The Wired Christian

This is very simple and cool site that serves one purpose. The home page is filled with a listing of early church or christian writings. You’ll find the gospels there as found in the bible, but you’ll also find writings that were not included in the bible. There are letters from Pontius Pilate and many writings which I’ve never seen or heard about. Whether or not they are valid writings or whether or not they should have been included in the bible is another discussion. I firmly believe that the bible in it’s current form IS the whole Word of God… but like I said, that’s another discussion. At any rate Early Christian Writings provides some very interesting reading material.

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The K-LOVE site is more than just graphics and wallpapers, but I wanted to take a second to highlight those. For anyone looking for an absolutely beautiful graphic for your desktop wallpaper (computers) that has encouraging scripture as well, this is a great source. There are about 32 various wallpapers to choose from and each comes in several different resolutions (sizes) ranging from 640×480 to 1920×1200. You can see the wallpapers at http://www.klove.com/Interact/Graphics.aspx. Stick around and see what else they have to offer as well, while you are there (podcast, blog, prayer requests and more). Here are a few more samples to get you nice and interested.

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This site is a directory of Christian radio and Christian TV stations, programs, on demand, MP3 music download, and podcasting links found on the internet. If you are surfing the web and would like to listen to some Christian tunes you can just head on over and find a new station that you might like. The front page is very well laid out and you can pretty much see what you want at a glance. Plus if you don’t see what you are looking for there is a simple search form at the top of the page. It also has a link right beneath that for more detailed searching via the Advanced Search which will let you specify such things as the genre, location, language, type (see or hear), etc.

As you are browsing the site and finding the actual listings you will notice that there are icons to the left of the listing. These let you know what type of feed you will be getting whether it is a Windows Media Player feed, a WinAmp feed, Real Player, MP3 Download, etc. This is very useful information to know before you go clicking on links.

All in all I found that they had quite an extensive listing covering a fairly broad range of genres and topics. Head on over and check it out at ChristianTuner.com!

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Ever want to know where Jericho was on the map, but was afraid to ask? Well, now you can see on a really cool Google Maps implementation just where the places are that you read about in the Bible. BibleMap.org has a really nifty user interface that’s extremely easy to use. Just select the book of the Bible and the Chapter that you are interested in and the map automatically updates with any of the pertinent locations within the selected verses. Head on over and give it a whirl! http://www.biblemap.org

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Try this: go to Google and try searching for “scripture” or “bible” or “bible verse”. What is the first listing that you see? That’s right, BibleGateway.com is the top dog. Not only because they have great SEO (search engine optimization), but because the site is a great research tool. The title says it all, “A searchable online Bible in over 50 versions and 35 languages.”

Research

There are three different ways you have to lookup scripture on BibleGateway: 1) by passage 2) by keyword and 3) by topic. Passage is just what it sounds like. You enter the book, chapter and verse or appropriate ranges and you get back what you asked for. The keyword is more of search based of a word or multiple words and/or phrases that you are looking for within the scripture. Then the topical search does a keyword search through either Nave’s Topical Bible or Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. These three methods in addition to the many different translations and languages gives you an extremely wide variety of ways to look at God’s word.

Under the Additional Resources heading there are also listed Audio Bibles, Commentaries, eBooks, Dictionaries, Study Tools and Reading Plans.

Web Authors

Web authors and bloggers also have tools at there disposal to integrate scripture into their sites now! BibleGateway gives you several options to use under the Use On Your Website header. There are instructions for linking to BibleGateway when quoting scripture so that when a reference is made someone could click on the link and read further into the passage if they wanted to. You can also add a BibleGateway search form on your website. They also provide a Verse of the Day in several delivery options including a plain HTML code method, an RSS feed, a Web Service call or an embedded Flash object.

Conclusion

BibleGateway has been around since 1995 (and the site design shows it). Sorry. It’s not a Web 2.0 site. It’s not flashy. It’s not glamorous. What it is… God’s word delivered in a very easy to retrieve manner. So go on over and get your verse on!

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