Archive for August 2008

The Ephesians 4:14 blog has released a WordPress Sermons Plugin. It lets you upload and search for sermons from your church by preacher, service, tag, series, and more. You can embed video or audio of the sermon right in your post, and the plugin uses the ESV API to display the relevant passage while someone [...]

Yesterday was our 500th tweet on Twitter. That means you’ve been getting a verse every day (to be precise, you’ve been getting the first 140 characters of a verse on days when our power company feels we’re deserving of electricity and our ISP graces us with Internet access) since March 2007. Currently, 569 of you [...]

Dan at Ramblin’ Pastor Man shares J. I. Packer’s definition of expository preaching:
Expository preaching is the preaching of the man who knows Holy Scripture to be the living Word of the living God, and who desires only that it should be free to speak its own message to sinful men and women; who therefore preaches [...]

Did you know that there are several unofficial ESV groups on Facebook? Neither did we. Go join one or more of them now (if you want). Thanks to everyone who’s already a member; you’re way ahead of us.
Here are all the active groups we could find:

We love the ESV (English Standard Version) Bible! 335 members.
English [...]

Brian at Under God’s Hands writes about the online community of ESV users:
We should be careful not to pride ourselves in a translation however. Even so, we need to commend good translations that will make us see and savor Christ better and that build community in such a way that believers can understand the language [...]

Here are recent posts from the ESV Study Bible Blog:

Michael Spencer Interviews David Powlison on Reading the Bible for Personal Application (including a new excerpt from the ESV Study Bible)
Paul Maier on the ESV Study Bible
Ben Witherington on the ESV Study Bible
The Ancient City of Rome, including this plan of the city:
Larry Hurtado on the [...]

Olive Tree Bible Software has released BibleReader for iPhone. The ESV is available for $24.99.

Download it from the App Store on your iPhone or iPod Touch.
Rick at This Lamp reviews BibleReader.
Via Mobile Ministry Magazine.

Peter at Beauty of the Bible writes about the many translations he’s read (and continues to read). Of the ESV, he writes:
I have found the ESV to be both highly accurate and highly readable. I am seriously considering making my ESV my bookbag Bible (it fits perfectly in the pocket). And, although I have never [...]

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A Crossway press release:
Wheaton, IL—China will provide 10,000 free Chinese-English bilingual Bibles to be distributed in the Olympic Village where the Olympic athletes and media are housed, as reported by the China Daily newspaper. The bilingual Bible text will include the CUV (Chinese Union Version) and the ESV (English Standard Version), appearing in two side-by-side [...]