Homeschool Friday - The Wonder of Creation

Homeschool Friday is a feature here at Somewhere Only We Know that showcases books my family reads during homeschool and provides a mini-review/review for each.

The Wonder of Creation: 100 More Devotions About God and Science

By: Louie Giglio

Publication: November 16, 2021 by Tommy Nelson

208 pages

Genre: Children's, Christian, Devotion, Science

Source: Personal Library

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Goodreads description--In this captivating follow-up to the bestselling kids' devotionals Indescribable and How Great Is Our God, founder of the Passion movement Louie Giglio offers more mind-blowing, faith-building scientific facts and biblical truths about the wonder of God's creation.

In this book, children will find new delight in God's creativity with 100 devotions that explore:

Animals: from honeyguide birds to flying snakes to white rhinos
Space: from black holes to volcanic moons to gamma-ray bursts
People: from optical illusions to brain freezes to our immune systems
Earth: from rainbow rivers to blue lava to flowing glaciers
And much, much more!

Like the other books, Indescribable and How Great Is Our God, The Wonder of Creation has a Scripture, a scientific topic which is in turn related back to God, a short prayer, and a related fact concerning the topic. The topics are related to space, Earth, people, and animals. When I finished The Wonder of Creation, I thought there were fewer real photographs used in comparison with How Great is Our God. I didn't go back to count them, but The Wonder of Creation does include a mix of real photographs and unrealistic graphics. My kids asked to see the photo a few times on a topic, but one wasn't always included. So, it's not necessarily a bad thing, yet still noticeable.

My kids are ages 9, 7, and 3 at the time of writing this review. The three-year-old didn't usually read this with us, but we typically read one of the topics every other night before bed. Some days, my kids were so excited to hear the topic, and other days, not very much. But we've been doing a devotion at bedtime for so long that there's no real complaining about it. The kids just know that's what we're going to do.

As always, theology is something that concerns me when looking for devotions. I don't have time to create lessons and devotions from scratch, but I want to ensure I'm teaching truth to them directly from the Bible. The Wonder of Creation had only one topic that I can remember which I edited while reading. And that wasn't anything wrong, I just added in a piece that often gets left out of the watered-down message of believing only. So as for theology, I highly recommend this book.

Similar to our experience with the previous two books, what we might be going through in life is occasionally related to the topic from The Wonder of Creation. But this only happened a few times. I can't credit or blame the book for that. God deserves the credit for that any time it occurs.

The Wonder of Creation is a great option for doing devotions with your child(ren). The topics are short enough not to lose a child's attention, but I love how the content always brings things back to God and our relationship with Him. I continue to see the fruit of regular conversation about God creating the world and how He works in our daily lives, in my children, and in my home. The Wonder of Creation gets 5 Stars. Have you read The Wonder of Creation? What did you think? Let me know!