Candace Nassar (01:37)
Well, welcome everyone and welcome to Laurie Christine. It’s so great to have you here today.
I’ve really been looking forward to this conversation because it is such an important one and I know our listeners are going to be deeply impacted by the wisdom that you’re going to share Laurie. So thank you for coming on and we’re excited to have you.
Laurie (01:53)
Hi, Candace. Thank you so much for having me on the show today. I’m excited to chat with you today.
Candace Nassar (02:01)
Yeah, it’s going to be so good. why don’t you start by telling us a little bit about yourself so our listeners can get to know you.
Laurie (02:07)
Sure, my name is Laurie Christine and I’m an author, a podcaster, a wife and mom of four wild, wonderful boys. And I’m passionate about helping families to raise strong, courageous warriors for the kingdom of God. I have a podcast called the Sword and Story Podcast and it’s dedicated to helping Christian parents discover exciting, faith-filled books for their boys. And I also write adventure-packed biblical fiction and devotions for kids ages 8 to 12. My series is called the Dragon Slayer Bible series.
Candace Nassar (02:38)
Yeah, that’s so cool. remember my boys are all grown up and one of them is going to be a dad soon. But I remember those types of novels were really powerful to draw them in and get them to read at the middle ages stage, middle grade stage. So thank you for writing that. It’s needed.
Laurie (02:56)
No problem, you’re welcome. Yeah, my passion is to get kids excited about reading the Bible, but to do it in a way that engages them and something that they’re excited to read and it’s a fun adventure. But then it generates more questions about the Bible as well.
Candace Nassar (03:09)
Yeah, which is great because we want to have those conversations with them. So, okay. And how long have you been married?
Laurie (03:15)
Oh, it will be 17 years this summer in June. Yes, I had to think for a second there.
Candace Nassar (03:24)
Okay.
Fantastic, okay, so how we’re going to be talking a lot about raising boys today, but even if you don’t have a boy, I think that you probably have a nephew or maybe a grandson or some man or young man, I should say in your life that you can glean some great information today. So let’s start off with how did God create boys according to his purpose and vision?
He created them with an identity that we in our society today don’t always appreciate or recognize. So let’s talk about that.
Laurie (03:58)
Yeah, well, any of you raising boys or have interacted with boys ever in your life, you know that they are different. They are not the same as girls. Boys and girls are different, and that is by God’s intention in his design. In Genesis 1:21, it says that God created human beings in his own image. In the image of God, he created them, male and female, he created them. And so we always look at that verse as, yes, God created male and female, two different genders, but I think it…
ties back directly to the phrase in his image. So the image of God is represented in humanity in male and female. And so I believe that males and females, boys and girls can represent God’s glory, his character, his image in unique ways that God has gifted them in unique ways to represent different aspects of his character. And so boys are different, not just physically, but also socially, mentally, emotionally.
They have a unique ability to reflect aspects of the character of God and just a few general things that make boys different from girls. In general, boys tend to be more active than girls and also less social. They’re more drawn to physical things rather than verbal word associated things.
Candace Nassar (05:05)
You
Laurie (05:13)
They tend to communicate with their bodies more than words, often their fists more than words. They learn by doing, they learn by being active, and you may have noticed that they are drawn to anything that has to do with weapons or battles or danger. You know, just hand a three-year-old a stick and see what he does with it. It’s gonna turn into a sword or a gun or a lightsaber.
Candace Nassar (05:19)
Mm-hmm.
Candace Nassar (05:27)
Mmm. Mmm.
Candace Nassar (05:37)
It’s so true. I mean, I had two boys and a girl and I saw that unbelievably clearly when we had a little decorative plate on a table and my youngest grabbed the thing that it was sitting on and started pretending he was shooting with it when he was like two. And we don’t have guns. We never had guns. So I was like, where is this coming from? Anyway, very true. So and it’s by God’s design. They have an innate sense of protection and
Laurie (05:57)
Yeah. Yeah.
Laurie (06:03)
Mm-hmm.
Candace Nassar (06:04)
that women have in a different way. And it’s such a beautiful thing, the way God, because God is really male and female in the sense that he has both aspects and then he created humanity and gave each of us intentional roles and personalities and attributes to reflect that. And it’s so neat when we can really lean into that.
Laurie (06:21)
Yeah.
