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Lies Boys Believe: And the Epic Quest for Truth
Lies are powerful . God’s Truth is stronger. Graphic novel meets meaty Bible teaching in Lies Boys Believe, helping boys identify lies and replace them with Truth so they can stand firm in a fractured world. Jason and Erin Davis—parents to four boys—use witty storytelling and playful graphics to present solid biblical truth to combat the most common lies boys believe. With easy-to-read chapters, this book focuses on ten core Through the Davis’ fictional and humorous stories, your son will begin to trade the lies he’s believed for the truth God intends. He will learn to swim upstream against the tides of deception and be equipped to recognize future lies as he develops a passion for knowing and living God’s Word. Join him in the battle by using the accompanying A Parent’s Guide to Lies Boys Believe. This companion resource invites you to critically examine the lies boys believe, discover how to strengthen and encourage your son, and employ creative and practical tools for ongoing discussion.
- GenresParentingNonfiction
224 pages, Paperback
Published November 7, 2023
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Erin Davis
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Erin Davis is a popular speaker, author, and blogger, Erin is passionately committed to sharing God's truth with others. She is the author of several books including Graffiti: Learning to See the Art in Ourselves, True Princess: Embracing Humility in an All About Me World, Beyond Bath Time, and the One Girl Series. Erin lives on a small farm in the midwest with her husband and kids. When she's not writing, you can find her herding goats, chickens, and children.
Erin Davis is a popular speaker, author, and blogger, Erin is passionately committed to sharing God's truth with others. She is the author of several books including Graffiti: Learning to See the Art in Ourselves, True Princess: Embracing Humility in an All About Me World, Beyond Bath Time, and the One Girl Series. Erin lives on a small farm in the midwest with her husband and kids. When she's not writing, you can find her herding goats, chickens, and children.
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August 28, 2025
Proverbele 4:1-2 VDC
[1] Ascultați, fiilor, învățătura unui tată și luați aminte ca să pricepeți, [2] căci eu vă dau sfaturi bune: nu lepădați învățătura mea!
Proverbele 3:1-6, 8 VDC
[1] Fiule, nu uita învățăturile mele și păstrează în inima ta sfaturile mele! [2] Căci ele îți vor lungi zilele și anii vieții tale și-ți vor aduce multă pace. [3] Să nu te părăsească bunătatea și credincioșia: leagă-ți-le la gât, scrie-le pe tăblița inimii tale! [4] Și, astfel, vei căpăta trecere și minte sănătoasă înaintea lui Dumnezeu și înaintea oamenilor. [5] Încrede-te în Domnul din toată inima ta și nu te bizui pe înțelepciunea ta! [6] Recunoaște-L în toate căile tale, și El îți va netezi cărările.
[8] Aceasta va aduce sănătate trupului tău și răcorire oaselor tale.
Proverbele 4:23 VDC
[23] Păzește-ți inima mai mult decât orice, căci din ea ies izvoarele vieții!
Proverbele 6:20, 22-23 VDC
[20] Fiule, păzește sfaturile tatălui tău și nu lepăda învățătura mamei tale:
[22] Ele te vor însoți în mersul tău, te vor păzi în pat și îți vor vorbi la deșteptare. [23] Căci sfatul este o candelă, învățătura este o lumină, iar îndemnul și mustrarea sunt calea vieții.
Proverbele 8:1, 3-4, 10-11 VDC
[1] Nu strigă înțelepciunea și nu-și înalță priceperea glasul?
[3] și strigă lângă porți, la intrarea cetății, la intrarea porților: [4] „Oamenilor, către voi strig și spre fiii oamenilor se îndreaptă glasul meu.
[10] Primiți mai degrabă învățăturile mele decât argintul și mai degrabă știința decât aurul scump. [11] Căci înțelepciunea prețuiește mai mult decât mărgăritarele și niciun lucru de preț nu se poate asemui cu ea.
[1] Ascultați, fiilor, învățătura unui tată și luați aminte ca să pricepeți, [2] căci eu vă dau sfaturi bune: nu lepădați învățătura mea!
Proverbele 3:1-6, 8 VDC
[1] Fiule, nu uita învățăturile mele și păstrează în inima ta sfaturile mele! [2] Căci ele îți vor lungi zilele și anii vieții tale și-ți vor aduce multă pace. [3] Să nu te părăsească bunătatea și credincioșia: leagă-ți-le la gât, scrie-le pe tăblița inimii tale! [4] Și, astfel, vei căpăta trecere și minte sănătoasă înaintea lui Dumnezeu și înaintea oamenilor. [5] Încrede-te în Domnul din toată inima ta și nu te bizui pe înțelepciunea ta! [6] Recunoaște-L în toate căile tale, și El îți va netezi cărările.
