Featured Projects

  • Read the Bible Aloud

    Some of the most fun I've had in my Bible study time has been sustained periods of shouting God's Word aloud. Throughout Scripture God calls His people to response and action, and often a spoken word is the simplest form of response. Putting God's Word in your mouth and ears may be the most effective way of placing it within your heart.

  • Moleskine Notebook Bible

    Create an interleaved Bible by pasting alternating pages from old abused paperback editions into a large plain notebook. With a little ingenuity and some old Bibles and some household items you can have a study tool similar to Jonathan Edward's blank Bible.

  • Creating Cross References

    One of the most common ways to take notes in your Bible is to create your own cross-references in the margins, linking verses that interpret and illuminate each other. Often the process and order of creating these cross references leads to new revelation as topics connect and diverge, one theme leads to another and the relationship between topics in the Word often brings light.

  • Newsletters

    My monthly newsletter articles feature the fruits of study and obedience to fulfill God's call as an urban missionary in the Metro Detroit area. The newsletter posts feature the opening article and a link to the full newsletter and to old newsletters. The articles focus on discovering intimacy and passion on the urban mission field and in Muslim Ministry.

  • Christ's Commands: Amplified Bible

    This highlighting project didn't start out with a complex color scheme, but grew from the desire to focus on a single subject. Jesus makes an unequivocal statement in John 14:15 that constantly challenged me as a young believer and continues to stir me and burn me today: "If you love me you will keep my commandments."p>

  • Homemade KJV Looseleaf

    printkjv.ifbweb.com offers free Microsoft word and Plain Text files of the entire KJV. This means that the text block can reformatted and printed it any way. It also features the books of the Bible in individual documents so you can print an individual book to look at. Perhaps the most obvious use of this resource is the creation of an interleaf Bible.p>

Friday, April 29, 2011

Review: The Take Action Bible

Put the Word of God into action. The Take ActionTM Bible features real-life stories and full-color photos of people who are putting their faith into action. Actions range from raising money with a lemonade stand to relocating on the mission field. Read their inspiring stories, and follow their examples with 52 ideas for you to put God's Word into action.Features include: 
  • 48 full-color pages 
  • 15 real-life stories show how to take action with God's Word 
  • 52 Take ActionTM ideas 
  • Personal Take ActionTM note pages
  • New King James VersionR (NKJV) UltraSlim Bible text
  • Translation and text notes
  • Words of Jesus in red
  • Concordance
  • Bible reading plan




Thomas Nelson's Take Action Bible is a themed edition of a fairly straight-forward mass market paperback edition. The two column text block features a 7pt font printed on thin paper, which makes the Bible fairly thin with the spine measuring less than an inch thick. The whole Bible is squeezed fairly well into this package and interspersed with full color inserts that challenge the reader to Go, Serve, Give, Heal, and Teach.

While this Bible does not bring much new material or ideas to the market, it is tied into an important campaign to spread God's Word, reach the lost and serve the poor. The devotional content inspires the reader to pursue practical applications of the gospel. The poor quality of the paper makes this less than ideal for highlighting projects, but still a good paperback Bible to read thematically with highlighters or other marking schemes. It is also part of an admirable marketing campaign for World Vision.

http://www.seegodswordinaction.com/



My thanks to Thomas Nelson for providing this complimentary review copy. I was not required to give a positive review but an honest review.

Posted by Jonathan Ammon at 4:41 PM
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