The One Year Chronological Bible NLT (Softcover) Paperback – Unabridged, September 1, 2007

Well, I'm surprised to say that I loved it! A year ago I wasn't expecting to be saying that after finishing it.You see I've always looked down my nose at The Living Bible as a "kids" translation. That's probably because when I was growing up in the Nazarene Church adults used either the King James Bible (KJV) or the Holy Bible: New American Standard Bible - NASB 1977 (Includes Translators' Notes) and children and teenagers used The Living Bible (Living Bible: Full Size). So when I was a teenage my parents gave me a copy of The Way: The Living Bible (Illustrated) which was The Living Bible with cool, hip, groovy, far out graphics (to go along with our bell bottoms and tie died T-shirts no doubt). Candidly, I never read it much - except in church meetings.Later then I became genuinely born again (as opposed to a lukewarm member of a mainstream Christian church) the first thing that I asked my folks for was a "real" Bible - which meant the New American Standard Bible. I devoured it. After that, I was given a “Walk Thru the Bible” edition of the KJV Bible and I devoured it even more than I did the NASB. And then it was onto just about anything and everything else after (including a The New Jerusalem Bible: The Complete Text of the Ancient Canon of the Scriptures with Up-to-Date Introductions and Notes which I really loved). Left in the dust was The Living Bible.Until now.I like to use thought for thought translations for my devotions and word for word translations for my scholarly work – and I love these One Year Chronological Bibles, I own and have been through several. So I after I bought a hardcover Living Bible for a Mormon Missionary that I was reaching out to I thought that I should probably reacquaint myself with it too.And I was pleasantly surprised.Despite its well known deficiencies (some TLB translation decisions are a bit too loose and skew more toward commentary rather than pure translation) I fell in love with the clarity and approachability of the TLB text. I intend to start using it a lot more.And, as usual, this One Year Bible Chronological edition was wonderful. It kept me on track throughout the year (I finished it in about 13-months) and reading the text chronologically helped me gain a deeper understanding of some of the passages – the Old Testament prophets in particular.I’m moving onto to the NKJV, The Orthodox Study Bible, eBook: Ancient Christianity Speaks to Today's World as my next devotional Bible (new English translation from the Septuagint for the Old Testament, New King James Version (NKJV) for the New Testament) but at some point I fully expect to be returning to the One Year Chronological Bible The Living Bible edition again.

Finally accomplished my goal of reading the Bible with The One Year Chronological Bible NLT! It made it easier to understand with events in order. Also, the Kindle version helped me a TON with enlarging the font (there’s also a large print and other versions available). It’s divided up into 365 days with about 15-20 minutes of reading per day. It made it doable and manageable for me. Highly recommend!

I have tried to read the Bible in the past but the language and the time lines confused me. This is great. Of course I don't know what book of the bible I am in as I listen, but I have a much better feel for the history, the people and the events. I am still in the old testament. Listening to all of it will take a while.If you want to be able to quote line and verse, this is not for you. But if you want to understand the story, this works.

New year, new me. Started out 2021 with this chronological Bible. Really enjoying the simplicity of being able to wake up, open to the bookmark and read a few pages from where I left off. The readings are divided nicely with date for ea day of year and can be done in 10 minutes with your morning cup of coffee. I was doing devo's where I'd need my study book out and also my Bible flipping back and forth to references from the study devo. Although this is a great way to go in depth and grow, it was just too much "work" for me early in the a.m. so I recommend this chronological Bible which does all the organizing for you by sectioning out your reading for the day, dating it, printing it all clearly with footnotes at bottom of page. Devos and study Bibles tend to send you on tangents to learn the backstory or adjacent lessons. Again this is good, but for me I would end up down a rabbit hole. 2021 I just need a straightforward read where my mind is relaxed and God has space in my head to speak.

This book is very enjoyable . Makes stories easy to understand . The way it's broke up its a easy commitment . My friend bought one to and we have bible study now . I actually have to stop when the days reading is up and marked by the next day cause it's easy to keep waiting to read on . I'm very grateful to have been told about this book and would recommend it to anyone who wants to understand the bible even better . Don't hesitate for even a second . The only thing that could be better for me is the pages are so thin that in can be see thru and the writing on the back of the page is see thru somewhat . Not bad enough to not read it but I wish the pages were thicker and the print size is ok but I prefer a bit larger . Not enough to not buy it thou . ( Just would be nice. )Thank you to all that wrote this book and broke it down for the common person to understand .