{"id":388,"date":"2007-04-06T16:37:41","date_gmt":"2007-04-06T16:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jazztheologian\/2007\/04\/blogbookalbumof.html"},"modified":"2007-04-06T16:37:41","modified_gmt":"2007-04-06T16:37:41","slug":"blogbookalbumof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jazztheologian\/2007\/04\/blogbookalbumof.html","title":{"rendered":"Blog\/Book\/Album&#8230;of the Week!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve never been one to listen to audio versions of the Bible, by and and large I found them boring.&nbsp; This Lent I gave up talk radio.&nbsp; My goal was to reduce the number of voices in my head this season and so I replaced the time I normally listen to the radio with listenting to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zondervan.com\/Cultures\/en-US\/Product\/Bible\/The%20Bible%20Experience.htm?QueryStringSite=Zondervan\"><span style=\"color: #000099;\">The Bible Experience.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/CCNQHUiOC1c\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\"><\/embed><\/p>\n<p>I have been pleasantly surprised.&nbsp; No take that back&#8230;I love it!&nbsp; It&#8217;s read well and scored well.&nbsp; There are times when the sound effects get in the way or when the songs that they use to break up a section don&#8217;t really fit but that is what the &quot;skip&quot; button is for.&nbsp; The New Testament is available now with the Old Testament soon to follow.&nbsp; Oh yeah, they are reading from Todays New International Version.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve never been one to listen to audio versions of the Bible, by and and large I found them boring.&nbsp; This Lent I gave up talk radio.&nbsp; My goal was to reduce the number of voices in my head this season and so I replaced the time I normally listen to the radio with listenting&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Blog\/Book\/Album...of the Week! 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