Start the New Year Right with Bible Study Tools You'll Love (for Moms!)

Hey, Christian mom! Start the New Year right with Bible study tools you’ll love. Bible for moms doesn’t have to be hard!

Each New Year is a time when we naturally consider new beginnings, isn’t it?

We think about starting new habits. Really, what habit could start the New Year right more than dedicating this next year to spending time in God’s Word?

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Start the New Year Right

You can start the New Year right with God’s Word–for you and for your kids.

I love God’s promise that his Word always accomplishes his purpose. God’s Word never returns void. (Isaiah 55:10-11)

There are lots of ways to study God’s Word. Over the years:

I’ve read the Bible through (and over and over) in 90 days.
I’ve read the Bible alongside commentaries.
I’ve also used the Professor Grant Horner reading plan. (Hey! Check out the Unquenched Bible reading app!)
I like listening to the Bible early in the morning on Bible Gateway.

For fun, I thought I’d show you the Bible study tools I’ve been using lately and explain how I use them. Sometimes it’s really nice to explore God’s Word in a whole new way!

Bible Study Tools You’ll Love

Below are Bible study tools you’re going to love! Keep reading to see how I’m using them in my own life, just like I’m having you over for chocolate tea.

Help Your Kids Learn and Love the Bible ESV Study Bible ESV Illuminated Scripture Journals | Old Testament ESV Illuminated Scripture Journals | New Testament uni-ball 207 Colors Retractable Gel Pens Arteza Real Brush Pens, 48 Colors

Help Your Kids Learn and Love the Bible – This book is my ultimate way to have you over for tea to discuss reading the Bible with your kids in a way they’ll love! It has stories of my time studying God’s Word with my boys. You’ll learn about how to structure the rhythm of your day to make time for the Bible with your family. There’s a crash course on how to read the Bible faithfully, in a way that honors God’s Word. You’ll find lots of ideas to implement into your household that take your children’s individual ages and gifting into account. There’s actually no tea involved in the book, but it’s the closest I can get to sharing my heart, research, and experience with you!
ESV Study Bible – I love the notes, diagrams, and maps in my ESV Study Bible. Mine is brown and pink, but this blue one is beautiful, right?
ESV Illuminated Scripture Journals | Old Testament and New Testament – I LOVE these journals. I’ll show you below how I use mine. I like the sets from ChristianBook because they’re the least expensive way I’ve found to purchase them.
Colorful writing tools – I love my uni-ball gel pens and my Arteza brush pens make really quick watercolor sketches easy. (See how I use these with my illuminated Scripture journals below.)

Oh, hey! Want to just start out Bible journaling slowly? I suggest picking one of these and trying it out!

ESV Illuminated Scripture Journal: Genesis ESV Illuminated Scripture Journal: Psalms ESV Illuminated Scripture Journal: Matthew ESV Illuminated Scripture Journal: Romans

These are the Bible study tools I’ve been using. Check out below how I’m using them!

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I love Bible journaling. With Bible Road Trip™, your kids will learn to journal through the Bible with guided journals. As a mom, I’ve just always kept plain spiral notebook journals. They weren’t exciting, but they got the job done!

My husband, though, got me the ESV Illuminated Scripture Journal sets for a couple of Christmases, and I love them. A little color and a bunch of space, coupled with the actual words of the ESV Bible make the time I spend reading and journaling so enjoyable!

I’ve been working through Genesis and Isaiah. The pictures below are my Isaiah Scripture journal.

So what do I write in the journals? I write:

Personal thoughts and notes on God’s Word.
Quotes from commentaries that I find helpful (like the quote from Calvin’s commentary in the picture below).
Related passages.
Verses from other sections of Scripture that tell me how to live (rather than living in the sinful way condemned in Isaiah!).
Notes on the structure of the book or the passage.
Things my pastor has pointed out in the past that I wrote in my Bible.

As a really visual person, I like to draw pictures, too, that help me consider what the passage is saying.

Just as a note, the watercolor brush pens are inexact. (I prefer watercolors with fine brushes, but the watercolor pens are really fast, which is what I’m looking for as I journal! If I use the colored pens to outline my sketches, I fine the inexact nature of the watercolor pens doesn’t bug me too much.)

I love journaling my way through the Bible! I highly recommend taking the time to study Scripture this way.

You can use different tools, but I hope this gets you thinking about how you can better get to know and love your Savior… and how you can help your kids come to know Jesus better as well!

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Love the Bible for Kids | A resource you'll love!

You want your kids to learn and love the Bible.

You want to teach the Bible…

As parents, we deeply desire the best for our kids. We look for the right schools, we make them eat right and exercise, and we get them involved in extracurricular activities. We take our job as parents seriously.

But are we also putting our time and energy into
teaching them the Bible? Giving them the life-changing, soul-nourishing words of Scripture is not only doable, it’s an essential part of parenting kids for Jesus. And the good news is, studying God’s Word as a family doesn’t have to be difficult!

2 Timothy 2:15, ESV, says:

Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved,
a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.

Our job, as parents who love Jesus, is to help our kids become approved workers, unashamed and rightly handling the word of truth.

The good news? Teaching the Bible isn’t hard. Your family can learn the Bible together.

…and you can!

A Crash Course in Teaching the Bible to Your Kids

Danika Cooley’s book, Help Your Kids Learn and Love the Bible, will give you the tools and confidence to study the Bible as a family. It will help you identify and overcome your objections and fears, give you a crash course in what the Bible is all about and how to teach it, and provide the guidance you need to set up a family Bible study habit.

You will finish this book feeling encouraged and empowered to initiate and strengthen your child’s relationship with the Lord through His Word.

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Help Your Kids Learn and Love the Bible will equip you with everything you need to know to teach the Bible to your kids!

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