Theology

Meeting God through Bible apps 1…

Posted by David Ward on 21/01/2014
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Let’s start with a very popular Bible app…YouVersion.

YouVersion...free, multi-platform Bible app

YouVersion…free, multi-platform Bible app

For starters, it’s free and available for a multitude of platforms…Windows, Mac, iPhone,iPad, Android and Blackberry to name a few. It offers a whole selection of different versions too, some of which can be downloaded to your gadget’s memory so you don’t have to be online to use YouVersion. If English is not your first language, there are a huge range of translations into other languages too.

YouVersion also offers a number of different free Bible reading plans, and allows you to make notes, highlight passages and bookmark passages for future reference. If you sign up for a free, online account you can sync your notes etc. between all your devices It also has a handy search tool, so you can look up those elusive half-remembered scriptures or follow through on a thematic study.

You can check it out here, or download the app via iTunes store or online.

iWorld Spirituality…

Posted by David Ward on 20/01/2014
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iphone_ipadI’m a Christian who owns an iPhone and an iPad (please don’t judge me!) I set out some time ago to discover any apps presenting spiritual disciplines to help in spending time with God and building a relationship with him.

As most of us carry our phones or tablets with us all the time, apps that help us spend time with God are   enormously useful. I guess for those of us who’d like some scriptural basis for using gadgets in our spiritual  disciplines, I’d like to think that when God gave Moses a couple of tablets on Sinai to help people with their spiritual lives there might be something prophetic about it! (Sorry to those of you who think this attempt at humour is inappropriate.)

Things like this are terribly personal, so what I’m presenting here are just a few that I have used from time to time, and found really helpful, along with a smaller number I use regularly…no doubt others could offer a different selection, and that’s OK. My apologies to those of you who have Android devices…I’m certain that many of these apps are also available for other portable platforms (indeed I use some of them on my laptop as well).

I’m going to feature three groups of apps to begin with:

Apps to help with a discipline of meeting God through scripture

Apps to help with a discipline of meeting God through scripture

Apps to help with a discipline of prayer

Apps to help with a discipline of meeting God through prayer

Apps to help with a discipline of journalling

Apps to help with a discipline of meeting God through journaling

As the series unfolds, please feel free to add your own suggestions…I hope you find this useful.

Advent 10…

Posted by David Ward on 11/12/2013
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Photo-a-day 10: "HOLY"

Photo-a-day 10: “HOLY”