[8] Aceasta va aduce sănătate trupului tău și răcorire oaselor tale.
Proverbele 4:23 VDC
[23] Păzește-ți inima mai mult decât orice, căci din ea ies izvoarele vieții!
Proverbele 6:20, 22-23 VDC
[20] Fiule, păzește sfaturile tatălui tău și nu lepăda învățătura mamei tale:
[22] Ele te vor însoți în mersul tău, te vor păzi în pat și îți vor vorbi la deșteptare. [23] Căci sfatul este o candelă, învățătura este o lumină, iar îndemnul și mustrarea sunt calea vieții.
Proverbele 8:1, 3-4, 10-11 VDC
[1] Nu strigă înțelepciunea și nu-și înalță priceperea glasul?
[3] și strigă lângă porți, la intrarea cetății, la intrarea porților: [4] „Oamenilor, către voi strig și spre fiii oamenilor se îndreaptă glasul meu.
[10] Primiți mai degrabă învățăturile mele decât argintul și mai degrabă știința decât aurul scump. [11] Căci înțelepciunea prețuiește mai mult decât mărgăritarele și niciun lucru de preț nu se poate asemui cu ea.
March 11, 2024
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📢 My son LOVED this book.
I caught him walking to the dinner table while reading it because he could not put it down. Seriously 😂
I *highly* recommend this book for 8-12 year olds! I also recommend the accompanying parents guide as well. I read the parents guide and intended to go through it with my son, but once he started the boys book he did not stop and I didn't get to follow the guide with him at all 😂 now that he's read it though, I intend to go over it with him again with the prompts from the guide.
This book is easy-to-read and marries graphic style doodles and storytelling with great biblical truths. Some topics included are:
Loving God Is for Girls
God is Mad at Me
It’s Not My Fault
No One Needs to Know About My Sin
I Can’t Control My Temper
It Doesn’t Matter What I Watch
Reading the Bible Isn’t for Me
I recommend this for boys like our sons. They are what the world would considered, "sheltered," - thank you very much! I take that as a compliment, not an insult 🤗 this is not focused on more mature topics that older boys deal with, but rather it is truly age appropriate. There was one part about guarding your heart and mind with imagery, like girls in bikinis. Basically, the dad is walking his sons into a gas station and realizes that there are inappropriate posters on the wall. They leave immediately and Dad uses it as a teaching moment.
Honestly I am just super grateful to have received these books from Moody Publishers. I am so pleased with how much my son loved Lies Boys Believe! I will be keeping this for my 6 year old and their baby brother as well!
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📢 My son LOVED this book.
I caught him walking to the dinner table while reading it because he could not put it down. Seriously 😂
I *highly* recommend this book for 8-12 year olds! I also recommend the accompanying parents guide as well. I read the parents guide and intended to go through it with my son, but once he started the boys book he did not stop and I didn't get to follow the guide with him at all 😂 now that he's read it though, I intend to go over it with him again with the prompts from the guide.
This book is easy-to-read and marries graphic style doodles and storytelling with great biblical truths. Some topics included are:
Loving God Is for Girls
God is Mad at Me
It’s Not My Fault
No One Needs to Know About My Sin
I Can’t Control My Temper
It Doesn’t Matter What I Watch
Reading the Bible Isn’t for Me
I recommend this for boys like our sons. They are what the world would considered, "sheltered," - thank you very much! I take that as a compliment, not an insult 🤗 this is not focused on more mature topics that older boys deal with, but rather it is truly age appropriate. There was one part about guarding your heart and mind with imagery, like girls in bikinis. Basically, the dad is walking his sons into a gas station and realizes that there are inappropriate posters on the wall. They leave immediately and Dad uses it as a teaching moment.
Honestly I am just super grateful to have received these books from Moody Publishers. I am so pleased with how much my son loved Lies Boys Believe! I will be keeping this for my 6 year old and their baby brother as well!
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January 9, 2026
This book took me over a year bc I did it as a study with some 6th, now 7th (hehe) grade guys. That’s kind of a weird age to do a study with; they’re on the edge of boyhood and going into manhood. It seemed awkward to tackle more difficult topics like sexuality etc that comes with books targeted to slightly older boys, so my mom suggested I try this book.
