Musings of a Snickerdoodle

The People, the land, and the future of Israel is a collection of essays on those topics by various people including   Michael Rydelnik, John Feinberg and Walter Kaiser Jr.   The Essays are Divided into several groupings, in sections like Practical Theology, Hebrew Scriptures, New Testament..etc.   All of these men are defending the Biblical view that God is not done with the Jews as a people, that they have a future in   the land of Israel, a future in which as believers in Jesus as the Messiah, and as the Atonement for their sins, they will live in peace in the land under their Messiah's rule(The Millennial Kingdom). At first I liked the idea of having multiple people contributing in one book, but when I read it, or rather as I was reading it,   I changed my mind.   It just wasn't a smooth flow, once you got used to one person's style of writing you ended up with another one.   And then some of the essays were interesting, some weren't so interesting.   That, of

The NIV Once a Day Bible is a great concept, not only is it chronologically arranged, but it is also divided into 365 daily readings.   Last year our church went through the Bible in a year using a chronological reading plan.   Though it was really neat to be reading it chronologically, it was a bit tiring flipping back and forth to the different texts for each individual day.   Then I started reviewing Bibles that were already chronologically arranged, and that helped a lot.   Some, or all of them, had one year Bible reading plans listed in the back of the Bible; this Bible is neat in that it is already arranged that way so you don't have to flip to the back of the book, you just read until the next 'Day' heading.   It would be nice if they would come out with a hardcover edition as the softcover feels a bit flimsy.  At the end of each day's readings, there are little reflective paragraphs at the end, talking about what you've just read.   Some are pretty go