Children describe, in verse, what they want to be and how their future occupations would serve God.

Why do people follow a leader, particularly a religious leader? And why, given that Americans are still an overwhelmingly religious people, is the clergy declining in influence? Byron Sherwin argues that what is missing is the perception that religious leaders today are capable of working wonders. Sherwin leads the reader through five periods of Jewish history: the era of biblical prophets, Jesus and first-century Israel; Babylonian rabbis of the third and fourth centuries; the east European Hasidic Masters of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and twentieth century North African rabbis. In all cases, the moral authority of the leaders came primarily from popular belief in their power to work wonders for the people. Sherwin applies history to the current situation. If the clergy is to be re-empowered, to reclaim leadership and authority as holy people, they must reassert the ability to work wonders. This is a book that every member of the clergy and every religious leader should read, ponder and take to heart.

In one village in western Thebes, villagers worked for centuries on the Egyptian tombs and created timeless beauty. Lesko explores the known facts surrounding their everyday lives and their business partnership with the ruling class of ancient Egypt.

The Bible is God's Holy Word. It is the firm foundation to build our life upon. The B-I-B-L-E is a series that presents God's Word in a language and style accessible to children and early readers. Proverbs offers a wealth of advice for being happy and successful. Stay close to God, and keep good ideas in your heart. Then you will be thinking right. Then you will make good choices. Be careful about the words you say. Treat others with kindness. Have a happy heart. Romans teaches that everyone is far away from God. We can never be good enough to be right with God. Obeying the rules is not the way to be right with God. The only way to be right with God is to trust in Jesus. We need to ask him to forgive our sins. Then we will be part of God's family. Sin will not be the ruler of our life anymore. God will be the ruler of our new life. He will help us do what is right. www.thebible4kids.com Jan Harthan and her husband, Dave, have served with Wycliffe Bible Translators since 1971. They worked for 19 years in Brazil and 10 years in Mozambique. She is a devoted wife, mother, and grandmother. Jan's passion is to help children understand God's Word at an early age. Her passion is to nurture in children the habit of daily reading of God's Word. A teacher by training, a copy editor by experience, and a follower of Jesus Christ by choice, she is utilizing her gifts to produce a paraphrase of God's Word that will grow and nurture children after God's own heart.