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Prayers For Your Daily Life - These are a collection (small right now) of prayers I have collected. | |
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Books of the Bible - There are numerous daily reading plans that will get you through the Bible in one year but those really are geared toward getting you through the Bible and not studying it. Unless you are retired, I doubt you could study the entire Bible in one year. So, I have generated a simple listing of all of the books and chapters so you can read and study at your speed. There are two lists. First is a ListPro 3 list. Save this file to your Pocket PC and track your progress. I have added a date column so you can keep track much time you are spending on various chapters. If you don't have ListPro then get this comma-delimited text file that you can import into any database of your choice or simply put it into an Excel spreadsheet. You can easily import this into ListPro 4 or later. | |
| April 30, 2003 | Pure Thoughts. Just my own views on ways to keep your mind full of pure thoughts and keep impure thoughts at bay. | ||
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Biblical Scientific Accuracy. The bible is not a scientific document but being inspired by the Creator that understands how the world works, it has quite a few statements that contradicted the knowledge of the times, right through the mid 1900's. No doubt as time progresses, other statements in the bible that people assume are wrong or just fantasy will be validated by science. Examples include the water cycle, currents in the ocean, the spherical nature of the Earth, the existence of the Hittites and much more. |
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Holman Christian Standard Bible -
This is a new translation sponsored by Lifeway Christian Resources
that strives to be as much a word-for-word translation as possible while
still being readable. Contrast this to the NIV which is more of a
thought-for-thought translation. It has a lot of footnotes and even a few
pages in the back that more completely define some of the more complex
thoughts that are marked in the text with a hyperlink. Having had this version now for over 3 years, I can say I really enjoy reading it. It is, in my opinion, a better translation than the NIV from a literal standpoint, yet is quite readable. I've read some of the more difficult ones and from what little I know of Greek and Hebrew (very little) they have done a good job. For now, I have made this my primary translation. You can read a FAQ on the HCSB here. It is approximately 2,700kb in size. |
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Complete Jewish Bible - This is a very interesting translation, and I
would imagine a very welcome one for Jews that believe that Jesus was
the Messiah and see the New Testament and Old Testament as one complete
work. There is some
detailed information on this translation at here. I love reading this
version and seeing some of the names as they were said in Hebrew. Isaiah,
for example, is Yesha'yahu. Pretty cool. Note that the books of the Old
Testament are not in the order you are used to. It is split into the Torah,
Prophets and Writings, compared with the OT we are normally used to seeing
that is split out into the Pentateuch, Historical Books, Writings and
finally the Prophets. They are all there though. There is some verse
renumbering in some cases too. In Psalms for example, those notes at the top
that says who wrote it and under what circumstances are often labeled as
verse 1 and everything else is shifted to 2 and following. The translater, David Stern, also wrote the Jewish New Testament Commentary, listed below. The Complete Jewish Bible is roughly 3.3MB. You will have to update your version of PocketBible for this to work, so when you download this, be sure to check the "Updated Products" section of your Laridian download account. |
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New International Version - This
Since early 2004, I have been using the the Holman Christian Standard Bible. Having used the NIV for over 20 years, this is no small decision, but I've found the HCSB to be easier to read and it seems to be closer to the meaning of the original manuscripts than the NIV. |
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Today's New International Version - New Testament - A newer version of the NIV, this has approximately 7% of the text changed
- and some text added! (See below) Compare Romans 6:14 in the image. The top window is the "Today's NIV" and the bottom is the original NIV. The TNIV is much clear in that sin doesn't rule over you any longer, meaning today, right now. Currently only the New Testament is available for Pocket Bible. You can read more about the translation here. Approximately 630KB. Update: I have changed my opinion on this translation. Take a look at Hebrews 2:17 in the TNIV and then any other serious translation. Notice any politically correct words added? Those words are not in the original Greek text. No thanks. |
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The Message - This is a new paraphrase Bible that focuses on a though-for-thought translation rather than word-for-word. I would never use it as my sole Bible but it makes for excellent reading. It is also handy to read parallel to the NIV. It helps to put difficult to read passages in today's language. Approximately 2.8MB.
