This review was so timely for me,
because every new school year I like to treat myself to a new devotional book for
homeschooling Moms. The TOS Review
Crew was blessed to review Zondervan's KJV
Homeschool Mom's Bible, I got the
hardcover King James Version with the dust jacket that retails for $34.99,
there is also an Ebook version Ebook version for $14.99 and a cornflower blue Italian Duo-Tone™ that retails for $49.99. The NIV version that can
be found by clicking here NIV.
I have never found a homeschool mom's devotional that included the
Bible in the text, so this was pretty neat, I could take it anywhere and not
have to drag 2 books with me, my Bible & my devotional, it was nice to just
bring along my KJV Homeschool
Mom's Bible!! Actually I left this Bible in my car a lot, the devotionals
were a quick read while waiting on my son at the library, mall, piano practice
and other places.
Normally I would not spend $34.99
on a devotional book, but what a bargain the KJV
Homeschool Mom's Bible is, you get
a Bible too. The Foreword of the book is written by Vickie Farris who is an
author and wife of HSLDA's Founder Dr.
Michael Farris, I've read several of Mike & Vickie's books over the years
so I knew if she endorsed the KJV Homeschool
Mom's Bible it was going to be a good read! Vickie's opening lines say it
all..."You and I share something incredible. We're called to the very
challenging, yet very fulfilling life of a homeschool
mom." Just reading those first few lines reminds me of the high calling of
motherhood and of a homeschooling mom. WOW, that is so easy to forget when we are
bogged down in our daily grind.
The author of KJV
Homeschool Mom's Bible Janet Tatman has homeschooled
for more than 25 years with her four children. She has been a copywriter for
Alpha Omega Publications in the homeschool
division. She also spent 6 years writing the daily Focus, a devotional that
comes by email each day. So I am thinking she has it going on, when it comes to
knowing just what we homeschool mom's
need for encouragement.
KJV Homeschool
Mom's Bible is chock full of daily devotion to choose from, there are 365
in all. That is one devotion for each day of the year to help us busy
homeschool moms on a daily basis. The book can be used in two different ways,
depending on how you like to study the Bible, and if you have never studied the
Bible, the KJV Homeschool
Mom's Bible makes it simple for you. You can follow a daily format,
(devotions are dated starting on page 3.) or you can use the topical index that
you find in the back of the book starting on page 1489. I'm a topical kinda
gal, because I don't like to go by the dates since if I get behind, it bums me
out :O)
I only had one dislike about the KJV
Homeschool Mom's Bible and it's
really more of a personal preference. The devotions have nothing to do with the
book of the Bible or the chapter of the Bible that they are printed in. For
example devotion number 1 is "The Passion of Homeschooling" it's
located in the KJV Homeschool
Mom's Bible between Genesis 3:1-3:2. However, the verses in that days
devotion are Ps 139:3, Rev 3:15-16, 1 Jn 1:9 and John 14:21. My personal preference
in daily devotions is to read a passage of scripture and then have a devotional
that goes along with the current Bible reading; there again this dislike is
personal preference.
I love the topical index, because
some days I am just in need of a certain thing, idea, fact or Scripture and I can
glance through the index and find just what my soul needs that day. For example,
there are listing of things like (some of which I had never come across in a
homeschool mom's devotional) birth order, bitterness, deadlines, discouragement,
food, freedom, hiding, material possessions, romance, seeds of faith, spiritual
warfare and tragedy. Those were just a sampling of the topics; there are many
more topics to choose from. It's so exciting to have a troubling day and just
glance through the topical index to find the perfect devotional, it soothes the
soul.
I also liked the questions in the
text of the devotions in the KJV Homeschool
Mom's Bible, they are there for you to meditate and think on. They were
very revealing to me as I read, a reminder of things that I need to work on in
my own life.
I highly recommend Zondervan's
KJV
Homeschool Mom's Bible for the new homeschooler as well as the veteran homeschool
mom. Click
here to read more reviews of the book from other TOS Review Crew members or if you enjoy the NIV version of the Bible, you can read the TOS reviews of that book too.
