teaching and learning the greatness of God Ware, Bruce A. creator text ilu Wheaton, IL Crossway Books 2009 monographic eng

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234 p. ; pbk ; 23 cm. Introduction: On raising children to know and love God through raising them to know and love theology -- God's word and God's own life as God -- God has made himself known! -- God talks! : the Bible is God's true and lasting word -- God is God apart from us -- God is God with us -- Some truths about God's richness that make him God -- Some truths about God's kindness that make him God -- God as three in one -- There is only one God -- One God in three persons -- The Father is God -- The Son is God -- The Holy Spirit is God -- How the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit relate -- Creator and ruler of all -- Who made the world? : God (the Gather, Son, and Holy Spirit) did! -- God rules the world He has made -- God provides all good things in the world -- God controls all bad things in the world -- Our responsibility in the world God controls -- Pain and suffering in the world God controls -- Our human nature and our sin -- Men and women, boys and girls, God's masterpiece -- What it means to be made in God's image -- Other features of being human -- How sin came into our world and what sin is -- How sin has spread to all people -- The punishment for our sin -- Who Jesus is -- A person who was alive long before He was born! -- The incarnation God and man together -- How Jesus emptied himself in becoming also a man -- Jesus lived in the power of the spirit -- Jesus resisted temptation living a sinless life -- What Christians of the early church came to believe about Christ -- The work that Jesus has done -- Jesus' death shows God's justice and his mercy toward our sin -- Jesus paid the full penalty for sin -- Jesus victory over satan by his payment for sin -- Jesus resurrection : the proof that Christ's death for sin worked! -- Jesus is King over all! -- But is Jesus really the only Savior? -- The Holy Spirit -- The work of the Holy Spirit in Old Testament times -- Old Testament promises of future spirit transformation -- The spirit on Jesus and on Jesus' followers! -- The Holy Spirit gives new life in Christ -- The Holy Spirit unites believers together in Christ -- The Holy Spirit fills believers to live for Christ -- Our great salvation -- God's kindness and wisdom in choosing some to save -- Sirs, what must I do to be saved? -- Declared right in God's eyes when we believe -- Made more like Christ through all of our lives -- Saved by good works, no, saved for good works, yes! -- But must people know about and believe in Christ to be saved? -- The church of Jesus Christ -- Jesus is the Lord of the church! -- A people of the new covenant -- Communities of Christians who worship and serve together -- Baptism : picturing Jesus' death and resurrection -- The Lord's Supper : remembering Jesus' death and resurrection -- Growing the church through making disciples -- What will take place in the end -- Knowing the future helps in the present -- What happens to grandma when she dies? -- The promise keeping God and the salvation of Israel -- Jesus will come again! -- The suffering of hell and the joys of heaven -- God's greatness and glory shown forever and ever! Bruce A. Ware. Theology, Doctrinal Christian education of children 268.432/WAR 9781433506017 (tpb) 9781433506024 2008045248 DLC 081027 20130806133154.0 15499691