(Drum Roll Please!)
According to our random drawing, the lucky winner is…Gail Denlinger! (Comment posted on March 15, 2012 at 6:40 am.)
Gail, if you would please email me at [email protected] with your mailing address, we will get this Bible in your hands as soon as possible. Congratulations, Sister! Y’all check back next week for another fun giveaway. Have a wonderful weekend!
Update: Comments are now closed. Ladies, y’all are SO incredibly fun. And might I add serious about your Bibles and Bible translations. Praise the Lord! Check back tomorrow morning for the fun announcement of our lucky winner! And while I have your attention, our Siesta Mama actually gets up to speak at the conference for the first time in about 2 1/2 hours (It’s already Friday there). Your prayers would be so appreciated! See you in the morning!
Good Wednesday afternoon, Siestas!
By now you may have seen on twitter (if you’re a twitter user) that Beth and Amanda made it safely to Sydney! Jet lag is no joke there because in case you were wondering, Australia is 16 hours ahead of us. I kept joking that they were flying into the future. Whoa! You honestly would not waste a prayer on them as Beth and the team prepares to minister to the folks attending the Colour Conference. They are so pumped, but it doesn’t come without sacrifice and a lot of work. If you’ve not already been praying, start praying now because since they’re almost a day ahead of us, the conference begins sooner than later!
Anyway, we didn’t want the blog to suffer while our Siesta Mama was gone, so I’m here to do our first fun giveaway! (Yes, we’re doing another one next week. I know you’re pumped!)
I don’t know about you, but I love getting a new Bible.
In fact, just this past Sunday at church I was thinking it was time to put my old one aside and start searching for a new one. True story. I don’t know how much longer it will actually survive as it is literally falling apart (I don’t say that because I’m so spiritual, but more so to prove to you how old it is) and I don’t feel like digging out the duct tape to repair this one. (You know you’ve done it before, too!) Since I’m a creature of habit, I tend to stick with the same study Bible time after time, but I’m feeling kind of rogue and might venture out this time into the land of the unknown.
As much as I love getting a new Bible, there is a certain degree of separation that is hard to part from my old Bible. We’ve been through a lot. And I love looking back at all I’ve underlined and marked up. But I suppose a new season calls for a new Bible.
Anyway, I know you’re probably wondering why I’m going on and on about my Bible, and maybe I’ve convinced you that you need a new one to, to which I’ll say you’ve landed in the right place!
We have a really fun giveaway that I think you’ll like.
Recently our sweet Beth received a Life Essentials Study Bible (“The First Multi-Media Study Bible”) with her name engraved on the front. For those who are curious, the translation is the Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB). Here’s the deal, if our Siesta Mama hadn’t just purchased a new Bible for herself just prior to receiving this one, she would have kept it for herself. It was such a kind gesture from the publisher, but she really wanted to gift it to one our Siestas!
Besides this being a study Bible, it has some other really neat tools that I’ve personally been playing with to make myself familiar with it the past few days.
With our technology changing and updating as quickly as newborn babies change outfits everyday, it’s no shock to me that this Bible has a new addition to it that can be used with your smart phone.
If you look at the front cover (pictured above), and inside the Bible (there’s a little peek below), you’ll see a bar code looking symbol. That nifty little symbol we refer to as a QR code. If you own a smart phone, you can download a free QR Reader app, and then all you do is use that application to scan the bar code to find out more information about that particular item. All throughout this Bible are hundreds of QR codes that take you to a website to find out more information about that particular scripture. How fun is that? You certainly don’t need a smart phone to win this Bible, but that’s just a little bonus for those of you that do own one.
So, who is interested? Listen, if it weren’t for you, Siestas, I would have already claimed it for myself.
Here’s how it will work:
1) Leave a comment with your first and last name. If you don’t leave both, you won’t be eligible for the drawing!
2) For fun, if you’re into this kind of thing, go ahead and tell us in brief your favorite Bible. Shout out to all the Precious Moment’s Bible owners out there! I’m pretty sure I still have that one stowed away somewhere safe. What joy!
Ready? Set? Sound off in the comments! We’ll leave the comments open until 3:30 on Thursday afternoon (CST) and then we’ll do a random drawing and post the winner at the top of this post later that day. That means you will have a little over 24 hours to enter, so be on the lookout to see if your name appears!
