Mobile Ministry Magazine: LifeChurch.tv Launches YouVersion Beta (updated)

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Saturday, September 29, 2007

LifeChurch.tv Launches YouVersion Beta (updated)

According to a post at Chrurch Relevance LifeChurch.tv has launched YouVersion Beta. It is an online bible that lets you:
• Read the Bible in multiple versions
• Star and tag verses and content
• Associate images, videos, links, and text to verses or series of verses
• Create an online Bible journal

Versions include:
• King James Version (KJV)
• American Standard Version (ASV)
• English Standard Version (ESV)
• New Century Version (NCV)
• New King James Version (NKJV)
• Smith and VanDyke Arabic Bible
• World English Bible

This seems similar to eBible. There was not a link to the service in the story (or at least it didn't show in my RSS reader). I will update this article from a desktop later with that info and a screenshot.

Information for this post came from ChurchRelevance.com

Update with Additional Thoughts

Getting a view of YouVersion on my desktop, rather than via the Treo's screen, I can see that this is a well layed-out design. It seems to promote reading moreso than studying. If you will, this seems a site more or less geared to a reader than one who is communially studying the Word. I'd have to get a mobile device to see how it would play out, considering the issues in this site with my Treo. Nevertheless, there's another option towards making some personal inroads into reading and understanding the Word.

Labels: Bible, tech, YouVersion