Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Nelson's Biblical Cyclopedic Index Review

This is one amazing resource.  One thing I really like is the word studies.  This book is the goto book for so many things, not just for Bible study.  In general conversations we can come up with some pretty tough questions about certain topics.  A lot of index's in Bibles are okay, but this index goes a lot deeper.  One way I recently used this book is looking up the meaning of the Bible names, since I will be having a child soon I wanted to see the meanings of the names. 
I am a former Bible College student and I wish had something like this when I was in college for study or prep for my in class sermons.  Is this book the best of it's kind? Not really sure, but it is very helpful.  It is missing somethings, I noticed I was looking up the word opportunity and found no reference to Ephesians 5:16.  But looking up the word opportunity I got a lot more insight about the word than just looking at Ephesians 5:16.
Time is very valuable for a pastor and this book helps you save minutes to hours of time looking up words for your sermons, lessons, and life.