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Top 10 Bible resources: 1 - bestcommentaries.com

Posted: April 7th, 2009 by Matt

The web is definitely defining our generation.  Communication has improved through web email (gmail etc) and VOIP (Skype).  Social networks are now a central part of life too.  But how has the web changed things for Christians?  As a Christian I think the web has opened up access to Bible teaching no other generation has had access to.  In my opinion it's as revolutionary as the Gutenberg press.  So, I thought I'd start a new blog series looking at the best Bible resources available on the web.  It's a top 10 but not in the 'top of the pops' sense - just 10 really useful websites and web applications that Christians might find useful.

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Preacher's problems - sermon illustrations!

Posted: April 6th, 2009 by Matt

If you've been doing talks for a while, you'll realise that once you find a good quote or a great illustration, rather than re-invent the wheel, you use it again in other talks.  The only problem I have is that they're scattered all over the place - I have highlights in books, newspaper clippings, quotes in folders.  Basically I have lots of good stuff built up but no way of finding it.

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Tim Keller preaching resources

Posted: March 23rd, 2009 by Matt

As many of you know, I'm a bit of a Tim Keller addict. We even managed to get a personal letter from him on our wedding day (thanks Ed).  In many ways I think he's a prophet for our generation.  If you don't know who he is, he's currently the Pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York. If you want to listen to his talks, you normally have to buy them from their church website (the money goes to their ministry in New York and towards their efforts to church plant across the world), but there are lots of his talks available for free if you know where to look.  To save you the effort of looking around, a guy called Steve McCoy has setup a web page devoted to listing as many free Tim Keller resources as he can find. 

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Derby is on Google Street View

Posted: March 19th, 2009 by Matt

I know this has nothing to do with our church, Christianity or anything else that this blog is about, but I've just seen today that Derby, along with lots of other UK cities have gone live onto Google Street View.  You can read about it on the BBC website.  Just to annoy our East Midlands neighbours, Derby and Nottingham get on but sadly Leicester don't just yet.  Ahhh!

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Feed Your Soul hits iTunes

Posted: March 28th, 2008 by Matt

Hot on the tail of our new podcasts launch, we're now live in iTunes.  All of the podcasted talks available from the podcasts section of the website are also available here.  Click this link: Feed Your Soul iTunes Podcast to see our podcast.  You'll need to install iTunes which is completely free to download for PC or Mac in order to see it, but once you do you'll be impressed. We've given the podcast the same name as the website. 

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