Archive for September 2007

We’ve released eight 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 Cheri Keaggy, Christin Ditchfield, one about Blaise Pascal, and others.
Listen to all the spots at www.bibleforlife.org.

The saga of people turning their ESVs into blank Bibles (with blank pages interleaved throughout) continues. The person behind the latest endeavor is Marcia from Ruminations and Ramifications, who turned her ESV Reformation Study Bible into eleven bound volumes. Every other page is blank (until she fills up the blank space with her notes, that […]

Kevin at BurtonBlog tells how his church was able to buy ESV pew Bibles thanks to donations from a university student. He also talks about how students contribute to the church, and not just financially. Some excerpts:
Our church did not budget money for Bibles and there was no plan to put ESV in the […]

Tony Reinke has the scoop.
A few people have asked what happens to the damaged books and Bibles we have in our warehouse. Answer: We typically give them away to ministries who use them for evangelism. Donations help support this ministry.

Chris Hamer-Hodges muses about the word behold in the Bible:
When the New Testament writers use the word “behold!” they do so to get our attention. They do so because what follows is of special significance and importance. The word “behold” itself in the English is not ideal, because it is not widely used today and […]

Anita at A Latte and Blueberry Muffin writes about how to worship at home:
I understand that many churches have what they call a “worship leader” and although this is only a socially acceptable term that describes a person who leads the singing at church and directs the congregation to set their hearts on the […]

Hear Ryan Ferguson recite the complete book of Hebrews from the ESV (51-minute MP3, 11 MB). The recitation starts about three minutes into the MP3.
The audio comes from Crossway Community Church (no relation to Crossway Books) near Vancouver. The church was kind enough to record and post the audio and grant us permission to share […]

Tony at The Shepherd’s Scrapbook reviews the forthcoming ESV Literary Study Bible.
With the ESV LSB, Ryken and Ryken highlight the beautiful intricacies of Scripture and preview content to help readers navigate through the literal, unabridged text of the ESV. The product of their scholarship is both a study Bible and reading Bible, centering around a […]

Download a 39-minute MP3 from SermonAudio.com. Dr. Ryken’s topic is “Words of Delight: The Bible as Literature.” It’s a good introduction to the literary aspects of the Bible, especially if you never had the privilege of taking his Literature of the Bible course at Wheaton College. Dr. Ryken’s trademark wit comes across particularly well at […]

Bryan at The Weight of Glory writes about how Matthew cites Jeremiah in Matthew 27:9-10—the only problem is that the quote isn’t from Jeremiah:
This verse is often used in cases built against the inerrancy of Scripture, because if the quotation is clearly not from Jeremiah, but Matthew says it is, then Matthew is clearly in […]