Vines does do a good job of unpacking relevant spiritual lessons in his devotionals, making the thought patterns and basic ideas of Bible passages easier to understand. The various devotionals and study notes are very well organized, making it easy to alternate between reading Scripture and reading the other materials.

This simple-to-use guide will help readers hoping to learn the important names, events, and geographies of the Bible. Anders repeats the phrase “What you can learn tomorrow is built on what you learn today” throughout the book, and he uses multiple memorization tactics so the material is committed to memory in only fifteen minutes per day.

Congregations receive the Word of God every Sunday in church, but where do pastors go to dig deeper into their Scripture engagement? Evans answers this question with his commentary on 1–2 Samuel.