It definitely does what it’s supposed to rly well; it’s targeted to 8-12 year olds, so it’s fairly basic and cringy, but it has rly rly good topics. So, in and of itself not great obviously, but it does a great job with the audience it’s targeted towards and it does a great job of providing a scriptural base that I easily expounded upon with Bible studies. However, I review the book itself so… three stars.
It definitely does what it’s supposed to rly well; it’s targeted to 8-12 year olds, so it’s fairly basic and cringy, but it has rly rly good topics. So, in and of itself not great obviously, but it does a great job with the audience it’s targeted towards and it does a great job of providing a scriptural base that I easily expounded upon with Bible studies. However, I review the book itself so… three stars.
December 20, 2023
In my experience, the boy versions of things are ALWAYS better, and this is no exception. To be fair, I never read the girls' version of this book, which didn't exist until I was an adult, but I firmly opted out of reading Lies Young Women Believe in high school, even when someone was organizing a group to read it at church. I knew that it was utterly irrelevant to me, and I really struggled with feeling gender-stereotyped with resources intended for teen girls. My life didn't align with the assumptions that people made about my demographic group, and my sister and I both found things directed to boys far more interesting, helpful, and appealing than their counterparts for girls. I'm glad I had the confidence to pursue those resources, and I'm glad that I can laugh about it now, seeing my assumption bear out once more!
Unlike the other books in the Lies We Believe series, Lies Boys Believe is narrative-driven. It made me think of some of the devotional books my parents used to read to me and my siblings, because we always liked the story-driven ones and would look forward to future installments. In this book's story, two boys are traveling out West with their dad, and they have fun adventures and learn important truths along the way. Although it's definitely a teaching book, the stories are genuinely engaging and the dialogue sounds surprisingly natural and real, even during spiritual conversations.
Erin Davis and Jason Davis are parents of four boys, and it's clear that they wrote this from a lot of knowledge and experience, and specifically designed it to be fun and appealing. A Parent's Guide to Lies Boys Believe shares more about their vision for the book and ideas for how families can use it together, and gives adult-level teaching about the topics in the book, encouraging parents with biblical truth and giving them helpful tips and conversation starters for how to engage with their sons. The book for parents is an optional expense, but it's substantive, includes its own unique content, and doesn't just rehash or outline the content from the boy's book.
Each chapter in Lies Boys Believe covers a different lie and counters it with the corresponding truth, such as "God is always mad at me" and "God forgives!" Some chapters include activity ideas, and they all conclude with a short teaching section with reflection questions and space for boys to write out their answers. The book also avoids culture wars topics, focusing instead on fundamental, basic elements of spiritual formation, such as reading the Bible, repenting of sin, loving Jesus, needing friends, and having self-control. This makes the book appropriate for a broad age range and introduces very few touchy subjects that parents might want to address differently.
However, I thought the chapter about the lie "Girls rule, boys drool" could have used more nuance. Firstly, even though this chapter reflects common dynamics in its contrast between boys acting loud and rambunctious and girls being more subdued, talking a lot, and needing less hands-on parenting, the book doesn't mention the role of personality differences. I wish that the story had acknowledged that even though God made boys and girls different and generalizations sometimes apply, He also made some boys quiet and subdued, and made some girls wild, loud, and energetic.
Secondly, and more significantly to me, the story doesn't provide any historical context for female empowerment messages that end up putting boys down. It's impossible to really understand this dynamic without an awareness of historic sexism and the ways that people react against it now, often going too far in a pendulum swing. For example, one of the boys in this story talks about how a teacher constantly finds fault with the boys in her class, but lavishes praise on the girls. That's a legitimate thing to be upset about, but even though the teacher may just be biased due to her personal preferences, it's highly likely that she thinks that boys are already set for life, and that girls need active support and empowerment to succeed beyond sexist barriers.
Lots of people have such narrow, incomplete perspectives that they ignore and marginalize boys in their attempts to empower and encourage girls, and they don't even see it. This chapter encourages boys that they're important and valuable too, but it completely misses the opportunity to explain why so many people show favoritism for girls. There's also no acknowledgement of continued barriers that girls may face, or the reality that many girls throughout the world lack basic rights and don't even have access to education. Parents can personally provide this context, but I wish that the book had included a brief, gentle explanation that could be a light bulb moment for boys who don't have the social context for why they sometimes get snubbed in adults' eagerness to uplift girls.
