Ron Boatwright
The first website is www.netbiblestudy.net/denominations and is entitled: “Denominational Doctrines” This study contains brief descriptions giving where and when each of the denominations listed began and who started them. Also given are some of their basic beliefs especially what they falsely teach and practice that one must do to be saved and why what they teach is false.
I do not normally recommend specific church websites for several reasons. I wanted to take special note of this website because of their offering not only audio but video as well. They have done the best job I have seen thus far of producing and live video streaming. The live video streams are available during their normal worship hours. In addition, they host at least some of these videos on their website for a period of time after their recording. They are currently conducting a meeting with Paul Earnhardt and are also offering live video of their meeting services.
I fully expect we will see more congregations offering videos as well as live streaming in the coming months. The cost of this technology (cameras, discspace, and bandwidth) have gone down significantly in the past couple years.
lthough the name is very similar, this site should not be confused with the site dedicated to the publication of the same name. The feature I like the most about this site is the audio portion titled “Voices from the Past and Present”. The links library is rather extensive but appears to be almost a copy of Mark Copeland’s executable outlines Links page.There is a sermon outlines section of the site. All of the outlines appear to be from a single author, David Webb. The site map is one of the best I’ve seen, fulfilling the definition of what a site map should be, all you web developers take note. there is a section of maps and photos which appears to be larger than most sites offering these features. in my opinion a good portion of the site is dedicated to answering arguments from denominations and Islam. There are videos available on some of these topics. I fully intend to review more of the sites content once my schedule opens up some, I will attempt to revise this as availability allows.
Site Link: Searching the Scriptures.net
I discovered this site recently while browsing through open DNS. There appears to be a large amount of content available from this site. I have not had the time to do an in-depth study of the site contents. I was impressed with the Atlas section of the site. The site also has a large number of language tools available. The amount of time I have spent has only tweaked my interest in what this site has to offer. I would be very curious if any of you have investigated the site in more detail.
Link: http://biblos.com
Description from Site: Bible History Online Images and Resources for Biblical History. Resources, Free Bible Software, Bible Art, Biblical History Topics and Study, and ancient Bible maps of Rome, Greece, and ancient Near East.
Although my personal preference votes against using black for a background for any Bible study site, in general the graphics on this site are impressive. This is a very deep site. There are references on the site to undergoing improvements which may be currently affecting what content is available. The site contains a lot of links to maps which may or may not be available on this site (I mean by that I am unsure if the content resides on this Web server or if this is a link portal referring to content on other Web servers). There is much more to this site than I have had time to investigate. The content I have used I have been impressed with. If you use the site and have a good or bad experience, let me know.
This site has some nice photography of Bible lands available in various sizes and quality levels. The site does offer some free photos for download and use with PowerPoint presentations. The main point of the site appears to be to sell their CD containing a larger collection of photographs. The product is divided up into 10 volumes, dedicated to various regions of the ancient world. The collection contains more than 6,000 pictures (at least 500 per CD), each with a resolution of at least 1600×1200 pixels. A single volume sales for $25, the complete set sells $190. There are some nice samples available on the site which has been professionally done. Additionally, the site offers a blog and a free newsletter. to visit this site:BIBLEPLACES.COM
This single page site contains a large collection of links to various congregations’ audio collections of sermons and hymns. I was impressed with the sheer number of links offered from many different men going back over the last several years. if you enjoy audio sermons, you should definitely visit this site.
The author offers the following note as to the purpose of the site:
In offering these lessons for playing or download it is my intent to spread the Gospel of Christ and the lessons God has delivered in His holy word. It is the intent of the preachers of these sermons to teach and preach only those things taught in the Bible. I encourage you to compare what you hear in these lessons to what is written in God’s word.
To Visit this site:Archived Gospel Meetings
This is one of my personal favorite sites to visit because of all the downloads. This is a sister site of In Search of Truth.org . It has one of the largest audio collections of sound gospel sermons that I am aware of on the Internet. A little more recently two periodicals have been added which have been out of print for over 30 years. The Bible Banner (Published from March 1940 — April 1949) and the Gospel Guardian (January 1936 — September 4, 1962) are now available on the site. A really nice feature of these two sites is a special program which was created to create a Scripture Index of the documents by scanning the entire text. In addition, the site is mirroring a Public Domain version of Robert Turner’s Plain Talk (November. 1972 — February 1984), the originals are still hosted by cedarparkchurchofchrist.org.
Here is a high level catalog of audio files currently available :
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For those of you who are needing to stay up-to-date on everything, they also offer an RSS feed and podcast through Apple iTunes. Almost all of the material on the site has been released to the Public Domain. For questions regarding this site, send an e-mail to admin@wordsfitlyspoken.org
