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NIV Application Bible Review

May 10, 2025 by Linda @ Linda's Lunacy Leave a Comment

I recently received this NIV Application Bible. As someone who tries to read her Bible regularly, I appreciate a Bible with added features. Like TWO ribbon book marks. That this one has. Let me tell you about some of the other features this Bible offers.

NIV Application Bible

NIV Application Bible

This NIV Application Bible is a hardcover, with a dust jacket. I do appreciate a hard cover Bible when I am holding it on my lap to read.

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The NIV Application Bible Bible contains more than 50 charts throughout. I also love the Book introductions. As well as the Application Notes. These are so helpful when you are studying the Bible. There are Questions for Growth in each chapter to encourage reflection on how to apply Scripture to life.

NIV Application Bible

There are many notes throughout the NIV Application Bible to help you understand the verses, and the original meaning. I find the 45 full-color in-text maps help me follow along with the locations of biblical events. There is also a 16-page full-color map section in the back.

NIV Application Bible Review

Also included in the back of the NIV Application Bible are a NIV Dictionary-Concordance, an index of the included charts, and three Bible reading plans. The first is a Topical Reading Plan that covers ten different topics over the course of 52 weeks. With this plan, you aren’t reading through the whole Bible, but only what pertains to those topics. The second is a one year reading Pan. The third is a three year reading plan that typically only has one chapter per day to read.

NIV Application Bible

I found the NIV Application Bible to have many, many features that make it a great Bible to use for study. The hard cover, two ribbon bookmarks, the 3 reading plans, and helpful life application notes make it the perfect Bible for daily reading.

Whatever your reasons for getting a new bible are, this one just may have what you are looking for. It makes a great gift, too!

For more information, and to purchase the NIV Application Bible, visit HERE

Disclosure: Many thanks to Frontgate for providing a sample of the product for this review. Opinions are 100% my own.

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The New CSB Jesus Daily Bible Review

January 24, 2025 by Linda @ Linda's Lunacy 1 Comment

If you have always wanted to read through the Bible, this new CSB Jesus Daily Bible is for you!

Already read through the Bible, maybe several times, like me? This Bible is for you, too! Keep reading to see why!

Jesus Daily Bible Review

With the Bible in a year plan that I have used in the past, I had to check off on the list every day. And keep track of where I was every day. With the Jesus Daily Bible, the days are marked right on the pages of the Bible! This makes it so easy! And with the attached ribbon bookmark no need to search for your place every day.

The new CSB Jesus Daily Bible includes a 52-week, Christ-focused, guided reading plan that you can join at any point during the year. I love that! You can start when you want to start. Some reading plans have readings 7 days a week. Which is great. However, when you are reading through the Bible in a year, each days reading can take approximately 45 minutes in my experience. This Bible has planned readings for 5 days a week. So if you have to skip a day, or are not able to read a whole days reading each day, you have built in makeup days. And let’s face it. Our lives are so busy now, we need those days to catch up.

Each week starts with an overview of what is being read that week. These are a single page describing the reading and a list of each days reading. As well as a bullet point list of where to find Christ in that weeks reading. This Bible will help keep Jesus at the center of each day.

Each chapter also has an overview. These overviews are a single column on the first page of the chapter. There are also helpful articles and infographics throughout.

Read through this Bible in one year and see how every page of God’s Word points to the bigger story of Jesus.

Order your copy of the CSB Jesus Daily Bible today! Learn more at CSBJesusDailyBible.com

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CSB Grace Bible For Kids

December 5, 2024 by Linda @ Linda's Lunacy 4 Comments

The CSB Grace Bible for Kids was created in partnership with Holman Bibles, 2K/DENMARK and Cambridge University. This kids Bible is designed to enhance readability for kids with all levels and varieties of dyslexia and other reading challenges.

CSB Grace Bible For Kids

The CSB Grace Bible for Kids features innovative and academically tested typeface, layout, and design principles. These principles include distinct letter forms and added space between letters, words, lines, and paragraphs. Included with the Bible are 10 colored overlays, created by Cambridge University’s Research Department, that enhance visual processing. Kids with dyslexia, and other reading challenges, can choose the color that works best for them.

Grace Bible Review

I started a tradition with our oldest, that when they learned how to read, we got them a Bible with their name on it. We continued that with all 6 of our children. Now we have 3 grandchildren, with the oldest now in Kindergarten. And I get to start the tradition over! All that to say, I have been looking at Bibles for kids again.

Here’s a tip I learned. A lot of Christian book stores will imprint a name on the front of a Bible you purchased from them for free. I recently found out that the store closest to me will imprint a name on a Bible you bring in for a fee. Well worth it to be able to bring in your choice of Bible to have a name imprinted on it.

I have fallen in love with the CSB Grace Bible for Kids! The large print, easy to read layout, the colored overlays, study helps geared towards kids. All help to make reading this Bible easier and enjoyable for kids. And if it’s enjoyable, they will read it more!

There are more study helps and special features than I can include photos of. These are two of my favorite. A picture timeline of Jesus’ life. And the family tree of Abraham. Both a great help for kids in understanding the Bible.