Laurie (06:24)
Yeah, and I think a lot of times we view that more aggressive side of boys, like their dangerous behavior as a bad thing. But I don’t think that’s a bad thing. I think that that is reflecting God’s passion, God’s character for defending us as his people and protecting us. And my boys will be playing, when they were little, would play house. But when we would play house, there was always a bad guy. And there was always, like they were always
Candace Nassar (06:41)
Mm-hmm.
Laurie (06:50)
building booby traps to protect the house, to protect the family from the bad guys. You know, like they have this innate sense of an enemy, that we have an enemy. And I think that that is a God-given passion in their hearts, that he has wired our boys with a desire to fight bad guys, to destroy enemies, to slay the dragons. You know, our boys are not naive. They know that there is evil in the world. They know that there are monsters in the world. And I think that God
Candace Nassar (06:59)
Yeah, yeah.
Laurie (07:17)
has specially equipped them to be more aware of that and to fight against it.
Candace Nassar (07:23)
Mm hmm. Mm hmm. Yeah, you know, and what’s so neat about that is that I’ve seen that when I taught school, you know, there’s such a distinction and and yet we want to try to make boys kind of asexual in a sense that, you know, we want to downplay those sides of them and and try to and we want to teach boys exactly the same that we want to teach girls and and that’s just not
Laurie (07:34)
Mm-hmm.
Candace Nassar (07:45)
It doesn’t work. mean, boys have a totally different sense and style of learning than girls do. And so I just, see it in so many ways, not just when I was raising kids, but when I was teaching, you can’t deny it. You just can’t deny it.
Laurie (07:59)
I do think that a lot of times schools and moms especially, we don’t always understand that side of our boys. You know, it’s like, just sit down. Like we like peace and quiet and organization. And we’re just like, just sit down and just be quiet and be calm. And that will then everything will be perfect. They’re like, no, we’re full of energy and we’re going to build a Ford and we’re going to make a mess and work, you know, and I think as parents and as, as, and you know, and in schools too.
Candace Nassar (08:09)
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
Laurie (08:026)
just understanding how boys are wired and how God has created our boys will help us understand them better and help channel that energy and to reach them, yeah.
Candace Nassar (08:36)
to reach them better. Yeah, absolutely. I I used to have activities that a variety of teaching styles, right? And I would have activities that had movement built into it and things for those boys. So very important. think it really is important to understand that God has created them. We can teach them, we can help them channel those things, right? And mature. But let’s go on and talk about what are the challenges.
Laurie (08:47)
Mm-hmm.
Candace Nassar (08:59)
with raising boys into men in our culture today.
Laurie (09:03)
Yeah, well, I think one of the things is that our society doesn’t really believe that there’s a difference between men and women, that we’re all just the same at a base level. And so our boys are confused about what it even means to be a man. And I think our culture views masculinity, we talked about this a little bit already, as toxic. Any wildness, loudness, aggressiveness in our boys needs to be squelched. need to be, you, they’re taught that those masculine traits that God has given them are bad. And then I think the last thing is just kind of a lack of intentionality, like lack of guidance as far as like, how do I, what does it look like and how do I get there? So the what does it look like part would
Laurie (09:44)
come into role models, I think there’s a lack of positive role models, but then there’s also lack of guidance as far as like, here’s what it looks like to be a godly man and here are the steps to get there.
Candace Nassar (09:54)
Yeah, I mean you think about the Jewish culture has the bar mitzvah, I mean that is, it is very special in terms of the point of it is to launch them into manhood and that’s what the whole process is about apprenticeships, vision quest, things like that that boys.
Laurie (09:58)
Yes.
Laurie (10:09)
Mm-hmm.
Candace Nassar (10:10)
used to do as to mark the shift from boyhood to manhood. Now we just kind of scroll past a lot of that. And then if there’s not a dad in the picture and the mom, doesn’t have that sense of, being equipped, to lead those boys, it’s really hard.
Laurie (10:26)
Yeah, absolutely. think we have lost that vision of like the rites of passage, like you were talking about with Bar Mitzvah and so many cultures around the world have rites of passage, both ancient cultures and modern cultures where there is a very distinct path to get to manhood. Like boys have to prove themselves. Boys have to go out on, like you said, a vision quest or a manhood quest or like, you know, they have to go sleep out in the woods overnight.
Candace Nassar (10:32)
Yes!
Candace Nassar (10:44)
Yeah.
Laurie (10:53)
by themselves and find their way home or different things like that. And I think we’ve lost that in our Western society. And I think that that is an important thing. think that even if we don’t have a society-wide rite of passage like in the Jewish community, I think that individual communities and individual families can be intentional about bringing that back into their families.
