Book overview
If your child looked up at you tonight and asked, "If God is everywhere, is He inside my cereal bowl?" or "How can Jesus be God and a man at the same time?" would you feel ready to answer?
As parents, guardians, and pastors, we want our children to have more than just a handful of disconnected Bible stories. We want them to have a foundation that can't be shaken. We want them to know not just what the Bible says, but how it all fits together into one beautiful, life-changing truth.
In a world full of loud voices and confusing messages, our kids need more than "moral lessons," they need the bedrock of Christian doctrine. They need Systematic Theology.
Systematic Theology for Kids by John Dolton is a year-long journey designed to take the deep, heavy truths of the faith and put them on the "bottom shelf" where children can reach them. This isn't a dry textbook meant for a library; it is a warm, engaging, and practical guide for the dinner table and the bedtime routine.
What Makes This Book Different?
Most theology books for children either water down the truth until it's lost, or use language that is too stiff for a seven-year-old. John Dolton finds the perfect middle ground, using a "7-Chapter Story" framework that keeps kids engaged from Genesis to Revelation.
Each of the 52 weekly lessons includes:
Start the journey today. Pick up your copy of Systematic Theology for Kids and begin building a legacy of faith, one week at a time.
As parents, guardians, and pastors, we want our children to have more than just a handful of disconnected Bible stories. We want them to have a foundation that can't be shaken. We want them to know not just what the Bible says, but how it all fits together into one beautiful, life-changing truth.
In a world full of loud voices and confusing messages, our kids need more than "moral lessons," they need the bedrock of Christian doctrine. They need Systematic Theology.
Systematic Theology for Kids by John Dolton is a year-long journey designed to take the deep, heavy truths of the faith and put them on the "bottom shelf" where children can reach them. This isn't a dry textbook meant for a library; it is a warm, engaging, and practical guide for the dinner table and the bedtime routine.
What Makes This Book Different?
Most theology books for children either water down the truth until it's lost, or use language that is too stiff for a seven-year-old. John Dolton finds the perfect middle ground, using a "7-Chapter Story" framework that keeps kids engaged from Genesis to Revelation.
Each of the 52 weekly lessons includes:
- The "Big Wonder" Question: Real-life questions kids actually ask to spark immediate interest.
- The "Earthly Mirror" Simple, everyday metaphors, like LEGOs, flashlights, and soccer teams, to make invisible truths visible.
- The "God-Word" Breakdown: Clear, kid-friendly definitions of big terms like Justification, Omniscience, and The Trinity.
- The Scriptural Anchor: One primary verse explained as a "secret" to be discovered.
- The "Jesus Connection" A clear line drawn from every doctrine straight to the Cross.
- Theology in the Wild: A practical, hands-on activity to move the lesson from the head to the heart and hands.
- Parent's Deep End: A sophisticated insight to keep adults growing right alongside their children.
- The Bible: Why we can trust it as our perfect map.
- God the Father: His power, His presence, and His unchanging love.
- Humanity & Sin: Understanding who we are and why the world is broken.
- Jesus Christ: The Hero of history and our living Best Friend.
- The Holy Spirit & The Church: How God helps us and the family He gives us.
- The Future: The hope of the New Earth and the forever party.
Start the journey today. Pick up your copy of Systematic Theology for Kids and begin building a legacy of faith, one week at a time.
