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    What It Means to Be a Christian: 100 Devotions for Boys
    What It Means to Be a Christian: 100 Devotions for Boys
    What It Means to Be a Christian: 100 Devotions for Boys
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    What It Means to Be a Christian: 100 Devotions for Boys

    By B&H Kids Editorial Staff and Jesse Campbell

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    100 short devotions to help boys ages 8 to 12 understand what it truly means to be a Christian. 
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBH Publishing Group
    Release dateFeb 1, 2015
    ISBN9781433685736
    What It Means to Be a Christian: 100 Devotions for Boys

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      What It Means to Be a Christian - B&H Kids Editorial Staff

      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      1. Step into the Deep

      2. Take Up Your Cross

      3. Confess with Your Mouth

      4. Does God Even Exist?

      5. God Does Exist!

      6. Repent and Be Baptized

      7. Be a Daydreamer

      8. The Next Steps

      9. A Reminder

      10. He Has a Plan

      11. A Christian

      12. Faking It

      13. God’s Heart

      14. Covenants

      15. The Magi

      16. Herod’s Freak-out

      17. Spiritual Goals

      18. God’s Perfect Word

      19. The Wrath of God

      20. Temptation

      21. Follower of Jesus

      22. Jesus’ Heart

      23. Strong Faith

      24. Chosen by God

      25. A Shocking Moment

      26. Unsalty Salt

      27. Bulldozing Pride

      28. You Are Being Called by Name

      29. A Hardened Heart

      30. In Secret

      31. What’s the Deal?

      32. The Global Status

      33. God’s Commandments

      34. Joshua, Jesus, and Yeshua

      35. An Overflowing Tree

      36. Mind-Blowing Miracles

      37. Big Crowds

      38. The Winning Team

      39. The Building Story

      40. Jesus’ Life and Ministry

      41. Fake People

      42. Faith

      43. Prove It!

      44. Fulfillment

      45. John

      46. God Is Drawing Your Heart

      47. God’s Wrath

      48. Are You Convinced?

      49. The Anointed One

      50. Trust in God

      51. Anger

      52. Keep It a Secret

      53. Unstoppable Joy

      54. Messianic Prophecies

      55. Hardened Hearts

      56. A Desperate Father

      57. Nuts!

      58. No Good-Looking Pop Star

      59. Mustard Seed

      60. The End of the World

      61. The Great Commission

      62. Step of Faith

      63. Terrified Herod

      64. Fulfilled by God

      65. Perfectly Well

      66. The Son of Man

      67. An Average Fisherman

      68. New and Old Treasures

      69. Donkeys

      70. That Creepy Feeling

      71. Creepy Weird Stuff

      72. A Bunch of Goobers

      73. 400 Years Later

      74. Welcome to the New Testament

      75. Where Do You Stand?

      76. Son of David

      77. You’re Busted

      78. Truly Amazing

      79. The Flesh

      80. A Parable

      81. Posing as a Christian

      82. Thou Shalts

      83. Binocular Time!

      84. Get in Church

      85. What Does It Mean?

      86. Look at Your Heart

      87. My Student

      88. What’s the Point?

      89. To Be a Christian

      90. What’s Your Date?

      91. The Lord’s Supper

      92. Deserted

      93. Behold the Lamb

      94. Final Battle Royale

      95. Peer Pressure

      96. I’m Transformed

      97. Happy Easter

      98. A Mind-Blowing Story

      99. What’s Gotten into Peter?

      100. Take Up Your Cross

      Guide

      Introduction

      Table of Contents

      Copyright © 2015 B&H Publishing Group

      All rights reserved.

      Printed in the United States of America

      978-1-4336-8568-2

      Published by B&H Publishing Group

      Nashville, Tennessee

      Dewey Decimal Classification: 242.62

      Subject Heading: SALVATION \

      DEVOTIONAL LITERATURE \ BOYS

      All Scripture quotations are taken from

      the Holman Christian Standard Bible®, Copyright ©

      1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2009 by Holman Bible Publishers.

      1 2 3 4 5 6 • 18 17 16 15

      Introduction

      God is calling you into the big waves. That’s why you’re holding this book. It’s time to leave the shore and paddle out into the deep. It’s time to put your faith fully in Jesus and meet Him on the water. This is what it means to be a Christian. I’m Jesse Campbell, and I can’t wait to introduce you to Jesus on a whole new level.

      After a week or so of jumping around the Bible to cover some important bases about what it means to be a Christian, we will go back and forth between two tracks. Make two long, 4-inch-wide bookmarks for yourself, and make sure that you can write in pen on them. They will be like miniature journals for our journey. One bookmark will track our progress through Matthew and the other bookmark will track our super-fast tour of the Bible from Genesis through Revelation. Your Matthew bookmark should be a little longer than your fast-track bookmark. I promise, these bookmarks will be worth your while. We’re going to do really cool things with them!

      Step into the Deep

      —Matthew 14:25–33

      Step out into the deep, young man. Take a step of faith out onto the water and meet Jesus where He may be found. Before we start our routine devotionals, we’re going to spend a week on the basics. Read today’s text.

      Yep, Peter just surfed without a board. Jesus was the first surfer in documented history, and Peter’s sinking episode here, when he takes his eyes off of Jesus, is the first recorded wipeout.

      The wind may be blowing in your life right now. You may have been through some storms that have shaken your faith like Peter’s was shaken. My words to you are just an echo of Jesus’ words to His disciples: Have courage! This journey of faith in stepping out of your comfort zone and stepping onto the water will require courage. It will take you to places you never imagined. My hope is you would make the same proclamation of Jesus that the people in the boat made in verse 33—that Jesus truly is the Son of God.

      Take Up Your Cross

      —Matthew 16:24

      Read today’s text. Boom. Jesus just told us what it takes to be a Christian: we must deny ourselves. To say that Jesus is Lord is to say we are choosing to no longer be lord of our own lives. Furthermore, He tells us to take up our cross.

      That is such a huge statement! Jesus knows that He is going to be crucified on a cross to pay for the sins of those who believe in Him. He knows that He will take up a cross, and He does not ask us to do something that He hasn’t done for us. A cross is not exactly a recliner. It’s the opposite of comfortable. Jesus is telling us, as He also does in Luke 14:33, that being His disciple will cost us everything. Some people stand on the shore looking out at the waves of Christianity and are only prepared to put one foot in the water, but you can’t surf with one foot on the shore. Ask yourself this question and don’t get up until you’re ready to answer it honestly: Are you willing to surrender everything you have to Christ?

      Confess with Your Mouth

      —Romans 10:9

      Today,

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