Although I don’t want to assume everyone is on spring break, I would imagine most of you are, so if that’s the case, we so hope you’re enjoying every minute of it. And if you don’t get that luxury, I’m praying the Lord delights you where you’re at and gives you an extra dose of rest.
We love y’all!
Hi..my name is Barb Duncan and I still have the Zippered KJV Bible that my mom gave me for Easter when I was 10 years old in 1970. My latest favorite version is the ESV, but I also like the Common English Bible too. Thanking God for Bible websites with so many different versions! Thanks for doing this!
My favorite Bible is my NIV given to me by my parents. Mine is like yours, falling apart and I have thought about using duct tape. Ironically our pastor just switched to the HCSB.
Tina Davis
Jamie Coker
My favorite bible is the one my dad bought me for my 11th birthday — full of lots of notes in my teenage scribble as well as notes from last week’s sermon. Very special!
For me, it was my first Bible as a brand new creature in Christ…..at age 24! Ryrie Study Bible, NAS. Even though I no longer use it, I still have it along with the TONS of notes written on page after page after page. It’s a great reminder of the first few years of being in love with my Jesus.
Ginger S. Lowe
Wetumpka, AL
My favorite Bible is the NIV Study Bible. It’s black leather with my name on the front cover. I study with it and take it to all my Bible studies! 🙂
Stephanie Dumire – my favorite Bible is the first Bible my dad bought when he was saved. He wrote on the inside cover the date he accepted Christ as his savior in big bold letters. You can see the excitement in his handwritting. Inside the back pages is a list of dates that each member of our family was saved and then baptized. Praise God, it is a complete list! He went on to use it in semenary and then for the first years that he preached. It is water-damaged because one night a man from our church came to the house late, he couldn’t stand the conviction of not being saved another night. My dad led him to the Savior standing outside by our car. Dad was so excited he forgot his Bible on the trunk and it rained that night. We bought him another Bible to preach from, but that water-soaked Bible is precious.
Nicall Vens
favorite Bible is the one I reccieved from my parents after I was baptized
My favorite Buble is The Women’s Study Bible NKJV that my son bought for me this past Christmas! He graduated high school in May and is working part time while enrolled as full time college student…now that is a precious Bible Beloved! 🙂
Christy Vines. My favorite bible is whatever one I am currently using and marking the pages. As of right now it is a NIV study bible. In the past a NLT Life Recovery Bible, NKJ MacArthur Study Bible, NIV Teen Study Bible, etc. It is so refreshing an inspiring to go back through old bibles and see the journey that God was carrying me through using the pages of His word.
Heather Lane
My favorite Bible is a worn out hardback NLT that was my dad’s. He is the most godly man I know and that Bible is filled with his notes. It is so special to me!! Praying for Beth and Amanda at the Colour Conference.
Marci Dighton
I love my NIV Life Application Study Bible!!! It also has many underlinings, notes, dates, etc throughout. It has been worked over during many of Beth’s studies!
1. Nightingale Ngo
2. This gray NIV Bible I got in jr high. It had an extra flap to put in a notepad. I had to stop using that Bible because it was falling apart. It went to college w me and travelled all over with me.
Kimberly mason
I guess my favorite bible is the power of a praying woman bible w devotions in it by stormie omartian. We (me and the bible and God – of course) went through a lot. The Bible has since been “retired” as it coming apart but it was a good one!
I never had a precious moments bible but my sister did! 🙂
This is fun!! Thank you!
My bible app on my ipad is the bomb! Love it!
Jennifer Dawbin
My favorite Bible is the I’m currently using, a pink Student Study Bible NIV. It’s ancient, and I’m FAR from being a student, but I just can’t seem to part with my faithful companion of almost 20 years.
My name is Joy Brown and my favorite Bible is my dad’s KJV. It is tattered, torn and tear-stained from almost 70 years of walking with His Savior and daily reading His Word. He is 86 years old and has lived God’s Word for me to see. Thankful for my godly heritage.