I’m now looking forward to my granddaughter progressing with her reading so I can give it to her! I highly recommend the CSB Grace Bible For Kids. Perfect for those who struggle with reading, and it’s also a great Bible for all kids!

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Encountering God Study Bible Review & Giveaway

May 3, 2024 by Linda @ Linda's Lunacy 4 Comments

We did an Experiencing God by Henry & Richard Blackaby Bible study at church last year that I really liked. So when I saw that the Blackaby’s had a new Encountering God Study Bible available, I looked forward to using it.

The Blackaby family have spend decades pastoring, planting churches and developing books and Bible studies to help everyone have an encounter with God. The Encountering God Study Bible is the crowning work of the Blackabys. Look how many Blackabys contributed to this Bible!

Encountering God Study Bible Review

Featuring their trusted approach to Bible study, this Study Bible includes:


Notes highlighting how God might choose to encounter you in His Word
Notes explaining ideas, events, people and places in the text
Word studies, character studies, and biographical sketches of figures from church history
Notes to help you navigate current cultural issues

Encountering God Study Bible Review

Encountering God Study Bible Review

First off, the black, leathersoft Bible is a very handsome Bible, with nice stitching, and metallic printing on the spine. One of my favorite things about this study Bible is that it has two different colored, attached ribbon bookmarks. My other Bibles either have one or no bookmarks. The Bible reading plan we are using at church this year has us reading a chapter from the Old Testament, and the New Testament, every day. So I really appreciate the two ribbon bookmarks.

Encountering God Study Bible Review

Inside the Encountering God Study Bible, the font is a good, easily readable size. They call this “Comfort Print”. I found the font to be pleasant to read. The pages are formatted as other Bibles. With two columns of text, with a middle column of verse cross references. As well as notes across the bottom of the pages.

Encountering God Study Bible Review

Study Bible Features

This Bible also features “Encounter Notes” throughout. These encounter notes highlight how God has chosen to encounter us in His word. There is not one on every page, but the Encounter Notes have the verse that it applies to in the corner, so it’s easy to refer to the verse it is referencing.

Encountering God Study Bible Review

Bible Character Studies are scattered throughout this Bible. Also included are biological sketches, Historical Encounters, of people who have lived out their faith.

Encountering God Study Bible Review

There is a nice introduction section at the beginning of each chapter of this Bible. This introduction features 4 sections. Introduction, Significance, Structure, and Encountering God Through “name of book”. I found these Encountering God sections to contain information not found in other Bibles that I own. Yes, I own several different Bibles.

Encountering God Study Bible Review

There are many reference sections in the back of this Bible. Including an Index to Special Features, 4 pages long, where you can find all of the special notes I mentioned above.

Encountering God Study Bible Review

You can go here to read the book of Genesis from this Bible.

Encountering God Study Bible

The Encountering God Study Bible comes in a variety of cover options. Hardcover, leather, and leathersoft – which is what I received, as well as a couple of different colors. However, it only comes in one version, NKJV.

I have enjoyed using this awesome study Bible. It can be used on it’s own, clearly, but it is also works nicely alongside any reading plan or bible study that you are using.

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Disclosure: Many thanks to Harper Collins Christian Publishing for providing a sample of the product for this review. Opinions are 100% my own and NOT influenced by monetary compensation.

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It Is Finished Book Review

February 9, 2024 by Linda @ Linda's Lunacy Leave a Comment

I love to make Easter a special time of the year. So when I saw the book It Is Finished: A 40-Day Pilgrimage Back to the Cross, I knew I wanted to read it. It Is Finished is the new book written by Charles Martin, the best selling author of 25 books. Some faith based, some fiction.

It Is Finished

Through forty days of captivating storytelling, the author takes you on a journey back to the cross, encouraging you to look at it from a different perspective each day and ask God to reveal to you:

What did Jesus mean when he said, It is finished as he was dying on the cross?

When did what Jesus finished at the cross begin?

How does Jesus’ death 2,000 years ago relate to me today?

What is God offering at the cross that I often forget or take for granted?

What does God know about me that I don’t realize?


The book aims to open your eyes and heart to the answer to the question that can change your life: ‘Lord, why me? Why did you endure the cross and despise the shame for me?’

It Is Finished is perfect for reading during Lent, the 40 days leading up to Easter. It can definitely be read anytime, though!

Mr. Martin states in the forward that he wanted each days devotion to be about a cup of coffee long. Maybe two. I don’t drink coffee, lol, but I found the length to fit that scenario. It takes me an average of 15 minutes for each days reading. Of course, that will vary for everyone.

It Is Finished Book Review

I found each devotional to be both interesting and informative. I have learned a few things that I didn’t know. Which leads to something else I loved about It Is Finished. The Notes section in the back of the book. Here the author references every Bible verse used, and version of the Bible he used. (He uses the ESV Bible, unless otherwise noted.) As well as any books, or online articles he got information from.

For example, on Day 1, he talked about heel bone crucifixion, which I don’t recall hearing about before. So there are a couple of articles in the notes section that I was able to look up. Which is something I love from an educational viewpoint.