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The Amplified Bible - The Amplifed Bible inserts phrases or clarifying words not in the original text that helps you understand the scripture the same way it would be understood by a Jew or Gentile reading it 2,000 years ago. You can see in the example of John 1:1 in that "In the beginning" was understood to be "before all time" and the "Word" is a reference to Christ. It also has an inline reference system rather than using footnotes. Approximately 2.9MB. | $14.99 |
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New American Standard Exhaustive Concordance - This Bible has Strong's numbers linking words or phrases to the original Hebrew or Greek words in the included dictionaries. Words are shown in normal as well as Hebrew and Greek fonts. I never read from this version but instead use it when studying to get a bit more detail on how a given word may have been translated. Approximately 4.1MB for the NASB, 1.9MB for the Hebrew dictionary and 1.2MB for the Greek dictionary. Click on the image at left to see a full sized screenshot. You can turn the Strong's numbers and hyperlinks off if desired to make reading easier. | $29.99 |
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New Living Translation - This translation was done as a pure thought-for-thought translation bringing everything up to modern day words. For example, where possible, instead of using phrases like "Ezra arrived in Jerusalem in the fifth month of that year." in Ezra 7:8, the NLT
translates it "Ezra arrived in Jerusalem in August of that year." They took
the Jewish calendar, figured out when the fifth month of their calendar was
and adjusted it to our calendar so you know it would have happened in the
late summer months. It footnotes the date with the literal meaning. It does
the same with money, weights, distances, etc. It isn't a version I read from
often, but when studying, it is nice to get a modern interpretation of
difficult scriptures to help out.
My oldest son, almost 10 years old as of the spring of 2004, is now using this version - albeit a paper version. I think for someone his age it is far more important to understand the general meaning of what they are reading versus worrying too much about the finer details in translations. I would also heartily recommend this to a new Christian or someone just starting to read the Bible. Approximately 2.5MB. |
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Young's Literal Translation - This is an old 1800's translation by Robert Young. It is a very literal translation of the original Greek texts. The English is difficult to understand sometimes but it can be helpful to have to compare how certain phrases and words were translated differently from more modern translations. The more I have an opportunity to study with this translation, the more I like it. Robert Young seems to have made an extremely faithful translation of the original texts. One of my favorite interpretations of his versus every other translation I've read is Exodus 20:11. Can you spot the difference? You can read more about Young's Literal Translation here. Approximately 2.2MB | Free
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Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture - This will ultimately be a 28
volume series covering the entire bible that has the writings of ancient
church fathers like Augustine, Jerome, Origen and Tertullian. There is no
shortage of commentaries today, some better than others. However, it is good
to get back to some of the original thoughts of the early church fathers
that may have only been removed from the events in the New Testament by a
few hundred years. The writings of these men continue to shape our theology
today, and with good reason. The writings of the bible are timeless, and
some of these early teachings continue to give us valuable insight to the
scriptures. PocketBible 3.0 or later is required for these books, and each one uses between 750KB and 1.1MB, so make sure that storage card has enough room if you plan to add more than one to your collection. Laridian has a bundle price that is a bit cheaper if you buy them all at once. |
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IVP Bible Background Commentaries
- This is available as a
New Testament commentary,
Old Testament commentary or a combined bundle. These commentaries help
you to better understand the background context behind the scripture by
giving you information on cultural terms, historical figures, bibliographies
and other relevant background data. PocketBible 3.0 or later is required. The NT version uses roughly 2MB, the OT version uses roughly 2.9MB, or you can get the combined version that covers the entire Bible and uses approximately 5MB. |
NT-$14.99 OT-$14.99 Comb-$19.99 |
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Life Application Study Notes - This is the notes from the Life Application Study Bible but without the bible itself. This means you pick your translation and this plugs into it within Pocket Bible. If you have multiple translations, it will work with all of them. It contains a wealth of knowledge on the 66 canonized books in the bible, an overview of Christ's life and much much more. This is the second most used book in my Pocket Bible, after the NIV itself. Approximately 4.4MB See a full review of this product at Pocket PC Thoughts. | $14.99 |
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Life Application New Testament Commentary - take everything you get in the Life Application Bible and turbocharge it for the New Testament and you get this. When you really want to dig deep into the New Testament, you must have this. It is just like its paper version. Again, you use the bible translation of your choosing with it. Approximately 3.0MB. See a full review of this product at Pocket PC Thoughts. | $14.99 |
