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Reformation Reversed: Emergent Church and the Undoing of Faith

Sunday, January 20th, 2008

“Christians are now the foreigners in a post-Christian culture… we need to view ourselves the way others on the outside see us.” –Dan Kimbal, They Like Jesus but not the Church.
“I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of [...]

My Mac Adventures: Addendum

Monday, January 7th, 2008

As readers of this blog probably know, in 2005 I embarked on an ill-fated voyage to create a native Mac version of my Bible software. I was unable to complete my quest and disappointed several of my users who had already switched to Mac and were hoping I would be able to give them SwordSearcher [...]

Of Populsim, Envy, and Identity

Sunday, January 6th, 2008

The debate last night showed Edwards and Huckabee getting ready to try to win the presidency on typical class-warfare, envy politics. Edwards is the worst, but he’s only being honest about his goals where his Democrat counterparts are being quiet. But Huckabee isn’t much better. Both are running on the notion that the middle class [...]

SwordSearcher 5.2 Released

Thursday, October 18th, 2007

A new version of SwordSearcher Bible Software is now available: version 5.2.
As I mentioned before, this new version adds “words of Christ in red letters” for the KJV, and also gives the ability to restrict a Bible search to just the words of Christ. The Deluxe study library also adds the following modules:

Morrish Bible Dictionary
Calvin’s [...]

Bible study spotlight: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Friday, September 21st, 2007

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (TSK in SwordSearcher) is probably one of the most important Bible study aids ever published. Many Bibles have cross-references in their margins, but these are typically anemic.  The TSK is like a Bible margin as wide as the Bible text column itself. I love this resource because it is all [...]

The Bible in Klingon?

Monday, September 3rd, 2007

Shakespeare is best in the original Klingon, as every Star Trek fan knows.  The Bible… not so much.
Joel Anderson has used a lexicon to “translate” the Bible into Klingon and compiled a SwordSearcher “Klingon Language Version.” Tranlsate is in quotes because as Joel says on his website, “It is useful for for entertainment value, not linguistic [...]

Does your red-letter Bible misquote Christ?

Thursday, August 30th, 2007

A long-standing feature request from users of SwordSearcher is “words of Christ in red.” One of the things I’m working on for the next release is adding red-letter data to the KJV module so that users can (optionally) have the Lord’s words colored differently than regular text.
One difficulty with this is that the various red-letter Bibles [...]

Christians, the Bible, and Guns: is Self-Defense Vengeance?

Saturday, July 28th, 2007

We’ve all heard the cries of hypocrisy: You can’t be Christian and against gun control; you can’t be pro-life and pro-gun ownership; vengeance is God’s, so why do you need a gun?, etc.
Let us examine, in particular, the charge that being prepared for self-defense is vengeance.

Bible Codes: Are Scripture-based word find puzzles real?

Sunday, July 22nd, 2007

There seems to be no end to the clamouring for “hidden evidence” of the varacity of the Bible. So-called Bible Codes are one manifestation of the human interest in the “hidden” and “secret.” There is an endless supply of modern-day, self-proclaimed prophets who claim to have unlocked secrets in the Bible with the application of mathematical [...]

Daily Bible and Prayer 2.1 released

Tuesday, June 19th, 2007

Daily Bible and Prayer 2.1 released.
This is a maintenance release and free to registered users of 2.0.

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