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The work is beginning on Friday evening and will be finished by the end of the weekend. The website will not be down for the whole weekend - but will be for a portion of it.
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Related posts on this site:Many regular readers will have noticed the formatting and layout of free Christian resources change over time, and recently a big new change has been made. The home page has been altered from effectively being just a summary of recent additions, to being a more useful summary of the best content.
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Desperation Band:
Counting on God
Click on the arrow above to listen to this great song!
You can find more great free 100% legal Christian songs at the free songs section!
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Inviting books
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Christian Classics Ethereal Library continues to improve its website beyond just simply providing free classic Christian literature. However, they need our help to make it work!
In a similar vein to Wikipedia, you can now correct any errors that you may see in books such as spelling mistakes and typos. This is a great improvement as it will help improve the books already provided by this fantastic website.
Here is the full press release that Christian Classics Ethereal Library provided:
This month we are introducing a new way that volunteers can help get books online. At the bottom of each book page, logged-in users will see a link labeled “Correct an error on this page.” You can click that link and actually edit the page—correct typos or make more substantial edits. Changes go into an approval queue. There is also a link labeled “I have proofed this page.” So now volunteers can proof a page on-line, make any necessary corrections, and mark the page as proofed. It’s an easy—and, hopefully, fruitful—way to help distribute and promote classic Christian literature!
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With the new year now well under way it is time to present the awards for the best free Christian resource websites for 2007. The number of awards have been limited to four, meaning many high quality Christian websites that would be worthy winners have not been mentioned. However, it is so exciting to write this blog and see so many superb Christian resources available on the internet. It is cheesy and Oscar-like to say it, but without them this website would not exist!
So without further ado, and with a drum roll in the background lets see who has won…
Best free Christian website : Desiring God
This award is for the website that has made the top contribution to free Christian resources in the year. The size of backing is taken into account, so if a small one-person website is punching above its weight it could well win!
Desiring God is the proud winner of the prestigious ‘Best free Christian website’ award from free Christian resources this year. Desiring God is an example to everyone in the distribution of Christian resources. Firstly all of John Pipers sermons and books from the last twenty five are available online free. Desiring God is presented superbly with most content available in in several different formats within a well structured website.
They are also very clear about why they feel content should be provided free when possible. This also makes them worthy winners of the main award as they are 100% committed to providing high quality free Christian resources. The main reasons they give are:
- It demonstrates God’s grace
- It serves others most effectively
- Far more of your content will spread, and it will spread to far more people
Top newcomer : YouVersion
This award goes to a Christian website that has only begun in the year - or only really started to make a big impression in the year.
Whilst YouVersion is still in its Beta stage it is well advanced and is rapidly improving each month. YouVersion is a bible study package that allows videos, sermons, pictures and basically anything to be linked to bible verses and studies.
Before it gets even close to its full potential it will need both time and further tweaking. However I think the opportunity for YouVersion is huge. It will be exciting to see how this project grows in 2008.
Special contribution : All About God
This award goes to a Christian website that has made a particularly good contribution to the Christian community. It could be anything from a well written blog to a website stuffed full of sermons!
All About God is an apologetics website, so it aims to answer any questions about Christianity. It does this is a clear and understandable way, and often a good first port of call whenever you have a query. However, the award has been given to All About God because of the way they keep the focus on Jesus. It is easy as Christians on the internet to forget that many non Christians will look at our websites. All About God give a great example of how to keep the gospel prominent on any website. This is certainly an area I’ll be looking to develop on free Christian resources in 2008.
Most popular : iBibleSpace
This award is for the website that has been the most popular amongst the readers of free Christian resources. It has been awarded based on the website that most people had clicked through to visit from this blog.
The clear winner was the iBibleSpace by AcroDesign Technologies, with 6% of all website visits from free Christian resources having gone to their website. This was no doubt in part due to the popularity of the best free iPhone bible post that I wrote. However,
iBibleSpace is a worthy winner having brought the bible to the iPhone in such a superb fashion. All iPhone users should check out their website!
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December was an exciting month for this blog with the some popular posts being written and vast improvements being made to the email newsletter.
The previous provider (Zoodoka) was continually failing to deliver the weekly email newsletters so I moved the service over to FeedBlitz. The service is greatly improved now and works like clockwork! If you would like to receive the weekly newsletter just click here. Alternatively, you may want to subscribe to the RSS feed by clicking here.
