There are myriad translations of the Bible these days and even more options for special categories of Bible. Which one should you get?  What would be a good Bible for your child? Let's start with the category of specialty Bibles. There are Bibles marketed as "The Law Enforcement Officer's Bible," "The Children's Bible," "Every Man's Study Bible," "The Explorer's Study Bible," "The American Patriot's Bible," "The Women's Study Bible," and on and on and on it goes... Most of these are simply gimmicks designed to sell Bibles and not very helpful.  Many of them contain false teaching too.  One of the things that I don't like about Bibles designed to be marketed to sub-categories is that it makes it seem as if the Bible says different things to different people rather than having the same message for all people.  It also furthers the individualistic culture we already struggle with as Americans a...

Greetings in Christ! It seems every Christian knows that reading the Bible is a good thing to do and that getting children to read the Bible is a very good thing to do, but it's very intimidating to know where to start. How much should I read? What am I supposed to learn from this? With this in mind, I decided to put together a simple reading plan for the summer of 2019.  This is a plan that is easy enough for children, but substantive enough for adults.  It won't take long to do the reading each day and to go along with the reading we will have a few thoughts, questions, and/or pictures on the blog each day that correspond to the daily reading. If you've had a hard time getting into the habit of daily Bible reading, have never done it before, or want to help your children learn to read the Bible for themselves, Anchored in the Word is for you. Below is the reading schedule. You can sign up to receive via e-mail the daily posts that correspond to the readings.  A...