Archive for July 2007

The Logos Bible Software Blog surveys some of the various book-chapter-verse schemes for the Bible that have cropped up throughout history.
(You’ll occasionally see a note in the ESV—in Exodus 22:1 for example—that indicates a different chapter/verse numbering system.)
Of course, they bring up it to announce that they’ve solved the problem: they’ve created a complete mapping […]

Paul at paulklenk.us writes about including the ESV daily verse on his site:
I’m so happy I placed a daily RSS feed of the ESV Bible on my personal website. It sets the tone for all my other content. It’s sort of hard to be tempted to publish unbecoming material when God’s word is prominent just […]

Several independent discussions of the ESV Journaling Bible have appeared online over the past few days. We’re not sure about why there’s a sudden confluence. Here are excerpts:
Matthew at PastorBookshelf.com:
The space provided for personal notes is wonderful. The outer third of each page is narrowly lined for the reader’s exegetical insights and devotional reflections. […]

Using an iPhone? Visit www.esv.org/mobile for an iPhone-friendly interface. All the devotions on the ESV site are also available.

(For you techies, all we had to do was add a <meta name="viewport" content="width=320" /> tag to our existing mobile site.)

Barrett at The Reformed One created a blank ESV Book of Psalms for his mom. As you can see, he likes white space:

Consider it a follow-up of sorts to Tony Reinke’s Do-it-yourself Blank Bible.
As a reminder, if you’re going to produce something like this, it needs to be for your personal use only, not for […]

IBibleSpace.org has released an ESV Bible for iPhone. Some screens (from a browser, not an iPhone):

The iBibleSpace.org site launches later this year.
Update: Rick at This Lamp reviews this and other iPhone Bible applications.

Jeff at The Reformed Evangelist writes about how switching to the ESV helped his ministry:
When I first began preaching in our County Jail, several prisoners had multiple questions for me from Scripture. I quickly found out that the majority of questions involved some difficult to read passage of the dollar store KJV bibles which […]

We’ve released nine 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 Wes Cantrell, Mac Powell from Third Day, one about John Bunyan, and others.
Listen to all the spots at www.bibleforlife.org.

Robert at Prone to Wander wonders about having to shift all the dates when starting a Bible reading plan in the middle of the year:
For now, one of the things I am resolving to do in the near future is force myself back into a regular routine of Bible study and reading. To that end, […]

Growth of the ESV Bible continues to accelerate, as worldwide sales and distribution increased more than four-fold over the past two years and the ESV moved up to the number three position on the CBA bestseller list in June. To meet the rapidly growing demand for both the ESV Bible and for Crossway books, Crossway […]