Lisa Auten
My favorite bible is a teal leather NIV student bible. I received it as a gift shortly after I accepted Christ and have had it 20+ years
Bless you. My poor bible is getting flat worn out and the book of Genesis is missing the creation account (I still have the pages, just not attached)! I didn’t have a Precious Moments bible because my family didn’t attend church. I have several -KJV, NKJV, NASB, etc., but my favorite is the one that is falling apart and was given to me by the love of my life and best friend when we moved to Alabama — and now that we are in Arizona, in a new church and on a new adventure in a new season of life.
My name is Viola Dodd. My favorite bible is my TNIV, Today’s New International Version. It has about a 2 inch column on each page to take notes and is full of bible study notes, sermon notes and several Beth Moore Conferences…priceless. A while back I got a hot pink NIV Life Application Study Bible and I really like it too!!!!
Lynette Eeg – my very favorite Bible is the one I received when I was confirmed in the Methodist church in 1976. I didn’t read it in earnest until I was saved in the fall of 1981. I couldn’t get enough of God’s Word! I read that Bible until it fell apart (but I still have it). I highlighted & underlined scripture, and made lots of notes. I liked that all of Jesus’ words were in red ink. I’m currently using the Full Life Study Bible, which I’ve had for over 15 years. It is falling apart now, too!
Haha! So funny about the Precious Moments Bile…I just found mine in a box in my basement!! Currently I use the NIV study bible for bible study and the NLT for reading.
I have a NKJ Amplified & have been looking at more of a study Bible.
I do still have my Precious Moments Bible! And The Open Bible that I used as a teen. But I always love the Psalms in the NKJV, so that’s the study Bible I use most often nowadays.
Rachel Bryant – NIV Life Application was my favorite when I was younger!
Jackie LaRovere
NIV
Tina Ward
My favorite bible is an NIV my sweet hubby gave me for Valentines two years ago. It is pink and girly and very loved, getting worn, comfortable, random notes, underlining, hearts next to meaningful passages. I love it!
I had my 1984 version NIV recovered a couple of years ago. The lady at Lifeway said “Oh you need a new Bible.” I said, “How could I find anything in it” 🙂
Sarah Elizabeth Farish. My favorite is my ESV study Bible – it’s helped me understand so much!
Sarah Bell
I’d have to say that my favorite Bible is the one my husband bought for me and had my name engraved on the cover. Just previous to that day, I had gotten a new driver’s license for his birthday on which I had changed my middle name back to my middle name instead of using my maiden name as my middle name. My family had kept maiden names as middle names once married, but his family did things differently. It had always hurt him a little but he almost never mentioned it. Anyway, for his birthday that year I was finally ready and changed my name. Very shortly after he gave me my first Bible since things had changed in our lives. Engraved in a beautiful script it says, “Sarah Bethany Bell.” It’s not a favorite Bible for the translation, but for the heart from which it was given! <3
Favorite Bible growing up was my Living Bible with the pic of Jedus on the front.
Now, my favs are HCSB & ESV.
Winning this new Bible with the smart phone bonuses would be awesome. Please, please, please…
Kim Barrett 🙂 My FAVORITE Bible is the one my mom bought for me back in 1998. It is a regular American Standard one that is completely FALLING APART! I am sooo hesitant to buy a new one as I love flipping through all the highlighted, coffee stained, pen scribbled (my son Konner wanted to do his own highlighting:) pages! BUT…winning this Bible would force me to keep my falling apart one at home & start personalizing a new one.
Dear Sisters,
I have to tell you how happy I am to be HERE. It has been a year now since God just plain came and got me, took me back as HIS! It was quite a moment, I tell you, and I immediately called my sister and openly wept for the sweetness of it, still do! She welcomed me back from my 45 year meander deeper and deeper into the desert called ME/MINE, back from a massive depression, back from the long, painful absence of me from my God and promptly sent me a paperback NIV then started me out reading John then Acts… I read the whole thing this year past, couldnt put it down! I tell you I ate that little Bible up! And I’m still hungry. Now it is time to move on to my grown up Bible and, like Beth, this is a hard parting for me. So here I am, entering this drawing. I would love to peruse this Holman! We’ll see what happens! My sister, Lois, and Beth have been lifelines for me, I’ve done Breaking Free (I highly recommend it!) and am working through James now. God is so good to me, I am so grateful. Thank you for letting me talk about this so openly! Never forget, HE knows the end from the beginning. Thank you Beth, Lindsee and the LPM Blog! Psalm 116, all of it, every word. Jo Lillig
Robin Marsh ~ My favorite Bible is the one I received from my husband on our first Christmas. I was so happy to have my new married name imprinted on the cover of the NKJV Women’s Study Bible published by Thomas Nelson Publishers.
