Archive for August 2006

BibleMemory.us provides a structured plan to help you keep up with your Bible memory work. The service has verses available in the ESV and costs $5 per year.
It works like this: You memorize one verse per week. Every day you get an email with a link to the site. The verse for the week appears:

The […]

On the Bible for Life page, we ask people to share their favorite Bible verses with us. We want, in turn, to share some of them with you:
Katie, Minnesota
Ephesians 1:4-8
I have a lot of favorite verses, but this one really sticks out to me! Because He chose us—me—to be holy and blameless in His sight. […]

Steve at Reformissionary shares how his church used the ESV Outreach Bible to put into practice one of their “core values:”
One thing I have done is to not only apply the values so we know how we live them out, but also to have one significant and challenging application each week. I want our people […]

Brett at inner.geek has created a screensaver that shows the ESV verse of the day. (You need OS X 10.4 Tiger or later.)
It uses Quartz to fetch the one of the ESV RSS feeds and is released under a Creative Commons license. Slick.

Several people have reviewed the new ESV Journaling Bible since we last linked to reviews.
Gareth Russell (picked up at Moleskinerie):
Of course the big test is, when open does it lie flat? I’m pleased to say that with only a minimum of force, this Bible stays flat at Genesis 1! Hurrah! We all know how annoying […]

Tony at The Shepherd’s Scrapbook recounts how he made his own ESV blank Bible (blank pages interleaved with the Bible text) patterned after Jonathan Edwards’s.

Part 1 gives some background on the project.
Part 2 shares a failed attempt that involved glue. Lots of glue.
Part 3 tells of his final, successful attempt.

Here are some pictures of the […]

Download a new recording of the ESV Gospel of John (94 MB .zip file) for free.
Produced especially for the God’s Story Bibles, this recording has additional audio that explains the 3Story idea and applies it to the biblical text. People who attended the recent DCLA conferences got the opportunity to download this recording first, and […]

Crossway has posted the preface and introduction (pdf) to the ESV Reverse Interlinear New Testament. We reproduce the preface below. The pdf at Crossway’s site also explains some of the conventions the Reverse Interlinear uses.
What Is a Reverse Interlinear?
A conventional interlinear New Testament provides an English translation directly below each Greek word in a Greek […]

A Google Earth community has developed a file for Google Earth (and Google Maps) that shows the locations of about 200 places mentioned in the Bible. The community is going for accuracy: they try to pinpoint the locations of the ruins of ancient cities instead of using the locations of modern cities with ancient names.
We […]

Toongabbie Anglican Church in Australia uses the ESV Web Service to show the Scripture passages that go along with talks—without leaving their site and even without going to a separate part of their site. They use AJAX to integrate the ESV text right into the page.
For example:

Update: The Toongabbie webmaster explains how it works […]