Archive for June 2007

Anna at Hope Road wrote two Bible-related posts recently. The first reminds us of the privilege we have to be able to own Bibles, a privilege that sometimes leads us to value the Bible less than we should:
Wycliffe says that “more than 2,200 language communities still do not have true access to even one verse [...]

Gregory at IsaiahSix writes about switching from children’s Bible storybooks to a “real” Bible for family devotions:
One of the things we’ve been trying recently in my family is reading the actual Bible, not the condensed stories. Modern translations are often broken into sections and paragraphs short enough that they can be used in family worship [...]

Ben from openswitch unboxes his new ESV. (Unboxing involves taking photos of something you’ve just bought as you take it out of its box, then posting those photos on the web. Usually people unbox electronics.) A commenter on the post notes that these photos may be the first Bible unboxing photos on the Internet. (But [...]

We’ve released ten 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 Josh Weidman, Zoro the drummer, one about Oswald Chambers, and others.
Listen to all the spots at www.bibleforlife.org.

Do you enjoy the technical posts we sometimes write about here? Would you like to work for a not-for-profit Christian company that applies technology to publishing in new ways? Crossway is looking for an intranet programmer / applications developer to work locally at their offices in Wheaton, Illinois. A good bit of the initial programming [...]

Memorize it with your kids:
The best thing I ever did for my scripture memory routine was to start memorizing scripture with my 5 year old. Today was a big day because she just went through Psalm 1 by herself. It’s such a blessing hearing her speak the word of God at such a young age…
This [...]

OpenBible.info has created a Topical Bible Mashup of the ESV and Yahoo! web services. It currently has about 4,000 topics based on how people complete the question “What does the Bible say about…?” For example, what does the Bible say about marriage or divorce or sin?
Here’s how it works: they created the topic list with [...]

Chris at Exploring the Mystery has updated the WordPress ESV Plugin, which automatically links Bible references in your blog to the ESV text. An important (but largely transparent) change is the adoption of a Bible-reference microformat to allow search engines and others to understand Bible references more semantically (and automatically).
Separately, Robert at BibleMemory.us has announced [...]

John at The Misadventures of Captain Headknowledge writes that the ESV Literary Study Bible will be the next study Bible to join his collection:
My daddy always encouraged me to collect things that I could later sell at a profit. My Study Bible collection provides dividends of a more valuable kind (at least to me)–the benefit [...]

Xaueious blogs about some tools to keep up with your Bible reading:
For online devotions: ESV Every Day in the Word and Bethlehem Baptist Church’s Fighter Verses. Hooray for RSS feeds!
For online browsing: Bible Gateway.
For offline browsing: e-Sword and Palm Bible+.
Xaueious lists some features for each of the tools. All of them are free and include [...]