Brian has served as a full-time instructor with the Florida School of
Preaching since 1996, and he has edited the Florida School of Preaching
Lectureship Book
since the 2000 edition.
Brian received his B.A. (1993) and a M.A. (1995) from Freed-Hardeman
University. He completed his work at the Florida School of Preaching (1991).
He received
an A.A. from Florida Institute of Technology (1984), and he graduated from
Bayshore High School, Bradenton, Florida (1982).
Brian is presently working with the Eagle Lake church of Christ, assisting
them as they support a full-time student. He has served as treasurer
and deacon over missions with the North Jackson Avenue church of Christ
in
Bartow, Florida.
Brian has preached full-time for congregations in Tennessee, has spoken
on several lectureships and meetings, and has written articles for
brotherhood publications.
Brian and his wife, the former Amber Davis, have been married over
nineteen years, and they have two children, Rick (17 years old) and
Autumn (15
years old).
Brian has been a willing and able member of the faculty, and has
assumed without reservation any and all tasks given him. His experience
as
a teacher, preacher,
editor of the lectureship volumes, and writer for the Harvester
and other published materials makes his qualifications to serve as associate
director
evident to
all who know him.
Brian and his family have given much time and energy to the promotion
of the Florida School of Preaching . We are delighted that he
has accepted this new
position of Associate Director.
Readers of this article should
understand that the author is not selling or seeking to sell
the software products herein reviewed. Likewise, the school does not
have the funds to stock programs for reselling.
The sole purpose of these reflections is to provide information
to those with computers in order for them to know of some basic
products that will enhance
the study of the Bible and religious themes and/or places of biblical interest.
The Power Bible Program
This Bible CD is the most user friendly (a novice will have no problem
using this program immediately) of the programs reviewed in this article.
Like
all the programs it comes on a CD. It will run on MS Windows 95/98/2000/ME/XP.
It has twelve English Bible translations plus French, German and two
Spanish versions. The King James text includes Strong's Greek and Hebrew
word definitions.
There are three Bible Dictionaries (Smith, Easton, and the American
Tract Sociey) and Five Topical Bibles with 700,000 Cross References.
Commentaries such as Mattew Henry, Clarke, Wesley, Spurgeon, Barnes,
Robertson and others are included. Of interest to members of the
body of Christ is
the fact that McGarvey's Four Fold Gospel Notes are included, and
People's New
Testament Notes are also included and are hyperlinked (linked so
that each verse will highlight the commentary that may have information
on the passage
under review) to passages for easy location of available help.
You can copy passages and paste them into an article such as this
article for writing or study purposes. A special fee will have
to be paid for
those wanting
to include the NIV, NASB and NRSV versions of the Bible.
For pricing on single copies, or for bundles, call 1-800-243-7124.
You may write Phil Lindner, Online Publishing, Inc., Box 21,
Bronson, MI
49028
The Online Bible Classic Edition
This CD has a new interface that makes the program much easier
to use than earlier versions. It can be installed on your hard
drive
of your
computer
(if you have space) for faster access. It is unique in that
it has an English translation
of the Koran, the "bible" of Islam.
English Bible Versions include the following: New
King James Version, ASV, KJV, Bible in Basic English, 21st Century KJV,
Phillips New
Testament, Rotherham's Emphasized Bible, Septuagint–an
English Trans-lation (Greek OT translated into English),
Darby, RSV, Webster Bible, Douay Rheims with Apocrypha, Weymouth
NT, Young's Literal Translation, Jewish Publication OT, Oxford
Apocrypha, Revised Apocrypha, and a number of versions that
require
royalty payment to unlock.
Oriningal Language Bible Versions: BHS Hebrew Text, Morphological
Hebrew Text, Interlinear Greek NT, Stephanus Greek Text 1550/1894,
Wescott
Hort/UBS 3-4/Nestle
26-27, Byzantine Majority Greek Text 1991, The Latin Vulgate,
LXX Greek Septuagint with Apocrypha, Peshitta Syriac NT.
Other Language Versions: Should you need to help those whose
native tongue is not English, you will find this program of exceptional
value. Bible
translations in the following formats for other countries are
a
part of this CD: Albanian,
Arabic, Indonesia, Portuguese, Philippines, Creole (Haiti), French,
Denmark, German, Finland, Chinese, Hungarian, Dutch, Italian,
Romanian, Russia,
Spanish, Equador, Swahili, Indonesia, Turkish NT, Ukranian, and
Vietnamese.
Select Notes and Commentaries: Many of these are keyed to Strong's
Numbers. B.D.B.G Hebrew Lexicons, Treasury of Scripture Knowledge,
Thayer's Greek
Lexicon, Thompson Chain Topics, Matthew Henry's Commentary, Revised
Easton's Bible Dictionary,
Barnes NT Notes, Geneva Bible Foot Notes, Jamieson, Fausset,
Brown Commentary, Gill's Exposition of the Bible, Gill's Body
of Divinity,
Peoples NT Notes,
Treasury of David, Robertson's NT Word Pictures, Scofield Notes,
Four Fold Gospel Notes, Poole's Commentary, Calvin's Commentaries,
Greek
and Hebrew
Lexicons, Smith's Bible Dictionary, Maps and Charts, 50 Historical
and Creationist Books.
