This week a friend helped me discover that there are 3500 different Bibles available in the English language. I'm grateful that scholars are helping people engage the story of the Bible with study helps and easy to understand language. But somewhere there's a limit to all of this. You may know that you can purchase:
- The Patriot's Bible
- The Maxwell Leadership Bible
- The Every Man's Bible
- The Marriage Bible
- The Men's Fraternity Bible
- The New Spirit-filled Life Bible
- The Women of Faith Study Bible
The list goes on and on. Is the story of God in the Scriptures really that personalized, that limited to one's perceived microscopic focus?
Here are ten Bibles I haven't seen published. Maybe there's still time before Christmas gift-giving is here:
- All dogs do go to heaven, right?
- Who wouldn't read that? Who doesn't want that? Comes with a bottle of KY.
- For people who've ridden the denominational coaster from Baptist to Pentecostal and a couple in between. Don't forget Jesus was a Nazarene.
- Forget the bottle. This fine leather holds the God you were promised: One who is all about you and the world as you see it.
- All the introverted people of scripture are touted as the quiet, unassuming heroes, including Jesus.
- All the extroverted people of scripture are touted as the charging, change-making heroes, including Jesus
- Highlighted promises include "mounting up on eagle's wings, running without fainting" and "seeing clearly face-to-face"
- Justifies pop culture self-knowing with the will of God
- The phrase "cell church" appears over 56,000 times
- A next generation, digital Bible, designed to print-on-demand - but only those passages that you want to live by
