TuckLive.org

CrossWire.org is an organization with the purpose to sponsor and provide a place for engineers and others to come and collaborate on free, open-source projects aimed at furthering the Kingdom of our God.

I ran across this organization while looking for a desktop and a web-based bible study program.  All of the programs on CrossWire.org are based upon The Sword Project bible study program and they all use the same module library.  The module library contains plugins that allows you to expand your functionality in the bible study program you choose.  For example, the modules are different translations of the bible and/or commentaries to help you study.

The bible study program that I choose was Xiphos, because it is included in Ubuntu CE and it has a really polished UI.  Adding different modules in Xiphos is really simple also.

I did find a web-based program on CrossWire, but I haven’t tried it out yet.  I’m still looking as I’d like to find something a little more updated and with active involvement.  If I could code my way out of a box I’d like to start my own web-based project.

So if your looking for an expandable bible study program look at CrossWire.org.  Some if not all programs also run on Windows.

More to come on this subject.

If your looking for a website or a mobile app to aide in studying the Bible let me recommend YouVersion.com.  This highly polished site is provided by LifeChurch.tv.  I’ve been very impressed with the community and social networking aspect of this site and that’s why I recommend it.

YouVersion Live is a new service offered that allows you to interact with Church Services or other live events offered by groups created on the website.  Again this is a very new service so I haven’t had the chance to give it a try, but it all looks very promising.

YouVersion.com is a great site that I’ve been using for a few months now.  They offer mobile apps for the iPhone, Android, and Blackberry handsets.  While I’m currently confused as to why an app for the BlackBerry Storm has not been made yet, I still happily use the mobile version of the website to study the daily verses.  Go take a look for yourself.