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Bible Knowledge Commentary - This is a two volume commentary compressed into a single book for Pocket Bible. It covers both the New Testament (usually verse by verse) and Old Testament (usually passage by passage) and works with any Bible translation you have installed. It was designed to work best with the New International Version. If you are using it with another version, just be aware that commentary on the original text and how it was translated may not always match up with the translation you are using. This is for more serious study about the scripture and will spend some time on the original Greek and Hebrew text compared to the Life Application notes that spend more time on day to day application of the scriptures. Approximately 7.2MB. | $39.99
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IVP New Testament Commentary - This is a 20 volume commentary on the New Testament. As of this writing (April 2004) there are only 15 volumes available. The remaining 5 are included in the price if you buy the entire set at once. It has been written by several authors. To see what is included in some of the volumes, visit the Bible Gateway Commentaries site where they have many of these available online. These give a lot of historical context and help you apply the scripture to your daily life. The individual volumes are around 250-400KB each. All 15 currently available volumes are approximately 5.6MB. | $8.99-$9.99 each or $129.99 for the whole 20 volume set. |
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Jamieson-Faussett-Brown Commentary -
This is an 1870's commentary from a reformed evangelical perspective. It
includes commentary on most verses in the Bible, as well as general
overviews of each book and has several charts like the miracles of Christ
and chronological events of Paul. It requires PocketBible 3.0 and will use roughly 9.6MB on your storage card! The paperback version is around 1,600 pages to give you an idea of how big this is. |
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Jewish New Testament Commentary - Written by the translator of the Complete Jewish Bible (listed above) this is an excellent commentary for Jews and Christians alike, but for different reasons. Messianic Jews will benefit from how the commentary is very careful to tie New Testament teachings back to the Old Testament, including Jewish customs. Christians will benefit from learning more about how well the Old and New Testaments really fit together, and it emphasizes how the New Testament wasn't written just for Gentiles. It is approximately 2MB in size. | $14.99 |
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NIV Study Bible Notes - Zondervan's NIV Study Bible Notes have been one
of the best selling commentaries for years and now you can have over 21,000
of these notes on your PocketBible, which hits two-thirds of the verses. It is approximately 4.5MB. Note that even if you already have the NIV from Laridian, you need to download the latest version to work well with these study notes. It is a free update. |
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Robertson's Word Pictures of the New Testament - This is a detailed study of each verse in the New Testament, focusing on key words and phrases. He gives you the background of how it was used and the cultural meaning at the time, something we lose in reading those translated words nearly 2,000 years after they were written. The only problem I have with it is while the original Greek word is given, it is in Greek letters. I'd like to have the transliterated word in English letters next to it. Still, a very valuable resource when working with difficult passages. It works with any translation installed. Approximately 4MB. | $39.99
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Ryrie Study Bible Notes - Dr. Ryrie has written over 10,000 study notes on the Bible. This also includes charts, articles - including an interesting historical article on the period of time between when the last book of the Old Testament was written and the start of the Gospels, timelines, tables, Dr. Ryrie's "Synopsis of Bible Doctrine" and more. It is designed to work with the New American Standard Bible but will work with any of your favorite translations in Pocket Bible. Approximately 2.2MB. | $14.99 |
| Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary - Matthew Henry was a bible scholar that preached his entire adult life. This is his collection of his commentaries on the bible he accumulated during the final decade of his life. In contrast to many commentaries, this one is geared more towards how the bible applies to our lives without getting into specifics. A great book to help put any passage into perspective. Approximately 2.0MB. | $9.99 | |
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New Unger's Bible Handbook - A great handbook that includes an outline of each book in the bible, a history of the lands and the time the events took place and a brief overview of each passage. Approximately 1.6MB | $14.99 |
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Spirit of the Reformation Study Bible Notes
- This study from a Reformed Christian background has over 20,000 study
notes, several dozen articles on key tenets of reformed theology, like
predestination, do believers have the Holy Spirit?, etc., and contains all
major catechisms, like the Westminster Confession and Belgic Confession.
