Bible study

Working Together: Why We Should Do It

by Eddie 28.01.2010

This is the third in a series of three talks (in French) on working across organizational boundaries. They were originally given at a seminar planning for Bible Translation in Burkina Faso.

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Working Together: How Not To Do It

by Eddie 27.01.2010

Part two of my three part series (in French) on working across organisational boundaries.

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Working Together: How To Do It

by Eddie 27.01.2010

This is the first in my series of three devotional talks on the subject of working across organisational boundaries. Be warned, this talk was given in something approximating to French!

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The B. B. King Bible

by Eddie 07.04.2009

A good blog post, like a good sermon, catches the imagination from the start (as I just failed to do!). Skip Moen has just posted a terrific discussion of Eve’s name from Genesis 3, which he catchily introduces by talking about BB King. The blues and the Bible – well he caught my attention! The [...]

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So Little Time, So Much Reading To Be Done

by Eddie 03.12.2008

Finding web pages like this almost causes me to despair! When will I have the time to read it all?

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Get Lost in Jerusalem

by Eddie 02.07.2008

Thanks to MGVH for the link to this excellent resource. Get lost in Jerusalem is a computer based guide to the history and Geography of Jerusalem and is an excellent tool for anyone wanting to understand more about the background to the Scriptures. You can buy it from Amazon (or at least read the description) [...]

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Bible Mapper

by Eddie 04.04.2008

If like me you sometimes have to produce Bible maps for PowerPoint presentations or for handouts, you will be very interested in Bible mapper. This is a free programme with the following features: select the types of standard map objects you want to appear on your map (cities, mountain peaks, rivers, roads, political boundaries, etc.) [...]

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Parellel Gospels Online

by Eddie 22.03.2008

This looks to be a rather useful online tool for anyone who has to work on the Gospels and who doesn’t have access to commercial Bible search software. Strangely, it also includes the Gospel of Thomas. You can select varying combinations of Gospels to search together; including the synoptics and the Q Twosome (using the [...]

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Bible Toolbars

by Eddie 13.03.2008

I’ve long been a user of the Bible toolbar for Firefox which allows me to search numerous Bible translations online directly from the Bible Gateway site. It is the single most useful Firefox plugin I have come across. However, this morning mgvh has pointed me towards the Tyndale House toolbar for Biblical Studies. This monster [...]

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Gospel Harmony

by Eddie 27.01.2008

For a Bible translator, harmonization of the Gospels involves a painstaking process of making sure that when the Gospel writers say the same thing the same way, the translated text does the same thing. Conversely, when the writers say the same thing in different ways the translation should reflect this too. Given the flexibility and [...]

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Abraham: The Beginning of Hope

by Eddie 05.03.2007

My latest sermon from Above Bar Church on Genesis 12 is available for download here. Rather than expound the passage itself, I chose to look at how this passage raises certain themes which are picked up throught the Bible and which challenge: Our assumptions about Israel Our assumptions about mission Ou assumptions about humanity It [...]

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