The award-winning devotional Bible pairs The Message® translation with insightful content written by women for women
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (November 14, 2025) — The Message Women’s Devotional Bible (NavPress, Tyndale House Publishers) received a Top Shelf Book Cover Award at this year’s Evangelical Christian Publishers Association (ECPA) Publishing University on October 31, 2025. Designed by Eva M. Winters, the devotional Bible’s cover and interior feature earth tones, organic textures, and other elements that bring “a sense of calm and warmth” and “add to the holistic experience of interacting with this Bible,” as one judge commented. The annual awards program was created by the ECPA “to promote and recognize outstanding book cover design in the Christian publishing industry.”
Released in August 2025 after a careful editorial and production process spanning nearly five years, The Message Women’s Devotional Bible pairs Eugene H. Peterson’s ECPA-award-winning translation of the Bible with 320 topical devotions, 52 biblical character profiles, and other supplemental content written by women for women. More than 80 contributors of diverse backgrounds, ethnicities, vocations, and Christian denominations wrote content for this expansive project.
“The features in this Bible are what rose to the surface when our team asked, What do women really need in a devotional Bible?” shares Olivia Eldredge, editor of The Message® Bible. “Women need to hear from other women: diverse, trustworthy, thoughtful voices who can speak to how the Bible intersects with the lives of women. And they need to have space to bring their questions, their vulnerability, their honest wrestling — and be met by God.”
While Christian content marketed specifically to women can tend toward superficiality and stereotypes, The Message Women’s Devotional Bible pursues nuance, sensitivity, and authenticity while remaining faithful to the biblical texts. Throughout, it invites women to engage deeply with difficult or overlooked passages, offering candid reflections on the truth that women — though often unnamed in Scripture — are indeed active, vital participants in God’s story, both in the biblical narrative and today.
The Message is a contemporary translation of the Bible, created by Eugene H. Peterson and thoroughly reviewed by a team of Old and New Testament scholars to ensure accuracy and fidelity to the original biblical languages. A pastor, theologian, scholar, writer, and poet, Peterson worked directly from the Greek and Hebrew texts to craft a faithful rendering of Scripture in accessible, everyday language. It took him a full decade to complete his translation work.
Learn more about The Message Women’s Devotional Bible and other NavPress resources by visiting NavPress.com.
The Message Women’s Devotional Bible
Leather-Look ISBN: 978-1-64158-552-1 | $49.99
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-64158-539-2 | $39.99
About NavPress
NavPress is a business ministry of The Navigators. With a rich catalog of bestselling books, discipleship resources, and The Message® Bible, NavPress equips readers “to know Christ, make Him known, and help others do the same®.” Since 2014, NavPress has been in a publishing alliance with Tyndale House Publishers, one of the largest independently-owned Christian publishers in the world. NavPress resources are sold, distributed, and marketed worldwide through Tyndale House Publishers. NavPress, the NavPress logo, and The Message ® are registered trademarks of NavPress, The Navigators, Colorado Springs, CO.
About The U.S. Navigators
The Navigators is a ministry that shares the gospel of Jesus and helps people grow in their relationship with Him through Life-to-Life® discipleship, creating spiritual generations of believers. Since its founding in 1933, The Navigators has upheld the mission “to know Christ, make Him known, and help others do the same®.” Our Worldwide Partnership includes around 6,000 staff of 85 nationalities, serving in 123 countries. Navigators encourage spiritual growth across life stages, serving wherever people work, live, worship, and play: on college campuses and military bases as well as in urban neighborhoods, workplaces, churches, local communities, and hard-to-reach places. To learn more, visit www.navigators.org.
Contact: Chris Muller, Senior Vice President, Ministry Engagement, (719) 594-2268, chris.muller@navigators.org
