ESV Devotional Bible Review and Giveaway

Up until recently, dinner time in my household was my husband off at work while the kids and I sat in the living room, tuned into our electronics and basically gobbling down our meal without much interaction.   We had a perfectly usable dinner table in the dining room that we never used..

I knew things had to change and so we all decided that we would start having dinner at the table - as a family. No electronics allowed and nobody was allowed to leave the table until dinner was over.

Then, a few weeks ago, the kids and I have started reading a daily devotional together while we're sitting together eating dinner.  I never realized what an impact reading these devotionals meant to the kids until I forgot to read it one night and Garrett quickly reminded me. While both kids have a wonderful Bible of their own, one thing they were lacking was a really great Bible Devotional that wasn't too "baby-fied" or wasn't too advanced for their current level that we could use.   I had been in the market for a while to find a great devotional to use with the family during our dinner time and while we we were using a nice Max Lucado one that is great for reflection of character, we also wanted one that focused more on the actual Bible and scriptures.

My prayers were answered when I was given the opportunity to review the ESV Devotional Bible from Crossway.  This Bible is written in the English Standards Version which is an "essentially literal" translation of the Bible in contemporary English which emphasizes "word for word" accuracy, literary excellence and depth of meaning in translation.

The ESV Devotional Bible is a hardbound bible that contains the retelling of 130 key stories from the Bible with full color illustrations for each story.  The stories are simplified and easy for children of all ages to understand and was designed to help families read and apply God's Word together.

A few highlights of this Devotional Bible:

• Entire full text of both the Old and New Testament in easy to understand English Standard Version.
• An easy to read Table of Contents to help quickly locate the starting page of each 66 books of the Bible
• 130 Devotions from the Bible that's easy for even young children to understand
• Stunning Full color illustrations 
• A ribbon bookmark 
• An index of devotional readings
• Eight full-color maps of Biblical places

The artwork in this Bible is absolutely beautiful.  Each of the 130 stories are accompanied with a full color illustration of the story about an important person or event in the Bible.

Along with each devotional is a section of Questions for the Family which gives a great platform for starting a discussion about what was read, as well as a Key Verse to talk about.

We have really enjoyed adding this beautiful Bible to our family dinner routine.  These last two weeks my husband has been off of work for vacation and we have really enjoyed having him with us. Having Dad at the table leading our Bible devotion along side with Mom really helped to show the children that spending time with God's word was important.  Since Dad is usually at work during our dinner time and doesn't have much to do with their homeschooling, it was a real treat for the kids to have him leading our worship time together.

Find out more about Crossway and the ESV Devotional Bible by visiting Crossway on the following social media websites:  Facebook,  Twitter or purchase your own copy at Amazon.

Here's the good news.  One lucky reader will be able to win a copy of this beautiful devotional Bible, which will hopefully be as much of a welcome addition to your family as it has been for ours.

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