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HCSB

HCSB Ranks Number 5 in Best Seller List

February 27, 2010

A reader alerted me this week that the HCSB has moved to the number 5 spot in unit sales and dollar sales according to the Christian Booksellers Association.
Congrats, HCSB!
On a related note: here’s a survey you need to take about Bible translations: http://bit.ly/9RxW93

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HCSB Giving Away iPhone Apps

February 5, 2010

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 [...]

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Happy Birthday, Jedidiah

January 30, 2010

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!

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Congratulations to the Winner of the HCSB Minister’s Bible

January 28, 2010

I recently held a contest asking subscribers to submit their own lists of reasons to love the HCSB to add to the 10 that I had listed. One winner was randomly selected, and that winner is…
Ben Mordecai, a newlywed engineering student at UGA. You can read his blog here.
Congrats, Ben! I hope you enjoy the [...]

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Why Make the Bible Available on a Gaming System?

January 24, 2010
This entry is part 3 of 3 in the series Technology and Discipleship

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 [...]

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40 Reasons to Love the HCSB

January 23, 2010

Recently I wrote about 10 reasons to really like the HCSB. I then solicited input from my subscribers to make this list.
These are all reader-submitted. So this gives you a taste of why some other people like the HCSB. Interestingly, some of them are on my “Things I Don’t Like” list! Oh well. To each [...]

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How To Win the HCSB Minister’s Bible: Detailed Instructions

January 14, 2010

Some of you read this post on 10 reasons to like the HCSB. But I may not have been clear on how to enter the drawing for the HCSB Limited Edition Minister’s Bible. So, just to clear up the confusion, here it is:
If you are a subscriber via RSS or email updates, then look for [...]

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Top 10 Reasons to Really Like the HCSB

January 11, 2010

I am not sure if these are really my “top 10,” but they are definitely 10 good reasons to like the HCSB.
1. Yahweh — It’s always bothered me to see “LORD” as the translation for the divine name in the OT. Whether “Yahweh” is the best option, I’m not sure, but it’s definitely a step [...]

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Updated HCSB Text in Print while Website to Get Its Own Updates

December 29, 2009

The updated HCSB text is officially at press! We should see it in the Minister’s Bible in June of 2010. I think we’ll see some great tweaks to an already great translation.
Like I mentioned before, those brackets will be a thing of the past. That alone makes a new printing worth while.
In addition, we just [...]

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Footnotes in the HCSB

December 21, 2009

T.C. Robinson has a good example of the use of footnotes in the HCSB. An example that demonstrates courage, honesty, accuracy and thoroughness on the part of the editors and translators of the HCSB.
While we’re discussing footnotes, here are some notes about the footnotes in the HCSB:
Footnotes – The HCSB has the following notes:

1,586 textual [...]

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