Thy Word I Have Hidden in My Heart (1 of 5)
Series: Life By the Book: A Study of Psalm 119
Scott Maze
Psalm 119:4-5, 7
As fall begins, we launch a new series dedicated to helping you get more out of your Bible. The Bible is so available; it’s as close as reaching out our hand. The Bible is on our phones and our nightstands in hotels all across our nation. The Bible is handed down from generation to generation.
Around 80 million Bibles are printed every year, and it is thought that there have been between 5 and 7 billion copies of the Bible printed in the last 1,500 years. The Guinness Book of World Records tells us that the Bible is the best-selling book of all time, and it is the best-selling book each and every year. The very book that commands you, ‘‘Thou Shall Not Steal,’’ is the world’s ‘‘most stolen’’ book, as copies of it disappear from hotels and hospitals every year.
When you think about how unique the Bible is, there are many ways to measure its impact. The Bible has been special for our country, the United States of America. The Bible helped create the moral framework for the American Constitution.
The first book printed on American soil was the largest book of the Bible, the Bay Psalm Book. The Puritans did the Bay Psalm Book so the churches could sing the psalms when they met for worship. The first edition of Bay Psalm Book recently sold for $14 million! Even though the book was full of mistakes, with some of the pages turned upside down, it fetched this vast sum of money because it was the first book printed on American soil. So from the beginning of our nation, the Bible has left a tremendous impression on us. Despite all this, the Bible often is difficult to understand and easy to ignore in our lives. Again, Life by the Book is a series dedicated to helping you get more out of your Bibles.
Now, some of you have seen others really get into the Bible, and you think to yourself, ‘‘I wish that were me. But I’ve tried reading it, a ...
Series: Life By the Book: A Study of Psalm 119
Scott Maze
Psalm 119:4-5, 7
As fall begins, we launch a new series dedicated to helping you get more out of your Bible. The Bible is so available; it’s as close as reaching out our hand. The Bible is on our phones and our nightstands in hotels all across our nation. The Bible is handed down from generation to generation.
Around 80 million Bibles are printed every year, and it is thought that there have been between 5 and 7 billion copies of the Bible printed in the last 1,500 years. The Guinness Book of World Records tells us that the Bible is the best-selling book of all time, and it is the best-selling book each and every year. The very book that commands you, ‘‘Thou Shall Not Steal,’’ is the world’s ‘‘most stolen’’ book, as copies of it disappear from hotels and hospitals every year.
When you think about how unique the Bible is, there are many ways to measure its impact. The Bible has been special for our country, the United States of America. The Bible helped create the moral framework for the American Constitution.
The first book printed on American soil was the largest book of the Bible, the Bay Psalm Book. The Puritans did the Bay Psalm Book so the churches could sing the psalms when they met for worship. The first edition of Bay Psalm Book recently sold for $14 million! Even though the book was full of mistakes, with some of the pages turned upside down, it fetched this vast sum of money because it was the first book printed on American soil. So from the beginning of our nation, the Bible has left a tremendous impression on us. Despite all this, the Bible often is difficult to understand and easy to ignore in our lives. Again, Life by the Book is a series dedicated to helping you get more out of your Bibles.
Now, some of you have seen others really get into the Bible, and you think to yourself, ‘‘I wish that were me. But I’ve tried reading it, a ...
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