Grace for the Moment: 365 Devotions for Kids Hardcover – September 10, 2012

Grace for the Moment is a great devotional book for kids 6-10 years old. The daily devotionals are broken up to include a bible verse to reflect on, a few short paragraphs about what the verse means and relates it easily for a kid to understand, and finishes with a "Growing in Grace" paragraph that guides a kid to use the verse with an application to their life. This is definitely not a quick devotional you can mark off a checklist for kids - this is a more in depth look at verses for kids and geared towards kids who are getting more mentally mature. If your kid can't quite sit still through a chapter in a short chapter book, you may want to hold off introducing this until they're a little older.The book breaks down bible verses into digestible pieces for kids to take in. I really enjoyed the application portions of each devotional. Instead of simply telling kids to just "think about this or that" or "draw this picture and play a game with mom and dad", this book encourages kids to pray to God for themselves and others, challenges them to look up more than just the single verse noted in the devotional, and even encourages them to journal their thoughts for the week. As an example, for the devotional regarding Psalm 34:17 ("The Lord hears good people when they cry out to him. He saves them from all their troubles."), the "Growing in Grace" challenge is to keep a journal for a week and write down all the ways Jesus says "I love you" (From the sunrise painted for you, to the air you breathe, to the stars in the sky," and so forth). Another devotional (Matthew 22:37 - "Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, and mind") challenged my kids to not only think about themselves (how do you want people to describe you), then what they thought about Jesus (think of words that you think describe Jesus). From there, it then challenged my kids to try to live so that people will say the same words them as they said about Jesus. There are 365 days of teachable moments in this bookFor kids who are already starting to read the bible themselves, the book ends with two reading plans - one is a 30 day plan about Jesus, the second is a 90 day plan into the bible. Overall, our family found this book to be incredibly helpful and uplifting, and is a good companion for kids who are beginning to deepen their faith.

Great gift idea for children.

This is a fantastic devotion book for the family. It now sits on our dining room table and the kids ask to read it at almost every meal. Each page is a devotion for a calendar day in the year. They are short and concise, which is great for kids (and others...lets me honest here). The last paragraph also has a practical application for each day, which is sometimes a bit intensive for our young family but good nonetheless.Our oldest child is only 3 years old, and these devotions are meant for older kids, but it is not hard to adjust the wording or make it a bit more relevant to a 3 year old's life. We'll throw in examples from the day or her bother's name when it talks about being called to forgive (shameless parenting plug).The topics of each devotion are not just the simple dealings, but get into real life, and sometimes difficult, questions for kids to wrestle with. I would guess that we will be using this devotion book for years and years to come. I highly recommend it for families, especially to develop good meal conversation.

This is the best devotional for an elementary student age. My third grader reads it to me each night, then we look up the Bible passage referenced, and we discuss it further. I should mention he goes to a private Christian School so he is very familiar with the bible language and terms. Sometimes it is frustrating when the version of the bible the devotional uses is not the same as what we use, but once we look it up, then we can understand the difference in language is not changing the meaning, so it is a teaching moment. I recommend this devotional for the right age group. If you have to read it to your child, then it probably be too wordy and complex for their understanding. Teenagers would find it not challenging enough.

This was a nice devotional for kids. It did fall a little short for me in comparison to Max’s other kids devotional. I had high expectations of this one based off of another kids devotional by this author. It’s not my favorite by Max but it may work exceptionally well for others.

I could not ask for a better devotional book! This book is great for the whole family. The kids easily understand the lessons and us parents have felt the teachings as well. I am not sure how the next book we order will ever compare to this. The lessons are perfect for kids and incredibly easy to understand. My kids ages 7 and 8 are able to tell me a summary of what they learned from our readings. Highly recommended for anyone with young kids!

Very good devotional with only a few minor things.1) I feel like most devotionals I checked out were incredibly dated. This one stood out as one of the few that were relevant and not written geared towards "Sally cheated on a test and felt guilty, what should she do" type "reality" questions/challenges. I remember my mom reading me things like that when I was young and thinking how stupid they were. I didn't want to give my kids any excuse to think that our morning devotional time was stupid.2) I like the format of dated days rather than just a mess of devotions put together- but I feel like weekends are missed since we as a family rarely eat breakfast together (that is when we do our devotions). Not a huge deal since next year and the year after we will catch the ones that we missed, but rather than date them, having them as 365 days of devotion would be nice, but really just specifically for me.My boys are ages 5 and 7 and I feel like only a few of the devotions are over their heads (more for the 5 year old, probably- but he is more quiet and less likely to participate anyways!), but most of them are spot on- especially for the 7 year old. Some of the topics are deep and ask deep questions, others are more "fluffy" but still get them God-focused before school which is my master plan.I would recommend this devotional over all of the ones I have reviewed/purchased so far.

This is a great book that I read to my grandkids. They understand it and it’s easy to draw parallels in their own lives. Love it!

Very good book.My son loves to read daily before going to sleep.very apt for small kids of grade 1-3.The way the Author writes is too good for children to understand

I bought this to read with my 12 year old. She was concerned that it would be too babyish but it is perfect. There are no pictures puzzles etc that you would find on daily bible readings for small kids but for 10+ this ticks the box. Max Lucado is very good and stimulates the thinking as well as not being too difficult to understand. He doesn't talk down to the young person either. Recommended.

|Item was a gift. I know it is very good.

Great book, very easy to understand. I like the author.It very helpful, meaningful book.If you haven't read it yet, better read it now.