I think this is a great start to a bible study, but because I own the NIV application study bible, most of the information in this book was not new, because it was in my bible already. There are things that are not in my bible so I still appreciated this study. I think it is great because the authors do a great job at explaining things in a perspective we can understand. I have bought other bible studies in this series. So I recommend these books over other book studies.