What’s the first thing you do with a Bible after you purchase it? Look up your favorite verse? Write your name on the first page? Hit someone over the head with it? (just kidding, please don’t do this)
If you want to make your Bible last a long time, the first thing you do once you [...]

Thanks to Ray Fowler for posting a fascinating chart about the most popular highlighted Bible passages in the six top-highlighted Bible translations on Kindle (which are all also six of the top 50 highlighted books on Kindle).

Ray observes, “I found it interesting how many of these highlights focus on trusting God and not worrying.” Commenter Thomas points out, “users of NLT and ESV appear to highlight several different passages, while users of all the other translations concentrate exclusively on just a very few verses.”

The top highlighted verses were all highlighted in multiple translations, but one set of verses, Romans 8:38-39, was highlighted (relatively) often in the NLT, but not often in any of the other six. Why do you think

Right after I announced that the availability of the NLT for download in YouVersion was about to end, Tyndale and YouVersion decided to extend the offer for another 30 days to accomodate all of the new iPad owners. YouVersion has a classy HD app for the iPad and until May 5 you can download the NLT [...]

The NLT currently has offline availability on YouVersion for iPhone, but the 90 day download window is approaching its end. If you don’t use YouVersion, I do recommend it; and if you do use YouVersion, I recommend you download the NLT by April 5! Instructions on the YouVersion blog.

Congratulations to Wheaton College and Dr. Philip Ryken on the recently-announced selection of Ryken as eighth president of the college. As a current (part-time) grad student at Wheaton, I look forward to meeting him and seeing what the Ryken era will bring.

As a Tyndale employee, Ryken’s name sounds familiar to me because he co-authored [...]

One of my favorite editions of the NLT, Holy Bible: Mosaic, is now available in an electronic edition for your iPhone or iPod Touch (link will open iTunes).

This is the first application that Tyndale has submitted to the iTunes store, and I’m pretty excited about it. It includes the complete text of the NLT, along [...]

Tyndale House Publishers The Tyndale Foundation and our friends at LifeChurch.tv have been working together to make the NLT available to you offline on the YouVersion iPhone App. You have a 90-day window in which to download it, but the content won’t expire after 90 days (or ever) after it’s downloaded. See this post on [...]

This is the last day to enter the NLT contest to win a trip for four to Israel. Visit the “Breakthrough to Clarity” contest site to enter.

(this is a repost from the Tyndale Blog, written by Adam)
Tyndale House Publishers would like to invite you to be a part of a special holiday offer. Christian recording artist and author of 101 Ways to Give This Christmas Away, Matthew West, is offering a free download of the Christmas story from Luke read by [...]

We’ve launched phase two of the NLT Study Bible online! This release makes the online study Bible even more user-friendly with the addition of a few new features, especially public and private note-taking.
Private notes: Create comments alongside the text just as you would write notes in the margins of a print Bible. Every time [...]