It is quite true that there is a special atmosphere to sitting down with 10 books at the dining table and dwelling on the Scriptures, and certainly the printed study aids you already have on your shelves are useful when power outages occur. But we can be even more effective servants of our Almighty God if we also make use of the technology at our disposal.

You might want to check a scripture when you are not at home and are using a different computer. You will be happy to hear that Bibles are also available online through your Internet browser.

In English there is the Blue Letter Bible Web site (www.blueletterbible.org) and Bible.com offers an online service that also serves non-English-speaking people at www.bible.com/bible_read.html.

You also might benefit from visiting the e-Sword home page found at www.e-sword.net to find free Bible study software. The e-Sword project follows in the tradition of Johannes Gutenberg, who originally made the Scriptures widely available through the printing press. E-Sword offers you numerous dictionaries, commentaries and so on that you can access on your computer.

This is highly useful for personal Bible studies. Searches are performed much faster using a computer.

Making good use of technology is good stewardship of the talents given to us.

I wish you a good study experience!

— Henrik V. Blunck
a member in Slagelse, Denmark