The One Year Chronological Bible NLT (Softcover) Paperback – Unabridged, September 1, 2007

I wanted to do something new for my daily devotional reading, and when I saw this item I knew this was exactly what I wanted. A lot of people are confused by the Bible because it is not a linear narrative. The stories in the different books double back quite a bit in the Old Testament, and the New Testament, to a slightly lesser extent is the same. By arranging the texts chronologically, you are reading the Biblical record in the order that things happened. It helps you to see a narrative that helps you draw more meaning from the Biblical texts.THIS IS NOT A STUDY BIBLE! There are next to no notes, just the translator's notes where applicable. As a thought for thought translation, the NLT is not considered as scholarly as other translations, but the translators manage to honor the message of Scripture while using a more colloquial language than most versions. The reading seems more natural and conversational than it does with some other "more accurate" translations, and there are times when the turn of phrase used in the NLT unlocks meanings that would otherwise be harder to tease out of the text.The softcover binding made it through the year no problem, and was in good enough shape that I was able to pass it along to someone else when I was done with it. All in all, worth every penny!

Great book. Well written

Finally accomplished my goal of reading the Bible with The One Year Chronological Bible NLT! It made it easier to understand with events in order. Also, the Kindle version helped me a TON with enlarging the font (there’s also a large print and other versions available). It’s divided up into 365 days with about 15-20 minutes of reading per day. It made it doable and manageable for me. Highly recommend!

Well, I'm surprised to say that I loved it! A year ago I wasn't expecting to be saying that after finishing it.You see I've always looked down my nose at The Living Bible as a "kids" translation. That's probably because when I was growing up in the Nazarene Church adults used either the King James Bible (KJV) or the Holy Bible: New American Standard Bible - NASB 1977 (Includes Translators' Notes) and children and teenagers used The Living Bible (Living Bible: Full Size). So when I was a teenage my parents gave me a copy of The Way: The Living Bible (Illustrated) which was The Living Bible with cool, hip, groovy, far out graphics (to go along with our bell bottoms and tie died T-shirts no doubt). Candidly, I never read it much - except in church meetings.Later then I became genuinely born again (as opposed to a lukewarm member of a mainstream Christian church) the first thing that I asked my folks for was a "real" Bible - which meant the New American Standard Bible. I devoured it. After that, I was given a “Walk Thru the Bible” edition of the KJV Bible and I devoured it even more than I did the NASB. And then it was onto just about anything and everything else after (including a The New Jerusalem Bible: The Complete Text of the Ancient Canon of the Scriptures with Up-to-Date Introductions and Notes which I really loved). Left in the dust was The Living Bible.Until now.I like to use thought for thought translations for my devotions and word for word translations for my scholarly work – and I love these One Year Chronological Bibles, I own and have been through several. So I after I bought a hardcover Living Bible for a Mormon Missionary that I was reaching out to I thought that I should probably reacquaint myself with it too.And I was pleasantly surprised.Despite its well known deficiencies (some TLB translation decisions are a bit too loose and skew more toward commentary rather than pure translation) I fell in love with the clarity and approachability of the TLB text. I intend to start using it a lot more.And, as usual, this One Year Bible Chronological edition was wonderful. It kept me on track throughout the year (I finished it in about 13-months) and reading the text chronologically helped me gain a deeper understanding of some of the passages – the Old Testament prophets in particular.I’m moving onto to the NKJV, The Orthodox Study Bible, eBook: Ancient Christianity Speaks to Today's World as my next devotional Bible (new English translation from the Septuagint for the Old Testament, New King James Version (NKJV) for the New Testament) but at some point I fully expect to be returning to the One Year Chronological Bible The Living Bible edition again.

I’ve always found it very difficult to understand the KJV & shamefully, never read the Holy Bible in full. My aunt mentioned how her Bible study at her church had read the One Year Chronological Bible, so I decided it was far past time that I get back into the Holy Scriptures. I just finished reading it (I did read it much faster than a year), & I have learned so much & gained a better understanding of God’s Word! Highly recommend this for those who are struggling to understand “standard” Bibles, as many of the Books are “out of order” &/or are “repeats” of other Books in the Bible, as they were written from other’s’ perspectives, for lack of a better term. I’ve not yet decided which Bible I’ll read next, my goal is to be able to read & fully understand the KJV asap, as I do believe we are living in a very prophetic & dire state, & we must get right w/our Lord & Savior! Blessings to all & may God have mercy on us all! 🙏🏻❤️