Christian preaching, as part of the corporate worship of Christ’s church, is an expository exultation over the glories of God in his word, designed to lure God’s people from the fleeting pleasures of sin into the sacrificial path of obedient satisfaction in him. —John Piper, God’s Passion for His Glory, p. 39. The rich legacy […]
NIV Application Commentary SeriesOld Testament and New Testament• General Editor: Terry Muck We are thrilled to announce the release of new Old Testament volumes of the NIV Application Commentary Series which are added to the previously released Prophets and NT volumes. With the addition of the latest volumes, the entire Old and New Testaments are […]
Systematic Theology. It’s a term that sounds about as appealing as a root canal. Even worse, if you’ve ever seen a systematic theology in print, it is inevitably either one incredibly thick volume or multiple only-slightly-less-thick volumes. Who could possibly read books like that? Who would want to? Whether we know it or not, we […]
Updated February 2017 The following papers have been contributed by associate scholars as PDF files: A Brief User’s Guide for the Accordance Hebrew Syntax Database by Robert D. Holmstedt (with John A. Cook, Martin G. Abegg, and Roy B. Brown) (October 2016): Intended for Accordance users who have the Hebrew syntax database and desire both […]
A while back, I was reading Anne of Green Gables with my children, and I was struck by the number of Biblical allusions the novel contained. Biblical language was everywhere, sprinkled throughout the characters’ dialogue and informing their choices and actions. Naturally, when I speak of the presence of “Biblical language,” I mean the language of […]
Accessing the “Power” of Original Languages Using Strong’s-numbered Texts in Accordance Working with the underlying original languages behind English Bible translations seems a daunting task for the non-seminarians among us, but Accordance’s Strong’s-numbered texts extend the benefits of original language texts and tools to users who cannot speak or type a word of Greek or […]
Accordance offers such a wealth of commentaries that it can be hard to choose between them, especially if you don’t have access to print copies for comparison. To help you select the right one for you we have a comparison table of many of our modern commentaries with links to extensive excerpts from each commentary […]
The Value of the Collectionby Todd Bolen Perhaps the photographers of the American Colony had some sense of the massive changes coming to the Holy Land. They witnessed, after all, the first visit of a European head of state to Palestine since the Crusades (1898), and they saw the fall of the Ottoman Empire and […]
The Carta Collection within Accordance offers an outstanding collection of Bible atlases and books on the historical geography of the Bible. Each book is richly illustrated with original artwork, reconstructions, drawings, and diagrams. These are must-have volumes for anyone interested in the background of the Bible, and for teachers at every level. Bible Lands Atlases […]
Why the Holman Bible Commentary? Convenient, flexible, and concise, The Holman Bible Commentary now joins the ever-swelling library of commentaries available for Accordance Bible Software. The twenty-volume Old Testament set and twelve-volume New Testament set were produced by Broadman & Holman with the express purpose of providing “the church with the food to feed the […]