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What follows are links of interest, recommendation, and endorsement.
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Not so little
Ken Floyd's site is not so little anymore, having grown and even added its own forum. Be sure to stop by, be edified, and participate!
Answers In Genesis
http://www.answersingenesis.or...
Answers in Genesis is an apologetics (i.e., Christianity-defending) ministry, dedicated to enabling Christians to defend their faith, and to proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ effectively. We focus particularly on providing answers to questions surrounding the book of Genesis, as it is the most-attacked book of the Bible. We also desire to train others to develop a biblical worldview, and seek to expose the bankruptcy of evolutionary ideas, and its bedfellow, a "millions of years old" earth (and even older universe).
Online books
http://tuscanycircle.net/drupa...
This is a list of online book sources (free). Good classical material is included.
Online Bible
There are quite a few sites that offer online Bibles, or Bible-related material. Here are some of my favorites.
- Bible Gateway -- Offers a powerful search engine, and access to a number of different English translations (as well as translations in other languages, not that they do me a lick of good). I use this site mainly for searching the Word.
- Blue Letter Bible -- This site is a good resource when you want to go back to the Hebrew or Greek. It breaks down passages into their original-language constituents, and offers concordance information, including other places where a given word is used. To get to this information, display the desired passage using the main page, and select "C" (for "concordance") from the list of letters to the left of each verse.
- Bible Study Tools -- This site has quite a few extra-Biblical resources, including dictionaries and commentaries. It also has search capability and some original-language resources, though you must install fonts to see the Greek and Hebrew (and, sadly, there are no fonts for the Linux platform). What I like best about this site, though, is that it provides access to the Complete Jewish Bible, which is my number one translation.
PDA Bible -- Olive Tree
As with online Bibles, there are a number of ways you can go to get a Bible on your PDA. The software that I am familiar with (having worked for the company for a brief period) is Olive Tree. They have a reader for PalmOS and PocketPC, as well as Blackberry and some other platforms. The reader itself is free, and there is a great deal of free content. Basically, anything in the public domain is offered free of charge. This includes the King James Bible, some other Bibles, and some extra-Biblical resources. There is also a great deal of content that can be purchased, including:
- Many modern Bible translations, such as the NKJV, NASB, NIV, and (my favorite) the CJB to name a few. Some versions support a red-letter feature for the words of Yeshua.
- Many Bible dictionaries, such as Nave's Topical, Eerdman's, Easton's, and the ISBE (International Standard Bible Encyclopedia).
- Several commentaries, including Matthew Henry Complete and the Jewish New Testament Commentary.
- Original language resources, including a Hebrew OT and Greek NT, complete with fonts).
- Concordance resources -- the best is the Complete Word Study Bible, by Zodhiates, but there is also a KJV and a NASB with embedded Strong's information.
- I haven't checked this out yet, but there is an atlas feature that includes a number of maps, cross-referenced from one of the Bibles. Tap on a place name in the Bible, and a map of the region appears.
In addition to the many resources, the Bible reader has a lot of features, including
- The ability to save verse bookmarks, and organize bookmarks into different files.
- The ability to attach notes to verses, and to organize groups of notes into different files.
- Search feature.
- Daily reading application, with links to the Scripture verses and check boxes to keep track of what you have read.
- Support for an external memory card. (The various databases take up a fair amount of memory. If you have a lot of them, as I do, they probably won't all fit in the internal memory of the device.)
- Support for hi-resolution devices.
- Multi-window feature, so that up to three different documents can be displayed at once.
- Hyperlink features, such as between dictionaries and Bibles (i.e., tap on a reference verse in Nave's, and that verse appears in a separate window), for Strong's information (i.e., tap on a word in CWSB, and the Strong's information appears in a separate window), and for quite a few other applications.
- Support for Greek and Hebrew fonts.
- Highly customizable interface.
OK, I realize this is starting to sound like an ad for Olive Tree. Well, I am a big fan of the reader, and the owner of the company is a great guy, so I like plugging his stuff. (To be honest, I haven't tried any other apps, so I can't -- and don't -- claim that Olive Tree's is the best. I'm just saying that I am happy with it.) If anyone has any questions, please let me know, and I will be happy to answer as best I can.
Having said all that, I am interested to hear from anyone who is using a different Bible application on a PDA. I know Wayne uses a different one. Any thoughts/comparisons/contrasts?
e-Sword
FCET
Sabbath
Comprehensive resource on the Sabbath: http://www.sabbathtruth.com/
Vox Day
Intelligent columnist and blogger: http://voxday.blogspot.com/
He seems to be generally correct on most topics, although he's still missing the mark on creationism (doesn't know much about it by his own admission). He's Christian, libertarian, well read, writes (columns, blogs, books, games), and more. He's quoted here often.
TIA
Check out Vox' latest book, The Irrational Atheist, available for free download.
Dance sites
Dollar value
See how the value of a dollar has changed (http://www.measuringworth.com/...), interesting for seeing the impact of inflation and the descending standard of living caused by denial of Natural Law and legalized theft.













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