I have repeatedly entered the url for John Starnes "He came to me" I SAVE the changes. It won't play and i go back to the url i entered. Every time it is incomplete. It stops after the "fea" of the word "feature". It appears the space in which to enter the url will only accommodate a limited number of characters insufficient to enter a full url address.

Good news!! Dan Graves responded again today and said that he had forwarded my request on to the manager of CHRISTIAN HISTORY. Praying it will all work out for His name!!

This looks like an excellent resource. However, we would need permission to convert them into e sword since they are copyrighted.

If you could get permission I am sure that some of us would help convert them to e sword.

Blessings,
Peter

Dan Graves from CHRISTIAN HISTORY magazine has been back to me twice by e-mail. He must be busy but I have made a very clear request to him re: his mag as an e-sword module. Checking daily for his final word but the mater is in process.

I want to respond to so much of what is going on here. But suffice to say that AS A PASTOR WITH BIBLE STUDIES AND SERMONS HAPPENING EVERY WEEK that the reference library, illustrations, parallel versions feature and just about everything esword offers is useful to me. I have spent hours trying to learn EVERYTHING  it does and this prog is an absolute Godsend to me. Again, I am very disappointed at the comment that "why add the Shepherd's calendar" when only a fraction of the people would use it because so few are Pastors. I am completely persuaded that so few are Pastors ONLY BECAUSE SO FEW PASTORS REALIZE THIS PROG EVEN EXISTS.  

AGAIN I THROW OUT THE CHALLENGE: TELL YOUR PASTOR ABOUT THIS. BRING IN YOUR LAPTOP AND SHOW THEM HOW IT WORKS. WHAT A BLESSING THIS COULD BE. I AM SO SERIOUS. I HAVE DONE THIS AND AND PASTORS CANT BELIEVE THAT THE PROG IS FREE. They just go to Logos - bill it to the church - and thats it. E-sword is way better!!

"You would have an extension in e-Sword that would (when comparing against the main population of users) be only a mere handful of users. I tend to think if we had all these kinds of add ons put into e-Sword, you would probably be taking it away from the main population of users. You would have a Pastoral Management tool more than a Bible Study tool. Just my $1 million thought on it ( the 2 cent one is totally out modded)."






Well, I can only say that I am sorry so few Pastors use this. That would be a stat that I am not privy to. I know that I am the only user registered to Burlington Ontario and and I have only found one user in Hamilton next door. If that is the case and only a handful of users are Pastors - then I am very happy to be one of them. This prog is of enormous benefit and I wish I could do more to get other Pastors on to this. I know of a few who pay huge dollars for Logos etc. I can only think that they have more money than time to research the Internet and discover e-sword. I withdraw my suggestion and you are free to delete it. With regret - Walter.
PS - with 14,000 plus users - what wld happen if they all took time to tell their Pastors about this?

Ah ha. Leave it up to me eh? Brilliant strategy. Let's see what I can do here. When our illustrious MODERATOR throws me a bone will I run with it or cower away from responsibilty? What sort of stuff am I made of eh? Stay tuned for the next episode of "Man or Mouse"! LOL

http://www.christian...4-content-city/
I discovered this site last night. I used to read these magazines. Awesome material. Just awesome. Had no idea they were available online NO CHARGE. Priceless historical accounts of Church History and Growth of Christianity. Would be incredible to get this into e-sword Reference Books.

Oh oh. Bad news. MJ from Maine suggests E-sword may not have the functionality to create a database like this. Hmmm Rough start to my dream-child.

I wish to submit this suggestion for a new module and, if it generates sufficient support, it may happen so PLEEZ read on.

As a parishioner for years, I have often felt there to be a lack of a coherent and systematic presentation of the "whole" Gospel. Now - as a Pastor - I appreciate how difficult it is to sit down and address the issue of methodically exposing the congregation to ALL the Scriptures over a given period. I somewhat tend to ride hobbyhorses on occasion and may have a solution that could work towards avoiding that. PLEEZ read on.

Simply put - it's a "Shepherd's Calendar". Every speaking engagement (am/pm sermon, mid-week Bible Study, ladies/mens group, cell groups etc) gets entered. THIS IS NOT FOR APPOINTMENTS OR MEETINGS ETC. Only speaking events for the parish. Every entry must open up a mini-database to accommodate the Subject, Scripture, support Scriptures, occasion of the message (sermon, B Study, Youth meeting etc), speaker and optional additional entries that can be labelled by the user. PLEEZ don't stop now.

At any given point in time the user is able to generate any list or combination of lists from the calendar to survey his progress. For example: a list of all New testament Scriptures preached on over the last year. Or - a list of all Subjects dealt with over the last 6 months. Or - a summary of scriptures and subjects dealt with over the last 4 years during the month of January, or Christmas, or Easter. OR - a list of the books of the Bible not preached on for the last 5 years. Or a list of all sermons from Revelation since I became Pastor here. Etc

Pastor or parishioner alike should be able to embrace this novel module concept for it would bring enormous benefit to all involved. I've never seen anything like it and sincerely hope this goes "e-sword viral" PLEEZ "LIKE" ME AND PRAY SOMEONE CATCHES THE VISION. Thank you and have a God-filled day!

Hey Josh, if you cld email walterhofman@hotmail.come with "answer" then I'll get right back to esword and check out your response. I'm thoroughly befuddled with this prob.

Message for Josh Bond,
I bought a brand new laptop with Windows 7. Loaded E-sword 10.0.7. Everything seems to work EXCEPT - I can't create Study notes attached to verses.. Went downstairs to desktop and they work fine. Returned to laptop, reinstalled e-sword and same problem. Have spent considerable time double checking files in "program (86x)" and "documents". Can't detect anything wrong. Journal notes work. Topic notes seem to work but can't get anything for Study Notes. Any suggestions?

In response to Doctor Dave, message #127, I would like to add this: I don't want to have to go thru 12 calendars to get a general overview of where I've been over the past year. If the calendar cld include some sort of "annual review" that lists all of the topics or Scriptures for that year (or multiple years), "at a glance" - that wld be sooooo handy. I mean - the whole intent of this is to insure that one is not "riding a hobby horse" in their presentation of "the whole counsel of God". I really hope I'm making sense here! Deeply appreciate your consideration of this matter Doctor Dave!!!!

I posted this last nite but can't find it so I'll try again. I would like a calendar module to record Scriptures, topics, dates and places of messages, Bible Studies and seminars I've done. That possible?

The file size of the earlier photo was too large. Thx for the help folks. I obviously got it right.

I'm Pastoring and run cell groups, Bible Studies and Sunday messages in a variety of contexts. I would like to see a calendar integrated into e-sword that would allow me to monitor the subject, Scripture references, dates and contexts of my messages. I need this to insure that, over time, I cover a broad range of topics and expose the church to the whole Word of God. Hope this makes sense. Thank you.