Bob Hartman’s latest Storybook Bible makes an amazing Christmas present for Christian families this year

Bob Hartman thinks we have underplayed the Kingdom of God and Jesus’ kingship when discipling children - in his latest storybook Bible he’s looking to redress the balance

Bob, there are lots of storybook Bibles out there. Tell us about this one and how it is different.

The difference with this storybook Bible is its focus on the Kingdom of God. God is King throughout the Old Testament—the creator king, the redeemer king, the rejected king. There are promises of the coming king, and Jesus arrives announcing the Kingdom of God. I wanted to make that the heart of what Jesus came to announce, to look at who he was in his ministry and how that ties into the big Bible story, and then our response to it.

If you listen to Jesus, he introduces the parables with the Kingdom, he arrives announcing the Kingdom, but we often gloss over it

Why major on the Kingdom and the king?

I think it’s an approach to understanding Scripture and especially Jesus that’s been a bit overlooked. If you listen to Jesus, he ……