It Is Finished Book

Each day’s reading features the main body of the devotional, a Walk With Me Back To The Cross section, Pray With Me and a And God Responds section. Each section varies in length each day.

The Walk With Me Back To The Cross section does just that. Takes the reader back to the cross. To Jesus. The reasons He went to the cross, the love He has for us, and more, citing Bible Verses to take us there.

Pray With Me is a written prayer for the reader to pray that relates to what was discussed in that days devotional.

And God Responds contains Bible verses that relate to the prayer.

A devotionals purpose is to help you grow closer to God. To find one that educates as well, is a wonderful mix. In my opinion, It Is Finished accomplishes both of those. I love Charles Martin’s writing style in this devotional. It held my attention throughout. This isn’t a quick, get it done devotional. It will take you deeper.

Here’s a quote from the Forward:

His desire is to expose the ugly in us in order to reveal the pure and beautiful and Holy in Himself. Why? The next forty days are my attempt to answer this question.

Lent this year is Wednesday, February 14, to Thursday, March 28. Get It Is Finished now to use as your devotional!

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Disclosure: Thanks for FrontGate Media and W Publishing Group for a copy of It Is Finished for review purposes. Opinions are 100% my own.

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Sepulchre Candles Review

December 19, 2023 by Linda @ Linda's Lunacy Leave a Comment

I feel like every single one of us could use more prayers these days. And offer more prayers for others. I recently found out about Sepulchre Candles. Sepulchre Candles’ mission is to pray for God’s blessing on mankind and to share the truth and love of Christ. I had the opportunity to have a candle lit for my own prayer requests.

The entrance to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.

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Sepulchre Candles

Believers and nonbelievers all visit this holy site looking for truth. Let them see the truth of believers around the world putting their hope in Jesus as they look around at a room full of candles representing their faith. This monumental place is truly a witness to the world!

Every day candles are lit in the church of the Holy Sepulchre. These candles symbolize Christ’s resurrection from the grave. Each candle is lit with a prayer for a person in need of God’s blessing. Each candle symbolizes the light of Jesus in our world.

A church leader will perform a blessing on your candle, and light it on your behalf in the Holy Sepulchre. Here’s how it works. You submit your prayer requests. Your prayer requests will be printed and placed on the Stone of Anointing. Commemorative photos of your lighted candle and prayer requests placed on the Stone of Anointing will be emailed to you.

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I was able to submit 3 of my own, personal prayer requests. Then I received several pictures of my candle and prayer requests via email just a few days later.

For me, I always find it touching and humbling when others pray for me. To have my prayer request prayed for me in the Holy Land seems extra special, and comforting to me.

What a beautiful and meaningful gift to give! By choosing to give this as a gift, your loved ones can send in their own prayers to be said and a candle lit in the Holy Sepulcher.

Here are 3 options that are available from Sepulchre Candles.

~Light a Candle -This is the experience I got.

~7 Day Prayer candle – A single candle is lit for 7 continuous days, your candle and prayer requests are placed on the Stone of the Anointing.

~Light a candle and have it returned to you in an olive wood box – I think this gift would be especially meaningful for someone going through a really hard time.

Any of those would be loved and appreciated if received as a gift. Gifts come in the form of a gift certificate, so it’s not too late for gift giving this year!

Find out more about Sepulchre Candles and having a candle light for your prayer requests HERE.

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Disclosure: Thanks to FrontGate Media for this campaign.

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Go MVMT Action Kit – FREE

May 27, 2022 by Linda @ Linda's Lunacy Leave a Comment

What is the Go MVMT Action Kit? And why do you need it? Keep reading!

Have you ever wanted to share the Gospel with others, but felt like you didn’t know how to? It takes a lot of courage and boldness to share with others. That courage and boldness doesn’t just come from no where. We have to the information that gives us the confidence to be bold and courageous.

Now you can get a FREE Go MVMY Action Kit that will give you the information and tools you need. So you will have the confidence to share the Gospel. Check it out!

Go MVMT Action Kit

The GO MVMT Action Kit is all about helping Christians develop the confidence to share the Gospel by resourcing them with an action kit. This digital action kit is free and has amazing tools inside.

1 ~ Prayer: Tools to pray for the unreached, including the people you want to share the gospel with.

2 ~  Care: How to we care for the people we want to reach with the Gospel.  This section provides some great insight on an often missed step in evangelism.

3 ~ Share.  It’s easier than you think! The action kit really helps!

Everyone can reach someone. Together we can reach the world!

Go watch the video on the website about the Go MVMT . It’s short, only 1 minute long, but explains what the Go MVMT & the Go MVMT Action Kit are.

The Go MVMT Action Kit you download is 6 pages long, that goes into detail about the 3 steps above. Printing it out will allow you to take it with you where ever you go. You can also download it to your phone, and access it digitally.

Either way, I believe that this Go MVMT Action Kit will be very helpful to all Christians that want to share their faith. Whether you’re just starting to share, or are experienced.

You can learn more at : https://gomvmt.us/

Download your Go MVMT Action Kit now!


Disclosure:
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