The Message at Gospelcom

Hey– the Bible Gate­way now includes The Mes­sage trans­la­tion!

This is great–I used to use Quick­Verse for my ser­mon prep, but then I got a com­put­er with Win­dows XP and Quick­Verse would­n’t run under XP. Short­ly there­after, we moved to Palo Alto and got broad­band access.

As a result, I use online tools all the time in my ser­mon prep. My sole regret has been that I haven’t been able to access the Mes­sage in all that time. That’s a big­ger deal than it would be with most trans­la­tions, since there is no con­cor­dance to the Mes­sage. Either you search it elec­tron­i­cal­ly or you just rely on your mem­o­ry.

Now the three trans­la­tions I use most often are avail­able using the same online tool: The Mes­sage, the Con­tem­po­rary Eng­lish Ver­sion, and the New Liv­ing Trans­la­tion.