What the Bible Is All About
by Henrietta C. Mears
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What the Bible Is All About is the essential handbook for anyone who wants to read and understand God's Word. Inside this revised and updated edition of Henrietta Mears' classic, you'll find an overview of every book in the Bible, from Genesis to Revelation. In addition, What the Bible Is All About will Provide a complete guide to the Scriptures Explain how Jesus is revealed in the Old and New Testaments Show why the Bible is one book, one history, one story Introduce key people in biblical show more history Give historical background for every major event Highlight recurring biblical themes Provide helpful reading plans, maps, and charts, and other study helps Discover for yourself why What the Bible Is All About is one of the world's best-selling Bible handbooks, with more than 4 million in print. This user-friendly guide makes it easier than ever to plant the Word in your heart and mind!. show lessTags
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lhungsbe My go-to version of the Bible. No additions or deletions. Easy to read.
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WOW! This is my third What the Bible is All About and this is wonderful. The book is compact enough to carry with me in my bible bag so that it is handy for use in my Sunday School class and Youth girls class (I also carry What the Bible is All About young explorers edition for my Sunday School class). When we recieved this in the mail my two sons (age 3 and 7) sat down on the couch and began looking at it. As with all the books in this edition it is extremely thourough in the breakdown of each book. I really enjoyed the fact that it also includes a reading plan for reading the bible through in one or two years. A description of the purpose and historical setting of each book is given. Then the book is grouped into like themed chapters show more and are explained. My boys loved the color pictures while I enjoyed the very detailed and descriptive maps. I found it to be a useful resource, but also an excellent supplement to bible study. I am working through Psalms with my children and found the information in this book to be very helpful. I think it would be excellent for the home school parent who is teaching bible as part of the curriculum. This book is a place that children can go to search out biblical facts and to strengthen their knowledge of the scriptures and purpose behind each book. Knowing the history and circumstances surrounding a book of scripture often brings clearer meaning to that scripture making it easier to apply it to ones life. You do not have to be a theological seminary student to understand, enjoy and benefit from this book - it is written at a very basic level and meant to be used by everyday people like me who long to have a deeper meaning of the Holy Word.
Thank you Regal Publishing for this review copy. show less
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This is the "big people" bible handbook. This is great to have as a resource especially for adults or older children. The younger children of the family will benefit from the What the Bible is All About Handbook for kids.
I especially liked this because if one wanted to one could read through this like a bible study, addressing each book as its own study. Each book has selected bible readings for an entire week - so that one could thoroughly study and pour through the scriptures to glean the truth from it and truly grow in one's spiritual walk. Each study of the book begins with a description of the author, the date the book was written and what was going on at the time, the purpose and summary. It then delves into the chapters of the show more book giving additional description of things going on in the book.
Very helpful is the fact that a dictionary is located in the back to help with words that are difficult.
Thank you Gospel Light for this review copy. show less
I especially liked this because if one wanted to one could read through this like a bible study, addressing each book as its own study. Each book has selected bible readings for an entire week - so that one could thoroughly study and pour through the scriptures to glean the truth from it and truly grow in one's spiritual walk. Each study of the book begins with a description of the author, the date the book was written and what was going on at the time, the purpose and summary. It then delves into the chapters of the show more book giving additional description of things going on in the book.
Very helpful is the fact that a dictionary is located in the back to help with words that are difficult.
Thank you Gospel Light for this review copy. show less
This is the "big people" bible handbook. This is great to have as a resource especially for adults or older children. The younger children of the family will benefit from the What the Bible is All About Handbook for kids.
I especially liked this because if one wanted to one could read through this like a bible study, addressing each book as its own study. Each book has selected bible readings for an entire week - so that one could thoroughly study and pour through the scriptures to glean the truth from it and truly grow in one's spiritual walk. Each study of the book begins with a description of the author, the date the book was written and what was going on at the time, the purpose and summary. It then delves into the chapters of the show more book giving additional description of things going on in the book.
Very helpful is the fact that a dictionary is located in the back to help with words that are difficult.
Thank you Gospel Light for this review copy. show less
I especially liked this because if one wanted to one could read through this like a bible study, addressing each book as its own study. Each book has selected bible readings for an entire week - so that one could thoroughly study and pour through the scriptures to glean the truth from it and truly grow in one's spiritual walk. Each study of the book begins with a description of the author, the date the book was written and what was going on at the time, the purpose and summary. It then delves into the chapters of the show more book giving additional description of things going on in the book.
Very helpful is the fact that a dictionary is located in the back to help with words that are difficult.
Thank you Gospel Light for this review copy. show less
Dr. Mears has always been a solid reference source. My wife and I have this in paperback and in our Kindle Library for easy reference. This is a good companion for and Bible Study course you have, giving background, culture and other insights to illuminate passages that may have been difficult for you.
A well commended book by a great Bible Teacher of the mid twentieth century. Henrietta Mears taught such notables as Bill Bright of Campus Crusade for Christ, in the famed Hollywood First Presbyterian Church in Southern California. A single lady, her influence extends around the world throught the people she taught This book begins with a chapter on how to understand the Bible, and proceeds book by book to help the reader understand more the truths of the Bible, Old and New Testaments.
Whether new or old to studying the Bible this is a good book for reference, study, or just plain reading.
Whether new or old to studying the Bible this is a good book for reference, study, or just plain reading.
This book provides background information for every book in the Bible. It is great to read in conjuction with your Bible to gain a greater understanding of God's word.
Puts each Biblical book in perspective. Gets you into the Bible & gets the Bible into you!
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Dr. Henrietta Mears was one of the great Bible teachers of the 20th century. As Christian education director at First Presbyterian Church of Hollywood, she built one of the largest Sunday Schools in the world and developed curriculum that was in such high demand that to publish it, she founded Gospel Light in 1933. Among her students were show more Christian leaders Richard C. Halverson, Luis Evans, Jr. and Bill Bright. Billy Graham has said, "She is certainly one of the greatest Christians I have ever known." show less
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- Original title
- What the Bible is All About
- Alternate titles
- 聖經綜覽. English
- Original publication date
- 1953
- Epigraph
- Behind and beneath the Bible, above and beyond the Bible, is the God of the Bible.
- First words
- [Preface] Sailing across the Ionian Sea from old Corinth in Greece, I was asked to prepare these words.
[Foreword] Millions of people today are searching for a reliable voice of authority.
The Bible is God's written revelation of His will to men. - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)[Preface] We need to understand the Word of God, and the study of "What the Bible Is All About" will help bring this essential understand of God's essential revelation of Himself.
(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)[Foreword] We commend it to you.
(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)God's future plans are revealed in Hebrews, Titus, Revelation.
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