Life Discipler

I recently received a new product to review called Life Discipler. It really is unlike anything I’ve seen before and kinda cool. It’s a little electronic gadget, about the size of a pedometer, which has more than 1500 verses stored on it arranged on 44 subjects. You can search for subjects and scrolls through the verses or pick a subject and have the alarm sound to remind you to look at another verse.

I thought that it sounded kind of neat when I first got it. Any tool to help me learn God’s word and be constantly immersed in it throughout my day is a good thing. I thought the subjects offered were definitely applicable to life, though not every verse seemed to fit with the subject it was under. I tried it out for about a week, mostly at work. I set the alarm for 1 hour the first day just to get used to it, but I found myself wanting more. So the rest of the week I set it to go off every ½ hour.

This worked great for most of the day. I was loving the reminders from God’s word. It was very encouraging. I loved that you could set a verse that came up as a favorite or as one you want to memorize as well. This will be great when I am waiting in line somewhere and I can just pull out God’s word and work on memorizing or reviewing it. However, sometime during the afternoon the alarm would just stop going off. I checked the battery but it was fine. If I turned it off and on again then it was fine. So that is a quirk that might become annoying if you are expecting it to work for long periods of time. But I guess that’s a small inconvenience.

I don’t know if it’s something I would use everyday, but it did do a great job of keeping God’s truth fresh in my mind. The MSRP is $29.99 and you can find this gadget at lifediscipler.com and Family Christian Stores. Could be a good gift if you know someone into gadgets.

They are offering a 20% discount now at lifediscipler.com if you use the coupon code GROW20. It’s good through Dec 30, 2010.