This past Sunday I covered the end of Genesis 19 for my Sunday School class. Describing the aftermath of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, this passage relates how Abraham gazed out from the vicinity of Hebron to see smoke rising from the Dead Sea plain. He does not know that Lot has escaped to […]
Last week, my wife and kids participated in Vacation Bible School at our church. This has had two ongoing effects on our family. First, they brought back a cold which has inexorably worked its way through every member of the family! Second, since the VBS curriculum took several lessons from the life of Paul, they […]
In this series of posts, we’ve been exploring why Matthew sees the slaughter of the innocents in Bethlehem as “fulfilling” Jeremiah 31:15, which speaks of Rachel weeping for her lost children at Ramah. In part one of this series, we saw that the connection between Bethlehem and Ramah has to do with Rachel’s death in […]
In yesterday’s post, I began relating how I used Accordance to teach a Sunday School class on why Matthew saw the slaughter of the innocents at Bethlehem as the “fulfillment” of what Jeremiah wrote about Rachel weeping at Ramah. In that post, we saw that Bethlehem and Ramah, at eleven miles apart, are not exactly […]
In Matthew’s account of Jesus’ birth, he points to specific events as the “fulfillment” of several Old Testament “prophecies.” For the past several weeks, I’ve been exposing my Sunday School class to these Old Testament passages in their original context to show how Matthew’s narrative is much more nuanced and profound than most of us […]
In my previous post, I began showing how I taught a Bible study using the Slide Show feature of Accordance. This feature lets you present any workspace with tabs as a series of “slides,” with each tab constituting one “slide.” The only caveat is that all the tabs have to be in a single zone, […]
In November of 1995, I traveled to Philadelphia to exhibit Accordance at the annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature. I think we were at version 1.1a back then and offering a sneak preview of Accordance 2.0. At that time a lot of people doubted the long-term viability of Macintosh computers, and a Mac-only […]
Last week, I wrote a couple posts highlighting aspects of our Bible Lands PhotoGuide, the illustrated dictionary of place names included with our Graphics Bundle. Today I want to show you how to make the PhotoGuide more accessible by linking it to the Atlas. When you’re looking at a place name in the Atlas and […]
My family has been reading through the Psalms together for the past few months, and the other day we read Psalm 83. Reading like a Who’s Who of hostility, this psalm lists “Edom and the Ishmaelites”, “Moab and the Hagrites,” “Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek,” “Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre”, and “Even Assyria” in the […]
Our Graphics Bundle combines our interactive Bible Atlas, Bible Lands PhotoGuide, and interactive Timeline at a significant savings, which is probably why it’s one of our best-selling products. To get the most out of this bundle, I recommend linking the Atlas and PhotoGuide in your preferences. Doing so will enable you to double-click a place […]