God Made Me for Heaven: helping children live for an eternity with Jesus

Children have lots of questions about God and heaven. While most kids have ideas of what heaven will be like, do they know what God says? Kids (and many adults) picture heaven as up in the sky, among the clouds, with angels who have wings and harps. They have a general understanding that heaven is with God, but few realize our ultimate destination is not up in the sky. In God Made Me for Heaven, Marty Machowski shares deep theological truths through a creative story. Told through the perspective of a grandmother sharing her hope of heaven to her grandchildren and their friends, this picture book beautifully illustrated by Trish Mahoney includes a gospel presentation and speaks about eternity in simple language kids can understand. God Made Me for Heaven invites children to understand that God made each person for heaven and provided a way to get there, through his son Jesus. In heaven, there will be no more sickness, suffering, or death. Together with their parents and caregivers, children will have the opportunity to have life-changing conversations about how God invites each of us to live with him and enjoy him forever. God Made Me for Heaven is part of the God Made Me series which equips parents to have important, impactful conversations with their children, helping them to grow in understanding of God, themselves, and others. Each book in the series contains a special section just for parents and caregivers that provides biblical guidance and offers additional information and resources for talking about the topic addressed in the story.

Publisher: New Growth Press
Type: Hardback
ISBN: 9781645070719

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Marty Machowski is a Family Life Pastor at Covenant Fellowship Church in Glen Mills, Pennsylvania, where he has served on the pastoral staff for over thirty years. He is the author of a number of family devotionals, curriculums (including the Gospel Story

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“Many years ago, Jonathan Edwards gave wonderful counsel to Christians when he said, ‘Labor to be much acquainted with heaven.’ Children need that advice just as much as anyone. Machowski’s simple yet biblically rich book will help that happen, and in the process moms and dads will be reminded of the glories up ahead as well. I highly recommend this book and, now that I’m a grandpa, I can’t wait to put it to use myself.”   Mike Bullmore, Senior Pastor, CrossWay Community Church, Bristol, WI