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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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Audio Bible Support Materials for Pastors

By Susan Slobac

If you are a pastor or other religious leader, you know that getting your church members into and reading the Bible on a daily basis is the key to spiritual growth, church growth and outreach. But did you know that over half the people around the world cannot read? Just under half the people in the United States read at a level that makes them incapable of understanding what the Bible says. If this is the case, and you are a pastor trying to get your congregation to read, then what are you to do? There is one bright light that makes sharing the Word of God with members of your congregation much easier, and that is the audio Bible. There are many versions of the audio Bible. The King James audio Bible, the NIV audio Bible, and the Catholic audio Bible, are available in both a CD and mp3 format, making for ready access by your congregation.

The types of materials that pastors will find available online includes the New Testament recorded on a CD, in a compressed mp3 format. What this means is that you can receive CDs for every member of your congregation, who can then play them at home on ordinary CD players, computers and DVD players, and listen to the Word of God at home or anywhere there is a playback device. The New Testament is also available in a downloadable mp3 format, allowing for it to be transfered to a tiny portable mp3 player. This makes Bible study easy to take with you anywhere you go.

By using the Internet, church members and leaders can also find New Testament readings and missionary stories from the field available in a podcast form. The result is that you can subscribe to the podcast, and then select the podcast episodes you wish to listen to on your home computer or mp3 player. Pastors can use this digital technology to reach young church members as well. You will find children’s versions of the Bible stories of the Old and New Testaments, as well as a host of great age-appropriate sing-along songs, available on CD, mp3, and podcast formats. In this way parents can introduce their children, who might not yet be old enough to read, to the power contained in the Bible.

Another benefit to pastors who work in a culturally diverse church is that the audio Bible has been translated into hundreds of languages. Because of this, it is likely that you will find an audio Bible in the variety of languages you need to meet your church member’s specific linguistic needs.The audio Bible brings God’s Word into the everyday lives of your congregation members, and being introduced to it, allows you to build on what they are hearing, and deepen their spiritual growth along the way.

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Bible Study for Teens

By Susan Slobac

If you have children, then you know you want to get them started off right with good habits that will help them mature into wise adults. One way to do that is to encourage them to spend a little bit of time every day in Bible Study. But with between classes, sports and homework after school, and the myriad other responsibilities and tasks that your teenagers must deal with, it can frankly be a little hard to find the needed time to devote to this useful activity. You can get some Bible study in easily, however, when you consider using an audio Bible. An audio Bible CD or an MP3 audio Bible will provide the means that will help enable your kids to grow spiritually.

An audio Bible CD can contain dramatized versions of the complete Bible or the New Testament on a single CD. MP3 technology is used to contain all of that text into one small disc. An audio Bible CD is convenient to listen to at home or on the go and can played in a any CD or DVD player. This portable audio Bible can be used in any CD player or car stereo systems, so your kids can take the Word of God with them on their travels.

The MP3 audio Bible compresses the text of the Bible down so that it all fits into a tiny playback device no larger than a pack of chewing gum. You use an mp3 player with a set of ear buds or small headphones in order to hear the Bible. Because of their extreme popularity with youth, this format that the Bible can take makes it very inconspicuous, and its small size makes it easily transportable. You can do your audio Bible Study as you walk around campus, or while you do a workout.

There are even new podcast versions of Bible study that are appropriate for teens. A podcast is a recording that can be listened to on your computer, or downloaded onto your mp3 player to listen to at your convenience. There are podcasts that are under 10 minutes long that allow you to hear the whole New Testament if you listen for that long every day. Other portioned readings of the Bible are also available in podcast form, covering favorite Proverbs and Psalms.

The fabulous advantage to listening to podcasts and mp3 format material is that you have the ability to play the material any time that it is convenient to you. You can fit it into little snippets of time that might be otherwise wasted. Now Bible Study for teens is much more possible, because when they have a free moment, they can listen to God’s Word.