PROOF Pirates: Finding the Treasure of God's Amazing Grace Family Devotional

Chore charts. Report cards. Standardized tests. Athletic banquets. Kids are inundated with messages about their performance. Because performance work and reward is one of the basic structures of our lives, kids often grow up thinking, I am what I am because of what I do . . . or because of what I ve failed to do. How different this message sounds from the biblical message of redemption by grace!

PROOF Pirates introduces kids to God s amazing grace through a fun-to-read pirate story about a boy named Jesse whose parents send him on a scavenger hunt. Along the way, children will learn with Jesse key truths about God s grace using the popular PROOF acronym (God s grace is Planned, Resurrecting, Outrageous, Overcoming, and Forever). God s grace and not our performance makes us who we are.

Through Jesse s adventure, children will be encouraged to love the gospel as the greatest treasure in the world. Each section of PROOF Pirates Family Devotional has corresponding memory work and a guided family devotional time to reinforce the ideas in the story and is ideal for use with children from four to eleven.

PROOF Pirates introduces kids to God s amazing grace by combining the popular PROOF acronym with beloved pirate themes. Counteracts the performance messages kids learn from chore charts, report cards, and standardized tests with the biblical message of redemption. Each section includes memory work and a guided family devotional to reinforce the ideas from the story. Written by a team of talented children s workers including a pastor, Sunday school teacher, and homeschooling mom who love kids and want to share God s good news with them.

Lindsey Blair, Tessa Janes, Timothy Paul Jones, and Jonah Sage serve on the creative team for children s ministry at Sojourn Community Church. They want to see children learn about and experience God's grace. Lindsay co-authored Our Home is Like a Little Church (Christian Focus, 2010), which was also illustrated by Tessa. Tessa has also illustrated several other books for children. Timothy is professor of leadership at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He s authored books including PROOF: Finding Freedom through the Intoxicating Joy of Irresistible Grace (Zondervan, 2014). Jonah serves as pastor of Sojourn's campus in New Albany, IN.