The Bible Recap: A One-Year Guide to Reading and Understanding the Entire Bible Book Review

 

Have you ever closed your Bible and thought, What did I just read? Or maybe you have tried to read through the Bible in a year, but quit when it felt confusing or impersonal. The Bible Recap is here to help. Tara-Leigh Cobble, host of the popular podcast The Bible Recap, walks readers through a one-year chronological Bible reading plan and explains each day's passage in an easy-to-understand way.

Emphasizing how God's character can be seen throughout Scripture, the recaps are simple and short yet deep enough to help you understand the hard parts and press into knowing God better. As Cobble says, The primary role of Scripture is to show me who God is, and if I behold God, my life will naturally conform around what I learn about him. The Bible Recap will not only help you grasp the entire narrative of the Bible, it will fortify your faith.

My Thoughts:

Every January I hear people express wanting to read their Bible in a year. I truly admire that goal. I usually don’t follow a schedule and find myself starting with a plan but get off on rabbit trails when a topic captures my attention in the word. I’m not faithful to reading daily devotionals. It’s not that I don’t enjoy some of them but sometimes I find that I don’t always agree with the commentaries and that is okay too. We can agree to disagree on topics as long as the Word is kept in tack and not torn apart which takes away from the Bible. I think that is what captured my attention with The Bible Recap: A One-Year Guide to Reading and Understanding the Entire Bible.  

This is a hardback sturdy cover that is a hefty book of 750 pages. The first few pages have the reading plan laid out for you to see an overview of your yearly reading plan.

 It follows a letter from the author Tara-Leigh Cobble talking about the three mistakes that held her back from understanding and truly loving the scriptures. She has an interesting point of view that I feel many of us can relate to one or more of the mistakes.

The Bible is laid out in chronological order but, will have a different layout than other chronological Bibles. The version that is used is the ESV transliteration primarily.

Each day you have the Bible verses that you will be reading at the top of the page. She recommends you have a journal to take notes or write questions for parts that you don’t understand to research later. Afterward, you read The Bible Recap and you may find that your questions and sections you don’t understand will be answered for you. A website is provided with free resources that will be included in the footnotes where it is applicable.

Each daily reading ends with “Today’s God Shot”. This focuses on God’s character.

Overall, I’m impressed with the breakdown recap of the Bible that is provided for the scriptures. Nothing has made me cringe what I have read so far. Is this a devotional or commentary well probably a bit of both. This would make a nice gift and I think it might be beneficial to teens.

The author does a podcast in which I haven’t listened to.

I received a free copy of this product from Bethany House Publishers in exchange for my honest review. I was not required to write a positive review nor was I compensated in any other way. All opinions I have expressed are my own or those of my family. I am disclosing this information in accordance with the FTC Regulations.