Category: Resources & Reviews

Great Software For Missionaries

If you’re a mis­sion­ary respon­si­ble for rais­ing the funds nec­es­sary for your min­istry, down­load TntM­PD. It’s a free tool cre­at­ed by Cam­pus Cru­sade for Christ to help mis­sion­ar­ies reach full fund­ing. It’s remark­able, and I invite you to exper­i­ment with it your­self.

If you’re a mis­sion­ary respon­si­ble for rais­ing the funds nec­es­sary for your min­istry, down­load TntM­PD. It’s a free tool cre­at­ed by Cam­pus Cru­sade for Christ to help mis­sion­ar­ies reach full fund­ing. It’s remark­able, and I invite you to exper­i­ment with it your­self.

The Message at Gospelcom

Hey– the Bible Gate­way now includes The Mes­sage trans­la­tion!

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.

How To Link To The NET Bible

Finally–how to link to a verse in the NET Bible using their perl script!

As I men­tioned ear­li­er, I’ve been going crazy try­ing to fig­ure out how to link direct­ly to a verse in the NET Bible.

Their web­mas­ter final­ly sent me an email explain­ing how to do it!

Here’s what you want­ed:
The link goes to John 3:16

http://www.bible.org/cgi-bin/netbible.pl?book=joh&chapter=3&verse=16

You’ll note that the way our perl script is for­mat­ted, no one can take a verse out of con­text. That is, when you want a spe­cif­ic verse from the NET Bible, you’ll get the para­graph in which that verse occurs. (Para­graph breaks are sort of arbi­trary, but at least it’s a help to the con­text.) The only oth­er thing you need is a list of our abbre­vi­a­tions. For­mat: they are all first three let­ters (gen, deu, 1ch, 2sa, mat)

With fol­low­ing excep­tions:
  Judges: jdg
  Phile­mon: phm
  Philip­pi­ans: phi.

Cool! This will be use­ful when­ev­er I have a lit­tle time to reply to some of Nota Bene and Integri­ty Blog’s thoughts.