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Make it Easy to Take the Bible With You

By Joe Felim

If you are like most practicing Christians, you probably have a treasured family or personal Bible and attend church on a regular basis to continue learning the teachings of Christ. But, audio Bibles can help you take the Bible with you to many places you probably never realized. You can spend time listening to them while you are driving to and from work everyday. Your family can listen to the whole audio Bible (about 72 hours) on a long road trip. You can even listen to audio Bibles while you are out jogging or at the gym. They are quickly becoming a convenient way to take the Bible with you everywhere you go.

There are many different types of audio Bibles you can get today depending on your needs and lifestyle. If you regularly use a home or work computer and would like to listen to Bible passages during your lunch break or when you get home, you can find Christian websites where you can order or download an audio Bible online. If you think you would benefit the most from listening the Bible on CD, there are many retail and online stores that now sell the Bible on CD for a reasonable price. Bibles on CD are great because they are very versatile. You can listen to them on your car or home stereo system, play them on portable CD players - you can even play a Bible on CD on the media player on your computer.

If you are one of the more technically savvy people out there, an audio Bible MP3 could be exactly what you’re looking for. A Bible MP3 can be uploaded to iPod or MP3 player so you can listen to it on the subway, while you are out running or taking a nice stroll, while you bike to class or practically anywhere, since most MP3 players can fit right in your pocket. In addition to a full MP3 Bible, you can also sign up for Bible podcasts or free audio Bible downloads to play on your iPod or MP3 player as well. Now that the internet is an everyday tool for millions of people worldwide, the number of Bible-related podcasts continue to grow with every passing month.

Imagine how enriched your life could become if you spent even 10 minutes a day listening to an audio Bible or daily Bible podcasts that you can download to your iPod. It is an exciting and inspiring prospect to think about it, and it’s easier than ever to get started.

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Making Vital Connections With a Children’s Audio Bible

By Susan Slobac

Audio Bible study offers an easy to utilize method of spending time with God’s Word in the busiest of schedules. An added benefit of the audio Bible on CD is that it is flexible enough to be played back in a variety of different ways: from your home computer, or a personal CD player or DVD player. The audio Bible has now become widely available over the internet and can easily be be used in conjunction with digital technologies. One popular example is the MP3 Audio Bible which is increasingly popular with the general public. Your children can benefit from all of the digital expertise of audio Bible recordings. These recordings are brought to bear on the Word of God in order to share it with a multitude of people who, for many reasons, are not readers. Very young children, for example, are not at a stage in their development where they are able to read, and can thus benefit from being introduced to the Bible through listening to the children’s Bible in an audio format.

Children learn in predominantly one of three different ways: auditory, visual and kinesthetic. Auditory learners learn by hearing new information, while visual learners gain new knowledge by seeing it, and kinesthetic learners are hands-on types who learn by doing. If your child happens to favor the auditory learning style, then sharing the Bible with them in an audio format might be just what they need to make a vital connection to the wisdom found in God’s Word.

Audio children’s bibles share the best of the Bible’s stories from both the Old and New Testaments in a dramatized version, which includes spoken character voices, music and even sound effects, to bring the Bible to life for your child. It also utilizes a child-friendly version of the Bible, which stays true to the meaning of the Bible but utilizes language that a child can understand easily. Another added attraction to audio children’s Bible stories on CD or mp3 is that they also often include songs which are age-appropriate for children and fun to sing.

Podcasts of children’s Bible stories are also beginning to be available on line. What this means is that you can purchase a subscription to the online service, and then have access to a list of all the different podcast episodes available, so you can pick and choose the ones you would like to listen to. They also come in a regularly downloaded time schedule, so that you can add them to your mp3 player for your child to listen to when he or she is on the go. Mp3 digital audio files compress the entire New Testament into a single CD, so there are no bulky books to cart around or find storage space for. The digital audio quality is the highest available, and provides a rich and clear sound of the Bible stories being shared.

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Outreach Efforts Using Audio Bible Study Programs

By Susan Slobac

There are Bible Study programs going on all over the world, and many make use of the audio Bible. Audio Bible Study brings the Word of God to people who cannot read, the majority of the world’s population at present. The Bible on audio CD

allows missionaries and local pastors to share the treasures of the Bible to all who would like to hear about them. The audio Bible on CD is also being used worldwide as an aid to literacy. One of the first steps a missionary or pastor might take is to begin an audio Bible listening group. The Word of God is presented in a language familiar to native speakers, and it begins to work on the hearts of the listeners.

This often leads to the building of new churches. People then come to the churches to listen to the audio Bible and continue after with discussions of what they have heard, in order to build their faith. Listening to the Bible also helps new believers to memorize passages from it. Those living in a predominantly oral culture respond to dramatic readings of the Bible, and audio Bibles are available in dramatized versions, with sound effects, music and staged readings.

Some places in the world do not have the luxury of reliable power. This might put a damper on hearing the audio Bible, because without a power source electronic equipment will not run. However, improvements have been made in this area with the application of recent scientific digital technological advances. There are now solar-powered CD players that will play the audio Bible CD without the need for any local energy at all, allowing the audio Bible to reach into indigenous areas that might otherwise have not been blessed with God’s Word.

If you are learning how to read, it helps speed the process by listening to what you are trying to read being spoken as you attempt to read it. The audio Bible is used in this manner to help improve literacy skills of people all around the world. Over half the world’s population cannot read, so audio Bibles are being used as one method of sharing God’s Word, and are also used to help improve reading skills.

Illiteracy is even a problem in the United States