App review
READ SCRIPTURE
www.readscripture.org
App Store and Google Play
The Read Scripture website encourages people to ‘spend quality time reading the Bible daily while learning how to read it with contextual videos from The Bible Project.’
This app created by The Bible Project gives a thematic reading plan that helps to give you an overall picture of the Bible. ‘Hint: it all points to Jesus’.
I have admired the videos from The Bible Project for many years. Their animation alone is fantastic and they aim to take a theme of the Bible e.g. redemption or temple, or a book of the Bible, and give an insightful, detailed overview of the book accompanied by brilliant animation.
A caveat
I will admit at the outset I do have one concern regarding The Bible Project. The vast majority of their content is magnificent. However, concerns have been raised by some reformed evangelicals about co-founder Tim Mackie’s views on penal substitutionary atonement and hell. It exceeds the scope of my reviews to comment any further, but I could not, in good conscience, review their material without that clear caveat.
The app is user friendly, modern and minimalistic in its presentation. Each time you read a new book of the Bible you are given (and encouraged by me) to watch the overview video for that book.
I’m not a thematic Bible-plan reader or preacher for that matter. However, with the track record that The Bible Project have in producing accessible, (mostly) Biblical content, I do not doubt that this reading plan would be edifying and God-honouring.