Candace Nassar (11:15)
Absolutely, and that’s what you’re going to share with us today. So I’m really excited. So we’ve talked about how important it is to be intentional as we’re initiating our boys into manhood, affirming their identity and their hearts in Jesus, I mean, the Bible has some great things for us to do, but give us an idea of some of the really cool things you do in your family. Because when you and I first talked, that’s when I knew I wanted you to share.
Laurie (11:17)
Yeah!
Candace Nassar (11:40)
about this, because it’s great, great stuff.
Laurie (11:43)
Yeah, so we have adopted several different things into our family to be intentional about guiding our boys on their pathway to manhood. And I do need to give credit to a book called Raising a Modern Day Night by Robert Lewis. I don’t know if you’ve heard of that, but that’s kind of where I got a lot of these ideas. so we kind of took some of those ideas and modified them and made them personal for our own.
Candace Nassar (11:58)
Mmm, I have.
Laurie (12:10)
So I’ll share some of the things that we do with our family, but this isn’t like a hard and fast formula. Like you can take some of these ideas and be like, I like that. Let’s tweak it a little bit and see how we can make that work for our family. So we have kind of developed several different rites of passage throughout childhood for our boys that we celebrate at different ages and different stages of their lives.
Candace Nassar (12:22)
Mm-hmm.
Laurie (12:33)
I’ll just go over a brief overview and then I can dive into some of the more specific things.
We start as early as first grade. And in first grade, we give our kids their first real Bible. And I, as the mom, usually take them out on a special date. And we talk about the importance of reading the Bible and studying God’s words. So that’s kind of the first milestone.
And then in fourth grade,Dad, my husband, takes our son out on a special trip to a ropes course. There’s a ropes course at a camp nearby, so they go and do a ropes course together, so it’s kind of a fun activity with dad, and it’s like a physical challenge. And at that time, my husband introduces to our son, our family vision for manhood that talks about what it looks like to be a godly man. Based on Joshua 1:9, we talk about being strong and courageous. Joshua 1:9 says, be strong and courageous for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.
And that kind of is a theme through our parenting and raising our boys that we want them to be strong, courageous warriors for the kingdom of God. And so we talk about what does that look like? So we have five different things. First, a godly man does the right thing. So he makes godly choices. He has integrity. He has self-control and is able to master his emotions. Those kind of all go under like doing the right thing. Secondly, he works hard. He has a strong work ethic and always does his best.
Number three, he shows honor. So a godly man treats others with respect and dignity. Number four, he loves Jesus. He has unwavering faith and love for the Lord and God’s word. And then number five is he leads his family, which is one that obviously they need to grow into, but a godly man loves his wife and children and provides for them and models Christ’s love for them. So we’re just trying to instill that value at a young age.
So my husband introduces that, those values and that vision for manhood during that little date with dad. And then he also introduces the topic of biblical sexuality at that time as well, like just to start that conversation. It’s not just a once and done kind of thing. And it’s not very…
Candace Nassar (14:21)
Amen.
Candace Nassar (14:27)
Okay.
Laurie (14:36)
detailed or explicit at that stage of life, but just talking about God’s design for marriage and God’s design for family and God’s design for sex and things like that. yes.
Candace Nassar (14:49)
Okay, So, okay, so you’re doing this in fourth grade, right? Yeah, I actually, so I have been looking, I’ve been reading the Mama Bear Apologetics book and they talk about conversations you have to have by fifth grade with your kids these days and you homeschool, correct?
Laurie (14:52)
Yes. Yep.
Laurie (14:58)
Mm-hmm.
Laurie (15:06)
Some are homeschooled, some are public schools, some are other types of school. We’re all across the board.
Candace Nassar (15:11)
Okay. You know what? I understand because not everything works for every kid. But the point being that if their kids are in public school, they’re facing these things so much earlier, right? And so just thinking through that, that you, you’re saying that you’re not getting that detailed. Well, sometimes you might have to, if they’re in public school, you might have to really address things that you wouldn’t want to address. And there’s, there’s resources for that. So I just wanted to,
Laurie (15:17)
Yep.
Laurie (15:25)
Yes.
Laurie (15:34)
Yes. Yep.
Laurie (15:39)
Mm-hmm.
Candace Nassar (15:40)
kind of, you know, just insert that caveat a little bit that there is something you got to pray through and think about and know where your kids are and know what they’re needing because we do unfortunately today have to bring some of these things up way before certainly was done for me and even for you. So yeah.