Here are the top posts for the month:
- The definitive guide to free Christian clip art
After much scouring of the internet this post showed the top websites to go to to get great Christian clip art and images. This is a fantastic resource page, and includes both Christian and secular websites that can help provide the quality clip art you need. -
The best free Christmas clip art
On the back of the definitive guide to clip art I also wrote a summary of the best places to find Christmas clip art. This was inspired by a superb clip art provided by ChristArt which I showed on the post. - Christian Classics Ethereal Library provided St Therese autobiography.
This is a classic book written by St Therese, who knew that God did not need huge, grand gestures to be show her love of God. -
Review of the year.
Towards the end of the month I also did a round up of 2007 highlighting the top posts from each quarter. Here are each of the posts:
(1) May to June
(2) July to September
(3) October to December
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The last quarter of the year has seen free Christian resources continue to grow. Firstly, more and more people are looking around the blog than every before. Secondly, it saw a couple of key posts published that have proved to continually popular.
It is going to be exciting to see how free Christian resources will grow in 2008. It has taken much longer to review websites than I expected, which has meant free Christian resources is nowhere near as complete as I would have liked. However, one of the key premises of the blog is not to simply be a raft of lists but to help people find the best quality Christian stuff. That will continue to be the focus!
Best free iPhone bibles
The summary of free iPhone bibles available has proved to be a useful summary for many people. It is very good in highlighting all the websites you can get free access to the bible in various translations on your iPhone.
cms in downfall - Christian Meditation
When I published this post I did not expect it to be a amazingly popular, but two months on it keeps on attracting new visitors to free Christian resources. It was highlighting a post by Jonny Baker that included a video, music and a Christian poem to meditate on.
Free Don Moen music
Don Moen also had a free song available through his distributors, and this has one of the most popular songs on the blog. It is regularly in the top ten viewed posts at free Christian resources.
The definitive guide to free Christian clip art images
I spent a long time trawling the internet reviewing Christian clip art. This culminated in this guide to help you find the best Christian clip art.
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I just wanted to take this opportunity to thank everyone who reads free Christian resources, and to wish you a happy Christmas.
My Christmas message is Isaiah 9:6-7, which I have put below in both the NIV and message translations. For me this sums up Christmas. “The gift of a son—for us!”.
For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
Of the increase of his government and peace there will be no end. He will reign on David’s throne and over his kingdom, establishing and upholding it with justice and righteousness from that time on and forever. The zeal of the LORD Almighty will accomplish this.
Isaiah 9:6-7 (NIV)
For a child has been born—for us! The gift of a son—for us!
He’ll take over the running of the world. His names will be: Amazing Counselor, Strong God, Eternal Father, Prince of Wholeness.
Isaiah 9:6 (The Message)
If you would like to read more bible verses about Christmas then take a look at this article by Tony Kummer.
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Three months after the launch of free Christian resources I began to put a lot of effort into finding and tweaking the theme/design that I wanted. Finally, as the year almost closes I think I am generally happy with the look of the website! There were so many superb websites reviewed over the three months ending in September, but here are the pick of the posts:
Desiring God
Desiring God is without a doubt one of the finest Christian websites on the internet. John Piper has put all of his sermons and books from the last twenty five years online for free. Not only that but they are high quality products, and the website is superbly designed.
Free Hillsong mp3
Throughout the course of the year many fantastic free and legal songs have been recommended. This is up there as one of the best.
My first sermon
I had the nerve-racking experience of doing my first sermon in August. In this post I explained the free things that I found the most useful to help me prepare.
YouVerison launches
Whilst YouVersion is still in beta stage it has come a long way and is in a usable format. It is an exciting website, and I expect in 2008 it will really become both popular and useful.
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This is the first of a three part review of the year for free Christian resources. May and June were undoubtedly exciting months, with the blog launching at the end of May. It was quickly moved from the WordPress.com platform onto a self hosted WordPress set-up. As I settled into blogging, I was able to review some fantastic Christian websites including:
eSword
Without doubt eSword is one of the best free Christian resources you can get on the internet. It is a high quality piece of software (PC only) that really helps studying the bible.
Bible Gateway
Whilst eSword requires a download, Bible Gateway is a good online bible study tool. It is simple to use, and also has lots of extras that allow you to easily link from your website to the verses on their website.
Christ Art
Christ Art is probably the best Christian website with free clip art. There are lots of images and they are generally of a very high quality. They had one particularly good Christmas clip-art that I have recently shown on the ‘Where to find the best free Christmas clip art’ post.
Christian Classics Ethereal Library
Christian Classics Ethereal Library has more classic Christian books available online than you can shake a stick at. With so many books have been written over the last two thousand years this is a real treasure trove of rich, uplifting and challenging books.
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