(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!
My favorite verse is Hab 2:3.
My favorite bible is the Search For Christ Study Bible.
Julianne Matczyszyn – my first bible was when I was a 6th grader. I had that thing only a few years when it needed, shall we say ‘repair’! 🙂
Linda Breech
My favorite Bible is the Hebrew-Greek Keyword study Bible, NASB. Still love NASB. It’s what I cut my teeth on growing up.
i just had to weigh in on the Bible thing. i get it. i had the same study Bible for 25 years, and it started to get so worn, i had to put it in a book cover with a zipper. then a few years ago i decided it was time to read the Bible through in a different translation, i know, sacrilege, right? but since that time i have read 5 different translations all the way through. now i have a collection of Bibles with notes to pass down to my children, and someday my grandchildren. i even gave one to a young man as he went off to boot camp. he loved the notes. as much as it pained me to get a new Bible, i now have multiple Bibles, with notes, to share. but the most amazing thing happens each time i read God’s word, i always find something new, something i never noticed before, something i’m just sure wasn’t in the last Bible i read. i love that God’s word is alive and so vey dynamic! i think i know what Bible i want to read next, wink wink……oh and yes, i do have a smart phone….how much fun would that Bible be????
Jennifer Cochran
My favorite bible was an NIV thinline that I used through high school and college. Even though it was engraved with my maiden name I kept carrying it/using it eight years into my marriage! I finally got a new one (same kind though!) engraved with my married name.
My favorite Bible is my compact NIV Bible. It was the first Bible I picked out for myself and I spent so much time narrowing down all the choices! I love that it fits in any purse, so I take it with me everywhere, but most of all I love seeing how I’ve grown through all the verses underlined and notes written in the margins.
Andrea Jones – my favorite Bible is my NKJV that my parents gave me for my high school graduation (many moons ago….), although it too is falling apart (a combination of use, age, and stuffing too many church bulletins between its covers over the years), so now I use an NIV Study Bible with print that is too small for my “maturing” eyes.
I love my NIV Women’s Devotional Bible given to me on my 28th birthday by my husband, before we were even engaged. That was 14 years ago and it has seen much love! This new bible would be a great companion to read another translation – as I just completed the James study and thought I needed to add another bible for this purpose… Excited about the possibility of using this one with the smart phone features!!!
Your fellow Siesta 🙂
Olivia Hinojosa
Suzy Childers
My favorite bible is the NLT Life Applications Study Bible (on my kindle!).
Debbie Rensing- My favorite bible is the one that I was given when I was 10. I see how I wrote in it and verses I underlined and see the gracious hand of God as He has lead me the last 53 years.
Stephanie Skinner
My favorite right now is an NIV Study Bible, but I have been checking out the ESV and I think and ESV study would be good. I enjoyed the HCSB in the Psalms of Assent study.
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Lynette Hallock
I like the Hebrew-Greek keyword study Bible (NIV). I also really like The Message Bible.
Leanne Herrett
My favourite is the NIV Study Bible!
Hey there! I’m writing from my smart phone… I’m not bragging at all only trying to prove [to myself] that I know JUST enough about how to use it that I might actually be able to really enjoy that new bible up for grabs! My absolute favorite bible of all times is a 1967 Scofield Reference Bible. I was born in 1971. The reason I love this bible dearly is because it was my mothers and it even has her name engraved on the front. I treasure it and can’t wait to hand it down do my children.
Loving on my Life Application Bible (NIV) and YouVersion electronic Bible on my phone.
Thanks for the contest!
Jennifer Fenske
Becky Burns
I have used a Thompson Chain NIV for almost 30 years. I had it rebound about 15 years ago and I quit taking it anywhere to make it last longer. Thank you!
My favorite bible is the one your giving away!!! And I need a new one badly since mine is very old as well.
Michelle Darden – My favorite Bible is my NIV Life Application Bible. :)Thanks for the chance to win this!! FUN!!
I always get the same bible, the slimline either NIV or my favorite over the past five or six years, the NLT – New Living Translation.
ESV
Erin Campbell and my favorite Bible is my NIV Study Bible. I’ve had it for years and love the wide margins…perfect for writing in. It’s great encouragement to remember something God has done in my life when I turn the page and find a note I wrote of His faithfulness next to a specific verse.
Jennie Freeman – It is hard to choose . . . I love the NASB my Mom used when she taught me from it. However, in 1984 I was given a NIV at the completion of a Bible Instruction Class, and it has been the one I’ve used the most, grew more in the Lord with, and have written the most notes in. (I really like the Living Bible too! 🙂 )
Cool!! My favorite bible is my Recovery Bible. Given to me by my sweet friend Raquel a few weeks before my first HUGE encounter with Christ! 8 years sober but still wondering wo the True God was……after much prayer and seekin I get this bible as a gift and since it was covery I was rather open to it. Well, two weeks later I gave my lifeto Christ, DEVOURED the entire bible and have been on an amazing adventure ever since 🙂
Gris
Leslie Hermann
My Favorite Bible is my Black Leather King James Version that zips closed and was given to me by my Mom and Dad in 1972! In the back of it are stickers from the cereal boxes I carefully placed on the blank back pages and Scriptures I wrote in Sunday School.
