Reading: Personal Bible Reading

Rooting women's lives in the Bible

Day by Day with God are Bible reading notes specifically written for women. All the contributors are women and write from a woman's perspective. The entries for each day contain a suggested Bible reading, with the key verse written out in full, a helpful comment that engages heart and mind and a short reflection or prayer. The regular team of contributors are all excellent writers. Whatever your current situation in life, you will be inspired and encouraged by these notes.

Author: Ed. Catherine Butcher

A Conversation in the Art of Spiritual Reading

Continuing Peterson's major evaluation of contemporary Christian spirituality, EAT THIS BOOK focuses on spiritual reading. Taking its title from the angel's instruction to John in the Book of Revelation: 'Take it and eat it; it will be bitter in your stomach, but sweet as honey in your mouth.', EAT THIS BOOK discusses the challenges and benefits of how we engage with Scripture today. As with other books in the series, EAT THIS BOOK is written for both academic and serious lay audiences. Challenging but rewarding, it combines first-rate scholarship with illustrations drawn from raw human experience.

A thoughtful, in-depth approach to systematic Bible reading applied to contemporary living. Inspiring, stimulating, biblical exposition. Encounter with God is Scripture Union's quarterly, daily Bible reading guide designed to lead you to a deeper understanding of what God is saying to you and to his world today.

With around a million reader each issue, this compact bimonthly devotonal is one of the most popular Bible devotionals in the world.

Bible notes for adults

92 daily Bible readings to help you understand clearly the message and challenge of the Word of God. Many Christians find it difficult to regularly read the Bible. It can be quite a task to find one's way around such a large, diverse and ancient collection of writings. The big question is - how does it all fit together? The best way to find the answer is to adopt a pattern of daily Bible Study and prayer. This offers the reader a daily chance to listen and hear God speaking personally to them through His strongest medium - The Word.

Your introduction to a regular time with God

Your introduction to a regular time with God. You may never have discovered how a regular 'quiet time' can help you grow and mature as a Christian. This short guide will help you get started. With daily readings, prompts and advice, it will encourage you to get established in a routine of engaging with God, and to discover the joy and liberty that comes from knowing Him. Join with the thousands of Christians around the globe who use Explore to help them read the Bible and pray every day.

A daily companion for discovering the riches of God's word

This devotional guide takes 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.

Author: D. A. Carson

A daily companion for discovering the riches of God's word

This companion volume to 'For the Love of God - Vol. 1' offers a perspective that places each reading into the larger framework of history and God's eternal plan, in order to deepen our understanding of his sovereignty and the unity and power of his Word.

Author: D. A. Carson

Keeping Your Focus When Your Dreams are Shattered (Genesis 37-50) 4 lessons

Have you ever been falsely accused or suffered from injustice? This study of Joseph is your manual for handling these painful situations. Learn how to rise above difficulties by trusting God. In-depth inductive study in an easy-to-follow daily format. Companion lecture CDs and DVDs are available. Training required for leaders.

Keeping Your Focus When Your Dreams are Shattered (Genesis 37-50) 4 lessons

Have you ever been falsely accused or suffered from injustice? This study of Joseph is your manual for handling these painful situations. Learn how to rise above difficulties by trusting God. In-depth inductive study in an easy-to-follow daily format. Companion lecture CDs and DVDs are available. Training required for leaders.

120 Experiential Devotions

120 opportunities to not only read God's big story, but to step into his big story. Each of them has a scripture bit, which you read out and about somewhere in context, or an active outworking of the text. E.g. as Moses prayed for the battle below in Exodus 17, you'll be at the top of your local multi-storey car park, praying for the spiritual battles in your town... OR meditating on what it meant for Jesus to wash the disciples' feet, as you wash your neighbour's car (our 21st form of transport) OR praying with 2 others while watching the news for the situations mentioned Knowing grows in the doing. These days learning that lasts happens experientially. Think about what French you can still remember - it’s the French you spoke on holidays, not the stuff you learnt in class. This book crafts 120 experiences for you. We get to know Jesus by being in his vicinity, doing what he is doing, not by hiding away in a corner.

