Formating Change

It is now official - I will no longer be linking to each chapter at the end of each post. I haven't done this for a while, and I may even go back and remove it from the first few posts to make things more uniform. Instead, I now have permanent links to the online resources I use - you can see them one the right hand side of this page, a little below my profile. Hopefully that is helpful enough, but if you find it problematic (or if you have additional sites you think I should link to) please let me know.

A Question about Formatting

So I stated early on that I was going to provide links at the end of each blog entry to the chapter for that day. I did that for a while, but the last week or two I have been rather remiss in this task. It is largely because I have been posting from a variety of different computers (my desktop, my laptop, and my work computer) - and only the desktop currently has a native copy of the file where I stored the HTML code for the links.

What I wanted to ask, loyal readers, is whether that feature was/is actually useful to you? If it is I will endeavor to begin including it again, and to go back and correct the posts where it is missing. If not, then I can rest easy knowing that I am not leaving my friends at a loss. Please share your thoughts on this subject!

A Note on Format

I wanted to explain a little more about the format I will be using for this blog. As much as I would love to quote each chapter at the beginning or end of each entry, current copyrights on the translations I am reading prevent that. Depending on the version, a direct quote can only make up 10 - 25% of a whole document; however, the length of blog entries I am making means that the chapters I am reading would be closer to 50-75% of the total.

So, rather than quoting the text I am providing easy links to it. At the end of each entry, there will be clickable links to the chapter on Bible Gateway in three translations: New American Standard, New International, and New King James. There are other good translations out there as well, like the English Standard Version that a friend of mine introduced me to today, but for now I will just link to those. From what I understand each has its own advantages: NAS is fairly literal, but harder to read, while NIV is more easily readable but takes liberties in translation that aren't always spot-on. NKJ is in-between, and like the original King James version seems to do well with the poetic sections. I personally read NAS most of the time, but reference the other two what I run into something I don't understand.