Hosanna Revival

5 years ago the question was posed as to whether Bible journaling was just a phase, a passing trend. There were only a select few translations and options back then. 
Now you can find almost any translation you could desire in a journaling, note taking, colouring, and illustrated and illustrating version. And new versions are being added each season. 

Rather than crafting and scrapbooking, women began pouring out their hearts, filling the pages with colours,  paint, fancy lettering, and their prayers. This crossed denominational lines. And freed up those whonmay have been raised to never "underline" to get comfortable with their Bibles. 

A journaling Bible became an annual purchase or one for each child or grand child, with individualized prayers.

Custom hand painted Bibles also rose to the top of Bible sales across the USA, ditching the 1990s custom denim Jean and quilted Bible covers. (Any one else use their "pre baby" jeans to cover the Bible they read while rocking babies to sleep?)

Instagram is flooded with Custom Bible painters. Hipster Housewife, Scribbling Grace, Hosanna Revival, Purely Devoted...and numerous others took up brushes, prayed over the recipients, and began painting flowers and scenery. 

You may have been one of those who stalked their accounts waiting to grab one of the limited, sometimes only offered quarterly, fully custom ordering options. There were also the Semi-custom Bibles where you could select a themed, prepainted Bible and add your own verse to them. 

my own custom painted bible from Chris aka Hipster Housewife. this verse was our promise after Paradise burned.


Crossway recognized the demand was more than these brushes could turn out. They teamed up with Hosanna Revival. HR created a beautiful set of paintings that Crossway had printed on their journaling Bibles. This also brought pre-designed beautiful Bibles into a lower price bracket.

esv, mountain home

Hosanna Revival has continued to partner with and design other volumes as well. From fabric printed to embossed fabrics and leather like Bibles, to journals and 5 prayer journals.
(Be aware there are many out there that are copying and passing off some of these as their own works. Buy from the original sites.)

esv large print, Albion

A sampling of those offerings has arrived this week which I get to share with you.
(If you have a specific question. About these products that I haven't covered, feel free to ask away.)

size differences


Being now in my mid40s, I have discovered I needed a larger font or to constantly carry a pair of glasses.


font and layout comparisons

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