Hike Through the Bible by Collin Smith

About the Book:

If you’ve ever been on a hike, then you’ve experienced views that stir your soul. But hikes can also be fatiguing, slippery, and precarious. Hike Through the Bible is a 50-session journey that helps you navigate through difficult passages of Scripture and takes you down exciting new trails where you’ll encounter the Lord in an up close and personal way.

Serving as a trusted, pastoral guide, Colin Smith leads you on a rigorous path where you’ll explore the depths of God’s Word. Each section of the hike includes five questions for personal reflection or group discussion. You will scale mountainsides, sit by waterfalls, and see rocks and foliage that you’ve never noticed. Like any great hike, studying Scripture can feel intimidating or like hard work. But the discoveries—and this is a promise—are worth every minute of it!

My Review:

Reading through the Bible and understanding its major ideas is a daunting task. Smith helps readers discover the major concepts contained and what they mean to us today. This is not a chapter by chapter adventure but rather a concept by concept one. The design of fifty chapters would make it great for a year long read through. Smith has included a prayer at the end of each chapter as well as thought provoking questions and a verse to memorize. This book would be a good for personal use as well as for a Sunday School class or a small group.

I appreciate Smith's insights and information included in the book. He has written previous books on the Bible that provide more of an overview of it. This one is more of an in depth study of the major concepts contained within it.

My rating: 4/5 stars.

About the Author:

Colin Smith is President of Open the Bible and Pastor Emeritus of The Orchard Church in northwest suburban Chicago. He can be heard daily on the radio broadcast Open the Bible, and at openthebible.org. Colin is the author of many books, including: Fly Through the Bible, Heaven, How I Got Here, and Momentum: Pursuing God’s Blessings Through the Beatitudes. He is married to Karen, and they have two married sons and five granddaughters.

Moody Publishers, 352 pages.

I received a complimentary copy of this book from the publisher. My comments are an independent review.

(My star ratings: 5-I love it, 4-I like it, 3-It's OK, 2-I don't like it, 1-I hate it.)