I love good children’s books. This is so well known, that a 9 year old member of our church recently took great joy in giving me Volume 1 of a collection of Mo Willems’ Elephant and Piggie books. She was beaming, and so was I.

Books like these ought to be read for the sheer delight in them. A good children’s book will delight adults often in ways different than they delight kids. 

But as well, as I argue in this reset episode, which originally aired in October of 2021, these books can become a rich and engaging source of sermon illustrations. I hope you agree.

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EPISODE NOTES

Notes and resources relevant to this episode:

Mo Willems, Waiting Is Not Easy, (United States: Hyperion Books for Children, 2014).

Mo Willems, The Duckling Gets a Cookie!? (United States: Hyperion Books for Children, 2012).

Timothy Keller and Edmund Clowney, “Preaching Christ in a Post-Modern World,” class notes from Reformed Theological Seminary, 2001, page 41.⁠

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