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A One Year Bible Reading Plan for 2027
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A One Year Bible Reading Plan for 2027

This is no ordinary one-year Bible reading plan. Each month, you will meditate on different aspects of God's character as you read through the Scripture. Download your copy as you set plans for the New Year, or get started today. Photo credit: ©Getty Images/FatCamera

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Fall Bible Study Reset Kit
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Fall Bible Study Reset Kit

The Fall Bible Study Reset Kit is your cozy guide to reconnecting with God’s Word through simple study tools, realistic habits, seasonal Scripture ideas, and a 90-Day Scripture Writing Challenge. Download the PDF and settle into a fresh rhythm with Scripture this fall.

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November's 30-Day Scripture Writing Challenge
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November's 30-Day Scripture Writing Challenge

It's the season of thankfulness! Download our November Scripture writing guide as you spend a little time each day this month meditating on the Word. Write these verses about thanksgiving down and put them somewhere you'll see them each day. Photo credit: ©Getty Images/MKucova

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October's 31-Day Scripture Writing Plan
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October's 31-Day Scripture Writing Plan

This October, challenge yourself to spend a little bit of time in the Word every day. Our daily Scripture writing guide helps you focus on relevant passages, and writing them out yourself helps solidify them in your memory. Download yours today! Photo credit: Unsplash/Aaron Burden

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A 22-Day Scripture Writing Guide for Encouragement
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A 22-Day Scripture Writing Guide for Encouragement

The Bible is filled with encouraging passages and verses. No matter what you are facing in life, it has a good word for you. Challenge yourself over the next month to work through our Scripture writing guide, and see if you don't walk away encouraged in the hope of our Lord and Savior! Photo credit: Unsplash

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Featured Plus Commentaries

ESV Study Bible

The ESV Study Bible was created to help people understand the Bible in a deeper way—that is, to encounter the timeless truth of God’s Word as a powerful, compelling, life-changing reality. To accomplish this purpose, the ESV Study Bible combines the best and most recent evangelical scholarship with the ESV Bible text, which, as an "essentially literal" translation, is especially suited for Bible study.

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Wiersbe Bible Commentary: New Testament

Author Warren Wiersbe emphasizes biblical meaning and personal application in this easy-to-read and well-loved commentary.

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Wiersbe Bible Commentary - Old Testament

Author Warren Wiersbe emphasizes biblical meaning and personal application in this easy-to-read and well-loved Old Testament commentary.

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Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

This one volume commentary was prepared by Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset and David Brown and published in 1871.

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Scofield Reference Notes (1917 Edition)

For over 90 years people have relied on this reference work in their daily study of God's Word. Written originally in 1909, C. I. Scofield's intent was to provide a concise but complete tool that would meet the need of someone just beginning to read the Bible.

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Geneva Study Bible

Originally printed in 1560, believers can read the Scripture along with study assistance unashamedly rooted in the theology of Calvin, Luther, Zwingli, and other Reformation leaders.

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The Applied New Testament Commentary

The Applied Commentary series is a fresh approach to Bible study, connecting great wisdom with your life today. Each Scripture passage is enhanced with insights on key themes and ideas. Featured articles provide a deeper look at essential concepts, while the contemporary language allows for easy reading. And because some subjects are open to interpretation for discussion, we have included perspectives from leading theologians from all backgrounds and denominations. The result? An interactive approach to Scripture that will challenge your ideas and build your faith—which is what reading the Bible is all about.

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The Applied Old Testament Commentary

The wisdom found in God’s Word is timeless, as relevant today as when it was first written. And the challenge for believers remains unchanged: how do we apply these truths to our everyday world?

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Wesley's Explanatory Notes

John Wesley's commentary on the whole Bible was produced between 1754 and 1765.

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Christ-Centered Exposition Commentary

Edited by David Platt, Daniel L. Akin, and Tony Merida, this the Christ-centered Exposition Commentary series, includes 47 volumes when complete and takes a Christ-centered approach to expositing each book of the Bible. Rather than a verse-by-verse approach, the authors have crafted chapters that explain and apply key passages in their assigned Bible books. Readers will learn to see Christ in all aspects of Scripture, and they will be encouraged by the devotional nature of each exposition presented as sermons and divided into chapters that conclude with a "Reflect & Discuss" section, making this series ideal for small group study, personal devotion, and even sermon preparation.

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CSB Study Bible

The CSB Study Bible is designed to help you know and be transformed by God’s Word. The Bible features the highly readable, highly reliable text of the Christian Standard Bible (CSB) that keeps Scripture primary on every page. To inspire you to grow in your understanding and love for God’s Word, the CSB Study Bible, includes an award-winning array of study resources including over 16,000 study notes, tools, and word studies—each tool presented on the same page as the verses it refers to. Whether you are preparing for future Bible studies or daily readings, this study Bible for men and women is the ideal resource for lifelong discipleship.

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CSB Apologetics Study Bible

The CSB Apologetics Study Bible helps Christians better understand, defend, and proclaim the faith in an age of increasing moral and spiritual relativism. This edition includes articles and extensive apologetics study material from today's leading apologists to provide deeper understanding of the relevant apologetics issues and questions being discussed right now.

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The Treasury of David

This seven volume "magnum opus", by Charles H. Spurgeon, was first published in weekly installments over a twenty-year span in the London Metropolitan Tabernacle's periodical, The Sword and the Trowel. As each section was completed it was published as a volume until the seventh and final volume was released in 1885.

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Holman Concise Bible Commentary

With solid scholarship and exceptional clarity, the Holman Concise Bible Commentary gives readers a feel for the key themes and intentions of all 66 books in the Bible. But don't mistake concise for incomplete; this volume also contains detailed introductions to the ten major units of Scripture (the Gospels, Paul's letters, etc.), maps related to biblical history, informational charts, and in-depth sidebars.

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A Testimony of Jesus Christ

A Commentary on the Book of Revelation by Dr. Tony Garland

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Robertson's Word Pictures of the New Testament

A.T. Robertson, a renowned scholar of the Greek New Testament, takes through the New Testament, verse by verse, painting word pictures from the Greek to bring to light the words and actions of Jesus and the early Christians.

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John Darby's Synopsis of the New Testament

Originally written and published in French, these synopses were introduced book by book. Currently only the New Testament is available.

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People's New Testament

Written in 1891 for the novice student of the Bible, this work was prepared with such aids as would enable the common reader to arrive at an understanding of every verse.

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A Commentary on the New Testament From the Talmud and Hebraica by John Lightfoot

A Commentary on the New Testament From the Talmud and Hebraica by John Lightfoot

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The Fourfold Gospel

Also known as a "Harmony of the Four Gospels", this work by J. W. McGarvey and Philip Y. Pendleton is a complete chronology of the life of Christ, divided into titled sections and sub-divisions, with comments injected in the text.

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Dr. Bob Utley

Dr. Bob Utley

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Martin Luther's Bible Commentary

Martin Luther's Bible Commentary

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The Book of Genesis

Alexander Maclaren

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Life of David in the Psalms

The Life of David as Reflected in His Psalms by Alexander MacLaren

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