Just Like Jonah Wail Tales Workbook
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Just Like Jonah Wail Tales Workbook is an ebook for parents, Sunday school teachers, youth group and Bible Club leaders, and all who want tot share their faith with 10- to 14-year olds. It features eight short stories with modern Jonahs, Jonahs the youths can related to, that make bad choices and land in a whale of trouble, Just Like Jonah.
They'll read about Brad, the teen who threw an impromptu party when his parents leave him alone at night. There weren't any witnesses but God, Brad's friends and a parrot named Polly, but Brad's secret doesn't stay secret for long.
They'll read about Cary, who doesn't do her homework when it's too hard. She gives up, and it teaches them why they shouldn't!
These modern Jonahs' mess up, but they teach youths that God hears our call when we fall. They learn God is a God of mercy and grace, and that he is there to help us. They learn -- the biblical path to salvation.
Just Like Jonah Wail Tales Workbook can be used for individual study, in small groups, in home school, Christian school, and where ever Bible study resources are relied upon.
Cheryl Rogers
Former journalist Cheryl Rogers writes around the edges of farming and family life in the Swan Valley, near Perth. Her short fiction has been published in Australia, the UK and USA, and she is a three time winner of the Henry Lawson Society of New South Wales short story award. In 1998, a memoir co-written with fellow University of Western Australia graduate and friend, Gun Dolva, was short-listed for the WA Premier’s Book of the Year Award. A longtime member of Sisters in Crime (Australia), Cheryl loves a mystery.
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Just Like Jonah Wail Tales Workbook - Cheryl Rogers
Just Like Jonah
Wail Tales
Workbook
By Cheryl Rogers
Smashwords Edition
Copyright 2010 Cheryl Rogers, Tampa, Florida
All rights reserved.
Cover Image: Matthew Hull, Morguefile
Smashwords Edition, License Notes
This e-book is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. It may not be re-sold or given to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each person. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the author’s hard work.
Special thanks to my son, David, whose enthusiasm for this book was contagious.
Table of Contents
Preface
An Election Too Close to Call
Grace for Grace
Barry Gets it Right
Cary Gives Up
Psss-ssst! There are NO Secrets
Phil Faces Hitler
in the Classroom
Evie’s Miraculous Transformation
Polly Wants Some Booze?
About the Author
Preface
Okay, so you’re wondering just what are wail tales. Wail tales are fish tales, of a sort. They are fun and a little bit exaggerated stories of woe with a Christian message. The characters learn, just like Jonah in the Bible, that: 1) There’s a price to pay when we disobey and 2) Even when we fall, God hears our call.
While some wail tales may contain another lesson from Jonah, they all focus on disobedience, the price of disobedience, a prayer of faith, and God’s rescue.
So just dive in! Let the truth of God’s word sink in as you read these wail tales about folks who learned lessons the hard way, just like Jonah.
If you want to write your own wail tale, I’d like to hear from you. Use your imagination and create a story where someone gets into a whale of trouble for doing the wrong thing. Need some ideas? Check the Ten Commandments. Not everyone has a mission like Jonah, but we’re all told to be honest, honorable and loving. If we break one of these commandments, we’re not listening to God, just like Jonah.
Have fun getting your character into – and out of – a whale of trouble! And be sure to submit your tale for possible inclusion in a blog or book update. Contact me on Facebook or through my online magazine, New Christian Books.
An Election Too Close to Call
Steve stayed close to the basketball as his opponent was dribbling, his hands poised to snap it from under the other boy’s control. The score was 30-30 and the two middle school teams were battling for the season championship. Steve was his team’s top player, and all eyes in the auditorium watched as he slapped the ball away and began dribbling it toward his team’s basket. With an ease that comes from long hours of practice, he gracefully flung the basketball through the hoop as the bell shrilled, signaling the end of the game!
The crowd’s cheers were almost deafening as Steve’s teammates carried him around the court celebrating their team’s victory. He held his arms upwards with clenched fits yelling B-L-A-Z-E-R-S, blazers are the best!
Steve had practiced every day after school, sometimes with the team and sometimes with a friend or two. He’d been playing regularly since third grade and it showed. Coach Billy relied on Steve for those tough plays, especially when the pressure was on to perform. Steve seemed oblivious to the pressure. It was almost as if the basketball, hoop and Steve were alone in the auditorium, his concentration was so intense. Naturally outgoing, he enjoyed the glory that came to him after sinking the tough shot, over and over again.
Steve’s success on the basketball court spilled over into other areas of his life. The girls recognized him as a winner and frequently crowded around him to praise him for the team’s latest victory, and his contributions to it. Even the teachers seemed to keep up with the team’s accomplishments – and Steve’s.
Steve seemed to know instinctually that hard work paid off, and he applied the principle to his school work as well, earning good grades most of the time. He also inherited his father’s handsome visage, which he noted with pleasure every time he carefully combed his thick wavy brown hair in the mirror. He’d smile at himself and say, You handsome devil you,
as he put his comb into his pant pocket to save it for later.
For a seventh grader, Steve was remarkably successful, making him the envy of some of his male classmates. Things were especially keen when he beat Ken Sanderson for class president a couple of days ago. Ken got excellent grades and was known for starting the school’s first Chess Club. Some people said he’d demonstrated his leadership abilities and smarts, and that he was the natural choice for president. They’d even made some completely unjustified remarks about his not being a dumb jock. There was no way you could say Steve was a dumb jock, not with his As and Bs. Even if he didn’t get all As like Ken, he was