Laurie (15:57)
Yes, and we definitely want to bring them up before someone else brings them up. We want to be the first ones that they hear these topics from. Even topics that you are like, well, they’re not going to hear about that. They don’t know. Well, they do. They will hear it. Even if they don’t go to public school, it’s around, and they will hear comments or terms, terminology, and they’ll be like, what does that mean? Or what is that? You want to be the first ones to introduce that.
Candace Nassar (16:01)
Exactly.
Candace Nassar (16:15)
Yeah. Terminology.
Laurie (16:21)
to your kids. so we start like a more intentional introduction in fourth grade, but there are other topics that we do cover even earlier than that. So for example, the topic of pornography, we cover even earlier. We talk about with our kids even sooner because you just don’t know what kids are gonna come across or what they’re gonna see.
Candace Nassar (16:37)
Wow.
Laurie (16:44)
There’s just stuff everywhere and there’s several different resources that I would recommend that are really, really great. One of them is, so Foundation Worldview with Elizabeth Urbandowicz. She has a new curriculum that they just came out with. It’s called God’s Good Design and that actually is recommended to start at age four. And that’s just kind of building a foundation. Like they start with building a foundation of like male and female.
Candace Nassar (16:44)
Yeah, it’s everywhere today.
Laurie (17:09)
Like God created us male and female, and what does that mean that God created us male and female? And even like, God, is a design? Like what does it mean by God’s design and why is a design good? you know, sticking with the design for why, the purpose for why something was made is the best way to use a certain thing. So that course is a great resource. And then something that’s a lot easier, quicker to go through that’s not like a full length.
Candace Nassar (17:24)
Mmm. That’s right.
Laurie (17:36)
is the books called Good Pictures, Bad Pictures. Yeah, so there’s a junior version which is for young kids like four or five, six years old and it basically just talks about like some pictures are good and some pictures are bad and here’s how you recognize a bad picture and here’s what you do when you see a bad picture. It doesn’t use the word pornography but, then, the one that’s for older kids, that one goes into, you know, what’s happening in your brain, like a little bit of like the addictive process, like why would you, you know.
So it’s just really, really good. And it’s just great to have those conversations, those ongoing conversations so that if kids see something, they’re not terrified or they’re not afraid to come and talk to you about it and tell you about it because you want to have those conversations. You don’t wanna freak out and be like, my goodness, what did you see?
Candace Nassar (18:04)
Mmm.
Candace Nassar (18:15)
Yes. Yes.
Laurie (18:24)
like, thank you so much for telling me. I’m so glad that you came and told me about that. Like, let’s talk about what this means. yeah, for sure. Yeah.
Candace Nassar (18:30)
And that’s going to take a lot of prayer, right? yeah, cause you, but we have to just breathe and, and stay calm in those situations, just kind of regulate our emotions because they, want them to keep coming back because they’re going to face all these struggles. That’s just everywhere today. So I love that.
Laurie (18:43)
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah. The other, I’ll just recommend this one quick other resource that we use. And this is the one that we actually do with our kids. There’s three different books. The first one’s called The Talk by Luke Gilkerson. It’s like a workbook that you can go through together. I think there’s like seven different lessons that you go through as a family or dad and son or however you want to do it.
And then the second one’s called Changes. And I think that one kind of goes through puberty. That’s more for like…pre-teens and teens, early teens.
But the third one’s on relationships, so it’s more for earlier teens and teenagers talking about like, godly relationships and things like that. So those are great resources as well.
Candace Nassar (19:20)
Good.
Candace Nassar (19:24)
Very good. Well, thank you so much for sharing that. And so that leads us into how do you plan? I know you’ve talked about this. We talked about this earlier, a celebration for your son. So this is something even, this is a special celebration that is like a bar mitzvah type to, to prepare them. And, and what is that that you guys do in your family?
Laurie (19:45)
Yeah, so when our boys turn 13, we have a special manhood celebration. And we currently have gone through one of these. And our second son, actually in about three days, we’re going to be, oh no, tomorrow. Tomorrow night, actually, our second son is turning 13. So I’ve been right in the middle of planning this for him. And so.
Candace Nassar (20:05)
So neat. So good.
Laurie (20:10)
We basically, there’s a couple different parts of it. One part is just kind of like a birthday party with family, but we make it a little bit more meaningful and special. leading up to, the celebration itself, we want it to include a spiritual challenge, a physical challenge, a special memento of some sort, and then just having some meaningful people in his life contribute into the celebration.
