The Charles F. Stanley Life Principles Bible (NKJV, Burgundy Bonded Leather) [Leather Bound]

Dr. Charles F. Stanley (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 15, 2005

The Charles F. Stanley Life Principles Bible delivers Dr. Stanley's cherished values to benefit every Christian in his or her life's pursuits. With more than 250,000 in print, The Charles F. Stanley Life Principles Bible communicates the life principles Dr. Stanley has gleaned from the Word through his years of Bible teaching and pastoral ministry. The result is a Bible overflowing with practical articles, notes, and sidebars that help readers understand what the Bible has to say about life's most important questions.

Features include:

• 30 Life Principles with articles throughout the Bible
• Life Lessons verse notes
• Life Examples from the people of the Bible
• Answers to Life's Questions and What the Bible Says About articles
• God's Promises for Life index to get into the Scriptures
• Book introductions
• Concordance

Part of the Signature Series line of Thomas Nelson Bibles.

Product Details

• Leather Bound: 1760 pages
• Publisher: Thomas Nelson (November 15, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0718012623
• ISBN-13: 978-0718012625
• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 7.6 x 1.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (43 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #773,467 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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127 of 129 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Mix of Study and Applicational Helps..., January 9, 2007

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Encompassed Runner (Florida, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Charles F. Stanley Life Principles Bible, NKJV (Hardcover)

When I first saw the Bible title, I thought perhaps this would be a man-centered, Christianity-lite Bible, but that is not the case here. So much more than I had expected, The Charles F. Stanley Life Principles Bible strikes a balance between doctrinal helps and applicational helps, which Stanley interweaves in a very natural, buoyant, visually attractive, and thorough yet uncluttered way.

The Bible has a whopping 195 page concordance, "What the Bible Says About" articles, introductions for the 66 Bible books, a "God Promises" feature, and an index for the >300 promises categorized under family, provision, deliverance, justice, obeying, and more. Yet for all these helps, the Bible lives up to its title in offering practical inspiration with such features as

- "Life Principle" articles (for ex, "Obey God and Leave the Consequence to Him"),
- "Life Lessons" (>2500 applicational notes scattered throughout),
- "Life Examples" (for ex, "Joseph: Waiting and Trusting"), and
- "Answers to Life Questions" (located near to scripture tie-ins, for ex, near Gen 39:29 on Joseph one finds "Does God Bring Us Adversity?")

As for the Bible proper, the NKJV is not one of the looser translations, much less a paraphrase, but is a word-for-word literal equivalence translation that improves a bit on the accuracy of the KJV yet keeps the KJV's familiar flowing beauty while also avoiding both the KJV's archaic words, pronouns, and verb endings and also the dry or wooden sound of the NASB. For those concerned about translation issues, it is fairly easy to follow along with either the NASB or KJV, even the NIV, using the NKJV, and anyway, differences between underlying texts are noted in small print.

For those wanting notes that are more of the historical, archaeological, or doctrinal type, this is not the most academic of Bibles, nor does its title advertise itself as a Study Bible. Instead, the Bible falls within the niche somewhere between the more man-centered Life Application Bible and the info-rich MacArthur or Nelson's NKJV Study Bible. Most of all, fans of Charles Stanley's books or television show will surely enjoy this Bible.

64 of 65 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent resource Bible from an extraordinary teacher of the Bible, November 1, 2006

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K. Harriger "K.R. Harriger" (Pennsylvania, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Charles F. Stanley Life Principles Bible (Black) (Bonded Leather)

This is probably the most well-thought-out resource study Bible on the market. Everyone's definition of "resource bible" will vary, of course, so in this case I simply refer to "resources" as useful, practical annotations that are instantly applicable to our everyday life and understanding of the Bible. Every page is filled with practical footnotes that reflect on Dr. Stanley's thirty Life Principles, a series of key points gleaned from years of dedicated study and revelation through the Spirit. I'm always cautious of anyone who publishes a Bible with "interpretative" footnotes, but this is one Bible you can use with complete confidence. His principles are Biblically sound through and through (check them out if you don't believe me) and his reverence for explaining The Word in terms we can all understand is without peer, which explains why he's been so successful at upholding The Great Commission. I've always believed that God gives us all special gifts, and He's given Dr. Stanley the gift of teaching, a gift that has been used to its fullest. The most successful servants of God do one thing and do it extremely well, and Dr. Stanley is probably the best living Bible teacher in our modern world, bar none. This annotated Bible is a "must have" addition to the collection of any serious student of The Word.

59 of 63 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Life Principle Bible, February 23, 2006

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Willie Hart (Stone Mountain, GA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Charles F. Stanley Life Principles Bible (Black) (Bonded Leather)

I found the bible to be excellent as a study bible. It afford not only the word but application for one's life with the supporting scripture from both the old and new testaments. In additional God's promises from both the old and new testaments. This Bible has been very helpful in my study of God's word.