Grace for the Moment Daily Bible: Bible Review

Grace for the Moment Daily Bible is designed to help readers go through the Bible in one year and includes devotions by Max Lucado.

I love reviewing Bibles. Each one presents the Word of God in a slightly different format with a specific purpose in mind. Some are study Bibles designed for intensive study. Some are devotional Bibles to help connect readers with the Scripture. Some are geared for children or teens or women or men. Some are beautiful. Others utilatatian. Each has a purpose.

Bible Features

Grace for the Moment Daily Bible looks like an ordinary hardcover book. It’s the size of a typical library book rather than the larger size of a Bible. The cover is styled that way as well. When I first unboxed it, it took me a moment to realize it was a Bible.

When you open it up, you find a table of contents of months rather than books of the Bible. This had me totally confused at first until I figured out that’s how it is set up. Grace for the Moment Daily Bible is designed for those who want to read the Bible in a year. It’s broken down by month and then by day.

Each day opens with a short devotional excerpt from one of Max Lucado’s writings, then includes a passage from the Old Testament, a passage from Psalms, a passage from Proverbs, and a passage from the New Testament. It starts with Genesis and Matthew and works it’s way to Malachi and Revelation. The Psalms and Proverbs are broken up in order as well.

This is a no-frills Bible. There are no notes, sidebars, cross references, or anything else on the pages other than Scripture and the opening devotions. Because of the paring down, the text is small but quite readable despite the compactness of the book.

There’s also a softcover version of this Bible.

Bible Review

The Grace for the Moment Daily Bible is a Bible for a very specific purpose. This is not a Bible for toting to church. It won’t help you dig deep with your Bible studies. It’s probably not one you’ll use for a long period of time.

The Grace for the Moment Daily Bible is designed to sit on your nightstand or at your kitchen table or wherever you chose to do your Bible reading. It’s distinctively put together so you can go through it day by day and at the end of the year make it to the end of the Bible.

It’s an interesting way of breaking the Bible down, reading four different passages each day. I’ve heard of people doing that, and this makes it easier for anyone wanting to read the Bible this way. Personally, for me, it would never work.

I get that they break it up to help make it easier to get through the more dense books, but in doing so, it also makes it harder to flow. The Bible tells a story. By breaking it up this way, it’s harder to follow the story.

I think this style Bible is perfect for those who want to be able to check off that you read the Bible in a year. It’s broken down for you, so you know if you read the daily passages, you’ll make it.

If you want to savor the Bible, to delve into it, to dig deep, you’ll need to supplement this with a more traditional Bible, perhaps one with study notes or helps.