devotional resources

[NewCreation435]

What resources either online or otherwise do you use during your personal devotions besides the Bible?

I sometimes use the web site for the devotional My Utmost for His Highest" by Oswald Chambers. I also have apps on my phone for Charles Stanley, J Vernon McGee and John MacArthur that I sometimes listen to their messages. I could always use more ideas which is why I am asking.

 

[MoreCoffee]

What resources either online or otherwise do you use during your personal devotions besides the Bible?

I sometimes use the web site for the devotional My Utmost for His Highest" by Oswald Chambers. I also have apps on my phone for Charles Stanley, J Vernon McGee and John MacArthur that I sometimes listen to their messages. I could always use more ideas which is why I am asking.

Universalis has prayers from the Divine Office (also known as the book of hours) covering the seven daily prayer "hours". I use it as well as a printed book called The People's Prayer Book.

 

[Lamb]

I like the Advent and Lenten devotions from the Lutheran Hour Ministries. I don't usually do them the rest of the year.

 

[tango]

Personally I don't tend to use daily reading resources because I always found them limiting. When I used them I found they jumped around the Bible, sometimes looking at a passage sufficiently short that I was concerned it might be taken out of context.

For my reading I typically choose a book and work through it, referencing commentaries along the way.

As an aside I often wonder what will be said about me when I die. I recently attended a funeral of an elderly church member and the minister commented on his thoughts upon looking through her Bible after her death (with the family's permission, naturally), and how it was clear she had worked her way hither and thither through the text. If he asked to see my Bible he'd fine a book that was almost pristine with no highlights, no notes and little wear on the pages, simply because most of the time I use a digital version. I like being able to use a split screen and have the text of Scripture on one side and a relevant commentary on the other side, with the two remaining in sync as I work my way through.

 

[NewCreation435]

Personally I don't tend to use daily reading resources because I always found them limiting. When I used them I found they jumped around the Bible, sometimes looking at a passage sufficiently short that I was concerned it might be taken out of context.

For my reading I typically choose a book and work through it, referencing commentaries along the way.

As an aside I often wonder what will be said about me when I die. I recently attended a funeral of an elderly church member and the minister commented on his thoughts upon looking through her Bible after her death (with the family's permission, naturally), and how it was clear she had worked her way hither and thither through the text. If he asked to see my Bible he'd fine a book that was almost pristine with no highlights, no notes and little wear on the pages, simply because most of the time I use a digital version. I like being able to use a split screen and have the text of Scripture on one side and a relevant commentary on the other side, with the two remaining in sync as I work my way through.

Probably the more elderly generation in the church is not into technology as much as you are.

 

[Lamb]

I don't think that praising someone for their use of the bible is in the same manner chiding another for not doing the same. I think perhaps the pastor wanted to commend the woman who had passed for her passion concerning God's word.

We learn in different ways and God's Word isn't always just presented to us in text to read because I sing His Word and keep it near to my heart that way.

 

[MoreCoffee]

I read from many bibles and mark almost none of them. The only one with extensive marking is the one that a Jehovah's witness elder gave to me. Most of the markings are translation corrections. It has a lot of extraneous text added and a lot of translation errors so I fix them as I read along using a mechanical pencil. Ephesians is covered in corrections.

 

[NewCreation435]

Personally I don't tend to use daily reading resources because I always found them limiting. When I used them I found they jumped around the Bible, sometimes looking at a passage sufficiently short that I was concerned it might be taken out of context.

For my reading I typically choose a book and work through it, referencing commentaries along the way.

As an aside I often wonder what will be said about me when I die. I recently attended a funeral of an elderly church member and the minister commented on his thoughts upon looking through her Bible after her death (with the family's permission, naturally), and how it was clear she had worked her way hither and thither through the text. If he asked to see my Bible he'd fine a book that was almost pristine with no highlights, no notes and little wear on the pages, simply because most of the time I use a digital version. I like being able to use a split screen and have the text of Scripture on one side and a relevant commentary on the other side, with the two remaining in sync as I work my way through.

