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Love God Greatly Bible: A SOAP Method Study Bible for Women
See God’s Heart for You and the World It’s one thing to read Scripture; it’s something else to truly engage with it. To find greater insights, deeper engagement, and heartfelt intimacy as you read God’s Word. To see God’s heart for you—and for the world—on every page. The Love God Greatly Bible is designed to help women hold tight to God’s Word and find direction and answers for life’s challenges Features See God’s heart for you—and for the world—with the Love God Greatly Bible.
2240 pages, Hardcover
Published October 6, 2020
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October 19, 2020
This week, I was blessed to get a copy of the NET Love God Greatly Bible to review. This Bible just came out on October 6th, and it is published by Thomas Nelson. I have the hardcover, and it is also available in imitation leather, genuine leather, and cloth over board. Love God Greatly is an organization that offers Bible studies for free to women around the world, and translates them in many different languages. This Bible shows their heart, and God’s, for all of the nations of the world.
This Bible has a single column text, with some margin space for notes or journaling. It has a 9.5 point font. It has a sewn binding, and two double sided satin ribbons. My copy has a navy and lighter blue ribbons. Each book of the Bible has a memory verse in a beautifully designed font, followed by a book introduction. The book introductions are about a page long, and include historical background, themes, author, date, and how that book encourages us to love God greatly. Each book also has a country profile, giving the population of the country, the unreached population, and what percentage of that country are professing Christians. There are testimonies included from women in different countries, and a reading plan for each book. The reading plans break each book down into a 5 day per week reading plan, that lasts a few weeks, depending on the length of the book.
In each reading plan, there are verses listed to “SOAP”. SOAP stands for scripture, observation, application, and prayer. The steps to use the SOAP method of study, are listed towards the beginning of the Bible. There are also reflection questions spread throughout the Bible, as well as challenges to encourage deeper study and life application. There are 163 devotionals in this Bible, and eight full color maps. The maps are within the text of the Bible instead of all being at the end of the Bible, which I think is helpful. Each book of the Bible has a genre color included in the introduction page and devotionals. These colors represent what type of book it is: Pentateuch, historical book, poetic books, major prophets, minor prophets, Gospels, church history, Pauline Epistles, general epistles, and apocalyptic. At the end of the Bible, you will find a list of the memory verses, a list of God’s heart for the nations verses, a key of the genre of the books of the Bible color coding, a one year reading plan, topical index, a list of the countries that Love God Greatly reaches, a testimony index, and a concordance.
If you are a woman who loves to read God’s world, and has a heart for the nations and outreach, this Bible would be a wonderful addition to your library! It could also be a very special Christmas gift for a woman in your life. I am really excited to use this Bible to enrich my prayer life, and help me to pray for different nations in the world more specifically.
I received a copy of this Bible from Thomas Nelson in return for an honest review. All opinions are my own.
This Bible has a single column text, with some margin space for notes or journaling. It has a 9.5 point font. It has a sewn binding, and two double sided satin ribbons. My copy has a navy and lighter blue ribbons. Each book of the Bible has a memory verse in a beautifully designed font, followed by a book introduction. The book introductions are about a page long, and include historical background, themes, author, date, and how that book encourages us to love God greatly. Each book also has a country profile, giving the population of the country, the unreached population, and what percentage of that country are professing Christians. There are testimonies included from women in different countries, and a reading plan for each book. The reading plans break each book down into a 5 day per week reading plan, that lasts a few weeks, depending on the length of the book.
In each reading plan, there are verses listed to “SOAP”. SOAP stands for scripture, observation, application, and prayer. The steps to use the SOAP method of study, are listed towards the beginning of the Bible. There are also reflection questions spread throughout the Bible, as well as challenges to encourage deeper study and life application. There are 163 devotionals in this Bible, and eight full color maps. The maps are within the text of the Bible instead of all being at the end of the Bible, which I think is helpful. Each book of the Bible has a genre color included in the introduction page and devotionals. These colors represent what type of book it is: Pentateuch, historical book, poetic books, major prophets, minor prophets, Gospels, church history, Pauline Epistles, general epistles, and apocalyptic. At the end of the Bible, you will find a list of the memory verses, a list of God’s heart for the nations verses, a key of the genre of the books of the Bible color coding, a one year reading plan, topical index, a list of the countries that Love God Greatly reaches, a testimony index, and a concordance.
If you are a woman who loves to read God’s world, and has a heart for the nations and outreach, this Bible would be a wonderful addition to your library! It could also be a very special Christmas gift for a woman in your life. I am really excited to use this Bible to enrich my prayer life, and help me to pray for different nations in the world more specifically.
