“If the Bible is a sword, this is the Braveheart sword!”
November 23, 2008 – 3:32 pm(according to Cornell’s Crusade staff director)
About 6 weeks ago, Crossway came out with their new ESV Study Bible. We’ve been looking forward to it for a while now. With the help of Desiring God (where I worked this summer) and a Cornell alum, we were able to give out 80 study Bibles to all of the students in Campus Crusade at Cornell’s Bible studies!
This does several things:
- Every student has the same translation – the English Standard Version – which we’ve been encouraging for years now.
- Every student has a solid study Bible for use in personal Bible study and devotions – they can learn how to use and benefit from all the different reference systems – footnotes, study notes, crossreferences, concordance, charts, maps, book intros, etc.
- Each Bible has dozens of helpful articles about Christian ethics, theology, how to read the Bible, etc. At a conference we just went to, the speaker (a prof from Gordon Conwell) said something to the extent of “if you read and learn all the extra articles in the ESV Study Bible, you’ll get the equivalent of a Bible College education.”
The top of the stack of boxes (14 of them!):
One of our Bible studies getting their Bibles:
When you have 80 of the same Bible floating around, marking up the outside is helpful…
-Ben
6 Responses to ““If the Bible is a sword, this is the Braveheart sword!””
I love this Bible. It is wild.
By Ray on Nov 24, 2008
its just a bible….it’s not actually the Extra Spiritual Version…oi
(having said that, i do really appreciate it)
By john sullivan on Nov 24, 2008
just dont glorify it.
By john sullivan on Nov 24, 2008
it’s great – a stay at home bible for me though.
couple thousand pages = not very mobile.
so when i see some crusaders carrying around their esv study bible, i say… “ambitious today, ay?”
By Grace on Nov 24, 2008
i bought one at a conference down here, a hardback. i’m working on turning it into a blank Bible, which will turn it into around 5500 pages in a few volumes. good stuff. but i’m with john: the Word is more important than the packaging.
By walt on Nov 24, 2008
theeeee
E-S-V-S-B
yes that’s the book for me
i stand alone on the Word of God
the E-S-V-S-B!
By john sullivan on Dec 2, 2008