Someone just directed me to FlowerDust.net which is giving away the Logo’s Scholar’s Library.

Scholar’s Library is a value-priced collection of texts and tools for serious Bible study using Greek, Hebrew, and English resources. It is the best value in Bible software today with more than 330 Bibles and Bible Reference titles worth over $6,100.00 in equivalent print editions!

The Scholar’s Library software doesn’t just “speed up” the process of studying with paper books, it actually acts as your personal research assistant, doing everything from looking up relevant articles and automatically collecting material to generating tailored reports and organizing content around your specific target passage. Logos Bible Software Series X is so easy to use and powerful that all you have to know how to do is type in a Bible reference, or a topic and click the “Go!” button. Scholar’s Library provides an amazing wealth of resources at your fingertips, giving you everything you need for serious and comprehensive Bible Study, no matter what your focus. The value-packed Scholar’s Library makes digging deep into the truth of the Bible easier than ever!

It’s a $630 software and if you actually bought all the text it included in hard copies, it would run about $6,100. Pretty cool, huh?

Anyway, if you are into that stuff, you should enter the contest. You can do that by going here. You might even want to check out the site. She’s the author of the new book coming out, Mad Church Disease: Overcoming the Burnout Epidemic. I haven’t read it. I’ve just heard a lot about it lately.

Over the past six months or so I’ve been trying to make a conscious effort to pay attention to all the ways that God provides for me. I mean, I always knew He did, but I wanted to catch it in the moment and not looking back. You know, the little things that just seem to take care of themselves. Or the times when things are looking pretty grim (no matter how big or small the situation), and then all of a sudden, it’s fixed. It’s done and taken care of. So my goal has been to catch these things in the moment. Right when it’s happening, even when it’s bad and I’m thinking, “Okay I trust you Lord,” and then, there it is. Something unexpected happening to chance the logical outcome.

I was thinking about this while reading Ephesians 3 tonight. All these years the Jew thought they had the only ticket to God and here was Paul telling them, “nope, anyone can come to God through Jesus.” Something unexpected. Something life changing. Paul and the other apostles had to step out on faith. Trust what God had revealed to Paul and ignore the “logic” they had been taught their whole lives that this “God” was just a God to the Jewish.

Anyway, thats what I was thinking about tonight. Just reminding myself to keep looking for those “God moments.” I’ve also been listening to a few songs lately that I really like. I love how music and lyrics can just speak right to you. This week, I’ve been hooked on this song. It was very reminscent of the conversation God and I had today at the beach too and reminds me that God is with us to bring us through whatever is going on.

I just got through reading Ephesians Chapter 1.  I was inspired to go through it again after reading musician Paul Wright’s blog about he’s doing it and encouraging his blog readers to do it with him. I went through the book of Ephesians a couple of years ago at Urbana, but am excited to go through it again. So far, I just read through the first chapter, and don’t have a ton of time to write at the moment, but my plan is to read a chapter (or parts of a chapter) each day and blog about things that I come across that I either find interesting, think is a good message or just feel the Lord speaking to me.

For now, that’s it. Nothing profound from me today, but hopefully I’ll be posting more frequently now that Christmas is over.

So I realized tonight how glad I am that I can get my daily doses of devotions, verse of the day, etc…through my feed reader (Google Reader) or email. Not that it should actually replace digging through your Bible, but for me, in a world where I have so many distractions and things to do coming out at me, it really is a God-send for me to get the daily, constant reminders that my relationship with Christ is what is important.

There are some pretty creative ones out there. A Year through the Bible through a daily reading/feed, etc….

Here are some of the sites I subscribe to, either via feed or email:

Air 1 Verse of the Day (email)

My Utmost For His Highest (feed)

C.S. Lewis Blog (new feed for me)

Bible Gateway Verse of the Day (feed)

Our Daily Bread (feed–I don’t use this one, but it’s from the same site as My Utmost for His Highest)

HomeWord (email)