Interesting program, "Bible Thumper" as well as a thumbs up for not caring what people think! (After all, isn't "Bible Thumper" supposed to be an insult in today's society?)
You must have a hi-powered Palm device, my poor little Palm III doesn't have enough room for a program of this complexity. I do have "My Bible" on my Palm, and even though it doesn't have all the tools of "Bible Thumper", it works for me. I especially like the search feature, as it allows me to have a concordance with me at all times.
You might be a little disappointed to hear that I ordered the optional NASB for my Palm, even though the KJV was included at no extra cost. I still use the NASB for most of my Bible study, a habit that I developed many years ago. However, as you have noticed, I always use KJV when quoting Scripture on FR, and also include the KJV in my weekly church bulletins. I wouldn't dare getting into the pulpit without knowing what the KJV has to say about the passage I am expositing, as well as knowing the reason for any (rarely any) difference between it and the NASB.
Interesting program, "Bible Thumper" as well as a thumbs up for not caring what people think! (After all, isn't "Bible Thumper" supposed to be an insult in today's society?)
It's $25 and worth it.
BibleThumper is made here in Nebraska so I can even be a nativist about it... Check out the Online Demo. It brings up a Java-powered Palm IIIc simulator and shows you how the progam works. Once you buy the program (the basic KJV Bible), you can install as many or as few of the extras as you like.
Man, am I hooked on this little thing. I've never used Bible study programs or commentaries or ebooks much on my computer but this PDA has really changed that.
You must have a hi-powered Palm device, my poor little Palm III doesn't have enough room for a program of this complexity. I do have "My Bible" on my Palm, and even though it doesn't have all the tools of "Bible Thumper", it works for me. I especially like the search feature, as it allows me to have a concordance with me at all times.
I've got a 16M Handspring Visor Pro, 33mHz Dragonball 68K processor and added a MemPlug CF expander to it and a 256M Sandisk flash cartidge (which I can also use on most any digital camera). I've got all that stuff I listed and a version of Word and Excel and tons of other stuff and it's still not half-full!!!!! The only drawback is that the external memory card isn't quite as fast as main memory but that generally means a slow launch of the program and then it runs at virtually full speed after that.
The good part is that these devices are getting cheaper and cheaper. An expanded one like mine will be less than $200 in a year or so (I paid $230 for my basic Visor Pro 16M a few months ago and it's already down to $200). I know of a sound Reformed Southern Baptist preacher in Florida who's writing a book on his (I suspect a Puritan biography). I just had to laugh when he used the phrase "Calvinistic Baptists, gun-toting, PDA-using!" in an email. I bet that sounds a little familiar to you. You'd like this guy and
his church, I think. He's in sales in his day job and has the Mapopolis maps for his 10 county area in his Visor Prism w/128Mbytes.
You might be a little disappointed to hear that I ordered the optional NASB for my Palm, even though the KJV was included at no extra cost. I still use the NASB for most of my Bible study, a habit that I developed many years ago. However, as you have noticed, I always use KJV when quoting Scripture on FR, and also include the KJV in my weekly church bulletins. I wouldn't dare getting into the pulpit without knowing what the KJV has to say about the passage I am expositing, as well as knowing the reason for any (rarely any) difference between it and the NASB.
Actually, NASB is my #2. I only fault a few passages in it and I think the chances of fatal doctrine arising from NASB readings to be vanishingly small. And NASB is in some places easier to understand, in the Old Testament especially. If I could get the author to include it, I'd like to have NASB in my BibleThumper for reference. Naturally, I could not welcome the NIV, Living Bible, Good News Bible, etc.