Sunday, December 02, 2007

It's IN the computer

Bonus points to anyone who gets the reference in the title of this blog.

I wanted to let you all know about a VERY helpful resource that I utilized in my previous post. It is called E-Sword (the catchy and clever tagline is "The Sword of the Lord with an Electronic Edge"). At the E-Sword website, you can download numerous translations of the Bible, as well as commentaries and Bible dictionaries - many of them for free.

I downloaded the English Standard Version of the Bible a couple of months ago, and have found the E-Sword to be incredibly helpful, especially when I'm writing or researching something in the Bible. There are so many things you can do with it - search by word, utilize Gospel parallels, compare translations - and there are also many Bible study tools and other things I have yet to explore. It's free, so go download it now. Start
here... it's so simple!

And if you're wondering why I chose the ESV (and why I use it in general), please read John Piper's
explanation.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Zoolander. Duh!

Jenilyn said...

Nice work, Stik, and I agree - that was really really ridiculously obvious :)

Matt and Kristi said...

Yes, I do read your blog from time to time! And just wanted to tell you I caught the second reference to Zoolander and well... as I myself am, really, really, ridiculously good-looking .

Matt and Kristi said...

Since we're having a blog-commenting war (I just declared it right now), we're launching another one your way. Check out our brand-new hot-off-the-press blog post with Charlotte putting candy canes in her mouth like it's her job. (By the way, we say that about her quite frequently when she is doing something with a lot of enthusiasm or gusto)