{"id":687,"date":"2006-03-03T20:30:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-04T00:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=687"},"modified":"2013-07-03T11:21:07","modified_gmt":"2013-07-03T15:21:07","slug":"most-of-all-jesus-loves-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=687","title":{"rendered":"Most of All, Jesus Loves You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/images.gnpcb.org\/products\/big\/1581346301.jpg\"><img style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 200px; cursor: hand;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/images.gnpcb.org\/products\/big\/1581346301.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?link_code=ur2&amp;tag=thechildrshou-20&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;path=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Fproduct%2F1581346301%2Fqid%3D1141365140%2Fsr%3D2-1%2Fref%3Dpd_bbs_b_2_1%3Fs%3Dbooks%26v%3Dglance%26n%3D283155\">Most of All, Jesus Loves You<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"dffxnkquehheesbumvmf\" style=\"margin: 0px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=thechildrshou-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>, Noel Piper<br \/>\nIllustrated by Debby Anderson (Crossway Books, 2004), hb., 24pp.<\/p>\n<p>This little book is written as a parent speaking directly to his\/her child. It lists various people who love the child ending with &#8220;Most of all, Jesus loves you.&#8221;\u009d That is the extent of the text. I, honestly, was a bit surprised at the brevity of it. While it has the nice illustrations of Debby Anderson as in I Love My Bible, it lacks the same sort of depth. Now, I use &#8220;depth&#8221; advisedly knowing we are considering reading to young children. Still I have become accustomed to books with a bit more substance even for young children (some have been discussed <a href=\"http:\/\/childrenshourbooks.blogspot.com\/2006\/01\/article-on-bible-material-for-children.html\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>For what it is this is a fine book. One just should realize what it is and what it is not. It is essentially a brief &#8220;goodnight&#8221; for your children. The back cover suggests the book is for children ages 3 to 7. I think it will be most useful to children three and younger. The sweetest thing about it is the dedication which suggests this is a distillation of what Mrs. Piper regularly said each night to one of her daughters. The book does represent something good to say to our children. I just don&#8217;t think I would purchase a book for this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of All, Jesus Loves You, Noel Piper Illustrated by Debby Anderson (Crossway Books, 2004), hb., 24pp. This little book is written as a parent speaking directly to his\/her child. It lists various people who love the child ending with &#8220;Most of all, Jesus loves you.&#8221;\u009d That is the extent of the text. I, honestly, &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=687\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Most of All, Jesus Loves You&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=687"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3874,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions\/3874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}