Wednesday, December 23, 2009

“NKJV Greatest Stories of the Bible”

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This book is awesome! Thomas Nelson Publishers gave me a chance to review a copy of my own, and I’m so glad I took them up on the offer.

Basically, this is a collection of 250 of the greatest stories in the Bible, written out in paragraph and chapter form. The Biblical chapters and verses are still included, and the translation is the New King James Version. It’s great.

The book itself is gorgeous, too, and I’m thinking it would be awesome to have as a family heirloom.

I love it. I’ll admit that I didn’t read right through it, cover to cover, Genesis to Revelation, but I did skim the table of contents and read the stories I haven’t read in awhile. It’s great for that, since you can check the contents and flip straight to the story you’re looking for. One downside, though, is that by reading Scripture this way, you lose some of the contextual tidbits that sometimes shed important light on the story.

All in all, though, I think it’s a great book. I wish I could get one for everyone I know.

1 of your thoughts:

Weezer said...

I was wondering what the book was when I saw a picture of it on your sidebar. It's a beautiful book from the cover. Now I'm sure I'd like to have one. Maybe I need to see what I have to do to get on the Nelson reading program.
Your reviews are much better than what I do with my little 'What I'm REading' reviews.