Taking the story of Joseph, R.T. Kendall illustrates some of the ways in which God prepares us for his service. God Meant it For Good traces the stages of Joseph's life as he matures from a young and impetuous man to one who is prepared to leave his own vindication with God.

Author: R T Kendall

Bible Study for today's ministry and mission

Guidelines is a unique Bible reading resource that offers four months of in-depth study written by leading scholars. Contributors are drawn from around the world, as well as the UK, and represent a stimulating and thought-provoking breadth of Christian tradition. Instead of the usual dated daily readings, Guidelines provides weekly units, broken into at least six sections, plus an introduction giving context for the passage and a final section of points for thought and prayer.

Author: Ed. Jeremy Duff

Written by women, for women, to inspire and encourage all ages. These notes will help you to build your faith and encourage and inspire you.

Matthew 5:1-12

The Beatitudes are among the best-known verses in the Bible, but have you ever taken the time to find out what they really mean? The Good Living Guide will not only help you discover afresh the meaning of Matthew 5:1-12, it will teach you how to understan

Author: Phillip D Jensen & Tony Payne

Conquering Your Enemies: 7 lessons

God said, "Be strong and courageous! Do not tremble or be dismayed." Increase your faith in God who has put you in His grip and will never let you go! This study will charge you up and encourage you to press on! In-depth inductive study in an easy-to-follow daily format. Companion lecture CDs and DVDs are available. Training required for leaders.

Don’t Despair. There’s Hope. You Have a Kinsman Redeemer. (Ruth) 3 lessons

If you were a slave, who would buy your freedom? If you had an enemy, who would come to your defense? In the Old Testament, this buyer-defender known as a "kinsman - redeemer" was usually a close relative. If you're a believer, you already have one – Jesus Christ! This rich study shows how Jesus both bought us (redeemer) and advocates (defends) for us, offering us an opportunity to rebuild our broken lives. A great short study to introduce friends to a taste of inductive Bible study. In-depth inductive study in an easy-to-follow daily format. Companion lecture CDs and DVDs are available. Training required for leaders.

Daily Bible emails

Now read in 12 languages and 207 different countries, there's something about this simple email service that really connects with people. Life Changing Words is a daily Bible email, delivered each morning, with lots of poster, e-cards and online tools for sharing the scriptures with friends.

Light for our Path, edited by Kate Hughes, is an ideal place to start exploring the Bible. The daily notes introduce you to some of the biblical books as a whole, but they also cover a variety of themes, showing how the Old and New Testaments read together can reveal the depth, richness and relevance of the Bible for today’s world. This is not a book of technical Bible study: rather, writers from all over the world and from many different churches help you to meditate on the word of God and see its relevance for your own life as they share its relevance to their lives.

Daily Bible reflections

Living Light focusses on a Bible passage for a week, looking at a specific verse each day. The daily notes help the reader to understand the Biblical passage and apply it approrpiately to their real life today. Available FREE of charge for the first six months.

Joseph for today

An engaging guide to the Joseph story and its relevance today. In a lively and gripping way, Pete Wilcox unfolds the story of Joseph in fourteen dramatic episodes. With a light touch and the sensitivity of one who has listened carefully to the biblical text, Wilcox allows the narrative to give up its treasures, and enables his readers to set their own stories alongside it.

Author: Pete Wilcox

A devotional study on God's Care and Deliverance

No matter how deep the wounds, God can heal your hurts. Everyone hurts. The pain runs deep, the scars never seem to fade, the memories torment us. As a result, our growth is stunted, our walk crippled, our relationships infected. Will relief ever come? Yes - when you put yourself in the hand of Jehovah-rapha, the God who heals! No matter what you have done or what has been done to you, He wants to be your refuge. He loves you and He offers healing for your deepest wounds. This powerful insightful study will minister to you in a deeply restorative way and these are truths you will want to share with others.

Author: Kay Arthur

A devotional study on the Names of God

Discover the limitless power of God's Name. So much of our confusion and pain results because we don't know God - who He is, how He works in our lives. When you know God more fully by studying His names - Creator, Healer, Protector, Provider, and many others, you'll gain power to stand strong. You'll find strength for times of trial, comfort for pain, provision for your soul's deepest needs and your walk with God will be transformed.

