's a true story that has the power to save. Longtime children's ministry leader Marty Machowski brings the entire family together to rediscover the excitement of the gospel by taking a deep biblical truth and presenting it in an easy-to-understand weekly devotion in his latest release, Old Story New: Ten-Minute Devotions to Draw Your Family to God.

As adults, we often struggle to figure out when to do our own devotions and where to start, so regular devotionals for family Bible study can seem especially daunting. Machowski frees parents from the pressure by giving them everything they need for five daily devotions per week, focusing on a weekly story and covering the entire New Testament in a year and a half (78 lessons). Each week's gospel-centered lesson helps children understand and remember Jesus' life, death, and resurrection, as well as the beginning of the church. The devotional program is designed to explain God's plan of salvation throughout the New Testament. Every lesson asks, "where is the gospel?"

Old Story New walks children through the great truths of the Christian faith through New Testament stories and offers simple discussion questions (and answers) for each day's devotion. By focusing the family for only 10 minutes, parents can keep the attention of their young children and reign in their busy teenagers. Machowski even offers parents suggestions of how to make the gospel-centered devotionals relevant for all grade levels, and the lessons are suitable for children from preschool through high school. These kids Bible materials are perfect for morning routines, after dinner discussions, or bedtime rituals.

"Each week starts off with a creative activity, exercise, or bit of trivia to introduce the passage," explains Machowski. "On days one through four you review a portion of the week's Scripture passage," explains Machowski. On days one through four you review a portion of the week's Scripture passage. Special attention is given on day three to connect the current passage to the gospel. On day four we've added a question for your older children to ask you, and on day five you and your family will investigate a passage from the book of Psalms or an excerpt from one of the prophets to discover how the passage points forward to Christ."

Although Old Story New can be used as a standalone devotional, the stories coordinate with each New Testament story from The Gospel Story Bible and the entire line of Gospel Story for Kids Bible Curriculum. Long Story Short, the first volume in Machowski's family Bible study series covering the Old Testament, was one of 6 finalists for the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association (ECPA) 2012 Christian Book Awards in the Inspiration category. Using the two books together, families can go through the entire Bible in three years and gain a better understanding of the whole storyline of redemption.

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