I received a copy of this Bible from Thomas Nelson in return for an honest review. All opinions are my own.
January 17, 2021
Finding a new Bible can be overwhelming. There are dozens of translations, with and without study notes, with and without commentary, and the list goes on. What makes the Love God Greatly Bible stand out? Well, first, it’s a Bible created by women, for women. Love God Greatly is primarily a women’s ministry who provides Bibles and Bible studies to women globally, with the stated desire to “help EVERY WOMAN in EVERY NATION have access to God’s Word in THEIR LANGUAGE.” LGG has a network of trained translators who have translated their Bible studies into 20+ languages and it’s from this background that this Bible was formed.
The Commentary | Love God Greatly
I can remember in the 1990s, my mom had a “women’s Bible.” It was NIV. It was pink. That was it. Nothing different from the “regular” Bible, except for the cover (which may have had a flower on it, now that I think of it.) Which is, quite frankly, kind of silly. That’s not this. Love God Greatly contains book introductions, reflection questions, reading plans, and devotionals that are all written from a female perspective.
One of my favorite aspects are the testimonials, where Love God Greatly partners with women from forty-five countries who share their insights and stories of faith. There’s a very communal nature about it. While the scholarly aspect is top-notch, there’s also the quality of connecting with other women the world over.
I very much appreciate that the commentary is female-led. All too often, material we market toward women (particularly in the Christian market) have no female voices. It can be difficult for women to truly see themselves in Scripture, given the Bible’s patriarchal societal context. A Bible that not only highlights women of faith, but also female scholars and Bible teachers goes a long way in making women feel seen.
The Translation | New English Bible (NET)
The Bible is in the NET translation, a translation I had recently become familiar with because of availability for use without copyright. While most modern translations are considered proprietary properties of their respective publishers, the NET Bible’s copyright allows for extensive free ministry use.
Of course, that means nothing if it isn’t a good translation. I’m not an expert, but—yeah, it’s a very readable, very faithful, well-presented and transparent translation. The NET scholars have allowed unheard of transparency, publishing every working draft and openly discussing all translational choices. Why did the NET choose a particular wording? You can find out easily. You might not agree, but you’re at least given a rationale for the viewpoint. Wayne Grudem even mentions that scholars behind the ESV relied partially on the NET translational notes for their own work.
The NET has become one of my favorite translations and if you’re making the switch from NIV or ESV, I think you’ll find it a comparable (NIV) or better (ESV) read.
The Commentary | Love God Greatly
I can remember in the 1990s, my mom had a “women’s Bible.” It was NIV. It was pink. That was it. Nothing different from the “regular” Bible, except for the cover (which may have had a flower on it, now that I think of it.) Which is, quite frankly, kind of silly. That’s not this. Love God Greatly contains book introductions, reflection questions, reading plans, and devotionals that are all written from a female perspective.
One of my favorite aspects are the testimonials, where Love God Greatly partners with women from forty-five countries who share their insights and stories of faith. There’s a very communal nature about it. While the scholarly aspect is top-notch, there’s also the quality of connecting with other women the world over.
I very much appreciate that the commentary is female-led. All too often, material we market toward women (particularly in the Christian market) have no female voices. It can be difficult for women to truly see themselves in Scripture, given the Bible’s patriarchal societal context. A Bible that not only highlights women of faith, but also female scholars and Bible teachers goes a long way in making women feel seen.
The Translation | New English Bible (NET)
The Bible is in the NET translation, a translation I had recently become familiar with because of availability for use without copyright. While most modern translations are considered proprietary properties of their respective publishers, the NET Bible’s copyright allows for extensive free ministry use.
Of course, that means nothing if it isn’t a good translation. I’m not an expert, but—yeah, it’s a very readable, very faithful, well-presented and transparent translation. The NET scholars have allowed unheard of transparency, publishing every working draft and openly discussing all translational choices. Why did the NET choose a particular wording? You can find out easily. You might not agree, but you’re at least given a rationale for the viewpoint. Wayne Grudem even mentions that scholars behind the ESV relied partially on the NET translational notes for their own work.
The NET has become one of my favorite translations and if you’re making the switch from NIV or ESV, I think you’ll find it a comparable (NIV) or better (ESV) read.
October 13, 2020
BEAUTIFUL Bible. I LOVE the testimonies. I love the country profiles. I LOVE the devotionals. I LOVE everything about this Bible.
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