So the spiritual challenge, have our boys memorize a passage of scripture leading up to their 13th birthday. And it’s Ephesians 6, where it talks about putting on the armor of God. So we’re wanting to train our boys to become strong, courageous warriors for God’s kingdom. know, God has naturally wired our boys to fight battles and to defeat the enemy. So we want to channel that.
Candace Nassar (20:46)
area.
Laurie (20:59)
to fighting the right enemy. Like who is the enemy? How do we protect ourselves against that enemy? So having our boys memorize that passage of scripture in Ephesians 6, then we also have, going along with that, we give them like a special symbolic gift. And that could be whatever you want in your family. It could be a compass or a.
Candace Nassar (21:04)
Uh-huh.
Candace Nassar (21:19)
Mmm.
Laurie (21:19)
Bible or something like that. We’ve chosen to do a weapon of some sort. So my oldest son got a sword and it was engraved and it said strong and courageous on the sword hilt. So he has that and he can hang that in his room. My second son, we ordered a, he is into like Viking stuff. So it was like a battle axe, I think.
Candace Nassar (21:32)
Very neat.
Laurie (21:41)
It’s just that some cool or it was like a hatchet a Viking hatchet or something and it had like some cool engraving on it and like that kind of stuff So just something to to represent You know putting on the armor of God and that we are we are defending against the lies of the enemy and we are You know fighting for God’s kingdom And then the next part is that when we have the family come over we
Candace Nassar (21:53)
Mm.
Laurie (22:05)
ahead of time, I give each of the people coming. So grandparents, you could do, know, whoever is significant in your son’s life, we just do grandparents on each side and then our immediate family. But we have each of them fill out a paper ahead of time that has three parts and it says, I admire that you blank. My prayer for you is that
blank and then I want to challenge you to blank.
So we have grandma, grandpa, mom and dad and then the other grandma, grandpa fill that out for our son. This year we actually had a couple additional people fill out the paper as well, one of my sons, his best friend’s dad has been another
Candace Nassar (22:30)
Mmm.
Laurie (22:48)
male figure in his life. So we asked him to fill it out and then we also asked his youth group leader to fill out a paper as well. Yeah, so any significant men in your son’s life would be a great person to do that. then, so they gave us the papers, the people who are actually at the party, so grandparents and my husband and I, we will actually read those papers to him during the celebration. So he’ll get to hear.
Candace Nassar (22:53)
That’s what I was thinking. Yeah. A youth group leader. Mm-hmm. Very good.
Laurie (23:16)
those affirmations and hear those challenges. And so that’s kind of what happens during the family celebration. And then we will also do just an overnight trip with just mom and dad. So, myself and my husband and my son, we go on a one night overnight trip and do something special together. Usually that involves some sort of physical challenge. My older son, went whitewater rafting.
My next son, who’s coming up, wants to do, like, rock climbing or something along those lines. So we usually do some sort of physical activity and then my husband continues with the next level or the next step of the God’s design for sexuality and marriage and family. Like he usually continues with that at that stage.
And yeah, and then my goal is also, I haven’t actually done this yet for my older son, but my goal is to put kind of put those things together in a book, like some pictures and like the encouragement papers that we filled out, just to put that together as a memento for him to remember his induction into manhood.
Candace Nassar (24:11)
That’s so great. it’s creative. You involve a lot of people. I can just see the value. It’s not, you know, and it’s not immediately obvious, right? He’s not just going to all of a sudden, okay, I’m ready to be a man. But you’re recognizing that that’s what he’s working towards and that he has this support around him and he’s held accountable, right, by these people. And then I’m sure he’s watching your husband and you and because the model is so important as well.
Laurie (24:22)
Right,
Candace Nassar (24:36)
Let’s talk for a minute about what a single mom can do for these situations because there are unfortunately a lot of moms raising children without the regular influence of a dad. So what would you say to that?
Laurie (24:49)
Yeah.
Yeah, I have a couple different pieces of encouragement or advice. Number one, I do think it’s important for boys to have some positive male influences in their lives. So if dad is not available or not a positive role model of what a godly man would look like, I would encourage you to try to foster some deeper connections with maybe an uncle or a grandfather, maybe a Christian sports coach a youth leader, some other male figure in your son’s life.
