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Review: The Journey Bible: Revealing God and How You Fit into His Plan

Review: The Journey Bible: Revealing God and How You Fit into His Plan, NIV Zondervan 2014 This review will comment only on the format and nonbiblical texts.   I will leave the Biblical text for the experts in that field.   That said, I’ve enjoyed reading some of the comments, questions, and insights interspersed throughout the text.   The introductory material that most of us skip is worth the time it takes to red through it.   Lots of little nuggets there.   The challenges issued are wonderful.   For instance, page viii has this line “You acknowledge there are important things you don’t know---yet if there’s something out there you can know, you want to know.”   Or this one on xii, “Truth may go beyond reason, but not against it.”   Or a list of Jesus’ Famous One-Liners starting on page xx.    The tone obviously is non-academic and easy to read, as is the NIV text itself.   The idea of the Five Alive choices is go...