The NIV College
Devotional Bible is written to engage college aged students into reading
the Bible and the devotionals presented in the Bible. This particular Bible has
222 devotionals on topics that college students will enjoy and it has a supportive
appendix. The Bible has a “table of weights and measures, a subject index search,
a one year reading plan, 60 day overview of the Bible, 30 days for beginning
your walk with Christ, 30 days with Jesus, 20 not-so-famous Bible stories, 30
days of prayer, 30 days of promises, 30 days of leadership, 30 days of knowing
God, 30 stories of great Faith”, and many more. The devotionals were spread
throughout the Bible and they consisted of a personal or historic story entwined
to a scripture passage. Each devotional also contained three critical questions
for readers to contemplate on and to respond to.
One of the devotional for instance, discussed the
hardship of death and the terrible agony of losing someone that you loved. This
specific day dealt with 1 Corinthians 15:35-38 and Paul wrote to the believers
in Corinth describing to them that when believers die, that isn’t the end for
them. He explained that sting of death is sin but through our Lord and Savior
Jesus Christ, we have the final victory. The devotional told a personal story
about Andy meeting with Pastor Tim for coffee. It had been a year since Andy
lost his precious wife. They caught up like old friends on what happened and
what they have been going through this past year. Andy admitted that he
understands now what Paul stated in this passage about the sting of death and
where pain hurts. Andy began to open up about the difficulty of witnessing your
seven year old daughter and on her birthday, she makes a wish for her mother to
return and came back to her. The pain hits Andy when he has to check ‘widowed’
in important documents. He also sees his little five year old son drawing
pictures of mommy and she is far off from everyone else, looking down from
Heaven. This is one devotional that is truly heartbreaking and sad. This one
came in a significant time because this past weekend, I lost my great
grandmother and I know that she lived a long life. But death still stings, no
matter when it happens. This devotional and passage was a wonderful reminder
that if we are saved and we know Jesus as our Savior, we will one day have victory
over death.
I would recommend this astonishing Bible to every single
college aged student. If readers will consider and read through the passages
and devotionals spread out on these pages, their lives will be forever changed
and impacted. Mediating on the scriptures was very easy and user friendly with
this Bible. I really liked and connected with was beneficial section in the
back of the Bible. I immensely loved the “thirty days of promises” featuring “when
satan attacks you”, “when you’re waiting for an answer to prayer”, “when you’re
uncertain about the future”, and more valuable passages. I enjoyed the design
of the hardcover Bible and it was very appealing and it reminded me of school
colors. This would be a phenomenal resource and graduation gift to any high
school student entering college and any college student.
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