… and [take up] the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God…

Eph 6:17b

I think that all men who work with tools or weapons have a compulsion to modify their gear. We just can’t handle leaving things the way they come from the factory, but we have to tinker with them to make them just right for our preferences and mission profile. It’s no different when we talk about the weapons of our Christian warfare (Eph 6:10-20; 2 Cor 10:3-6).

Of course I don’t mean to suggest that God’s Word needs to be modified – it is perfect. But hitting the streets to do evangelism has caused me see that the Bibles we carry can benefit from some upgrades, so I came up with the idea of the Battle Bible, or Concealed Carry Bible, or EDC Bible. Basically, it’s a compact sized Bible (ESV | CSB | NLT) with quick reference notes for apologetics and evangelism attached.

I have seen others handwrite some of this information inside the covers of their Bibles, but I wanted something that was typed up so that it would be clean, legible, and packed full of information in a small space. I like to print these notes out on label paper and stick them inside the front and back covers of my Battle Bibles so that the information is readily available. I think it’s really useful to have these notes quickly accessible alongside the Word. And the compact Bibles I use are really inexpensive, so I like to keep them all over the place: by the front door, in glove boxes of vehicles, on my desk at work, etc. Download the pdf and make your Bible ready for battle!