The Ten Commandments: For All God’s Children (A FatCat Book)
My God loves me and gives me life. His law protects the gifts he gives me.
2024 Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards Gold Medal Winner - Religion/Spirituality
2024 American Book Fest "Best Book" Finalist - Children’s Religious
We love God because he first loved us. Jesus shows us how God loves us. Because Jesus obeyed his Father, we have forgiveness and life—and many other good gifts.
God’s commandments protect us and his gifts for us. When we love and obey God, we treasure the good things he gives us.
Join FatCat as he learns the Ten Commandments—how God’s children love. Each commandment has a reflection on its meaning and illustrations from Jesus’ life. As you read each commandment, see how Jesus fulfilled God’s will for us and showed us how to love God and others. With a list of Scripture references and a guided family prayer, this FatCat book helps all God’s children memorize, understand, and love the Ten Commandments.
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Praise for The Ten Commandments
The Ten Commandments: For All God’s Children is masterfully written and beautifully illustrated. This book models how to interpret and apply the Ten Commandments in light of the finished work of Jesus. As I read this book, I kept thinking, ‘I can’t wait to read through this with my kids and share this resource with our church.’
—Jamaal Williams, lead pastor, Sojourn Church Midtown; coauthor of In Church As It Is In Heaven
I don’t want to just settle for teaching my kids moralism and how to be good. I want them to know Christ. This book beautifully illustrates and explains that Christ is the fulfillment of the law. It doesn’t just give a list of commands. It teaches that the God who gave the Ten Commandments is the same God who saves them from their sin.
—Gretchen Ronnevik, co-host of Freely Given; author of Ragged: Spiritual Disciplines for the Spiritually Exhausted
The Ten Commandments: For All God’s Children is the best of the FatCat series. It teaches kids that our obedience to God is ultimately rooted in trusting Christ’s obedience for us, and in remembering who he has saved us to be.
—Jared Kennedy, editor at The Gospel Coalition; author of books for children and families, including Faith-Builder Catechism and The Beginner’s Gospel Story Bible
For parents trying to teach the truth of God’s word and lead with grace, the Ten Commandments can be daunting. I am thankful for the grace-first, gospel-rich resource of the FatCat Ten Commandments volume. It is a good, true, and beautiful book to train children in knowing and loving God.
—Jeremy Writebol, lead campus pastor of Woodside Bible Church in Plymouth, Michigan; executive director of Gospel-Centered Discipleship; author of Pastor, Jesus Is Enough
What Is “FatCat?”
How can anyone, no matter how young or old, grasp the message of the Bible? The church’s answer has always been the catechism: The Apostles' Creed, the Lord's Prayer, and the Ten Commandments.
The catechism teaches us what the Bible teaches us: our faith. The catechism is “fat,” bursting at the seams with meaning and challenge. FatCat is our way of making the catechism approachable, bringing theology to readers of all ages.
Learn more about the other titles in this series.
Praise for the FatCat Books
The FatCat series gives children a vision of the Bible’s ethic (in the Ten Commandments), its confession (as summarized in the Apostles’ Creed), and its devotional life (given to us in the Lord’s Prayer). This ancient-but-new set of lenses, what the church has called the ‘rule of faith,’ will equip your kids for a lifelong Christian journey.
—Jared Kennedy, editor at The Gospel Coalition; author of books for children and families, including Faith-Builder Catechism and The Beginner’s Gospel Story Bible
Product Details
- Title: The Ten Commandments: For All God’s Children
- Author: Harold L. Senkbeil
- Illustrator: Natasha Kennedy
- Series: FatCat
- Publisher: Lexham Press
- Publication Date: 2024
- Page Count: 40
- Format: Hardcover
- Trim Size: 9x10
- ISBN: 9781683597384
About Natasha Kennedy
Natasha Kennedy is a freelance illustrator and homeschooling mom from Seattle, Washington. She and her husband, Lindsay, have four children and a grey kitty named Tiny.
About Harold L. Senkbeil
Harold L. Senkbeil is a grandpa and pastor. He and his beloved Jane celebrated fifty years of marriage before her death in December 2021. They have three children and four grandchildren. He loves to write. If you visit Waukesha, Wisconsin you might see him and his grandkids driving around on his ’51 John Deere tractor, Johnnie B.