I have the serendipity study bible but would certainly love this new version of a study bible. Just finished the James study….wasn’t that just so wonderful and convicting and I miss it!! I am craving more…thank you Jesus for all that I can learn from you!
My favorite Bible for sentimental reasons is my grandmother’s Bible. She passed away 3 years ago this January and she was a perfect example of a Southern godly woman. She felt more like my mamma than my grandmother – she’d often say, “I just KNOW I gave birth to you!”. At any rate, I miss her immensely but am so grateful my mother gave me her Bible. I love opening it up (it still smells like her house) and seeing her handwriting where she scribbled notes during her weekly Bible studies under the teachings of her best friend (both lived into their 90’s).
Although she was a King James woman all the way, my personal Bible is a hardback “Daily Walk” New Living Translation Bible. I’m filling it up with my own scribbles and hope someone’s glad to have it when I’m gone!
I love my Women of Faith Bible because it highlights all the women in the Bible.
Kristy Caldo
Lara Harris, Spring Hill, TN
I love, love, love my NIV Study Bible
Cassie Williams – my favorite Bible is my student bible, niv translation. It has a real cover and is in about 5 different sections now. I was using that one when God got a hold of my heart for the first time when I was 12. I literally read the cover off! Would live to try a multimedia bible. Just got a smart phone in dec and am loving it! Plus I work with youth and they are always ahead in techno department!
Carla Howard – My favorite Bible is the NIV Life Application Study Bible given to me by my late mother on the date of my baptism in 2005. It is very special to me.
I love the NIV Study Bible. I just brought the new version and love it, next would be the HCSB. I love this idea. My name is Sue Schwendemann. It would be neat to have this Bible as I am going to go see her in April at KC.
Blessings to all. Thanks for all you do for us.
(Paula Brahan)
My favorite Bible for sentimental reasons is my grandmother’s Bible. She passed away 3 years ago this January and she was a perfect example of a Southern godly woman. She felt more like my mamma than my grandmother – she’d often say, “I just KNOW I gave birth to you!”. At any rate, I miss her immensely but am so grateful my mother gave me her Bible. I love opening it up (it still smells like her house) and seeing her handwriting where she scribbled notes during her weekly Bible studies under the teachings of her best friend (both lived into their 90′s).
Although she was a King James woman all the way, my personal Bible is a hardback “Daily Walk” New Living Translation Bible. I’m filling it up with my own scribbles and hope someone’s glad to have it when I’m gone!
Heidi Bennett
My favorite bible when I was a kid was the comic book bible!
It bade all the stories seem so much more kid-friendly!
I am a Bible junkie! PTL. But my favorite “go to” Bible is my Life Application Bible(NIV). I LOVE it. The notes on each page are fabulous. Not only are there understandable notes – it also has practical applications to use in everyday Godly living.
My name is Kristin Mitchell from Dunmor, Ky. My favorite bible is an NIV Bible I bought at Goodwill for fifty cents! It has a burgundy cover and someone else’s name written on the inside cover. I often think about the person and wonder why he gave his graduation Bible to Goodwill. I even brought this Bible with me to Houston to the Siesta celebration.
I just love The New Inductive Study Bible from Precept, New American Standard. It has seen alot of wear over the years but is precious to me with all the notes and personal reflection I have recorded. Praise God for the freedom to own as many Bibles as we want and read them publicly! Darlene Ely
Christina Jarvie
NIV wide margin Bible – lots of room for notes!
What an awesome study Bible! I use the Amplified, but also love the HCSB, NLT, and Message.
Jennifer Walker
Of course I still have my pink precious moments bible, but my favorite is my Rainbow Study Bible (kjv) given to me by my husband in August of 2000. That is when I accepted Jesus as my personal Saviour. It’s time for a new one:).
My favorite Bible is my ESV study Bible!
I’m still using the NIV Bible my parents gave to us when we were married 17 years ago!
Trudy Wright