There is something powerful about listening to the entire story of the Bible from beginning to end in modern English. It was fascinating to have the psalms placed within the stories when they were written, the epistles within the stories of Acts, etc. The NLT is a faithful translation that reads very easily, so is a great translation to listen to in chronological order. Wonderful Way to Read the Bible in a Year This audiobook can be a help to keep up with the daily readings of the One Year Bible!! The reader is very good and had good expression and pronunciation of Bible passages. Overall, I highly recommend this audiobook, especially if you also own the book version of the same Bible. This isn't a big issue for me, but possibly may be for some. So if you are listening to the audiobook version and following along on your printed version of the Bible, there have been two times, so far, in the first month where there are slight differences in the two versions. Also, there are several editions of this One Year Chronological Bible with very, very minor wording differences that happened with each edition. And I do agree that it would be even more confusing if I did not own the book version of the same Bible where I could see the book and chapter references in small print at the top of each day. Groups using this Bible, typically discuss material by referencing dates or page numbers, but not the scripture Bible Book and chapter has you would in other Bible Studies. The scripture references are shown in small print for each day, but the material is divided by days of the year, not by Book and Chapter/verse references that come with a standard Bible. This is also a shortcoming of the book version of this same Bible. But the downside to this is that you don't hear the book and chapter and verse from the Bible that the reader is reading on the audiobook. Then each section has "chapters" for the daily readings that are divided and labeled by the date in the year. (And as another member of our group commented, it helps with the pronunciation of many challenging Old testament names while you are reading passages.) Because it is so long, the audiobook is divided into 7 sections of book that you download. As I am listening to the audiobook, I can underline key passages and can see and hear the material at the same time. However, I also have found that listening to the daily reading to be very helpful on days where I have the book version of the Bible in front of me. I bought this audiobook to help keep up with the daily readings on days where I was on the go and found that listening to the daily readings while driving or walking was the only way I could get the reading in for the day. Our church is doing a study of the One Year Chronological Bible. Good resource to go with your One Year Bible
Unfortunately I cannot look up the verses because the audiobook doesn't tell you where the narrator is reading. I'm not familiar with this translation and more than once I wanted to look up the text because I was surprised by a word choice. The only flaw in this audiobook is that it usually does not make it clear WHERE he's reading from, which is a problem especially in the Old Testament where he moves around between various books of the Bible. There are lots of times when the Bible's words moved me. Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you? He adds the right amount of inflection so I can hear some emotion in the words without his voice pandering to emotionalism. He reads slow enough to be heard but not so slow as to be ponderous. What about Todd Busteed’s performance did you like? I hear the whole story of the Bible in chronological order, which can get repetitive at times in the Old Testament but it's instructive to see how many times and ways the same story is reflected in various places. It's not the best but it ranks up there among the top ten so far. Where does The One Year Chronological Bible NLT rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far? Interesting way to read Bible in One Year