Chris and Karen Jackson (eds.), 2015
Cameroon Association for Bible Translation and Literacy (CABTAL).
Lessons from Luke is a 52-lesson curriculum for children, based on the Gospel of Luke and developed in the North West region of Cameroon. It aims to provide an easy-to-follow series of lessons that are culturally appropriate and make use of teaching aids and illustrations found in a typical rural milieu.
Each lesson contains a teacher's guide, a coloring page with the memory verse and truth of the week, and a big picture book called a Flip Book in A3 format with the pictures from the Bible story section. There are also review lessons.
Lessons from Luke does not make use of any other portion of Scripture outside of the Gospel of Luke. The goal is to provide a tool with which language communities can start to engage with the mother-tongue Scriptures at the earliest possible opportunity once Luke is translated and approved for publication. It has been designed to be a bilingual document with the teaching content translated into local languages, keeping the repeated text and the teacher instructions in English or French for new mother-tongue readers. [more...]
Blog.bible is a collective of blogs written to help you connect with God's Word. It is produced by American Bible Society.
BIBLE ENGAGER’S BLOG
This blog will help you discover new ways of encountering God in Scripture. You'll ask big questions and find answers by meditating on and studying God's Word.
BIBLE BLOG
This blog tackles everyday struggles, like anxiety, grief, and financial worries. You'll find encouragement rooted in God's Word.
BLOG DE LA BIBLIA
Is Spanish your native (or favorite) language? This all-Spanish blog is dedicated to equipping you with wisdom and insight for living out the Bible's message in your everyday life. [more...]
"Have we overestimated the hostility towards faith in our nation and underestimated the Bible as a tool for mission? Find out what people in England and Wales really think about faith and the Bible."
Lumino, an initiative of the Bible Society, is based on an online survey of 19,101 adults in England and Wales in October and November 2018.
From the research, the Bible Society mapped the spiritual ground in England and Wales based on eight distinct spiritual types or personas. They badged them on the basis of their attitude to the Bible, ranging from ‘Bible Loving’ at one end to ‘Bible Dismissive’ at the other – with a complex range of attitudes in between.
The Lumino website contains insights from the research, such as:
- Asked, ‘To what extent would you be interested or not in discovering more about the Bible?’ a total of 23 per cent of adults in England and Wales selected 'fairly interested' or 'very interested'.
- Participants were asked to choose five words that described their response to the Bible from a list containing positive and negative expressions. The two highest scores were for 'outdated' and 'contradictory'. Respondents also chose words like 'guidance', 'comforting', 'hope', 'inspiring' and 'wisdom'.
You can register to find out more about the values, beliefs and churchgoing patterns of the people in your community. [more...]
Fourth Edition - Revised for 2019
It is not hard to convince those involved in Scripture access and Scripture engagement of the value of listening to audio Scriptures. We want to assist communities in making strategic choices about how best to make them available and how best to encourage people to engage with them. One of the ways people listen to the Bible today is using a digital audio player. But since there are so many different audio players to choose from, how do we make a good choice?
This in-depth review (66 pages) compares a range of today's digital audio players including the Proclaimer (from Faith Comes By Hearing), the Envoy 2 (from MegaVoice), the Audibible K1 (from Kivah Distributors), the Papyrus and The Torch (from Renew World Outreach), the Kulumi Mini and Lost Sheep from Hope Tech Global.
The review is presented in several sections, illustrated with photos and giving a summary of the key features, prices, pros and cons of each player. Also mentioned are feature phones, smartphones and locally available MP3 players. [more...]