Faith Journey BIble Study Series: Romans Bundle and Philippians -- my REVIEW

Disclaimer: I received a FREE copy of this product through the HOMESCHOOL REVIEW CREW in exchange for my honest review. I was not required to write a positive review nor was I compensated in any other way. 

Reading the Bible on a daily basis is something that Christ-followers ought to be doing. We need to allow God to speak to us through his Word. Lately I have been reading through the Old Testament (just finished up 2 Chronicles!). Often I read and pray without much written reflection. I find that things that I have read are brought back to me at different times as reminders or encouragements. Occasionally I do like to work through a formal "Bible study" or "Devotional" and as such, I was glad to be chosen to review Julie Polanco's Faith Journey Bible Study Series: Romans Bundle as well as the Faith Journey Bible Study Series: Philippians. 

The author of this study, Julie Polanco, has a website, Julie Naturally, which is full of lots of great topics, ranging from homeschooling to healthier cleaning products to holistic medicine/natural healing type topics (and she's a master herbalist, so she has credentials to back up her posts!)...lots of interesting stuff! But I'm going down a rabbit trail.
One of the thing that she is offering on her website is two Bible studies, one on the book of Romans and one on Philippians. I chose to try out the Philippians one first, as this has been a tough year and I was ready for some reminders of hope...and joy! :) 
The Bible study is a pdf download. Users are instructed to print off the pages and put them into a binder. 

Being the frugal person I am, I printed two pages on one and used it two-sided as well. The print is just as clear as I would want it to be, and there is still plenty of room for me to answer the questions within the space given. Each of six days of the week have a separate passage of Philippians for the reader to read and ponder--and the questions give a bit of guidance as to some things to think more deeply about. I really enjoyed the type of questions that were asked--sometimes I can be used to reading a certain Scripture and kind of gloss over parts of it, but by taking it small section by small section, and covering the book over the course of four weeks, certain things were highlighted to me in a different way.

I really enjoyed this sudy of Philippians and the way that it is put together. If you are a person who likes to color, there are coloring pages interspersed that you might enjoy (I am NOT a coloring person, so I did not do those! I understand, though, that this is a popular thing...I guess I'm just not up on that trend, haha!)

See, mine's not colored in! :) 

So, this was the Philippians study. The Romans Bundle actually includes a bit more, it includes a video introduction each week by the author of the study. She seems to care deeply about the listener and wants to share encouragement and insight.

The videos have the feel of a personal video journal or something like that. The first few had a little difficulty with image quality (at least when I viewed them on my computer). I get weird and get distracted by things like that and things in the background (which she changed as the weeks went on). I actually found that it was better for me to just listen to the audio that she was sharing and not physically watch the video. It's good content!

The Romans study is similar to the Philippians one in its format. For this one I decided to go an even more frugal route and just view the study on my screen and write the answers in a journal. This worked well for me, and it saved a lot on paper and ink!

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