How to Train Your Child’s Heart to Love the Lord
Having a resource that helps me parent the heart of my child is key to effective discipleship. The Child Training Bible and Virtue Training Bible are essential tools in my biblical parenting toolbox!
Parenting is more than behavior-molding…
Parenting is about dealing with the heart issues behind the behaviors of your child. And the Word of God is a powerful tool to use in your heart training.
Related: Parenting the Heart of Your Child
The Child Training Bible and Virtue Training Bible are incredible resources for helping parents to take their children to the Word of God for heart training.
When I’m actively parenting the heart of my child, I can pull out my marked Bible and easily find passages of Scripture that address the issue or character quality my child is struggling with or wants to develop. I love how easy it is to use this Bible!
Review of the Child Training Bible…
As you can see, this resource is a gold-mine for Christian parents wanting to more easily use the Scriptures to teach and instruct their children. I highly recommend every family have it on their bookshelf and reach for it often!
Supplies Needed:
You’ll need to order some supplies in order to put together a Child Training Bible or Virtue Training Bible.
- Child Training Bible packet and/or Virtue Training Bible packet (you can only purchase these through the CTB and VTB websites)
- 9×6 Bible (I used an ESV Pew Bible that I purchased on Amazon)
- colored highlighters and Post-It flags (be sure your highlighters and flags match in color – this will be important for ease of use)
Note: I accidentally ordered a 8.5″ x 5.5″ Bible, so I adapted the instructions on the Child Training Bible website to fit my Bible.
How to Assemble the Child Training Bible and/or Virtue Training Bible
You’ll need to set aside several hours (or multiple chunks of time) to go through your Bible. You’ll be highlighting verses and aligning sticky flags to mark each verse.
If, like me, you purchase a smaller Bible than recommended (ahem), you can glue the “key” to the cover of your Bible and trim it accordingly. However, if you purchase the correct size, just insert the key inside the front cover.
Work through each topic – one at a time. Find each verse listed, highlight it and place the corresponding flag.
Even just doing this is a great way to familiarize yourself with the Bible and the various Scriptures for each topic!
Once you have the entire Bible marked, you can share it with your children. Use it as you seek to train the heart of your children to love God completely!
Disclosure: I received a free copy of the Child Training Bible packet but purchased all additional supplies out of pocket. All opinions expressed are my own.
This article was original published in June 2012. It was most recently updated in June 2019.
:( can’t say I do use it.. other than little bits here and there..
One thing we have done differently than what I grew up with is we constantly find ourselves talking with the boys about God, Jesus and the Bible. We listen to KLove when traveling in the car about 90% of the time (occasionally my husband and I like to listen to the oldies we grew up on). I’ve seen this Bible training product before and wanted to get it just didn’t have the finances so would love to win it!
We try to focus a lot one one verse-love the Lord your God with all your heart, mind, and strength and love your neighbor as yourself. We’ve added motions to this verse and talk about it all throughout the day.
Would love to win this. We use verses to get our point across all the time, and this would put everything at our fingertips.
I try to use the Bible when disciplining, but now that the kids are getting older, it would be so easy to show them using something like this.
Simply put… I need all the help I can get! What a great resource to have in raising children to love the Lord!
i try to get my boys to memorize verses… we do family devotionals…. and we pray using bible verses, especially when they are scared at night.
I need this!!
This is such a great resource!
my kids are teenagers now and I have them do a reading plan and highlight the verses that the Lord is highlighting to them. I also have them write in the margin what the Lord said to them. This helps them learn to hear the voice of God. We as parents can take our kids back to those verses when we need them.
I try to read Bible stories to our daughter about 4x/week but probably don’t use the Bible in my parenting as much as I should
I try to remind my son things that Jesus taught us when he’s doing something he shouldn’t. I also use it to piraise him and say “Yes, that’s exactly what Jesus meant when he said…”
This is such a needed teaching tool in our house not just for the kids but for us parent stoo.
We talk about the Bible at every opportunity and apply it to what is going on in our lives every day.
Excited for the giveaway! Thanks!
We have been using lots of verse memorization and using it to replay in situation though out the day.
I would love to use the Word more, but we just read it and tell stories from it, that’s why I think this would be so great for us. Thank you :)
We’ve been reading a devotional nightly for two years now. Bible verse, discussion, and application or question. It’s been working really well for my son, but *I* need something to help *me* remember God’s Word when things are tough.
we’ve been working on scripture memory with our son as we discipline. this bible would be such a great tool!
We use bible verses to discipline our children. Usually I have to find the one that is just right. This would be a wonderful resource to have at our fingertips.
Thanks for the chance to win,
Caterina
Can’t wait to give these as gifts!!!
We just had our first baby and she is only 5.5 weeks old. I would love to win this Bible kit! I think it would be such a great tool to have on hand when disciplining your child. Like you said in your video, it’s not always easy to remember where a scripture is found. I have memorized scripture after scripture, but I have a hard time remembering where to find it. Thank you so much for offering this give-away! :)
Not near as much as we should!! Would LOVE to win this!
My daughter is two and I haven’t really done it thus far. I guess I was waiting until she understood more. :-)
We pray each night before bed.
Try to use it, but lack the confidence I need to find the right scriptures at the right time. Having something like this would be such a helpful tool for me as a mom & for my kids.
Would love to add this to our bible time.
I haven’t been consistent in using the Bible. That’s why CTB looks good.
I wold love to use this tool with my rebelous teenager….its so feels so weird to say that my Homeschooler is rebelous. But she is. She makes sure she does everthing slowly & Slopily …just to get on my nerves & she has no idea how much knowing this is the relationship she wants to have with me right now breaks my heart. My only recourse is to Let God fight this Battle & keep my peace.
I don’t use it often enough…i think this would help so much
We read verses out of the Bible and talk often about how God would like us to handle different situations. We also try to pray according to the verses that we studied at that moment.
I would love to have the child training bible kit to use with my 5 children. We have an 18 year old daughter, 14 year old daughter, 10 year old daughter, 5 year old son, and 18 month daughter. I know the biggest thing I’d like to add to my character building of my children is a quick way to pull a reference from the bible so that the instructions I’m givbing are not just what Mama said, but what GOD’s Word said! Hope I win this!
We use the ABC Bible Verses book in our daily lessons… http://cube2farm.wordpress.com/2012/05/21/adventures-in-preschool-homeschooling/
To encourage, correct, and point our kids to the truth!
We do active prayer, service, and memorization
This is so awesome! I could really use this for myself and my children. Some of them being teenagers. lol
Currently, we read scripture together in the evenings and then recite a verse or two we are memorizing together.
I can really use this for my 3 kiddos, it is super important that they learn God’s word in a fun way!
I can definitely put this to use with my kiddos!
I try to use the Bible in everything everyday. I try to help it teach and keep my kids and I walking as close as we can with God daily.
We try to use the bible every day and about 2 weeks ago my 10 year gave her heart to the Lord – I was so happy. She could really use this with dyslexia things are already hard for her but with the Lord she will overcome.
Hello! I am from Romania and I can’t buy this. I want to ask you if you could you make a photo of each page so that I may translate the contents for my romanian children from class? I want to make a improvisation and to make the table of contents on computer in romanian. I’ve tried to read the text from the photo you posted but it wasn’t clear. Could you help me, pleasee?
I’m sorry I cannot do that as it would be a copyright violation. You will need to contact the original publisher of this amazing resource: childtrainingbible@gmail.com