One question, of all the questions I am asked,
is probably best settled in a single video.
"Which Bible do you use?"
Are you interested? Here is a quick list.
Hi, I'm David Daniels from Chick Publications.
This is what I call my "vlog Bible" (other people have called it).
If you notice, one thing I like in Bibles
is a center column reference.
People have objections to that, but I don't.
One of the things it does is make the column
just wide enough for your eyes to read it,
without having to go back and forth.
It makes it easier when you're witnessing to somebody,
talking to him about Christ. When I have a Chick tract
and I'm talking to them about the word,
or just walking door to door, it's so much easier
to read this way.
This one is no longer published. This is a leather edition
of a Thomas Nelson Bible that was done back in 1983-84.
I bought mine back in 2002. I have not been able
to find them since.
But if you look, the spacing is nice,
the size of the lettering. You always want to check it
for the size of your eyesight.
So that's one.
What I have found has been this Zondervan
King James Bible. I'm still looking,
and I do this regularly. But this one here,
this Zondervan, is the closest thing so far.
The spacing is nice. It's center-columned,
to give that width, the way my eyes work well.
And it's fairly well put-together, and it's very inexpensive.
If you want to go more expensive, I keep this one as well,
ready to go. This is my Cambridge.
I have one friend who has one of these.
It's blue. It's about $50, though,
and sometimes more.
But one nice thing about Cambridge is that bold print.
It makes it very easy to read. And again,
center-column reference makes it so that the columns
are not too wide.
When I'm at church, or in the New Testament videos
(I've been reading through the Bible), I use the Rainbow Study Bible.
It is not a study Bible with written notes.
It's a study Bible with colors.
And my wife and I like the colors. What can I say?
And it actually is very helpful and very easy to read.
It's the 3rd edition from Holman Publishing.
Actually well done. Instead of having the big
bold capital letters, like they used to have,
they simply underline the words spoken by the God the Father,
Son, or Holy Ghost. Very nice.
And finally, you guys have been asking me,
"Where did you get your mule-choking King James Bible?
Well, you kind of have to
go back in time. It was 1977.
This was one of the very first Bibles that came to
Thomas Nelson Publishers from Royal Publishing.
I'm actually writing a book about that.
So I'll get into that some other time.
But I will say this. This is the one the Lord used
when He brought me back to Himself in 1980,
8 years after I prayed to receive Christ in 1972.
The Lord used this, and I thank Him for that.
The one thing it does have, is it uses American spelling
of Hebrew words, instead of the regular spelling
that you find in the King James.
Other than that, it is a beautiful Bible,
and the Lord used it in my life.
But you can't find it --except rarely.
It took me 30 years to find this one. And I'm not giving you mine.
So these are the Bibles I have. What I recommend, though,
more than anything else, is that you have something,
when you are witnessing to somebody else,
that is basically small. So that when you have
a verse of scripture that you want to show them,
you know, if you have a Chick tract the verses are often written
right there at the bottom. You can open it up,
and you can read it to them, and they can see the word of God.
And what convicts hearts more than the word of God?
Not hitting people over the head with the size of the Bible,
or trying to affirm our spirituality because ours
is bigger than theirs.
But rather, having that peaceable
and quiet spirit, but that is very strong
in the word of God, ready to give it to them, so that
the word will do the conviction, not the size of the Bible.
And so that when you are witnessing
with a Chick tract or some other Gospel tract,
you'll be able to show them what the word of God says.
I pray that whatever you use, that you use something
with a goal to winning souls, and to edifying others.
Because God will use it. And He will bless you.
God bless you, and have a wonderful day.