Pastor Jay //

Are you looking for a new Bible? I would recommend the Life Application Bible from Tyndale and the New Living Translation. The reason is that:

1. Few people understand the scriptures today.
2. Few people are applying the scriptures to their lives today.
3. Of the few that are reading and applying, many are misapplying the scriptures.

I have had the privilege of briefly emailing one of the editors of the Life Application Bible - Dave Veerman. He has agreed to assist me with my doctoral project on sermon application. I am impressed with his little book called How to Apply the Bible. You might want to pick up a copy.

James 1:22-25 says, Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. But the man who looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues to do this, not forgetting what he has heard, but doing it—he will be blessed in what he does.