Summer listening bonanza

A well-placed request, and I persuaded Kevin Stilley graciously to post an extensive list of lectures and lessons on theology, exegesis, church history, and Biblical studies. All online and (I believe) all free.

Of them, I've listened to and enjoyed the lectures by John Frame, as well as a lot of  Douglas Kelly and some Richard Pratt.

Right now I'm on about the 100th lecture of a long series; when I'm done, I plan to dive into these lectures Kevin has pointed out.

(Of course, neither I nor [I'm sure] Kevin agree with all the lecturers.)

Enjoy, profit, bear more fruit!

The value of BibleWorks

Everybody knows I love my BibleWorks. I've yet to do a full review of BW8 (epic FAIL on me), which I also love....

But here's one of the many things to love about BibleWorks: unmatched value. Check this chart as to the cost of BW from 1992-2009:

And in that time, the value and contents of BibleWorks has steadily risen. BW programmer Mike Bushnell says that the contents have increased fifty-fold over that time period.

If your pastor doesn't have it, Christmas is coming up. He'll love you forever.

Or, anyway, should.

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I'm quite serious about that. You — church-member, deacon-board member, elder-board member — could hardly make a better investment of a few C-notes than to buy your pastor BibleWorks.

I respect Logos, am glad I have it, and use it daily.

But I love BibleWorks. It is a mind-boggling wealth of resources for a really decent price. It's fast, it's sleek, it's massively powerful. It gets you right into the text.

The single feature I love best is the marginal note feature. I have always been a Bible-noter. One of my earliest Bibles was an Oxford wide-margin KJV; later, a wide-margin Greek NT.

With BibleWorks, it's marginal notes on steroids, with a super-exo-suit, spinach, and a Scooby snack. It's a full-featured word processor that flicks instantly with a mouseover, and saves automatically when the mouse moves to the next verse. Load Greek, Hebrew, URLs, thoughts, quotations from Logos... bam, just like that.

If your pastor is a Bible-preacher, and doesn't have BibleWorks, he needs it.

If he isn't a Bible-preacher... what are you doing there, again?

Exegetical tool online: BibleArc

BibleArc is an online tool for graphically analyzing the flow of any section of Biblical text.

The original Hebrew or Greek text can be displayed, along with any of various translations (ESV, NAS, KJV). There are tools for marking the flow of thought within the text. Additionally, the site provides a 40-part online video tutorial for using the tool.

The Greek text includes mouse-over parsing and definition. There are options for entering comments and notes. To save outlines online, one can register for a $10 yearly fee.

I've only begun to explore this tool, so can't comment beyond saying that it looks ambitious and promising.

Any of you already familiar with it?

Remarkable Bible study resource page: Precept Austin

Trying to find online resources for a friend, I stumbled upon the P-R-E-C-E-P-T A-U-S-T-I-N web site. That's not a pretty site name. Plus, graphically, it's as retro as my web site (which is saying something).

But yikes! What a goldmine of resources! I think you'll want to bookmark it

There are verse by verse resources across the board for every book of the Bible; Bible dictionaries, maps, and more besides. It's really remarkable what he's found, and what I had no idea is online.

At first it might seem to be overwhelmingly dispensational (which is a good thing), but look closer: the webmaster's cast quite a wide net among Bible-believers. Walvoord and Ice and McGee — and Spurgeon and Gill and Flavel and Waltke. Just a really great clearing-house of free tools.

Enjoy.