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The Big Beautiful Boat

Released August 12, 2026 • 15:13 • Narrated by Leah
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Put on your raincoat, friends — it's one of the BIGGEST stories in the whole Bible! When the world forgot all about God, one man named Noah still walked with Him every single day. So God asked Noah to build an enormous boat to keep his family and two of every animal safe and dry. Climb aboard the big beautiful boat for the hammering and the hippos, the forty days of rain, the little dove with its olive branch, and the very first rainbow — God's forever-promise that He sees you, He's with you, and He always keeps His word. (Genesis 6–9)

Scripture quotations are from The Catholic Edition of the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright © 1965, 1966 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.

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Noah's story is famous for the animals and the flood, but its heart is a quiet, everyday faithfulness — "Noah walked with God." Tonight you might talk together about what it looks like to stay close to God in small daily choices, and how the rainbow is His gentle forever-promise that He sees us and always keeps His word.
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