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Rebel with a Clause: Tales and Tips from a Roving Grammarian

by Ellen Jovin (Goodreads Author)

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ESV Single Column Journaling Bible

by Crossway

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Jeff said: " I'm not reviewing the text of the ESV Bible, here, but, rather, the edition that I just finished reading. I wouldn't dare write a "review" of the text.

My church spent the summer months reading the whole Bible in 90 days. I actually finished one day I'm not reviewing the text of the ESV Bible, here, but, rather, the edition that I just finished reading. I wouldn't dare write a "review" of the text.

My church spent the summer months reading the whole Bible in 90 days. I actually finished one day ahead of schedule. I chose this version, this edition, to read. Everyone, as far as I know, was allowed to pick any version they wanted to.

This particular edition has a lovely light blue cover, soft-covered (I'm not sure what the material is, on the back, it says "trutone"), with "I will sing ; I will make melody to the Lord. Judges 5:3." It doesn't have standard Bible page material, but the pages are still thinner than a normal book page. The text is, as the title suggests, single-column, and takes up about two-thirds of the page. There is a column on each page that is roughly two inches wide and lined for journaling notes. The column is on the left side of the left pages and right side of the right pages.

This is not a reference Bible. There are not cross-references, and there are very few notes at the bottom of the pages. I picked this Bible for this task for that reason. I wanted an edition of the Bible that was almost entirely biblical text with nothing extra. It has about a three-page preface at the beginning, a list of the books of the Bible in alphabetical order (I have no idea what purpose that serves--is there anyone who wants to read them in that order?), and a table of contents in order of the books of the Bible. At the end of Revelation, there is only a "Table of Weights and Measures" and a reading plan to read the Bible in a year.

There are 1547 pages of biblical text.

The ESV and the NRSV are my two favorite versions of the Bible. I also have at least one copy of The Message, several old KJV Bibles (one of them is my very first Bible, from my childhood), and a parallel Spanish/ESV edition, that I plan on using more extensively as I learn more Spanish.

I recommend this edition of the ESV for reading and journaling. There are plenty of other editions out there for folks who want notes and cross-references. But if you just want one for reading and making your own notes, this is a good one. ...more "

Sep 11, 2026 09:18PM · see review

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Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus: A Devout Muslim Encounters Christianity

by Nabeel Qureshi

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Letters to Malcolm, Chiefly on Prayer by C.S. Lewis

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I think our business as laymen is to take what we are given and make the best of it.

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Jeff’s Quotes

“We all change the world whether we intend to or not. And we always change the world for the better when we plant the seeds of kind thoughts and words.”
― Mary Davis, Every Day Spirit: A Daybook of Wisdom, Joy and Peace

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“Circumstances and other people are not in control of an individual’s character or of the life that lies endlessly before”
― Dallas Willard, The Divine Conspiracy: A Study of Spiritual Reality in Christian Thought

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“we fail to be disciples only because we do not decide to be. We do not intend to be disciples. It is the power of the decision and the intention over our life that is missing. We should apprentice ourselves to Jesus in a solemn moment, and we should let those around us know that we have done so.”
― Dallas Willard, The Divine Conspiracy: A Study of Spiritual Reality in Christian Thought

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“the intention of God is that we should each become the kind of person whom he can set free in his universe, empowered to do what we want to do. Just as we desire and intend this, so far as possible, for our children and others we love, so God desires and intends it for his children. But character, the inner directedness of the self, must develop to the point where that is possible.”
― Dallas Willard, The Divine Conspiracy: A Study of Spiritual Reality in Christian Thought

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“The gospel of the kingdom is that no one is beyond beatitude, because the rule of God from the heavens is available to all. Everyone can reach it, and it can reach everyone. We respond appropriately to the Beatitudes of Jesus by living as if this were so, as it concerns others and as it concerns ourselves.”
― Dallas Willard, The Divine Conspiracy: A Study of Spiritual Reality in Christian Thought

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