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wearesparkhouse.org SPARK BIBLE SAMPLER • 3 HOW TO USE YOUR MAKE THIS SPARK BIBLE YOUR OWN! Welcome to your Spark Bible! You just started a journey through God’s word that will last a lifetime. To make it your best trip ever, we want you to MAKE THIS BIBLE YOUR OWN! GET TO KNOW GOD by using this Bible. The more you use it, the more interesting it gets. Use every tool available to MAKE THIS BIBLE WORK FOR YOU. You can USE ANY OF THESE TOOLS when ever you read your Bible: Stickers • Pens • Pencils • Colored Pencils • Markers • Highlighters • Ruler Sticky Notes SPARK BIBLE New Revised Standard Version The next pages will help you start understanding that the Bible story is your story, These pages are excerpted from the Spark Bible, copyright © 2009 Sparkhouse. All rights reserved. Spark Bible is a trademark of Sparkhouse. No part of this book may be reproduced in any manner too. HAVE FUN, and let people know how it’s going. It’s your Bible. MAKE THE without prior written permission from the publisher. Visit 1517.media, write to Permissions, 1517 Media, MOST OF IT. Box 1209 Minneapolis, MN 55440, or e-mail [email protected] for further inquiries. The NRSV is published by arrangement with HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. All rights reserved. Unless otherwise noted, scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright © 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America and used by permission. All rights reserved. To purchase copies of the Spark Bible, go to wearesparkhouse.org, ISBN 978-0-8066-7048-5. WELCOME • 3 4 • SPARK BIBLE SAMPLER SPARK BIBLE SAMPLER • 5 USE EVERYTHING IN THE SPARK BIBLE! Key Verses are highlighted all over Get to know some this Bible. Try to figure out why they’re You’ll always know what book of the Bible words important. You can highlight some Key of the Bible you’re in. that matter most. Verses of your own. Think about these questions, and ask a friend or family member to do the Try It! activities with you. Explore more about some of the people, places, things, and events in the Bible stories you’re reading. You’ll always know what section of the Bible you’re in. 4 • HOW TO USE YOUR SPARK BIBLE HOW TO USE YOUR SPARK BIBLE • 5 6 • SPARK BIBLE SAMPLER SPARK BIBLE SAMPLER • 7 MARK UP YOUR SPARK BIBLE! GENESIS 1:1 GENESIS 1:1 Attach GENESIS 2:17 GENESIS 2:17 a sticky SIX DAYS OF CREATION AND SIX DAYS 18OF to CREATIONrule over the dayAND and over the night,18 to ruleand over the day and over the night, and 28 God blessed them, and God said 28to God them, blessed Lord them, God and formed God saidman tofrom them, the dustLord of the God formedGenesis man 2:10 from the dust of the Genesis 2:10 September 6 THE SABBATH THE SABBATH to separate the light from the darkness. 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