illustration by Dennis Jones. photo of book by me.

Last week I introduced the See With Me Bible to Asa. He is absolutely enthralled with it and wants me to “read” it to him every day. One of his favorite stories was Moses. Mainly because of Moses’ staff. Remember Asa’s walking stick? As we read we got to relate it to his walking stick and his story.

illustration by jago. photo of book by me.

At this same time, we were reading The Jesus Storybook Bible (we just re-started it for the 58th time for bed-time stories) and the story that we landed on was the Exodus with Moses. It was really cool to talk about the Passover and the blood of the lamb on the door with the actual Passover and the Resurrection (Easter) coming up soon.

THEN. I got an email from Veggie Tales about their new Blu-ray movies. They have just re-relased six classic movies as Blu-rays. (Which, by the way, I did not have FOUR of these! FOUR!) Well, this Blu-ray doesn’t mean all that much to me but my husband loves his Blu-ray player and will only rent Blu-rays at the Redbox even if it does cost more. Hmph. I think we were buying Blu-rays even before we had a Blu-ray player!

The first new Veggie Blu-ray we watched was Moe and the Big Exit which just happens to be the story of Moses and the exodus of God’s people from slavery in Egypt! And it’s the sequel to Little Joe which is my very favorite Veggie Tales movie. Of course, I kinda had to remind Asa the Veggie story was mirroring the story of Moses we had just read. After all, vegetables dressed like western cowboys retelling a Bible story can be kind of confusing.

Anywhoo. The Blu-ray shows the Veggies in all their computer-generated glory. It’s crisp, clear, bright and saturated with color. There are fun extras, cute menus and my kids like it because the whole movie shows up as an icon on our tv instead of a basic DVD graphic. What can I say? They inherited their tech-savvyness from their father. Oooh, and the Blu-ray comes with a DVD, too. So you can put that one in the mini-van and keep the Blu-ray in your house!

It was just cool to read and see the story of Moses and talk about it 3 or 4 times in one week. We got to look at it from different angles, discuss small parts of the story and think about it more than if we had just heard it at church. I love when we surround our kids with God’s Word. From a wordless storybook, a bedtime story to a silly Veggie Tales movie we can give our kids the small bites of God’s Word they need. The small bites that will fill them up and lay a foundation of God’s Word in their lives.

So dig out your Bible storybooks from the bookshelf, put your Bible on the coffee table and grab some new Veggie Tales Blu-ray’s to keep the stories of God’s plan and love in front of your kids’ eyes. In fact, I think we might just don our cowboy costumes today and let Asa part the backyard with his walking stick this afternoon!

Oooh! Wanna get your hands on Veggie Tales Blu-ray RIGHT NOW? Veggie Tales is giving away a FULL set of SIX Blu-ray’s to one happy Impress Your Kids reader today! That’s Pistachio, The Wizard of Ha’s, Moe and the Big Exit, LarryBoy and the Bad Apple, Big River Rescue, and Minnesota Cuke and the Search for Noah’s Umbrella all on Blu-ray! Delivered to your front door! FUN, right?! You’re gonna love it. Just the cases make your old DVDs look like a VHS!

I’ll make it easy peasy for you. Just leave a comment telling me which Bible story you’d like to see turned into a Veggie Tales movie and you’ll be entered to win. (Or some other interesting Veggie Tales, Bible-story, kid-friendly comment is fine, too!) I’ll pick a winner on Saturday, March 17th!

Disclosure: Veggie Tales sent me the Blu-ray’s to review. Words and ideas mine.

To close out our super Super Hero series, I’ve got a playlist for you! I am so passionate about getting God’s Word into kids’ hearts at a young age–and there is no better way than music! The other day as the kids were doing the dishes, I made a super quick playlist with a few of our memory verses from the Super Hero series. It was fun to remember back on the activities and conversations of the past weeks.

So, here it is–get your iPod and start dragging and dropping! And if you don’t have these albums, well start clicking & buying!