Author: Kay Arthur

A devotional study on Spiritual Victory

Are you fully equipped for Spiritual Battle? Once you become a Christian, you enter a war zone. The problem is, you may never even realize it. 'Lord Is It Warfare' will equip you to recognise and understand spiritual warfare is inevitable for those who follow the Lord Jesus Christ. You will learn all the battle tactics and devices of your adversary, Satan. You will discover scriptural ways to overcome the enemy by turning to Christ, who loves you and offers you all the strength, wisdom, and power you need for victory.

Author: Kay Arthur

A devotional study on Having a Passion for God

Throughout his ministry the apostle Paul was criticized, opposed, and attacked. He wrestled with his weaknesses. He struggled with fragile relationships, He was often weary, tired and discouraged. In this study based on 2 Corinthians, you will examine the anatomy of a heart for God. What does it look like? What does it feel like? How can you strengthen your own relationship with God? Despite the physical, emotional and spiritual pain of life, Paul could rest in the God of all comfort and strength. He could walk in obedience to his calling. He could fight the good fight, finish his race, and keep the faith. Through this compelling, insightful and moving Bible study, so can you.

Author: Kay Arthur

A devotional study on God's power for Daily Living

In the dark times of failure and fear, let God lavish His grace on you. There are times when we all wonder if we’ll make it in life - and if it's even worth trying. Feelings of unworthiness and guilt over past sins, times of spiritual weakness and inadequacy - the burdens seem overwhelming. Don't give up! God's grace is available freely and lavishly for all who would take it. This devotional study will minister to you in intimate ways.

Author: Kay Arthur

Applying the Bible to life each day with these challenging life application notes written by Jeff Lucas.

Bible readings for your walk with God

New Daylight offers four months of daily Bible reading and reflection for everybody who wants to go deeper with God. It is ideal for those looking for a fresh approach to regular Bible study, and offers a talented team of contributors who present a Bible passage (text included), helpful comment and a prayer or thought for the day ahead.

Author: Ed. Noami Starkey

Bible Readings for Your Walk with God

New Daylight offers daily Bible readings and reflections for everybody who wants to go deeper with God. The free app contains a sample of 7 readings and reflections that you can keep and use on your iPhone forever. Subscriptions to future readings are available for purchase within the app. It is ideal for those looking for a fresh approach to regular Bible study, and offers a talented team of contributors who present a Bible passage (text included), helpful comment and a prayer or thought for the day ahead.

Eddison, John

God speaks to us through His Word, the Bible. It can be exciting, challenging and inspiring all at the same time. It contains truth on every page. Newness of Life is an introduction to reading the Bible for yourself, and will help people of all stages of the Christian life.

This unique book arranges the entire Bible into easily-digestible readings for every day of the year. It includes a time chart and Bible maps to help you appreciate the flow of biblical history. Other useful lists help explain the background to the Bible. The translation used is the New International Version (NIV) – the world’s most popular Bible. It uses ‘anglicised’ text: British spelling, grammar and punctuation that allow the Bible to be read more fluently and accurately.

Author: New International Version

Daily Readings from the Holy Bible

First published over 200 years ago, Daily Light is a world-renowned arrangement of morning and evening Bible readings for every day of the year, used by thousands of people around the world. Each page of Daily Light features morning and evening readings which provide: * A sentence from Scripture on key themes, such as hardship, hope and eternal life. * A selection of additional verses that expand and develop the main theme, for more in-depth devotion. * Readings for special occasions, such as marriage or the birth of a child. * Readings for particular circumstances, such as anxiety or stress.

Author: New International Version

The One Year Bible Forum takes the passages of the day and, started by some thoughts from some of the leaders and theologians at HTB, allows us to discuss what God is saying day by day through His Word. Come and join the conversation.

