Favorite Bible for Preaching

[randyabrown]

What Bible (not translation) do you use for preaching? Do you prefer large or hand size? Large print or small print? References or text only? Wide Margin or not?

Do you make notes in the Bible you preach from, or do you keep the text unmarked?

I've used a little bit of everything and I'd be interested in hearing what others use.

[Esaias]

I use a Holman "Super Giant Print Editiin" bible (easy on the eyes). It's a plain bible with a few references here and there. I don't preach or teach using a publisher's references so for me a plain text bible is preferable. I don't mark in it (my bibles I used for study are plenty marked tho). I did however add three bookmark ribbons to it so I can have several main texts ready to go (I often do a reading from the OT, a NT epistle, and a Gospel).

I picked this edition because it was easy to read, plain with no frills, and inexpensive. Works for me.

[Michael The Disciple]

I have 3 KJV that I generally use. Holman Hand Size is my stand by. Mine are marked up big time. Most references I have seen dont add anything to me so I like the less the better.

Are you Randy who wrote the good teaching about THE LOGOS a few years ago?

[n david]

I have a KJV Bible given to me when I graduated. It's well worn and marked up. People have said I should get a new Bible to use, and I have several various Bible translations/types at home, but I love using this old, worn one.

[randyabrown]

Originally Posted by Michael The Disciple

I have 3 KJV that I generally use. Holman Hand Size is my stand by. Mine are marked up big time. Most references I have seen dont add anything to me so I like the less the better.

Are you Randy who wrote the good teaching about THE LOGOS a few years ago?

Hi Michael. I like the Holman hand size giant print. I also have the Minister's Bible, which is the exact text with wide margins.

If you're referring to this article Logos, then yes, I am the same Randy. Thanks!

[randyabrown]

Originally Posted by n david

I have a KJV Bible given to me when I graduated. It's well worn and marked up. People have said I should get a new Bible to use, and I have several various Bible translations/types at home, but I love using this old, worn one.

David, what kind is it? I like using my old worn Bible that I have my notes in. I know where everything is.

[randyabrown]

Originally Posted by Esaias

I use a Holman "Super Giant Print Editiin" bible (easy on the eyes). It's a plain bible with a few references here and there. I don't preach or teach using a publisher's references so for me a plain text bible is preferable. I don't mark in it (my bibles I used for study are plenty marked tho). I did however add three bookmark ribbons to it so I can have several main texts ready to go (I often do a reading from the OT, a NT epistle, and a Gospel).

I picked this edition because it was easy to read, plain with no frills, and inexpensive. Works for me.

Esaias, I've been considering the Holman Super Giant Print. I think the larger font would be easier for me because I like to glance down at the text while preaching. I have a 12-point that I like a lot. 18-point for the Holman (if I'm remembering correctly) would be nice. Is it ever too big on the pulpit?

[Esaias]

Originally Posted by randyabrown

Esaias, I've been considering the Holman Super Giant Print. I think the larger font would be easier for me because I like to glance down at the text while preaching. I have a 12-point that I like a lot. 18-point for the Holman (if I'm remembering correctly) would be nice. Is it ever too big on the pulpit?

We do house church so no pulpit lol! At my house there is a cabinet thing I use as a table but no it isn't too big. When I've preached inside a church building I was using a standard sized bible (since fallen apart).

The super giant print bible, while nice on the eyes, is not really handy if you're holding it while speaking (in such a case I'd prefer a regular sized bible that can be held in one hand).

I'd like to get a quarto-sized pulpit bible (might be over the top tho!) so I could REALLY impress folks. Nothing like thinking the preacher is gonna slap the sin outta you with a super gargantuan 10 pound bible metal clasps and all, right?

[randyabrown]

Originally Posted by Esaias

We do house church so no pulpit lol! At my house there is a cabinet thing I use as a table but no it isn't too big. When I've preached inside a church building I was using a standard sized bible (since fallen apart).

The super giant print bible, while nice on the eyes, is not really handy if you're holding it while speaking (in such a case I'd prefer a regular sized bible that can be held in one hand).

I'd like to get a quarto-sized pulpit bible (might be over the top tho!) so I could REALLY impress folks. Nothing like thinking the preacher is gonna slap the sin outta you with a super gargantuan 10 pound bible metal clasps and all, right?

That would be awesome!

We have house Church too! I use 2 music stands that I overlap so they kind of lock together. I place my Bible on one side and my song book or notes on the other. I ended up taking my laptop a few times, so I lowered one of the stands to hold the laptop and the Bible has the other one all to itself. I don't like the bottom edge 'lip' that holds the music in place. It sticks up too far. Other then that it works great.

[Michael The Disciple]

Randy I notice you are in Tennessee. What area as I am in South Central Ky.

As I was reading your web site I saw you are in Sweetwater. Im thinking that is close to Athens where I have a friend who ministers in that area named Phillip Gordon.