Archive for January 2008

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 Fernando Ortega, Tood Smith of Selah, one about William Borden, and others.
Listen to all the spots at www.bibleforlife.org.

Below is the text of a presentation given by Stephen Smith, Crossway’s Director of Information Services, at the BibleTech08 conference last weekend in Seattle. The most interesting thing is the model he presents. (Scroll down and look for the picture.) Slides (pdf).
Erin McKean of Dictionary Evangelist.com, in her talk at a conference last year, called […]

Chris Harrison at Carnegie Mellon has produced several spectacular visualizations using Bible data.
First, he created a visualization of cross references in the Bible, showing off the many interconnections between chapters in the Bible. Credit goes to Christoph Römhild for the cross-reference data.

Second, he developed a social-network diagram that reflects co-occurrences of names in Bible verses. […]

Duncan Forbes writes about the translations he prefers for various purposes. (Spoiler: he uses the ESV a lot, but not always.)
He talks about the Bibles he uses for devotional Old Testament reading, devotional New Testament reading, textual criticism, memorization, word studies, grammatical studies, and preaching.
We of course argue that the ESV makes a good choice […]

The latest version of the iPhone firmware (1.1.3), which came out Tuesday, lets you add the ESV to the home screen of your iPhone for quick access. Here’s how to do it:

Make sure you’re running the latest version of the iPhone firmware. (On your iPhone, go to Settings > General > About. The “Version” should […]

Todd at Experiencing Reformation shares how he made a blank Bible. (A blank Bible involves taking a printed Bible and rebinding it while inserting blank pages for extra note-taking space).
He started with a large-print Pew and Worship ESV, removed the binding, took the pages to Staples (where he says they used a laser to cut […]

Michael Spencer at InternetMonk.com has a good introduction to the lectionary. One FAQ:
What are the best reasons to use a lectionary?
It puts the church in sync with all of the Bible, the Christian year and other worshipping Christians. In the three year Revised Common lectionary, much of the whole Bible is covered during the three […]

Jesus at Soul deSaenz has been blogging up a storm about the ESV and Bible formats, with a particular focus on the paper used in Bibles. Here are some of his recent Bible-related posts:

Cordovan ESV, Bargain Luxury

The Best ESV Bible Ever Made
Bible Paper. Too Thin or Not Opaque Enough?
ESV Single Column Reference Bible… Or The […]

The blogger at Making a Splash writes about handing out ESV Outreach New Testaments:
I love these New Testaments because they are only 50 cents and they are very well done. They have a great plan of salvation in them as well as reading plans and the usual “where do you find this topic” list. We […]

Tim at Faith Community Church (Kansas City, Mo.) writes powerfully about losing his home to a fire in November and replacing his destroyed Bibles:
But to bring me to the topic of my blog, I also lost all my personal Bibles. I lost my much beloved hardback ESV (the English Standard Version) that I received […]