The Best New Bible for Crazy Bible Notes + Real Talk on Bible Study Struggles

Was there anything that like while turning it into a spiral bound that kind of surprised you in the process or made you kind of go, I should add that to my Bible study rhythms?

Yeah, that's a great question.

So in the She Reads Truth Bible, the full, you know, text Bible, we have reading plans for every book of the Bible.

And one of the reasons that we include those is because we're very passionate, and you are likewise, to allow Scripture to interpret Scripture and to look at, you know, where if, you know, we're reading in the Old Testament, for example, like I just... opened my Bible to Ezekiel a few months ago.

So where in the rest of scripture do we see connections to Ezekiel? And so in the She Reads Truth Bible, there is a daily reading plan for each book of the Bible that you can use if you choose that will help you connect those dots.

throughout scripture to see that all of scripture tells one story, right? The story of the redemption of God's people.

And so when we were creating the spiral Bible, we had to kind of wrestle with that because we're like, well, if we put, for example, in the prophets, a reading plan for Isaiah, it's going to... contain new testament scriptures that are not in this volume of the sferovo and so we have like some really good like healthy back and forth which my other half rachel myers that's like our sweet spot is to just kind of like have two views of one kind of question or problem or issue and go back and forth until we reach the spot right where we can come to a consensus and so We decided that, no, the right use case for the Spiral Bible is to put a reading log where for Isaiah, for example, I'm going to be able to check as I read each chapter and then note, you know, which date or dates I read because I may return.

You know, I can have these Spiral Bibles for 10 years and return to Isaiah 62 once a year or...

A couple times a year, whatever.

And so the way that challenged me, to answer your question, is that I find that as with many things in life, I have to keep myself from swinging too far to one side or the other.

And so in my passion and zeal... to see the whole of scripture, sometimes I can avoid just sitting in one text or one chapter and really meditating on that particular piece of the Bible.

And so I think one of the things that we have heard people say so far about their engagement with the spiral bibles is that it helps them slow down which i think is so interesting and i think it is one because they're large and you can't just be like you may take it to church or to bible study or throw it in your backpack but it's not going to live in your like everyday bag like it's a formidable volume right and so i think part of that is that it is most conducive to sitting down at a table or

on a sofa and reading

Whereas I have, you know, a little, I have like a pocket size, not really a pocket size, but a personal size Bible that I often throw in my bag if I'm traveling or if I, you know, I just want to, an on-the-go Bible.

So I think that's one.

But also, I think the form factor helps us to slow down.

Yeah.

when you're looking at a traditional Bible and now I just have it open to Isaiah, there's a lot of words on that page, especially if you get like into the historical books, right? And you're in some narratives and you're like, okay,

there's a lot happening here.

And the way that in the spiral Bible, it kind of just allows all of the texts to breathe.

I think our brains take note and just go, okay,

We

don't have to hurry.

Like, we're just going to read and dig in and pause.

And like we were talking about, mark it up.