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Spirit Life Bible School

By Joe Felim

Taking over two years to produce, the Spirit Life Online Bible School curriculum has been been devised by Christian Outreach Centre to resource and equip pastors, leaders and hungry saints in the major themes and doctrines of the Bible.

It is a flexible resource and has been designed and priced so it can be used by individuals as well as in a formal ministry school situation. Each module purchased by a Bible student provides them with comprehensive notes and other materials covering the chosen subject. Each lesson has more than enough information to provide a thorough exploration of its subject, and also provides avenues for the motivated student to dig further into the Scriptures. The lesson plans are also written with practical application in mind, and designed to engage the student beyond mere reading.

David Martin, who conceived, designed and wrote the school, is an experienced student of the Bible himself, and a clear and insightful teacher of the Scriptures. With his wife Larna he has been in active ministry for over ten years planting and building churches within the Christian Outreach Centre movement. The Spirit Life Bible School is not a product of theoretical study alone, but hands on ministry. David’s graphic design background has also provided the necessary skills to produce a uniquely graphic-rich set of notes, moving typical Bible School material to another level of immediacy, excellence and interest.

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Florida Bible Christian School History

By Joe Felim

Realizing their accountability to God for what their children were taught, Florida Bible College faculty and staff were convicted of the need to provide K-12 Christian education in South Florida. The school opened in 1976 and operated within the facilities of Florida Bible College until the fall of 1980, when the college relocated to Central Florida. At that time, Florida Bible Christian School was transferred under the ministry of Florida Bible Church.

As the school improved and its programs and enrollment increased, a new location was sought. In the fall of 1983, the church and school moved to its present campus in Miramar. When the church auditorium building was completed in 1988, the school acquired fourteen more classrooms, an art room, storage rooms, a choir room, and state-of-the-art computer labs. A new media center/science lab/ classroom building was added in 1996. Additional construction and facility improvements are anticipated through our “Building a Legacy” capital campaign which was launched in 2004.

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The History of Bible Software

By Joe Felim

Bible software is software that is designed to display and allow a user to study the Bible. Basic Bible software, typically aimed at mobile phones or older computers, is designed to display the text of a single Bible translationstudying the Bible. Displaying multiple translations of the Bible, along with commentaries about the Bible in their native language assist users to gain insights into the Bible, even if they have little or no knowledge of ancient Greek and Aramaic, languages that the original Bible was written in. Other resources include cross references, lexicons, theological writings, maps, charts and language aids such as dictionaries, grammars and original language texts. only. More advanced packages have a larger number of features, including displaying a wide variety of theological resources to assist in

Most Bible software is available as a base package containing a few resources, with the ability to add in additional resources (for free or at cost). Common features include Bible reading and searching, while some software offers features like gospel synopsis, morphological and syntactical searches of original texts, sentence diagramming, note taking, manual and dynamic highlighting, lectionary viewers and so forth.

Interest in using software to display and search the Bible has existed since the early 1980s. This allowed users to search the text of the Bible much faster than would be possible with Bible study tools and materials. So the first Bible programs were mainly used for finding where certain words were located (at first in the King James Bible, then other translations were added). Later as computers improved in their ability to handle foreign language fonts, the original Hebrew Old Testament and ancient Greek New Testament texts of the Bible were added. When working with the original biblical languages, one of the first capabilities to be added was morphology (often called parsing), information concerning the forms of verbs, nouns, adjectives, and other words (many of these parts of speech assume different forms in different contexts). At this point we saw the emergence of Bible software programs, some of which are still around today.