Overall, Lies Boys Believe is really good. I enjoyed the narrative-driven approach to teaching life lessons, and appreciate the ways that the authors wove in spiritual truths in a way that feels real instead of overly didactic and forced. This is a great book for parents to read aloud with boys, and it's also great for independent reading and reflection. I would recommend this for families who are looking for engaging resources to help them with faith formation in the home, and many parents will also find the parents' guide helpful as they consider ways to make the most of this discipleship resource and continue to invest in their sons' lives.
I received a free copy from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.
Unlike the other books in the Lies We Believe series, Lies Boys Believe is narrative-driven. It made me think of some of the devotional books my parents used to read to me and my siblings, because we always liked the story-driven ones and would look forward to future installments. In this book's story, two boys are traveling out West with their dad, and they have fun adventures and learn important truths along the way. Although it's definitely a teaching book, the stories are genuinely engaging and the dialogue sounds surprisingly natural and real, even during spiritual conversations.
Erin Davis and Jason Davis are parents of four boys, and it's clear that they wrote this from a lot of knowledge and experience, and specifically designed it to be fun and appealing. A Parent's Guide to Lies Boys Believe shares more about their vision for the book and ideas for how families can use it together, and gives adult-level teaching about the topics in the book, encouraging parents with biblical truth and giving them helpful tips and conversation starters for how to engage with their sons. The book for parents is an optional expense, but it's substantive, includes its own unique content, and doesn't just rehash or outline the content from the boy's book.
Each chapter in Lies Boys Believe covers a different lie and counters it with the corresponding truth, such as "God is always mad at me" and "God forgives!" Some chapters include activity ideas, and they all conclude with a short teaching section with reflection questions and space for boys to write out their answers. The book also avoids culture wars topics, focusing instead on fundamental, basic elements of spiritual formation, such as reading the Bible, repenting of sin, loving Jesus, needing friends, and having self-control. This makes the book appropriate for a broad age range and introduces very few touchy subjects that parents might want to address differently.
However, I thought the chapter about the lie "Girls rule, boys drool" could have used more nuance. Firstly, even though this chapter reflects common dynamics in its contrast between boys acting loud and rambunctious and girls being more subdued, talking a lot, and needing less hands-on parenting, the book doesn't mention the role of personality differences. I wish that the story had acknowledged that even though God made boys and girls different and generalizations sometimes apply, He also made some boys quiet and subdued, and made some girls wild, loud, and energetic.
Secondly, and more significantly to me, the story doesn't provide any historical context for female empowerment messages that end up putting boys down. It's impossible to really understand this dynamic without an awareness of historic sexism and the ways that people react against it now, often going too far in a pendulum swing. For example, one of the boys in this story talks about how a teacher constantly finds fault with the boys in her class, but lavishes praise on the girls. That's a legitimate thing to be upset about, but even though the teacher may just be biased due to her personal preferences, it's highly likely that she thinks that boys are already set for life, and that girls need active support and empowerment to succeed beyond sexist barriers.
Lots of people have such narrow, incomplete perspectives that they ignore and marginalize boys in their attempts to empower and encourage girls, and they don't even see it. This chapter encourages boys that they're important and valuable too, but it completely misses the opportunity to explain why so many people show favoritism for girls. There's also no acknowledgement of continued barriers that girls may face, or the reality that many girls throughout the world lack basic rights and don't even have access to education. Parents can personally provide this context, but I wish that the book had included a brief, gentle explanation that could be a light bulb moment for boys who don't have the social context for why they sometimes get snubbed in adults' eagerness to uplift girls.
Overall, Lies Boys Believe is really good. I enjoyed the narrative-driven approach to teaching life lessons, and appreciate the ways that the authors wove in spiritual truths in a way that feels real instead of overly didactic and forced. This is a great book for parents to read aloud with boys, and it's also great for independent reading and reflection. I would recommend this for families who are looking for engaging resources to help them with faith formation in the home, and many parents will also find the parents' guide helpful as they consider ways to make the most of this discipleship resource and continue to invest in their sons' lives.
I received a free copy from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.
August 16, 2024
Totally geared to middle-grade boys!!
Lots of illustrations, comics, maps, and cool fonts. Some great real world stories and examples, combined with great scripture references.
I think my only complaint is it may be a bit too much text for some readers, and the "hook" that it is graphic novel meets Bible is a stretch (I have an avid graphic novel reader, and this would not appeal to him if 'advertised' to him in that way).
Lots of illustrations, comics, maps, and cool fonts. Some great real world stories and examples, combined with great scripture references.
I think my only complaint is it may be a bit too much text for some readers, and the "hook" that it is graphic novel meets Bible is a stretch (I have an avid graphic novel reader, and this would not appeal to him if 'advertised' to him in that way).
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