Definitely a worthwhile addition to your library if you are interested in
some of the theological ideas that came from deep biblical study that has
shaped Christianity. Requires PocketBible 3.0 and uses approximately 6.7MB. |
$14.99 |
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Tyndale Concise Bible Commentary - A good commentary, but as its name
indicates, it is concise. Its strengths are in the information it includes
about each book. It has a brief overview of the historical setting, the
author, the date of authorship and period covered, the overall purpose(s) of
the book, the geography and its importance of the subject matter, guiding
concepts and Bible-wide concepts in the book, the needs met by the book and
finally an outline. The comments on the verses themselves are a bit light, which is to be expected when the entire commentary is only 1.8MB and covers both the Old and New Testaments. You'll typically get anywhere from a few sentences to a few paragraphs per chapter. It breaks the chapters down by major themes in the chapter, not verse by verse. It is worth having in your library if you want the background information on each book, but you'll need a more complete commentary for deeper study of the scriptures. Books like the Bible Knowledge Commentary offers more info, including the introductory information to each book, but it is considerably larger (over 7MB) and almost triple the cost. |
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Complete Word Study Dictionary
Old Testament - This is a Hebrew and Aramaic
dictionary that goes into more detail than the dictionary included with
either the
King James Version with the Strong's Exhaustive Concordance or the
New American Standard Exhaustive Concordance.
It uses the same Strong's reference numbers and can be accessed with the
KJVEC or NASEC. It also comes with the King James version of the Old Testament with
Strong's numbers if you don't own the NASEC. Approximately 4.7MB. Note: If you buy this with the Complete Word Study Dictionary for the New Testament (below) the total price is only $39.99, a $20 savings. These two books used together can really help gain a better understanding of why words or phrases are translated a certain way, which can lead to a better understanding of the text.
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Complete Word Study Dictionary New Testament - This is a Greek
dictionary that goes into more detail than the dictionary included with the
New American Standard Exhaustive Concordance.
It uses the same Strong's reference numbers and can be accessed with the
NASEC. It also comes with the King James version of the New Testament with
Strong's numbers if you don't own the NASEC. Approximately 8.6MB. An additional 1MB needed if you install the optional KJV with Strong's. |
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Nave's Topical Bible - Not a Bible at all but a comprehensive reference of people, places and topics with thousands of links to verses on the subject. Approximately 2.7MB. | $9.99 |
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New Bible Reference Series - This is a reference set of 4 separate
books, the
New Bible Dictionary (5MB),
New Bible Commentary (4.3MB),
New Dictionary Of Biblical Theology (2.1MB) and
New Dictionary of Theology (1.8MB) It seems to do a good job of covering
the basics and isn't tied down to a strict interpretation of any particular
scripture, yet prefers to give you the common sides to a controversy and
lets you decide which has more support. For example, the creation account
has two main camps (though there are far more subdivisions within each),
that the creation was 6 days, each 24 hours in length, or that it was 6
days, but those days were not 24 hours but rather some long but finite
period of time.