Exodus 1-20

n Exodus 1-20 we meet the true and living God who makes and keeps promises, who judges, saves and triumphs, who provides for his people and teaches them his holy ways. A set of 8 simple studies that cover the early and momentous chapters of Exodus. It giv

Author: Bryson Smith

KORE has announced the release of its Red Letter Days iPhone application, available for free download in the iTunes store. The simple application gives you easy access to the words of Jesus....and nothing else. The App provides iPhone and iPod Touch users with the opportunity to become familiar with those words, allowing them to impact their lives all day, every day. The functions include daily verses, random selection and an option to email to a friend. Bible versions included in the App are as follows: - New International Version - The Message - New Living Translation - New King James Version - New American Standard Bible - Contemporary English Version - Amplified Bible - The Street Bible Find the App in the iTunes store by searching for 'RedLetterDay' or 'Red Letter Days'.

Freed from sin's penalty (Romans 1-5). 14 lessons

All have sinned. There is none righteous. We are declared righteous by God only by faith in the blood of His Son. Romans 1-5 explains the foundational doctrines of our faith - original sin, justification, redemption, and propitiation. Gain an excellent grasp of the doctrine of salvation! In-depth inductive study in an easy-to-follow daily format. Companion lecture CDs and DVDs are available. Training required for leaders.

The study guide to the Bible

'Search the Scriptures' offers guidance for daily Bible study and aims to make it a delight as well as a source of strength. Using a question-and-answer approach, it helps you discover God's truth for yourself. Its built-in flexibility and clear presentation allow you to adapt the course to your own needs.

Author: Alan Stibbs

A devotional map of the Psalms

The Psalms inspire praise in times of joy and provide comfort during life's trials. And yet their meaning can seem obscure. Derek Tidball provides a devotional map to help readers find their way around each psalm, with signposts for personal reflection and direction.

Author: Derek Tidball

Snapshots – Scripture Union’s quarterly Bible guide for 8 to 10s, helps children read the Bible and hear from God. Snapshots gives the young independent reader a daily passage from the Bible, a thought, a brief activity and a prayer starter. Simple and easy-to-use, Snapshots is Bible-based and inexpensive enough for children's group leaders to buy for their whole group.

Clayton Dougan

In this book Clayton Dougan shares illustrations from personal experience to relate the book to real living. He shows how developing good and godly habits is well within the grasp of the busiest reader and makes it clear where to find the added help.

This booklet is designed to help a new Christian understand the implications of living the Christian life, and helps them develop the habit of reading the Bible on a daily basis. It contains 8 weeks of material, each focussing on a different element of the Christian life.

God inspired the Bible for a reason. He wants you to read it and let it change your life. If you are willing to take this challenge seriously, then you will love Phil Moore’s devotional commentaries. Their bite-sized chapters are punchy and relevant, yet crammed with fascinating scholarship.

God inspired the Bible for a reason. He wants you to read it and let it change your life. If you are willing to take this challenge seriously, then you will love Phil Moore’s devotional commentaries. Their bite-sized chapters are punchy and relevant, yet crammed with fascinating scholarship.

God inspired the Bible for a reason. He wants you to read it and let it change your life. If you are willing to take this challenge seriously, then you will love Phil Moore’s devotional commentaries. Their bite-sized chapters are punchy and relevant, yet crammed with fascinating scholarship.

Volume 1

The Daily Reading Bible is an all-in-one resource and a good way to get started or keep going in your daily reading of the Bible. This 1st volume contains 60 undated readings looking at Matthew 5-6, Joshua, 1 Corinthians 1-4.

Author: Rory Shiner, Tim Thorburn & staff team at Christ Church, Gladesville, NSW, Australia

365 Readings to transform your life

THE EXCELLENT WAY is an anthology of readings from popular author R. T. Kendall that gives his readers a fresh word from God for each day of the year. Drawing from all of R.T.’ s most popular books, including TOTAL FORGIVENESS and DID YOU THINK TO PRAY?, each devotion captures the essence of R.T.’s teaching, inspiring the reader to follow in Paul’s footsteps in living the ‘most excellent way’. R.T.’s down-to-earth, biblical teaching has encouraged readers around the world to live a life of faith, and is the perfect start to each new day.

