THE QUIET TIME KICKSTART:
Six Weeks to a Healthy Bible Habit
By Rachel Jones
The Good Book Company. 96 pages.
£6.99.
ISBN 978 1 802 541 366
Who of us hasn’t needed a kickstart, at points, for our quiet times? Taking the premise of ‘Couch to 5k’, which builds up running ability and stamina, the author here helps us start small with reading our Bible regularly and build up to more in-depth times of study.
The book’s aim is to equip the reader with skills to understand the Bible for themselves, considering questions such as what the passage says, why it says it and the Bible context. These questions develop as the weeks progress, along with lengthening Bible passages to read and longer comment and questions in the book itself, all increasing at a gradual and realistic pace.
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