Transcript YouVersion Bible App

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Teaching Digitals
Some things you need to know
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10 Apps
Interactive Applications That Promote the God Connection
Free to the User
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YouVersion Bible App
from Life.Church
 General
- #1 rated Bible App
 Strength
– Bible reading plans
& Devotionals; numerous
translations
 Novel
Idea – Align
preaching/teaching series with
reading plan
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Bible App for Kids
from Life.Church
 General
– Colorfully animated
app for kids to explore the Bible
 Strength
- Interactive adventures
that teach Bible stories
 Novel
Idea – Parent participate in
a Bible adventure with child.
Compare story from this app
with same story in children’s
book looking for similarities and
differences.
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The Daily Office App
from Mission St. Clare
 General
- Uses the Book of
Common Prayer to provide
complete services
 Strength
– Liturgy; specific
Morning and Evening prayer
guides
 Novel
Idea – Incorporate daily
liturgical prayer every Morning
and Evening
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Echo
by Clover Sites
 General
– Prayer app to help
remind, organize, and keep
track of prayers.
 Strengths
– Simple interface;
effective reminders; prayer
timer.
 Novel
Idea - During the
daytime, set up alarm on the
hour to remind to pray a short,
simple prayer.
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Parent Cue App
from The reThink Group
 General
– App to bring home what
children are learning at church
 Strength
– Provides “CUES” or
identifies times to remind parents to make
the most of teachable times
 Weakness
– This app must be used with
Orange curriculum. However, more
mainstream children’s curriculum are
beginning to incorporate apps such as this.
 Novel
Idea – The app is essentially based
off the novel ideas to use “drive time”,
“meal time”, “parent time”, “bed time” and
“hang time” to reinforce what kids are
learning at church. Use as intended.
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Twitter
 General
– instant communication within a
community of followers
 Strength
– widely popular; easy to instantly
share information with groups of people.
Retweeting can generate synergy.
 Novel
Idea – Lead digitals in a spiritual
discipline experience and use twitter the
following week to reinforce the experience
thru prayer and/or devotional reminders or
daily exercises to reinforce the discipline.
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Air1
by Educational Media Foundation
 General
– Example of Christian music
app. There are others such as K-Love
and TheBlast.fm.
 Strengths
– Includes feature to search
for songs, lyrics, and video covers.
 Novel
idea – Teach lesson on healthy
thinking or focusing thoughts on God
and challenge digitals to replace
secular music with Christian music for a
period of time.
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Glo Bible
by Fisherman Labs
 General
– A Bible ap with multiple
translations available. Daily reading
plans are included.
 Strengths
– Includes a tour feature
enabling the user to take a virtual tour
of biblical sites and has links to works
of art that illustrate biblical passsages.
 Novel
idea – This ap integrates a visual
Bible experience into the text. Tors and
art bring the scriptures to life. There is
also space to record your notes.
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4 Websites
4 Websites that are useful in personal spiritual formation
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http://meetinggodinscripture.com/
 General
– Offers video classes that
teach about lectio divina, the meditative
reading of scripture
 Strengths
– offers free video seminars
and paid classes
 Novel
idea – They offer a sheet of 20
scripture passages that lend
themselves to lectio divina
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https://renovare.org/
 General
– “Renovaré provides practical
resources for cultivating a life—the
with-God life—that makes us like Jesus
from the inside out.”
 Strengths
– Offers online book
discussion and spiritual formation
groups
 Novel
idea – The Order of the
Incarnation: “An experiment in
Christian community.
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https://dallaswillardcenter.com/
 General
– Provides a variety of resources that assist with spiritual
formation
 Strengths
– video resources and links to other websites thatpromote
Christian formation
 Novel
idea – a series of videos that facilitate Christian meditation
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http://conversationsjournal.com/
 General
– Site contains a variety of articles and blog posts focused on
spiritual formation
 Strengths
– “Conversations Guides” that contain articles and
questions for small group discussions about spiritual life
 Novel
idea – a place where a person can read current perspectives
on spiritual formation and can post his or her own thoughts and
opinions