Mobile Ministry Magazine

Amazon's Kindle has developed a good following since its introduction a few weeks ago. The agressively priced, wireless eBook reader has very much made its presence felt however with a very large (and growing library).

Of course, it was only a matter of time before readers would demand to get the Bible on their Kindle readers. In a post at the ESV Blog, this is something that was just announced as being available for $9.99.

So what are some of the features of the ESV on Kindle? Here are a few as stated from the ESV Blog posting:
- Chapter numbers are larger than verse numbers to provide better readability.
- Opening the ESV on Kindle takes you to the table of contents for the Bible, letting you move easily to any book. Once you arrive at a book, you’ll see links to each chapter (right-aligned for easy use with the Kindle cursor), letting you get pretty close to your intended passage.
- The ESV textual footnotes are all hyperlinked in the text, with hyperlinks back to the relevant passage from each note.

According to the ESV Blog, there are also plans to consider "making the ESV Literary Study Bible available on Kindle if demand warrants it." As with most software development, make your voices known by emailing the developers to get a feature request in.

The Kindle and the ESV for Kindle can both be purchased from Amazon.

The ESV (and other Bible versions) on the Kindle and other electronic Bible readers is an excellent way to use technology in ways that just aren't consumer/consumption driven. Even noted on at the same ESV post was a note of a user who thinks on the merits of the Kindle as a Bible study platform. While I am not sure that the device itself will be the key (due to costs), having a platform that makes suitable and versatile formats for the content will go a long way towards helping the Kindle spark a bit of a reading revolution.

- thanks to LJ for the tip

Labels: Bible, ESV, Kindle, mobile

I am involved in a small group at my church and one of the things that we do is have a book of the Bible that we read every week. We then get together to talk about it and how that reading has impacted us. However, there are times when due to life and life's issues that reading doesn't happen as easily. It's in those times that I am looking for something, anything that could jog my run to the Scripts and then find a measure of peace.

That's why I really liked this posting at the ESV Blog about a Bible widget for OSX. Sure, its something that would clutter one's desktop (and if you are like me, there are NO icons on the desktop); but, it would really work as that simple reminder to just get into the word, or have something that would be simple to keep for reflection's sake.

Not all of us are so gifted that we can pull off a devotion off the Spirit's cuff ;) so a little push is always good.

Now, if I could get something like this to show up on the home screen of my Treo and other phones, that would really rock.

Labels: Bible, devotion, ESV

Just a few notes as we are entering the top of the hump (EST time anyways).

The ESV Blog reported about the podBible, a ESV downloadable reading Bible for your iPod. Very neat.

In using the N800 and Treo 680, I am having similar thoughts to others of whether the laptop needs a revolution. But if you look at another story, it just might be that the revolution has happened already (it's just not priced right everywhere yet).

One thing is for sure, if we do see that revolution continue towards mobile tech, the change to how we approach community and worship cannot be far behind.

Which, if you think about it, would be neat. especially if we can have praise and worship parties regardless of location.

That's all for now, but isn't it neat to have a though of how God can and will influence tech at this point of the week?

Labels: Bible, church, community, ESV, mobile, mobiles, music, Nokia, praise, Treo 680, worship