Abraham

By Katheryn Maddox Haddad

87 pages written in easy-to-read large 16-point font for the early reader. Stories can be understood by four-year-olds and up. 
*At the end of each chapter is "Think & Do" to help the child apply the story to their own life.
*Popular among grandparents & parents, and excellent for homeschoolers. 
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• Language: English
• Publisher: MARK WARNICK
• Release date: Nov 19, 2017
• ISBN: 9781948462518

Katheryn Maddox Haddad

Katheryn Maddox Haddad spends an average of 300 hours researching before she writes a book-ancient historians such as Josephus, archaeological digs so she can know the layout of cities, their language culture and politics. She grew up in the northern United States and now lives in Arizona where she doesn't have to shovel sunshine. She basks in 100-degree weather, palm trees, cacti, and a computer with most of the letters worn off. With a bachelor's degree in English, Bible and social science from Harding University and part of a master's degree in Bible, including Greek, from the Harding Graduate School of Theology, she also has a master's degree in management and human relations from Abilene University. She is author of forty-eight books, both non-fiction and fiction. Her newspaper column appeared for several years in newspapers in Texas and North Carolina ~ Little Known Facts About the Bible ~ and she has written for numerous Christian publications. For several years, she has been sending out every morning a daily scripture and short inspirational thought to some 30,000 people around the world. She spends half her day writing, and the other half teaching English over the internet worldwide using the Bible as textbook. She has taught over 6000 Muslims through World English Institute. Students she has converted to Christianity are in hiding in Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Yemen, Uzbekistan, Somalia, Jordan, Pakistan, and Palestine. "They are my heroes," she declares.

Book preview

1 ~ Abraham & Noah

Abra-ham grew up in a big city named Ur. You pronounce it like grrr, but without the g. Can you say Ur without the g?

He had a special friend who lived out in the country. He was a farmer. He was very, very old. His name was Noah.

Yes, this special friend was Noah himself. His family had lived through the great flood that covered the earth in their big boat.

Now, everyone who lived was related to Noah. Noah was everyone’s grandfather or great-grandfather or even great-great-grandfather.

Do you remember how most people did not like Noah before the flood? Well, most of the people after the flood didn’t either, even though he was their grandfather. And it was for the very same reason.

Noah had taught his sons to believe in and bow down to the only real God. God is in-vis-ible because he is so big. He is bigger than your house. He is bigger than your city. He is bigger than the sun and moon. He is so big, we can see only a tiny part of God.

Go outside right now and walk so close to your house or apartment that your nose touches it.  You only see a tiny spot of it. You cannot tell what you are looking at because you are so close to the house.

God is the same way: We see only a tiny spot of God and cannot tell what he looks like. But we know he is there, just like you know your house or apartment is there.

Isn’t that grand?

Well, old Noah taught his sons and grandsons and great-grandsons that statues were only pretend gods. It is silly to bow down to a statue you can carry around, isn’t it?

But Noah’s grandsons did not like that. They did not want just one God—especially since they couldn’t even tell what he looked like.

They wanted many gods. Many, many gods. And they wanted to know what their pretend gods looked like.

When Abra-ham was a little boy, sometimes his father would take him to see