Cool!! My favorite bible is my Recovery Bible. Given to me by my sweet friend Raquel a few weeks before my first HUGE encounter with Christ! 8 years sober but still wondering who the True God was……after much prayer and seeking I get this bible as a gift and since it was recovery I was rather open to it. Well, two weeks later I gave my lifeto Christ, DEVOURED the entire bible and have been on an amazing adventure ever since 🙂
Gris Alves
I have two favorites, actually my NIV Study Bible and my oldest son’s NIV Study Bible for Teen’s. It has some great information and notes in it and helps me to feel closer to him now that he has grown up and lives with his wife and his own “adult” Bible….
Sacha Hasenyager
NIV new testament that I won in a quizzing competition for knowing most of Eph 5, 6 & Phillipians when I was 10 years old.
Well, I gotta say my favorite bible is the NIV. I use my smartyphone also, which gives me access to other versions including the NLT and the Message which I both like, but I use my good ol’ brown and tan NIV when I’m studying. How fun!!! Caitlin Bewley
The Bible I use for church and Bible study is an NIV study Bible and I love the footnotes and the maps and charts. However, it is well worn and the print is getting smaller as I’m getting older. I also have an old Scoffield King Jame study bible that I love dearly. Lately, I use the You Version electronic Bible on my iPhone and on my iPad. I love that you cN click a different version instantly and compare..it’s also nice because I always have it with me and can look up scriptures anywhere.
My favorite Bible is a slimline, soft cover pocket New Testament I used in college because it was well used and well worn….and mostly because it was the one where Jesus became real to me! I still have that Bible packed away in my keepsakes and am absolutely delighted to stumble onto it once in a while, although I now prefer my spunky red NIV because it has both old and new testaments and carries many Bible study notes in the margins!
My current favorite Bible is my NIV Life Application Study Bible. It was recommended to me and I love all the notes in this version as well as how you can apply this to your life in some places. It took me a while to start using it but once I did, I have found that I really like it – especially in my personal studying…
Christi Richey
My favorite Bible is a NIV study Bible that my grandmother gave me years ago & it no longer has it’s cover:) We’ve been through A LOT together!
Being a student of words, my favorite bible is the Amplified.
To study from, I enjoy the New Living Translation; but to just read and enjoy, it’s The Message for me. Thanks for the opportunity to win a new Bible.
My favorite Bible is my NIV given to me by my friend and mentor, Marilyn. She bought it for me shortly before I did my very first Beth Moore study, Stepping Up. Both the Bible and Beth’s study changed my life.
My “new” favorite Bible is my 15 year old NIV blue leather study bible. I’ve not ever truly replaced my long favorite Thompson Chain Reference Bible that I misplaced at a teen retreat many years ago. I’d love a new Bible that I could also access on my iphone!
My favorite is still my old, worn and tattered LIfe Application Bible. I’d never had my name put on a Bible and had it recovered… you guessed it, they spelled it wrong. Georgia Fluenwider, I’ve seen it spelled many ways but never that way. It’s still my favorite though!
Debbie Castro…thank you!
My favorite bible is the message. Boooyyyyy, nothing tells it like it is in modern day language like the message. I am guaranteed to have my toes stepped all over when I’m getting a word from the message!
Ooops this is from Alexis Johnson of Tacoma, Wa! Beth I am one of the princesses with our tiaras from when you came!!! : )
I am praying for Beth and Amanda while on their trip in Ausralia. My name is Sharon McMahan. My favorite bible is my old Ryrie KJV study bible. Since I started doing Beth’s bible studies I have fallen in love with my paper back NIV.
Emily Taylor
Florence, AL
My favorite is my NIV Life Application Study Bible. Going on 11 years with this one–and 10 Beth Moore Bible studies! It may need to be retired!
My past favorite was an NIV that I used for many years but now I really like my ESV translation.
I love my Spirit Filled Modern King James Study Bible!
One of my pastors had it, I said how I loved it and low and behold when they were blessed with a new Bible I inherited their old one!
I LOVE IT
Studying with it, greek words explained, lessons learned – lots of highlighting etc – theirs and my history of faith journey 🙂
How exciting!! My favorite Bible for studying is my NIV Study Bible…although I do like my side-by-side NIV/Message Bible for a different perspective!
Thanks for the opportunity!!
Terrie Galle
Pamela Davis
NIV Life Application Study Bible
Fran McCurry Plott-
My favorite Bible is a thin line NIV leather-bound Bible that I got soon after I accepted Christ some 13 years ago. It has hand-written notes from all of the Bible studies over those years and has even got “gravel-marks” on the cover from being run-over in the church parking lot! I will never part with it, but a new one would be well-appreciated!
Hi Beth and Living Proof Ministries,
Thank you for all you do! I love my Bible. It’s an NIV and we’ve been together for a long time now 🙂 God’s W
My favorite Bible is my Grandmother’s who passed away. I don’t use it for daily use, but I will occassionally leaf through it. There are several loose notes she wrote, many marks on several pages that were important to her, and a family tree she penned on the inside flap. It’s precious and reminds me of her!
Johanna Swan
I love my NIV Life Application Study Bible. I received it from my parents when I graduated high school and boy has it been loved. 🙂