THEME SONG

Young (1 Timothy 4:12) from Seeds of Courage

1 Timothy 4:12 from Meet The Rizers

SUPER SPEECH

The Mouth (Matthew 12:34) from Seeds of Praise

FANTASTIC CONDUCT

The Rock Eternal (Isaiah 26:3-4) from Seeds of Praise*

INCREDIBLE LOVE

Teach Them (Deuteronomy 6:5) from Seeds of Character

Greatest Commandment (Mark 12:30-31) from Seeds of Character

Do Everything (1 Corinthians 16:13-14) from Seeds of Courage {this one is awesome because it talks about being strong & having faith! double whammy!}*

Undivided Heart (Psalm 86:11-13) from Seeds of Praise {this is perfect for when we were talking about how King David loved God with his whole heart while Saul did not!}

LIGHTNING FAST FAITH

Trust in the Lord (Proverbs 3:5-6) from Seeds of Character*

Proverbs 3:5-6 from Rise Up

Faith as Small as a Mustard Seed (Matthew 17:20) from Seeds of Faith * {probably this whole album would be good!}

Faith (Hebrews 11:1) from Seeds of Faith *

MAGNIFICENT PURITY

Bad Company (1 Corinthians 15:33-34) from Seeds of Purity* {perfect for the Miss Rosey Posey story!}

GOD AS THE SUPER HERO

Refuge and Strength (Psalm 46:1-2) from Seeds of Courage*

Mighty to Save (Zephaniah 3:17) from Seeds of Praise*

*Scriptures we didn’t actually use but go perfectly!

Sorry this post took me so long to get up–I told you Lydia had a fever? Well, she had the fever for six days! It got up to 104.5 almost every day. Yuck. The doctor said it was just a virus, so we just waited it out, prayed and dumped water into her! Then, the day after she was fever-free we went to the mountains and had a mini vacation. So, I’ve been computer-less for 4 days!

Hope you enjoyed the Super Hero series! If you missed some visit our Super Hero page to see every post in order and the link to download your free Super Hero badges!

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Welcome to our 2nd week of How To Be a Super Hero! Our series is based on 1 Timothy 4:12, “Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in life, in love, in faith and in purity.” So, our topic this week is setting an example in life. What does that mean?

A few other translations say “how you live” or “conduct”. And now we’re getting to the heart of it. It stinks to say, but people judge our kids based on how our kids act. Our kids are judged by what their conduct is like. This scripture encourages us to be examples in our behavior. And oh, those times we have to drag our kids out of Target for pitching a fit can make us wonder if it’s even possible for our kids to be good examples! But that is exactly why we have to teach them them God’s view of their conduct now!

I have a list of about 20 scriptures I’d love to teach my kids about this, but the one we did today is one that has been a favorite for Children’s ministries for a long time: Matthew 7:24-27,

“So then, everyone who hears my words and puts them into practice is like a wise man. He builds his house on the rock. The rain comes down. The water rises. The winds blow and beat against that house. But it does not fall. It is built on the rock.

But everyone who hears my words and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man. He builds his house on sand. The rain comes down. The water rises. The winds blow and beat against that house. And it falls with a loud crash.”

When my husband and I traveled as guest speakers for kids’ camps and churches, one of my favorite puppet skits we did was from a wordless script called, Beyond Words. Two little puppets work on building their houses, one on the rock and one on the land. After the rain comes and the foolish house is flattened, the rock lifts up the other house to reveal the name JESUS. It’s such an awesome picture–that our lives need to be build on the Rock, the Word, Jesus! But I couldn’t very well set up a giant puppet stage in the living room and perform that for the kids this morning!

So, I found a really fantastic video* that we watched together instead. Grab your kids, they are gonna like it…

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We had to watch it twice so my kids could understand that the 2nd boy didn’t pay attention to the written rules. Then we read the Scripture from Matthew and talked about how when we hear God’s Words and put them into practice, we’ll be like the first wise boy! And THIS is how we can have Fanstastic Conduct–by doing what God’s Word says!

When the kids wake up from their nap we’re going to paint rocks to remind us to build our lives on the rock of God’s Words! I’m hoping to make some Super Rocks with masks and crests. We’ll see how the kids do—I’ll be posting pics on Facebook, so check them out later today and add your own if you want!

*I don’t know anything about the people who produced and/or posted that video. So, I can’t vouch for them or anything else they do. I just liked this video!