When I was a nursing home chaplain I did a lot of funerals, but didn't know many of the people I did them for well. So, having a personal bible that is underlined that would give me some clues about what was important to them would have helped a lot. Maybe the pastor was just trying to personalize the service if he or she didn't know the person that well.

 

[NewCreation435]

Three more bible study tools I have used before.

Blue Letter Bible https://www.blueletterbible.org/

Bible Gateway https://www.biblegateway.com/resources/- audio Bible, commentaries

STudy Light www.studylight.org has some good bible study tools

 

[IACOBVS]

I use the following liturgical resources from the Anglican Church of Canada:

http://2015.anglican.ca/about/liturgicaltexts/

and

http://www.anglican.ca/resources/trialuse/

... and as Bible resources:

https://www.biblegateway.com/

and

http://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/

 

[IACOBVS]

Oh, and I have my "real" print Bibles. Some of those I trust, and others I have on hand in case some fundamentalists from my past show up, and I can have one of their translations (NIV, NASB, etc.) on hand, so I know where they're coming from. I also have a copy of the original Strong's concordance and lexicon handy, not the fundamentalist-slanted NIV Strong's or God forbid, Strongest Strong's.

 

[MoreCoffee]

Oh, and I have my "real" print Bibles. Some of those I trust, and others I have on hand in case some fundamentalists from my past show up, and I can have one of their translations (NIV, NASB, etc.) on hand, so I know where they're coming from. I also have a copy of the original Strong's concordance and lexicon handy, not the fundamentalist-slanted NIV Strong's or God forbid, Strongest Strong's.

I prefer to have my Catholic bibles around if an evangelical visits :smirk:

 

[IACOBVS]

I prefer to have my Catholic bibles around if an evangelical visits :smirk:

Anglicans use complete Bibles, too. Even my KJV has all of its original books intact.

Bible versions were never an issue when we would have joint services with our Latin rite brothers and sisters. We both used the NRSV.

 

[Cassia]

What resources either online or otherwise do you use during your personal devotions besides the Bible?

I sometimes use the web site for the devotional My Utmost for His Highest" by Oswald Chambers. I also have apps on my phone for Charles Stanley, J Vernon McGee and John MacArthur that I sometimes listen to their messages. I could always use more ideas which is why I am asking.

My utmost for His Highest is one of my favorites devotionals as well as Streams in the Desert. J.Vernon McGee I used to listen to all the time, I got a kick out of his style

Other sites for study that I use are
http://www.eliyah.com/lexicon.html
https://www.blueletterbible.org/search/search.cfm?Criteria=Jesus&t=ESV#s=s_primary_0_1
http://www.scripture4all.org/OnlineInterlinear/Greek_Index.htm

When I first started out I just used a bible and an old concordence for word studies

 

[tango]

Probably the more elderly generation in the church is not into technology as much as you are.

That's certainly right, a number of folks in my church seem to struggle with the idea that I read the Bible on the little thing that slides neatly into my wife's bag. Some really struggle with the fact I've got the equivalent of a dozen shelves of commentaries and a load of different translations and can switch between them in seconds. Even in my (somewhat younger) peer group most people use a physical Bible. Some of the younger ones use their phones.

What made me think was that it was really interesting to see the minister's thoughts on this elderly lady who had passed and how to her the Bible was almost like a garden that she frolicked through with carefree abandon, reading this passage and that passage and exploring just about all of it but not necessarily in any given order. I flick my way through the Bible in a loosely similar fashion, I just don't leave the trail that she left.

 

[tango]

When I was a nursing home chaplain I did a lot of funerals, but didn't know many of the people I did them for well. So, having a personal bible that is underlined that would give me some clues about what was important to them would have helped a lot. Maybe the pastor was just trying to personalize the service if he or she didn't know the person that well.

I think he knew the person, she was a long standing member of the church. He was just presenting some information about her to the congregation. It was pretty much standing room only at her funeral.

I didn't know her - I was there because her daughter is a friend of mine and asked if I could work the sound and video desk - but left the service feeling like I'd been given a precious memory of her.