Author: R.T. Kendall

Daily readings from around the world

The Upper Room is a unique publication which has a worldwide readership of some three million, with over 70 different editions in 40 languages. Unlike most Bible Reading Notes, the readings and reflections in The Upper Room are written exclusively by the readers themselves who seek to share the insights of their faith with others. Each day's reading contains a Bible passage to read (you will need to use a Bible), a reflection on the passage and prayer followed by a Thought for the Day and a suggested Prayer Focus for the day. There is also a set of small group questions provided each week to fuel discussions within your house group, with a prayer partner or just with friends in Church.

Author: Ed. Susan Hibbins

Monologues from the unheard women of the Bible

Hear some of the stories of the great men of the Bible, told by the women who had to put up with them. From the amusing to the moving, the arresting to the irreverent, the intriguingly charming to the alarmingly frank, these twenty-six pieces to read or perform give voice to the Bible WAGs. Jeff Lucas says, "With words that sparkle and rare insight, this terrific book will nudge audiences to laugh, cry and, most of all, understand."

theGRID is Scripture Union’s quarterly magazine designed to enable 11 to 14s to grow in faith and in their relationship with God. Get connected to theGRID, the cool, alternative magazine for young people. Covering sports and shopping, fashion and faith and popstars and prayers, theGRID certainly knows the score! Don't be seen without it!

The first letter to the Corinthians was written to believers who shared our modern confusion over standards of sexual conduct. The three chapters covered by this set of three studies grapple with deeply personal issues. In it, we discover a message of hope, that in Christ we can live a rich and fulfilling relational life that satisfies the needs both of us as individuals and of those around us. Explore with us as we seek to understand not just ‘what is permissible’, but what is fair and best for us and wider society and, ultimately, what brings glory to God.

Author: Rose Lynas & Guy Brandon

The rise of King David for today

Pete Wilcox opens up the very human story of David's rise to power and shows him to be a complicated person full of light, dark and shades of grey; a man not so very different from ourselves, yet a man after God's own heart.

Author: Pete Wilcox

And other Bible mysteries

Light-hearted but thoroughly-researched, fun and informative, entertaining and enlightening, Nick Page combines good humour and good scholarship to create a book of Biblical history that is like no other.

Author: Nick Page

Email

For nearly ten years, LICC’s free weekly email service – Word for the Week – has provided a short reflection on a passage from the Bible, noted for their profundity-in-brevity as well as being earthed in real-life contexts.

In print, email, radio plays, website read, and phone message

In April 1994 United Christian Broadcasters launched the very successful devotional that had been called The Word For Today, with an initial print run of 3,500 copies circulated to UCB supporters within the UK. The circulation has now increased to a one million readership including not only supporters of UCB but also patients in hospitals, prisoners and residents of care centres throughout the UK and Ireland. Day after day, telephone calls and letters testify to how inspiring these simple, yet powerful, daily readings are transforming people's lives. Through reading this devotional every morning tens of thousands of people's lives have been changed.

Word at Work is a FREE short email, delivered to home, work or on the move. One or two Bible verses with explanation and prayer each day. * Free! * The Bible explained verse by verse * Applied for busy working people * Daily (Mon-Fri) * Short * Thought provoking * International - currently read in over 190 countries

http://www.wordlive.org. WordLive - Helping you meet with God. Pray, read, reflect and respond with Classic Wordlive, or dive into our sketches, animations, meditations, music, blogs and much more with Alt.Wordlive.

This book of Advent readings takes up the theme of ‘time’, with four sets of readings by four different writers, offering varied perspectives to the Bible readings.

Words for Lent is a lively, fresh and often adventurous approach a series of readings from Luke’s gospel, with 40 readings, comments and prayers for the period of Lent. Writers are drawn from around the world and from different traditions, including Methodist and Baptist clergy, a Zimbabwean living in Wales, a curate in Oxford and a Jesuit priest. Their different perspectives will challenge you not only to reflect again on the story of Jesus, but also to act in the light of the readings.

Topics for 2011 include: Conversion and Change; Imagination and Creativity; Trade between the Nations; Readings in Galatians; The Prophecy of Jeremiah. Writers for 2011 include: Pete Tobias, Brenda Lealman, John Henson, Antony Reddie and Maureen Edwards.