Archive for March 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 Jeff Jones from Big Daddy Weave, Janna Long from Avalon, one about Ivan Prokhanov, and others.
Listen to all the spots at www.bibleforlife.org.

Jeff at RootsRain writes how RSS feeds have helped keep his Bible reading on-track this year:
I’ve tried over and over for several years to stick to a Bible-reading plan where I’d get through the Bible in a year. But somewhere around Leviticus or I Chronicles I stall and peter out.
This year I found something [...]

Here are all the posts we could find that talk about the new ESV Personal Size Reference Bible, listed (roughly) in reverse chronological order:
The Foolish Galatian explains the perfect (though discontinued) highlighter to use (with pictures).
CROSS-eyed: “Must anticipated version of the ESV. The one downside to the traditional thinline was that it didn’t have references. [...]

Andy at Unsearchable Riches writes about how he’s been reading through the ESV out loud with his family for the past four and a half years—they just finished the Old Testament and only have a couple of months left in the New Testament:
My guess is that reading the Bible like this has been more profitable [...]

This week is Passion Week (or Holy Week), the week that commemorates the final week of Jesus’ life. It encompasses Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday through his resurrection on Easter.
Here’s a Google Map that shows what happened where during this week in and around Jerusalem (including a harmonization of the four Gospel [...]

Scott at These Are the Generations of… writes about why he uses the ESV:
[I] find myself more pleased and impressed with the ESV. In studying, preparing for a sermon, or digging into a delicate subject with my fellow elders, I generally use e-Sword Bible Study Software in order to view multiple translations and original languages [...]

Carl Bialik in Friday’s Wall Street Journal writes about the difficulties in calculating grade levels for texts:
Word length is an imperfect measure [of grade level]. “Important” and “elephant” are long words that are easy for most readers, Dr. Schriver notes. Conversely, frustrated crossword solvers encounter plenty of uncommon three-letter words, such as adz, auk [...]

The blogger at Making a Splash talks about why he switched to the ESV:
So why the ESV? Well I had never heard of it before until I heard John Piper preach from it. I had been recently introduced to him and to the world of podcasting. One day as I was listening to him, I [...]

Jason at Help My Unbelief reviews the Amazon Kindle ebook reader, including its implications for Bible study. After listing the drawbacks (which we pretty much agree with—hopefully future versions of the Kindle platform will give publishers more flexibility to design their books), he discusses some of the advantages:
Search-ability. Can’t remember that verse you were reading [...]

ESV Personal Size Reference Bibles are now available.

Single column, paragraph format.
Words of Christ in black.
Size: 5″ × 7.25″.
1,408 pages.
Type size: 7.4 points.
Outside margin: 0.36″.
Cross-references on the inside margin.

See a sample PDF (320K).

The main text font in this Bible is ITC Stone Serif.
This Bible comes in four editions to start: black genuine leather, black TruTone®, and [...]