“I’ve tried at least a dozen brands of Bible software and I always come back to Accordance. No other program compares on one particular feature that is a deal-breaker for me—the ability to see multiple translations, in parallel, and to save that workspace for regular use. It’s the best!” Brandon Cox, Founding Pastor of Grace […]
This past summer while visiting multiple countries in Asia, I was able to sit in on some local church services. In one of these church services, the pastor—an excellent communicator—used an illustration in his sermon that I had actually heard before. On the positive side, it was an illustration that crossed cultural boundaries. On the […]
In preaching or teaching settings, good illustrations are essential and with good reason: people tend to remember illustrations easier than other parts of a lesson or sermon. We see illustrations used throughout the Bible, from the Prophets to the teachings of Jesus. An essential part of any communicator’s “toolkit” is a good collection of illustrations, […]
This post continues our look at ministers who use Accordance. If you would like to share your story, please email [email protected]. This week’s installment is a bit different in focus as Dr. Brian Tabb has given us permission to adapt a section of his Themelios review of the Accordance 10 Ultimate Collection. In this post, Dr. […]
This post continues our look at ministers who use Accordance. If you would like to share your story, please email [email protected]. I love to study, learn, and grow. I feel fidgety when I don’t have a book to read and grow anxious when I can’t explore new avenues. This is one of the reasons I love […]
I have used Accordance since the founding of our church. I use it daily as an app on my phone to look up biblical verses I may be asked to comment on. I use it also to stay sharp, reading a sentence or two in the original language each day right from my smartphone. […]
This post continues our look at ministers who use Accordance. If you would like to share your story, please email [email protected]. I’m a guy who loves paper books, especially thick ones. I have shelves full of them in my study. But they don’t do me much good when I’m at the coffee shop, on visitation, or […]
This post continues our look at ministers who use Accordance. If you would like to share your story, please email [email protected]. I work full time at a campus ministry on the University of Kentucky campus, where one of my primary roles is teaching, specifically when it comes to the intellectual side of faith. In […]
This week we begin a new feature that highlights ministers who use Accordance. If you would like to tell us your story, contact [email protected] I use Accordance every week for sermon preparation and devotional Bible reading. Rare is the day that I don’t open the program on my Mac or the app on a mobile […]
The Pastor’s Study series of blog posts has been immensely popular—so much so that on the weeks I missed getting one posted, people on the Accordance forums would anxiously ask if the series was over. I’ve now run out of guest posts by individual pastors, but I want to keep the series going by asking […]