If you are just at a loss and have no idea where to find such a thing, there’s an organization called Trail Life USA. It is a Christian scouting organization and they have groups all over the United States. They typically meet at churches. If you just look it up, you can find a group near you. It’s a great organization for boys to connect with godly men. And one of the things that they encourage, like they actually say,
If you are a mom that does not have a godly male role model in your son’s life, bring him to this group. Like come and get him involved in a group and we will be that godly mentor for your son. So that’s one great thing that I would recommend. But then as far as like spiritual training for your son, don’t discount your influence as a mom in your son’s life.
Candace Nassar (25:55)
that’s fantastic.
Laurie (26:08)
There’s a book called Devoted by Tim Challis, and it’s called Great Men and Their Godly Moms and it’s all about influential men throughout history, leaders in the church who were influenced by their mothers and by the spiritual faith of their mothers.
Candace Nassar (26:21)
Right off the bat, can think of Charles and John Wesley, because I’ve read about that.
Laurie (26:26)
Yes, yeah. Yeah, I’m pretty sure they were, they were mentioned in the book as well. So yeah, so that would be a great resource. And then I just love the example of Timothy in the Bible. Timothy was a leader in the church. He was the recipient of the letters that Paul wrote to Timothy. First and Second Timothy were letters that Paul wrote to him.
And in Second Timothy 1:5, Paul says, I am reminded, he says to Timothy, I’m reminded of your sincere faith, a faith that dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice, and now I am sure dwells in you as well.”
So he’s affirming Timothy’s faith that first was in his grandmother and his mother. And then you think, well, great, his mom and grandmother had a strong faith. Well, what about his dad? I’m sure his dad was, you he was probably influential too. Well, Acts 16 one says, Paul came to Derby and Lystra, a disciple was there named Timothy, the son of a Jewish woman who was a believer, but his father was a Greek. So the assumption there is that his father was not a believer. It says a Jewish woman who was a believer, but in contrast, his father was a Greek. So his father was not likely a believer and he was certainly not a Jew, and yet Timothy grew up to be
Candace Nassar (27:22)
Right.
Laurie (27:40)
a very strong leader in the church and a significant leader in Ephesus because of the influence and the faith of his mother and his grandmother. So don’t underestimate your influence in your son’s life to be the spiritual leader for them.
Candace Nassar (27:54)
I love that. Thank you for that encouragement. That’s so good because yeah, I mean, when our children see us and we model for them, that’s more powerful than anything. And then I, you can incorporate some of these things that you’re saying by drawing in men from the church, mentors and things like that. So I love that.
Okay, so this has been a great conversation, Laurie. I thank you so much for all your incredible wisdom and ideas and suggestions and resources. You have a podcast as well and how can we find out more about you?
Laurie (28:24)
Yeah, so you can find out, have a, I mentioned my podcast at the beginning. You can go to swordandstorypodcast.com and that’s where you can access my podcast. It’s just, so I had an old podcast and it’s turning into this new podcast. So it’s kind of just starting out and some of the older episodes are my redeeming the chaos podcast and that’s all about raising.
boys, raising courageous boys. So either way, if you have boys, you’re going to find something that you love on this podcast. The newer episodes will be more about books for boys and recommending books for boys. And do you mind if if I tell them about my books very briefly too? Yeah. So, I’m passionate about books. I love reading. and, but I also want books that are going to encourage my kids to become
Candace Nassar (28:58)
Yeah, yeah, go ahead. Yeah, absolutely.
Laurie (29:10)
men for the Kingdom of God that they’re gonna grow up to be strong courageous warriors for the Kingdom of God. So my book series is called the Dragon Slayer Bible series and you can learn more about that at dragonslayerbible.com but it is adventure packed biblical fiction for kids ages 8 to 12 especially boys, and it’s based on characters and events in the Bible.
but then I’ve taken a fictional story and woven it around the characters and the events. And it’s called the Dragon Slayer Bible series because the enemy is a dragon. The villain in the story is a dragon who is the devil based on the passages in Revelation that refer to him as a dragon, so there’s a little bit of an element of fantasy in the stories as well.
Candace Nassar (29:33)
Money.
Candace Nassar (29:47)
Mm-hmm.
Laurie (29:54)
And then your kids will hopefully read the stories and be curious and want to dive deeper into the scripture passages surrounding those stories.
Candace Nassar (30:02)
Yeah, they sound great. I want to read them. They sound really fun
Well, thank you so much, Lori, and God bless and hope to see you soon.
Laurie (30:10)
Thank you Candice, it’s been great chatting with you today.
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