Archive for March 2007

We’ve released six new spots in the “Bible for Life” radio campaign. Each one-minute spot has someone reading a passage from the ESV and meditating on it.
This month features Garrett Goodwin from By the Tree, one about J.S. Bach, and others.
Listen to all the spots at www.bibleforlife.org.

Donovan at Travelogue of a Blogger talks about the Bibles he reads. He uses three different Bible translations: one for general study, one for daily reading, and one (the ESV) for “intense study, particularly word study.”
There’s nothing wrong with (and much gained from) studying the Bible in several different translations; it’s especially useful when you’re [...]

Do you Twitter? If so, get a free daily ESV Bible verse by adding esvdaily to your friends.
What’s Twitter? Twitter is a form of micro-blogging and the hot new thing. Do you have people who want to know everything you’re doing every minute of the day? Now you can tell them.
Does Twitter sound weird to [...]

The folks at OpenBible.info have geocoded the Bible. In other words, they went through the Bible and found the latitude and longitude of nearly all the places mentioned.
They’ve produced satellite maps and KMLs (for Google Earth) for every book in the Bible that mentions a place, and KMLs for every chapter. Even better, all the [...]

Bob at Theology, Technology, and Anything In Between blogs about using a cellphone PDA in church:
I recently forgot to bring my Bible to church, and then remembered that I could use the NET Bible and ESV, by surfing to their websites. I know people at our church who have Bible software for their Treo, so [...]

Josh at Eucatastrophe101 offers tips for how to better read Scripture in gathered worship.
Josh’s thoughts about practicing beforehand to get a sense of the passage’s flow are especially important. Skill at oral interpretation (of the Bible or anything else) comes with experience. And remember, if you’ve practiced but still flub a word during the public [...]

David Betz has written a WCF proxy for the ESV Web Service for you .NET 3.0 programmers. He writes:
Many of the applications that I create are Bible based applications and my designs are made easier thanks to the English Standard Version of Scripture. Long before I used it for development, I fell in love [...]

The ESV recently became available as part of the free Bible Explorer program, from the makers of WORDsearch Bible Software.

Paul at Cup of Coffee Talk has been blogging about how to prepare an exegetical sermon. Paul has made an extra effort to make his posts applicable to general Bible study—in other words, the tips he provides will help you study a passage in-depth even if you don’t plan to preach a sermon on it.
Here’s [...]

Richard at food4thought blogs about a book that lists sixteen tools to have in your biblical interpretation toolbox. We quote excerpts from his post here, but head over to Richard’s blog for more details.

Author’s PurposeWe need to get beyond what is said, important though that is, to asking the question why it’s been said.
ContextWe need [...]