Archive for September 2008

Johnathon at The Fool’s Gold ponders whether to capitalize pronouns (“he,” “him”) when referring to God. Johnathon frames the issue as a tension between emphasizing the transcendence and the immanence of God.
We’d add that using lower-case pronouns allows for multiple interpretations of ambiguous passages. Jeremy at Parableman addressed this topic at some length in 2004.
A […]

Josh at Occupied with the Word, inspired by someone memorizing Ephesians, decided to memorize Psalm 103:
So far this has been an immense blessing. Yes, it’s work. But the blessing has come in the fruit of the labor: the choice nuggets gleaned from studying what I’m memorizing.
The great thing about memorizing Scripture is that you can […]

Lori at Confessions of a Pastor’s Wife writes about how she’s filled her ESV Journaling Bible with her thoughts—but how she rarely shares these journaled thoughts on her blog:
I write entries that would make great blog posts but then I never actually get to writing about them. I will write down the revelation and then […]

Josh writes about why the ministry he’s part of, Rock Solid, uses the ESV:
It has also been very interesting to read along in [the ESV] next to my Greek text in class. Although there will be variances with any translation, it holds up well and more often than not provides the closest and most […]

Check out nearly twenty new videos on the ESV Study Bible.
Remember the five-minute YouTube preview of the ESV Study Bible? That video was actually part of a thirteen-minute video that goes into more depth about the ESV Study Bible’s features. You can now watch the whole video or just the sections that interest you:

To Understand […]

Matt at The Foolish Galatian reviews the ESV Single Column Reference Bible (including lots of photos):
I have this bible in my fleet of Crossway publications and it has quickly become my all time favorite version to use in my daily devotional and study time. I plan on laying out for you here why it is […]

Terry at Said at Southern reviews the ESV Literary Study Bible. The conclusion:
The ESV-LSB would be a nice addition to anyone’s library. For those who make it a point to read the Bible in a year, it would add a certain twist not found in other Bibles given all of the extra information about the […]

Charlie at Talking Out of Turn has created an Emacs interface to the ESV web service.
To clear up any confusion, this kind of application is definitely welcome.

Mark Driscoll at The Resurgence provides a list of six essentials for Bible study:

Have a good Bible
Have some good Christian books
Have some good (free) online study resources
Have some good Bible software
Have some good websites
Have some good community

The last is especially important—it’s easy to come up with some pretty odd interpretations of the Bible if you […]

Ubiquity is the hot new plugin from Mozilla Labs. It gives you a language-based interface to the web—you enter a command, and Ubiquity knows what to do. For example, you might type “map 60187” to get a Google Map of Wheaton, Illinois. The Ubiquity architecture makes it easy to create new commands.
Download a Ubiquity command […]