You can buy each book individually at a cost of $16.99 or all at once for $49.99. If you buy the whole series, it will require approximately 13MB. |
$49.99
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New Unger's Bible Dictionary - Simply highlight any word in the bible and hit the dictionary icon and this dictionary will give you a full definition as well as some of the key places the word is used in the bible. You can also look words up in the index. Includes the original Greek or Hebrew word(s). Works with any installed bible. Approximately 5MB. | $14.99 |
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Treasure of Scripture Knowledge - This is one massive cross-reference
tool containing over 500,000 links that shows you relationships between
verses. Considering there are 31,173 verses in the Bible, that works out to
an average of 16 cross references per verse.
It was originally designed to work with the
King James version but will work with any installed Bible translation.
One thing it has that I don't particularly care for are the dates at the
top, at least those dates that pre-date Abraham. They have taken a very
strict 24 hour creation day and assumed that the genealogies in Genesis are
complete with no skips. That notwithstanding, this is a good and relatively
inexpensive reference tool to have at your disposal when you want to find
just about every conceivable verse in the Bible that relates to what you are
reading. Approximately 6.8MB. |
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Tyndale Bible Dictionary - This is one of the better dictionaries I've used on my Pocket Bible. Significant places and people are covered and it includes articles that covers all of the books of the Bible, significant words in the Bible, the canon of scripture and even has information on the apocryphal and pseudepigraphical books. You can see by the snapshot to the left that it doesn't just give a brief definition when a longer one is warranted. Approximately 5.4MB. | $14.99
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| One Year Bible - This comes with the Daily Reader program and takes you through the Bible in one year. Each day, you will have one reading in the Old Testament, New Testament, Psalms and Proverbs. Approximately 58KB. | Free | |
| One Year Chronological Bible - Takes you through the entire Bible in one year, but not straight through. It is done based on the time the events happened, so shortly after the flood in Genesis, you're off to read about Job. Approximately 64KB. | $7.99
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One Year Walk with God - This Daily Reader book is meant to bring you
closer to God, not to learn more about Him, or about the bible, but to
know Him. I have been reading this in the evenings. Most are pretty
short, often taking less than 5 minutes, but in just the short few weeks
I've had it, there have been some powerful lessons. I can easily see myself
finishing this up at the end of 2006 and on Jan 1, 2007, starting over.
Probaby the best Daily Reader book Laridian has to offer if a relationship
with God is what you are after. Approximately 450KB. You do need a translation installed to be able to red the full verse links at the top, even though it often has the key verse in the text, as shown. |
$9.99
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My Utmost for His Highest - 366 daily readings and devotionals by Oswald Chambers. This has been a best selling paper book for decades. Approximately 340KB. | $9.99 |
| One Year With Jesus - Spend each day of the year studying different aspects of Jesus' life. Where appropriate, it links you the multiple places a particular event occurs in the four gospels. Approximately 330KB. | $9.99 | |
| Experiencing God Day-By-Day - A years worth of devotionals taken from the "Experiencing God Study Bible." Approximately 340KB. | $9.99
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Time To Get Serious - This is one of the best daily devotionals I've come across. The author, Dr. Anthony T. Evans, puts things in plain English and you never come away wondering what the point was he was trying to get across. This book is a bit unique in that you only use it six times a week - Monday-Friday for the serious devotionals and then a time for reflection on the past week's lessons on the weekend. I highly recommend this as a first book for Daily Reader. Approximately 400KB. | $9.99 |
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Spurgeon's Daily Treasury From The Psalms - This seems to take you through the Psalms over the course of the year. It doesn't comment on each verse but leaves it up to you. It provides a few key thoughts for the Psalm being studied. The release of this was perfect timing for me. I am going to be studying the Psalms in 2004 with some friends and this will be a good aid to keep these scriptures in front of me each day. Approximately 410KB. | $9.99 |
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