Title: Passages
Author: Brian Hardin
Pages: 224
Year: 2011
Publisher: Zondervan
Note: I received a
complimentary copy in exchange for an honest review. Follow my other reviews at http://seekingwithallyurheart.blogspot.com/ and on twitter @lcjohnson1988
Do you
read the Bible daily? Weekly? Monthly?
Would you like to read it, but can’t find the time? Have you started reading it only to give up
after a couple of weeks? Brian Hardin
knows just how you feel. Through this
easy to read book with humor sometimes and heart tugs at others, he encourages
you to give reading the Bible another try.
It will change your life forever.
Brian initially was very involved
in the music business in Nashville, Tennessee.
He had grown up the child of a minister and sworn he would never enter
the ministry. He was a Christian at a
young age, but saw how some Christians behaved toward him and others that
certainly wasn’t Christ like. He wanted
no part of that, only his music. Well,
the stress of this world took its toll and soon Brian found himself at the end
of his rope so to speak. He was willing
to give the Bible one more shot before turning his back once and for all. He is now an ordained minister.
He has now read the Bible every day
for over six years out loud on a Podcast he created with discussion following
and then prayer to close. Millions
listen to his Podcast as he reads through the Bible. Several people are quoted in his book as to the
life-changing power of Scripture and how reading it every day keeps them
anchored in their faith. It also gives a
sense of fellowship and community, a sense of belonging as everyone is reading
the same passage together. The website
is www.dailyaudiobible.com if you
want to check it out.
He proposes that the Bible was
never meant to be read in small snippets here and there, but in sizable chunks
daily with time for thinking about what you’ve read. He also lists the benefits of reading the
Bible in community and out loud. God
spoke the world into existence. There is
power in the spoken word as we’ve all experienced be it good or bad. He tells of how when he looked in the mirror
after the first year of reading through the Bible, he didn’t recognize the man
looking back at him. The Bible had
changed him from the inside out. He was
a different person.
You
must make the time to read the Bible as these are the very words of our
Creator, our God. Can’t we find time for
Him? The last 60 pages are three
different reading plans to help you get started on reading the Bible through
daily in one year. Will you make the
commitment to make God’s Word a part of your life every day for the next year? Will you look in the mirror in a year and
know yourself?
My rating for this book is four
stars.
