Indescribable: 100 Devotions about God and Science

 

 

Indescribable: 100 Devotions about God and Science is a devotion book by Louie Giglio. I love the messages that Louie Giglio gives so I was excited to receive this devotional book that I plan on using with my son. The book is a very nice quality book with beautiful illustrations by Nicola Anderson.  The book uses a variety of different bible versions to quote the scripture throughout but the most widely used is the International Children’s Bible.

Some things I really like about this book is that it is written in a way that will be able to be understood by small children and it incorporates science into the Word. There is a prayer at the end of each devotion to help teach children to pray. Each devotion has a “be amazed” section that includes some fact that relates to the devotion.  Also, in the beginning of the book Mr. Giglio has broken down each devotion into 4 different areas of study: Space, Earth, Animals, and People that way if you want to do a devotion on a specific subject you can easily find it.

There is only one thing I really was disappointed about. The description on the back of the book says there are hands on activities and so far I haven’t seen or found any activities. I was hoping to find some experiments or maybe some kind of art projects, something but there aren’t any in there unless I have missed them.  I feel I can find activities to go along with each one pretty easily but it would’ve been nice to have them included as mentioned in the description.

I plan on using the devotional as a bible study and a science jump off point . I really like this book and if you are looking to incorporate bible and science with your child I think you would enjoy it also. It would be perfect for the younger children.

I received this book at no charge from booklookbloggers.com in exchange for an honest review.

 

Understanding Color in Photography

Any opportunity I get to check out Bryan Peterson’s photography books I jump on it.  I absolutely love every book I have by him and Understanding Color in Photography is no exception.

My photography goal in life is to capture the image in my camera without having to go through the editing process later. I have not mastered this skill as much as I want to. When I picked up this book I noticed one thing Mr. Peterson said. He echoed the fact that he wants to spend more time photographing and not editing. He wants to capture the image correctly in camera. Of course he is capable of this. J

In his books he breaks things down in easy to understand terms. The book is filled with beautiful photography and examples of the concepts he is writing about. He writes in a way that anyone can understand the concepts. In this book he explains how different colors can affect the mood of the photographs you are taking whether you are photographing blue tones, orange tones, red tones etc.  He also gives wonderful ideas on how to get proper settings for different settings. How to achieve the perfect skin tones, perfect exposures, capture movement effectively, how to balance your pictures.  He fills his books with a lot of information.

I highly, highly recommend any of Bryan Peterson’s books if you are looking to improve your photography!!!They are perfect for the beginner, novice and experienced.  I received this book from bloggingforbooks.com at no charge in exchange for an honest review. You can purchase a copy for yourself here.

 

KJV Know the Word Study Bible

KJV Know the Word Study Bible offers 3 different ways to study the bible: Book by book, verse by verse or topic by topic. I really like the layout of this bible. I do wish there was a guide to help understand how to use this bible affectively. But I believe after looking through it and reviewing it I figured out how to navigate through.

Each book starts with a summary of the book and a “How to study” each book.  There are sections throughout each book that helps to study the book as a whole. At the bottom of each page there are notes on the verses, but not all verses have this note and the scripture itself doesn’t seem to be marked to allow you to know there is a note to go along with the verse. There is ample study material all through the bible.

One area that I’m not sure I would qualify this bible as a topic by topic study bible because of a couple of reasons. First there is a list of topics at the very beginning of the bible. There are only 21 topics listed. I’m not sure that is adequate to study topic by topic. Each topic has a “notes” section in the book that helps study the specific topic. I just feel like there should be more meat to the topics and more topics to make this qualify for a topic by topic study bible. That being said it does seem to cover each topic with at least 5 supporting notes and scripture. And the topics covered are relevant and popular topics to study.

This bible doesn’t have any illustrations through it but does have a map section in the back.  There are a few weights and measurement tables and a concordance. Overall, I will say this is a very nice study bible and gives a lot of good study opportunities.  I would recommend it as a study bible.  There are a couple of places that there could be improvement but nothing that would deter me from recommending it.

I received this bible at no charge from booklookblogers.com in exchange for an honest review.