"ESV Holy Bible: Military Challenge Edition" - A Review.

 

I love the American Bible Society and especially appreciate how they help our military members. This military challenge edition of the ESV is a prime example. It's a handy sized complete Bible made to be easily carried on deployments and to be unobtrusive wherever one takes it.


Included in this edition is the "military challenge," which is "designed to help you chart a path through the big story of the Bible" (from the opening letter to 'our military and their families' by Robert Briggs). The challenge is 75 readings that take the reader through the Bible to familiar with its overall project and to come to know the God of the Scripture better. It also includes short prayers that echo the passage and a one paragraph reflection.


This edition also includes numerous helps. It has a short introduction to each Bible book. It contains a brief guide on how to make time to read, reflect, and pray. Other helps are a Bible chronology, subject index, prayers from the Bible, a list of useful Bible topics, and maps. It  even holds the words of some hymns, such as "Great Is Thy Faithfulness" and five others.


As a retired Air Force enlisted member, I love this compact edition of the English Standard Version (ESV) of the Bible. I take it with me and use it when visiting shut-ins and those in the hospital, so I can read to them, pray for them, and sing one of the hymns that comes with this Military Challenge Edition. Great for military members and their families. Should be valuable for anyone in a discipleship setting. But also ideal for ministers! I highly recommend it!


You can get it free here.

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