Closer To God
Resources to help you study your Bible.
Maybe you've made a new years resolution to read your bible more, perhaps you're just feeling the need to go deeper in bible study or maybe you're struggling to study your bible at all! Below are some resources that may be of some use to you, starting with Study Bibles, then on to Bible reading notes and finally Online tools.
Bibles
 | Understand the Bible in a deeper way. The ESV Study Bible was created to help people understand the Bible in a deeper way. To accomplish this, it combines the best and most recent evangelical Christian scholarship with the highly regarded ESV Bible text. The result is the most comprehensive study Bible ever created, which raises the bar in terms of quality and quantity to a level that will not be matched for decades. |
 | Life Application Study Bible - NLT
Todays No 1 selling Study Bible is full of notes that explain God's Word and help you apply its truth to your life.  The Life Application Study Bible, includes nearly 10,000 notes and features designed to help the reader apply God's truth to everyday life. Personality profiles highlight over 100 important Bible characters. Book introductions provide vital statistics, overview, and time line to help readers understand the message of each book. Two hundred thumbnail maps highlight important Bible places and events and 260 charts help explain difficult concepts and relationships.
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 | Take an exciting, year-long journey through the Bible, following events as they happened. Increase your confidence in the Bible as you see Gods strategic plan and purposes unfold across the centuries. You will be amazed at the genius of Gods promise plan, and you will come to know your heavenly Father in a deeper way as you read through His Word chronologically. The full text of the flowing Holman Christian Standard translation (HCSB) augmented by beautiful illustrations, maps, charts, diagrams, and a timeline provides a highly motivating reading experience. The daily reading structure of Cover to Cover Complete makes it easy to complete the entire Bible in one year, and key Scripture verses and devotional thoughts make each days reading more meaningful. Reference Book of the Year 2008 (UK Christian booksellers) |
Bible Reading Notes
 | This daily Bible reading publication is one of the most popular daily Bible study tools in the world with around a million readers an issue. |
 | Join thousands of women around the world who open their Bibles daily with Inspiring Women Every Day, now in its fourth year of publication |
 | These life application Bible reading notes are written by Jeff Lucas, Spring Harvest speaker and well-known author. |
 | Daily Bread helps people explore, understand and enjoy the Bible - and work it out in everyday life. Daily Bread gives you:
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 | Closer To God is for anyone who longs to hear God's voice in today's noisy world. If you believe or hope that God speaks to ordinary people; loving, freeing, changing and healing them, then Closer To God is for you. |
Young Peoples Bible Study Guides -
 | Topz is a popular bimonthly devotional for 7-11-year-olds. The Topz Gang teach children biblical truths through word games, puzzles, riddles, cartoons, competitions, simple prayers and daily Bible readings. |
 | YP's is a dynamic bimonthly devotional for 11-15-year-olds. Each issue is packed with cool graphics, special features and suggestions on how to get involved, plus daily Bible readings and commentary for 60 days. |
 | Designed for 14-18-year-olds, Mettle is published every four months and tackles Bible themes as well as the 'hot potato' issues that young people face today |
Books
 | For the Love of God Volumes 1&2 'Oh, how I love your law... Your statutes are my heritage for ever; they are the joy of my heart...' Psalm 119:97, 111 This devotional guide follows Robert Murry m'Cheyne's Bible-reading plan, taking you through the New Testament and Psalms twice and the Old Testament once. Don Carson has written thought-provoking comments and reflections to accompany one of each day's scriptural passages. |
Online Resources
Following on from the "For the Love of God" books above, as of 1st January 2010 Don Carson's commentary in these books as available for FREE online at the this address:
http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/loveofgod/
check it out and take advantage of this amazing resource.
Also well worth investigating is the free resource provided by Scripture Union:
WordLive
recieve emails daily, complete with your bible passage for the day along with commentary and a multitude of other interactive and visual elements - Bible study for 2010!