My Recommendations

Got Questions

This free app and website is a great tool for finding the answers to pretty much any question you have related to God and spiritual matters, including other religions and spiritual movements, and see what God says about them in the Bible.

Download the app: Apple, Android
Website: www.gotquestions.org

Bible Speak

I love this website! Some of the people and places in the Bible are difficult to know how to say, and this website has hundreds of audio clips giving us the correct pronunciation.

Download the app: No app as such, but you can save the website to your home screen.
Website: biblespeak.org

Bible Hub

This free app is a Bible study tool where you can view the entire Bible and also dive into it at a deeper level. It has a feature where you can view the same verse in all translations, allowing you to see the differences and similarities. There’s also a concordance, commentaries, dictionary, sermons, and more.

Download the app: Apple, Android

NLT Life Application Study Bible (Tyndale)

This was my first Bible. The NLT translation is the easiest to understand when you first start your journey with Christ. This Bible has many features, including introductions to each book, timelines, charts, maps, and commentary notes to help you understand the text further and how to apply it to your life. As these pages are extremely thin, if you want to highlight text, it would be advisable to use either crayons, coloured pencils, or the Light Sand TomBow pen below.

Where to buy:

🛒 Amazon
🛒 Eden

ESV Interleaved Journaling Bible (Crossway)

I adore this Bible! It has a blank page after every page of scripture, and this allows you to make notes about the things you have read, and some people use it for Bible art! I keep all my thoughts, questions, and truths about the scripture, and I will only add information to the Bible pages once I have a full understanding and comprehension of what I’m reading, but you must do whatever works for you.

Where to buy:

🛒 Amazon
🛒 Eden

Alternative: Mosaic Cross Design £38-£50

The Student Bible Dictionary

This Student Bible Dictionary is great! It’s small enough to carry around with you when you’re studying away from your desk. It is much smaller than the Tyndale Bible Dictionary, but do not underestimate how good this dictionary is. If you’re just starting out, this Bible dictionary is for you!

Where to buy:

🛒 Amazon
🛒 Eden

Tyndale Bible Dictionary

This Bible Dictionary is super in-depth and may be overwhelming for a beginner. This dictionary helps you to grow in your understanding of the words used in the Bible and goes deeper into the meaning and connections with the words used. If you want to step up your Bible study, this will help you!

Where to buy:

🛒 Amazon
🛒 Eden

Zondervan All-In-One Bible Reference Guide

This reference guide has a lot of information and may overwhelm a beginner. It has the unique feature of a dictionary, a concordance, and a topical Bible, all in one. It’s well worth buying this Bible study resource if you want to step your study up a notch.

Where to buy:

🛒 Amazon
🛒 Eden

Christian Music

• JWLKRS Worship (Spotify)
• Maverick City (Spotify)
• Brandon Lake (Spotify)
• Sons of Sunday (Spotify)

Study/Prayer Instrumental Music

• DappyTKeys (YouTube)
• My Bible Study Playlist (Spotify)

Highlighters

You don’t want to use normal highlighters in your Bible as the pages are really thin, and the highlighters can bleed through easily. The brands I know that have minimal bleed-through or shadowing are:

Mr Pen Aesthetic Highlighters (Morandi Colours)

These beautiful pens were created by a small Christian company specifically for our Bibles. These never bleed through Bible pages and are a great addition to your studies. I purchased the 16 pack.

Where to buy:

🛒 Amazon
🛒 Mr Pen (8 Pack)

Zebra Mildliners (Neutral Vintage Colours)

Here in the UK, it’s easy for us to buy the bright colours of the Mildliner pens, but if you’re like me, you love neutral colours, then it can get a little more expensive buying these packs. I have seen some sites, including Amazon, charging upwards of £20 for a pack of 8 highlighters! Keep an eye out for deals on other websites, just don’t get fooled by some eBay listings, as they can add expensive postage, which then bumps up the price.  Amazon seems to be the only consistently priced listing for these specific colours, and I have seen these go for approx. £15 when on sale.

Where to buy:

🛒 Amazon

Tombow ABT Dual Brush Pen 990 (Light Sand)

This particular pen from Tombow has zero bleed-through due to it being so light. The images online make the colour look really yellow but it has a warmer hue to it than what is depicted. I really like this pen as it highlights but the colour is not blaring in your face in a loud colour. I prefer more muted and neutral colours, if you do too, you will love this highlighter.

Be aware that you won’t be able to use all the colours Tombow have to offer as they are very pigmented and bleed all the way through your page. If you go for the Tombow pens, choose the lightest colours, remembering, online they do not always give a true representation of the colour. If you can view these pens in person and test them out, this would be more beneficial.

Where to buy:

🛒 Amazon

Pens

As well as choosing the right type of highlighters to use in your Bible, you must also consider the type of pen you write with otherwise, you could have severe bleed-through or transfer of ink onto other pages. Something you should also consider is how the pen will age and if the ink will fade. I have done lots of research online and also tested out many types of pens in my Bible, and the best one I found is the Sakura Pigma Micron Fineliner listed below.

Sakura Pigma Micron Fineliner Pens

These fineliner pens aren’t just great because they have a variety of nib sizes, allowing you to decide which size best suits you, but the ink is also waterproof, fade-resistant, and quick-drying. The ink is archival ink, meaning it will hold up over the years, so you don’t lose your valuable notes.

I have linked a 6 pack (all black ink), which is a pack of multiple nib sizes, so you can decide for yourself which size nib works best for you. Note, the smaller the nib, the more difficult it can be to write. I sit comfortably using the 02 and 03 sizes. Anything smaller for me, I find my writing feels a little scratchy.

Note: *The bigger the nib, the higher the bleed level. Always test pens at the back of your Bible before marking your pages.

You may need to shop around for different colours in this pen and in the size you decide suits you best.

Where to buy:

🛒 Amazon

Sticky Notes

Sticky notes come in a variety of shapes, colours, sizes, and glue strengths. 

Post-It Recycling Notes 38mm x 51mm (6 pack)

A great size to add to your Bible if you love making notes of your thoughts and questions without committing them to the pages of your Bible.

Where to buy:

🛒 Amazon

Agoer Sticky Notes 38mm x 50mm (12 pack)

A great size to add to your Bible if you love making notes of your thoughts and questions without committing them to the pages of your Bible. This size is small but will allow you to add lots of notes without taking up too much space.

Where to buy:

🛒 Amazon

Faith Womack

Faith Womack is an absolute joy to watch, and she makes understanding the Bible easy. Faith covers many topics on her channel, including Bible study, theology, Bible journaling, and sometimes she vlogs. She emphasises Scripture alone as authority, just as we all should.

Host: Faith Womack
Links: YouTube

Cross Examined

Frank Turek is extremely knowledgeable in not just Christianity but other religions as well. His podcasts usually are more in-depth learning, but the short-form content like on Facebook, YouTube Shorts or Instagram Reels, Frank is speaking at universities throughout America, and these are a gold mine! The people ask great questions that I’m sure a lot of us have thought about, and Frank gives very short and easy-to-understand explanations, which will help any listener understand.

Host: Frank Turek
Links: YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify

From New Age to New Heart

All hosts are former New Age or occult practitioners who came to Christ and now publicly expose New Age beliefs and practices, explaining how incompatible they are with biblical Christianity. Together, they host this podcast and now spend their time exposing the demonic and unbiblical practices in this world.

Topics: New Age, New Thought
Hosts: Doreen Virtue, Jenn Nizza, and Jac Marino Chen
Listen: YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify