Zoom in on Judges and Ruth

Take a closer look at Mark and Psalms.

Use your Promise Pencil as you see how God always keeps his promises.

Issue Seven is called Heroes & Zeros. Three months of Bible readings to help you investigate who Jesus is and why He came in Mark's Gospel, to check out the book of Judges to see if the Israelites will live for God now that they're in the promised land, and to meet Ruth - King David's great grandmother.

XTB (eXplore The Bible) is a series of daily Bible reading notes for children of the 7-11 age group, with puzzles, pictures and prayers.

XTB is beautifully presented with full-colour illustrations and is part of a series of 12 books which, if used on a quarterly basis, will help a child cover all of the main books, themes and characters of the Bible in 3 years.

Look out for Table Talk - a book of daily Bible times for families with children aged from 4 upwards. The Bible passages are the same each day for XTB and Table Talk - so you can use the two books together, or on their own. Whichever suits you best.

Days 1-20 follow on in Mark's Gospel, looking at chs 8-12

The book of Judges gets the treatment over days 21-40 looking at chs 1-8

Days 41-45 take a little look at some Psalms

Judges again - chs 13-16 - over days 46-55

On day 56 we meet Ruth and cover her whole story until day 64

There's a quick look into Matthew's Gospel to find out who Ruth is related to.

A series of puzzles and questions at the very end of the book offer a chance to look into other parts of the Bible not covered here and some budding comedians try their hand at making you laugh (or groan) on the XTB Joke Page.