Be Thou My Vision: A Liturgy for Daily Worship (Liturgies for Daily Worship)

We studied the concept and article of Anglican homilies a few weeks back and my first thought was "that sounds like it'd make family worship easier." I'm not Anglican, I was raised PCA before the PCA was weird. I'm some form of reformed Baptist at this point, so I wanted a reformed and liturgically structured family study. This one has some solid structure and has all the resources contained within it. Aside from a bible, everything you need to work through this study is within the book.I've led my family in a weekly study in the New City Catechism, and was brought up with Heidelberg and Westminster. I love that they're both contained in this single volume, along with the three creeds it goes through daily. My parents catechised me with those catechisms and creeds, but they didn't have a simple book like this with everything contained in one. Praise God for this Gibson fella making it easier for me to worship God with my family. No, it is not a replacement for meeting to worship on Sundays with a faithful body of believers.The first 35 pages are introductions, acknowledgements, and instructions on how to use the book. There are five appendixes: Musical Tunes for Doxology and Gloria Patri, Heidelberg Catechism (1563) and Westminster Shorter Catechism (1657), M'Cheyne Bible Reading Plan, Collects from the Book of Common Prayer (1552), and Author and Liturgy Index. The bible reading plan contained roughly four chapters of reading a day starting in separate books with the goal of reading through the bible in 365 days. It'll be good for getting the kiddos involved, as there'll be plenty of reading to go around.I found out after placing my order that Westminster has a cowhide leather version that comes in the same hard cover. That hard cover sold me, it adds to the durability and beauty of this volume. If I'd known ahead of time, I'd've bought that edition for $15 more. Maybe I'll get it in the future as well.Now to find a small Bible to keep with it so they'll always be handy for morning worship...

I was looking for something just like this! Simpler than trying to follow along in the book of common prayer, especially since I wasn’t raised doing it. I hope to learn. I think this will help me along. There are enough readings for one month and then you repeat. Repetition is good! There are two catechisms in the back of the book and there are Bible reading plans. The bonus for me is that it is following along the Robert Mc Cheyne plan that I was already using(following along with Justin peters daily Bible reading )I am really enjoying using this book! There’s one for advent as well!

For a few years now, I have tried several prayer books and liturgies such as the Book of Common Prayer. I still love those resources (and still use them often) but have found Be Thou My Vision to be the most user friendly and the easiest one to read daily on a consistent basis.One of my favorite things about this is how beautiful the box, book cover, and font/pages are. This book is enjoyable to hold, open, and read which is something a lot of Protestant resources have neglected. At the same time it also feels very durable and like it will last a life time if you take care of it.But above all, I love the content of this book the most. The main issue I have ran into with other liturgies is that they repeat the same prayers too much and introduce new prayers too little. This book has a perfect balance of prayers that are repeated every day like the Lord’s Prayer and new prayers for each day like the Prayer of Intercession. Also since you get a full month of readings to repeat, there is enough variety to use this for a long a time where the prayers will continue to feel fresh and new.This book will help your prayer life tremendously. I love that there is a time for confession but also an assurance of pardon right after that gives you the opportunity to receive the forgiveness and mercy of the Lord. The structure is well thought out and flows really well.The prayers from church history are so beautiful and worth memorizing as well. The creeds and catechisms are also very beneficial and I surprisingly enjoyed reading them more than I thought I would.Overall, if you are just getting into liturgy or are looking for a daily devotion full of Scripture and wonderful prayers of the church, look no further than Be Thou My Vision.

I have really been enjoying reading and praying from this book with my family and on my own. A wonderful liturgy and devotional.

Inspirational.

This daily liturgy is brief enough to not be burdensome while deep enough to be useful, instructive, and lead to genuine worship. I use this daily with my young kids as part of family worship. They pay attention (small miracles). We get to be faithful and praise God together.I've gifted it to multiple friends and family members, and I've recommended it to several more.I've bought more copies of this than I have of any other media item ever (apart from the Bible itself).