“God is greater than anything we can imagine and more beautiful than anything we’ve seen.”
Bruce Ware wrote Big Truths for Young Hearts: Teaching and Learning the Greatness of God with the goal of teaching children to love theology, but this book has much broader applications.
Ware tackles all the basics of theology in short chapters with just enough Scripture and illustrations to satisfy anyone hungry to know more about God. Topics he covers include God as God, God’s Word, the Trinity, God the Creator, human nature and sin, Jesus—God Incarnate, Holy Spirit, Salvation, and the Church. He writes with simple, but not simplistic arguments. Ware doesn’t shy away from using theological terms, and he also acknowledges certain topics as unusually difficult. Each chapter ends with a couple of discussion questions and a Bible verse to memorize. This would be an excellent book for those new to the Christian faith or parents who want to teach their children biblical truths.
With the use of the imagination, Ware helps his readers grasp difficult topics like the uniqueness of God. For example, he wrote that, “God doesn’t need air to breathe, or food to eat or water to drink. He doesn’t need
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