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practical encouragement to make every day matter

There was once a woman who spent hours at a time ironing her family’s clothes. For years she felt like her time was being eaten

up by this chore, but one day she had a simple realization that changed her life. She began to use her ironing as a time of prayer and fellowship with God.

As she ironed her husband’s shirts, she prayed for him. Ironing her daughter’s dresses became a time to bathe her child in prayer. Every item on the ironing board became an opportunity for fellowship with God. The chore that had once been so tedious became a precious part of her routine.

Today’s Christian woman is so busy handling the challenges of day-to-day life that spending time in the Word can easily become

yet another “should” among a long list of daily “musts.” But our everyday activities and roles can be transformed into moments of growth and nourishment.

Created in partnership with Today's Christian Woman, Christianity Today’s women’s magazine, the Everyday Matters Bible for Women is designed to help women develop spiritual practices that will make their lives richer, not harder. It offers practical encouragement and tools to renew and reinvigorate.

Transforming everyday matters into a life that matters every day

Over 300 features are organized in four ways:

EvEryday MattErs

Two-page articles introduce major themes and focus on essential aspects of understanding and practicing a discipline.

EvEryday PrOfilEs

Profiles of twenty-five biblical women highlight the various disciplines. These wives, mothers, warriors, and businesswomen lived and experienced many of the same feelings, decisions, and challenges that we do today.

Based on spiritual disciplines, this Bible combines the contemporary language of the New Living Translation with content from today’s foremost Christian thinkers.

Over 300 features are organized in four ways:

EvEryday rEflEctiOns

Selections illustrate ways to personalize and apply God’s Word to your own situation.

EvEryday Q & as

Short articles delve into a difficult aspect of spiritual practice and offer practical help for incorporating a discipline into your daily life.

Bible also includes:

• HOw tO UsE tHis BiBlE in a sMall GrOUP stUdy

• i ndEx Of sPiritUal PracticEs

• rEsOUrcEs fOr fUrtHEr rEadinG

How this Bible works…

Within this Bible are twenty-four spiritual practices, each one represented by a distinctive icon. These icons appear next to

special features or Scripture passages that they relate to. Each article indicates where the next icon for that spiritual discipline appears in Scripture, allowing readers to track them throughout the Bible.

You can study the disciplines at any pace, from one reading selection per day (again, we’ve selected more than three hundred!)

to a more quickly paced discipline per day. This is your Bible; use it as you see fit.

Some suggestions for other ways to use this Bible:

• Read one of the pieces within a particular spiritual practice that you want toexplore. Read the cited Scripture passage. In a quiet moment at day’s end,consider how that passage affected you and your day’s activities and priori-ties. Repeat this pattern daily, reading through the supplementary pieces ofone spiritual practice, such as prayer, fasting, or justice, and then another.

• Choose one book (or more, if very short) of the Bible to read through ina week. Start with the introductory page, including the book’s outline, tounderstand the overall themes and cultural context. Then divide the chap-ters to cover the entire week. How many, and which, spiritual practices areinterwoven in the passages? Highlight the passages, biblical or supplemen-tary, that speak to you. At the end of the week, go back through the bookand read only the highlighted verses and paragraphs. Make those yourprayer that God will use them to grow you spiritually.

• Choose a book of the Bible and do not read any of the supplementarymaterial. As you read that book, note any evident spiritual practices(review the list of twenty-four). Consider their reasons and roles: For whatreasons were they practiced by the biblical characters? And what purposedid they effect? What did the characters discover about themselves andGod? Next go back and read the supplementary pieces placed alongsidethe biblical text. Which highlighted disciplines did you identify the firsttime through the book? Reflect on how you can practice those disciplinesmore fervently.

• Spend a longer amount of time (a month or a year) and work through theBible or a particular spiritual practice with another person or a small group.For more ideas on studying together as a group, the Bible includes a helpfulsection called, “How to Use This Bible in a Small Group Study.”

Living out the disciplines can be difficult (thus the name!), but don’t grow discouraged. Keep focused and coming back to the Bible and

its message, and God will bless, stretch, and grow you as he desires.

Katie Brazelton

Jill Briscoe

Mark Buchanan

Cindy Crosby

Marva Dawn

Margaret Feinberg

Richard J. Foster

Mark Galli

Ruth Bell Graham

Jennifer Grant

Nancy Guthrie

Jack Hayford

Cynthia Heald

Liz Curtis Higgs

Bill Hybels

Timothy Keller

Anita Lustrea

Gordon MacDonald

Linda Manes

Frederica Mathewes-Green

Elisa Morgan

Sally Morgenthaler

Richard Mouw

Wendy Murray

David Neff

Shauna Niequist

John Ortberg

Nancy Ortberg

Ben Patterson

Eugene Peterson

Luci Shaw

Marshall Shelley

Priscilla Shirer

Lewis B. Smedes

Joni Eareckson Tada

Becky Tirabassi

Kelli B. Trujillo

Miroslav Volf

Ann Voskamp

Sheila Walsh

Kay Warren

Bryan Wilkerson

Vinita Hampton Wright

Philip Yancey

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