Sunday, November 15, 2009

Online recources for spiritual growth

A week ago, I prepared this material for a workshop for pastors' wives. Too often, pastors' families are one computer families and mom gets on last...and she has too little time to do much more than the essentials, so I thought it might be helpful if she had some resources to work from. The following are sites I found useful...a variety of devotionals for all tastes, and time constraints, and a load of Bible study resources. I hope you find them helpful.

Devotional Resources

http://bible.christianity.com/devotionals/
http://www.crosswalk.com/devotionals/
http://www.spreadinglight.com/about.html
http://mydevotion.com:88/ write your own and use resources or responses to the text there
http://mydevotion.com:88/whatwedo.htm tips on doing devotions
http://www.gnpcb.org/esv/devotions/lsb/ ...Literary Study Bible where you can listen to Scripture
http://www.gnpcb.org/esv/devotions/


Bible Study Tools

1. http://bible.christianity.com/

Our aim is to offer the freshest and most compelling biblically-based content to Christians who take seriously their relationship with Christ. Bible Study Tools gives Christians of any age and at any stage the opportunity to read, study, understand, and apply the Bible to their lives
http://bible.christianity.com/mybst/default.aspx?reference=Solomon 1&type=bible&translation=niv


http://www.biblestudytools.com/ BibleStudyTools.com calls itself " the largest free online Bible website for verse search and in-depth studies.

http://www.blueletterbible.org/ This is probably the one I use the most. You can read a passage in a variety of translations, Strong's word links and definitions are readily available as are both old and new commentaries.


Misc. Resources
http://christiananswers.net/
http://www.creativebiblestudy.com/index.html
http://www.christianitytoday.com/biblestudies/articles/
http://www.hem-of-his-garment-bible-study.org/Christian-prayer-journal.html
http://www.maxlucado.com/articles//
http://bible.org/article/womens-bible-study

Wander around and look at the amazing resources available. I think these tools can be especially useful with younger women, those who grew up with a laptop literally in their laps. They are comfortable reading the Bible or any text that way, perhaps way more comfortable than women of my generation.

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