Check out this news from HCSB:
Today we are giving away free HCSB iPhone apps! RT and make sure you follow @HCSB to enter to win.
I’ve used the HCSB iPhone app recently and really love it. It’s great to have a translation you like available and accessible like that. I would highly recommend you buy it…that is, if you don’t get a free one!
This Bible includes the BibleReader with the following features:
- Three step Verse Chooser to easily navigate to any verse
- Word search to quickly find any word in the document
In Letters to a Diminished Church, Dorothy Sayers writes this:
The Church’s approach to an intelligent carpenter is usually confined to exhorting him not to be drunk and disorderly in his leisure hours, and to come to church on Sundays. What the Church should be telling him is this: that the very first demand that his religion makes upon him is that he should make good tables. Church by all means, and decent forms of amusement, certainly—but what use is all that if in the very center of his life and occupation he is insulting God with bad carpentry?
It is a little unusual for me to post something like this, so let’s just say it falls under the category of “Too good not to share!”
Here’s the story. My wife’s computer is broken, so we’re getting her a new one. She doesn’t do any hefty processing, so she wants a netbook. You know, one of those small, lightweight laptops.
As we looked around for a good (read, “inexpensive”) one, we found that they come with Windows 7 Starter Edition. Yet, when you visit the Windows 7 website and look under “Compare Editions” they only show a comparison of Home Premium, Professional and Ultimate.
What gives?
When you click on “Starter,” however, this what you read:
Did you catch that? “Windows 7 Starter puts less between you and what you want to do–less waiting, less clicking, less hassle connecting to networks.”
So if that’s true, I can only assume the converse is also true: “Buy any upgraded edition of Windows 7 and we guarantee more waiting, more clicking, more hassle connecting to networks.”
I love it!
I also love my Mac!
Hey, all you HCSB fans, join me in wishing a very happy birthday to Jedidiah Coppenger, the brand manager for the HCSB!
Happy Birthday, Jedidiah! Thanks for all your hard work in promoting an amazing English translation of God’s Word!
In one of the simplest, yet most profound articles I’ve read in a while, Toby Sumpter writes:
God meddles with history. He messes with human lives, and He breaks into situations virtually unannounced. He interrupts Noah’s life, interrupts Abram in Ur, interrupts Moses in Egypt. We serve the interrupting God.
He doesn’t raise His hand to speak; He doesn’t wait patiently for a lull in the conversation. He just bursts in. And this bursting in, this interrupting characteristic is most gloriously obvious in the incarnation. And Jesus knows He’s interrupting; He knows He’s intervening in a major way. And He doesn’t apologize. He’s come to shake the world down. He’s come to undo the way things are done. And He realizes that this will mean broken families, upset markets, fractured communities, and political upheaval. He didn’t come to bring peace but the sword.
You need to read the whole article. Sumpter tries to help us see what it looks like to break into people’s lives, condemn the darkness and mercifully help set things right.
And you need to understand well why he says, “We cannot hold back, stand back and watch, or take shots at other Christians who faithfully plunge into the deep jungles of sin and hell.”
Sumpter holds nothing back to convince us that we need to
imitate Jesus even more faithfully, the center of which I would suggest is loving people,really loving people. This means knowing their names, eating with them, praying with them, crying with them, and dying for them. The Church is the womb of the new world, the mother of us all. And therefore we are called to be the family, the state, even the economy in utero, breathing through the contractions as they come faster and closer together, as the Lord Jesus shakes down those things which are not permanent, looking expectantly for this new creation, this New Jerusalem descending out of heaven.
In continuing the discussion about technology and discipleship, I want to consider the usefulness of BibleNavigator X, the new HCSB eReader for the XBox.
On his blog, Ed Stetzer wrote:
Why make the Bible available on a gaming system? The idea of making the Scripture readily available for the people in a language they understand and a format they can interact with has long been the desire of the church. In this case, the ability for small groups to easily gather around the TV to read a passage together opens the Bible to a more social experience. B&H has said that they hope youth ministers are open to using it, and have included bookmarks in it so teachers can jump right to the passages they’ve prepared.
I want to ask you these questions:
- Is this a good idea?
- Would you use your Wii or XBox to read the Bible?
- How might this be a helpful way of using current technology
- How could the church make use of this product?
- Have you used it? If so, what do you think about it?
