It’s been a long time…but summer is over and it’s time for another book review.
This time I decided to review a devotional. Now…obviously it’s a 365 day devotional and I haven’t done all 365 days of it but I did do a week’s worth and let me tell you I’m impressed. First…let me introduce the book: Live second by Doug Bender
I am a hard one to impress devotional wise. There are a few things I look for when I go to buy a new devotional book.
I like a scripture PASSAGE to read. Not just a verse…a passage. Something that will make me actually open my Bible…read it, think about it and then give me something to think about as well. I have had a few devotionals that just give me one verse and then do the whole devotional for the day on that one verse. Or I’ve had ones where they just give one scripture reference and I have to look up one verse. Let me just tell you that I’m lazy. For one verse..I will not look it up. Or the worse one that I’ve read gave me a scripture verse but actually wrote it out on the top. How is that bad you may ask? It’s not so much that…it’s when the author decided to put her own word in parenthesis. I do not like that. However, this devotional gives you a passage, makes you look it up, gives you a topic to read about (as in the actual devotional part of it) and then asks two questions afterwards. I like that. I like that alot. It gets me actively involved in the word of God.
When I first started the devotional day one was to watch a Youtube video on the I am second series. (Good series and short videos. If you haven’t watched them…you really should.) And then asks questions about the video and how you can apply it to your life. Not every day is like that but it’s a good change of pace when it does happen. I also like that it gives you a QR code to scan into your phone or mobile device (as well as the actual address) so you can just scan it in. Nice touch Mr. Bender!
Another thing that I liked about it is that it’s on my kindle. Now…you can get it in any format of your choosing but I decided to review it on my kindle. Let me tell you why I absolutely love it on my kindle device. This comes back to the lazy part but I like that I can just hit my home button on my device and then go to my devotions…and when I’m done I can hit home again and go back to my book. Super nice!!
Another thing I liked was that after the questions were asked they posted a hashtag so that you can connect with others on twitter with your answers. So I can look up what others have say about the topic that I just read.
The only thing that I didn’t like that it seemed to ask the same two questions over and over again in the first week that I did it. After the third day I just didn’t think about the questions any more. They could have had more effective questions applying to the topic…even though the general overall topic was living second to Jesus.
This devotional is easy to understand….easy to apply to your daily life and just great. I will continue doing it even after this review is published. I highly recommend it.
I give it a five out of five suckers.
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