Monday, February 16, 2009

2 internet databases I would like to visit

The Good Guy Bad Guy List
This site would be a profiled listing of both ministers and theological academicians. The profile would list their different points of doctrine as well as up-to-date ministry status. The publishing body responsible for this site would be making opinionated, obviously not final judgments on these teachers. Next to each name a simple thumbs up or thumbs down would suffice. The profiled theologians would be given a forum to amend their reputations or misunderstandings or be defended by readers. 

This fictitious  site would be used as a quick reference while reading footnotes mentioning unknown figures. (this idea came after searching for quick bulleted information at Apprising Ministries. All Ken Silva's posts are in the form of articles.) This site could aid in the flow of information at Apprising Ministries.

The Expositional Archive
Many pastors are posting their sermons online these days on their churches website or simply with iTunes podcasts. In addition to this generous resource, I am coming across more pastors who engage with their congregations preaching expository messages rather than topical. As these pastors post their churches trek through particular books or passages, slowly the Bible becomes much more accessible. 

With various pastors preaching and teaching out of various books in the Bible and posting their sermons online, it would be relatively easy to compile all these sermons onto one site. Listeners could find sermons on any passage of scripture they desired. Obviously there would be some overlapping with books like Romans, John, and other New Testament best sellers. But this would only add to the richness of the resource. 

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