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Experience Scripture Like Never Before

In a world filled with distractions, it’s easy to struggle with engaging deeply with the Bible. You may find yourself reading the words but feeling disconnected from the life-changing power in them. Sometimes the Bible seems intimidating — or maybe even . . . boring! Holding the Word offers an exciting, holistic approach to interacting with Scripture that will transform your life.

Drawing on decades of ministry experience and the timeless Word Hand tool from The Navigators, Bill Mowry presents five practices to help you immerse yourself in the Bible, creating a renewed passion for God’s word. Discover how to hear, read, study, memorize, and meditate on Gods word in ways that engage your heart, mind, body, and spirit.

Transform you daily habits into life-changing encounters with God’s word, saturating every aspect of your life with it. Holding the Word is your guide to a more intimate, life-changing relationship with the Author of this book.

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What are people saying?

In Holding the Word, Bill advocates for a relational approach to the Scriptures, uniting The Navigators’ hand illustration with the ideas of attachment, connection, and love for the author of the Scriptures. Bill is intuitive, uncovering something that has been missing as many people study God’s Word: attachment to the author. Bill gathers meaningful questions, tells stories, and evokes imagination as the reader responds to God.
Vicki Gatchell, member of The Navigators National Leadership Team
Bill takes the simplest directives of Scripture and makes them seem like the wisest and healthiest practices a person could pursue. In Holding the Word, he draws on science, popular culture, psychology, theology, Greek, and personal experience to show that the directions of Scripture are not cold commands to be dutifully followed but life-giving invitations to community and joy. His words are equally at home in my college psychology class and in my adult Sunday school class.
Charles Dolph, PhD, senior professor of psychology at Cedarville University.