This CD program comes with a detailed User's Guide. For current
pricing contact, Bible, 3909 Witmer Road, pmb 7, Niagara Falls,
NY 14305.
Tel. 1-800-598-0777.
Web Site - www.onlinebibleusa.com.
PCStudy Bible
This CD Bible program is more expensive with a number of add
on programs and versions that can run into several hundred
dollars. However,
it is very popular
and easy to use. They have recently come out with Version 4
for Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP all editions.
You can add the Apostolic Fathers English Translation to this
program, and they are keyed (hyperlinked) to given texts
of the Bible. It
is possible to read for yourself what the early "Christian" thinkers
were writing as they faced a multiplicity of problems that
help form the Roman Catholic
and Greek Orthodox religions.
This program will let you make your own study notes and link
them to the passage you are studying. You may come across
a comment or thought
that
helps explain
the passage and it can be copied to that Bible text reference.
You will not only have the comments of Clarke, Barns, or
others but you
will have
your
own study notes to consider.
There are excellent pictures and maps with the program. By
holding down the shift key on your keyboard and the left mouse
button
and dragging it from
one point to another, you may know the miles distance from
one place to another in the map program. There is a time line
that
will enable
you to
see in a
brief
topic or name what was going on in the world during the days
of Moses, Paul or Jesus, etc.
Some versions include, the ISBE, Nelson's Bible Dictionary,
and the New Unger's Bible Dictionary, McClintock and Strong's
Encyclopedia,
Evangelical
Dictionary
of Theology and Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology,
the Biblical Illustrator. These are very helpful add on programs
that
will provide
a depth of research
capabilities that other programs do not have. These are some
of the
reasons that this program is more expensive but very useful.
For a comparison of the different versions of this program,
go to the WEB Site (www.Biblesoft.com). There are five different
versions of
the program,
depending
upon the amount of material you desire or can afford. Prices
begin at about $60 and go to about $500.
Any of these programs will permit you to do a search of terms
so that you may have your own personal concordance with a few
key
strokes. With a laptop
computer
and these programs a missionary can have at his disposal indispensable
tools for study in a foreign field.
Bible Works 6
This program is the most sophisticated program for in-depth
textual study from the stand point of original languages.
It will search
on the original
language
by root word or by a given form of the word (singular, plural,
masculine or feminine, accusative case, etc.) in Hebrew/Greek/Aramaic.
It has an abundance of foreign language versions that come
with the program. The program has the Westminster Confession
of Faith
and
Catechisms. These
are at the heart of many protestant denominational creeds
and manuals of faith.
Bible Dictionaries and Encyclopedias included are ISBE, Fausset
Bible Dictionary, and Easton Bible Dictionary. This program
includes the
works of Josephus,
and the Qumran Sectarian Texts may be added to the program
with an unlock fee.
The program has most of the standard Greek and Hebrew texts
of the Bible. Hebrew/Aramaic sources available are Theological
Wordbook
of the OT,
the Hebrew-Aramaic and
English Lexicon of the OT by Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew
and Aramaic Lexicon of the OT by Koehler and Baumgartner,
Futato's Beginning
Biblical
Hebew, and
his Basic Hebrew Tutorial, Waltke's Introduciton to Biblical
Heabrew
Syntax.
Special helps in Greek include, Thayer Greek-English Lexicon
of the NT, the Greek-English Lexicon of the NT and Early
Christian Literature
by
Bauer, Danker and Gingrich, Wallace, Greek Grammar Beyond
the Basics,
Burton's,
Moods and
Tenses in NT Greek. Some of these are add on programs that
cost an additional fee.
Pricing for the initial program and the add on items may
be obtained from their WEB site (www.bibleworks.com). Due
to the
sophistication
of the program
users
will find indispensable the help provided in the user manual,
and the video clips that introduce users to the various
potentials of this
great study
tool.
Should you want to check on the best pricing for any of
the items in this review, I would suggest that you contact
Discount
Christian
Software
by
phone at 1-888-967-3763
or www.DiscountChristian.com.
"Thank you for the Harvester. I enjoy hearing of other missions,
and I help support Joseph Worndle in Haiti and Hershel Bearden in India
and Gary Workman
and Katrinka in Ukraine, that keeps me rejoicing ... it brings
memories when Cliff Tucker and a few of us from Warren MI had gone to Puerto
Rico to help Joseph
Worndle with a gospel meeting there. I wish I were younger,
I would go and teach the lost ... I thank God that with my help we have
gained a sister in Christ
from a Baptist [background].... I thank God for Jackie and
his patience with me."
In
the December meeting of the Board of Directors, Florida School
of Preaching, Brian Kenyon was promoted to the position of Associate
Director.