Bible Study Apps

Many users have written us saying that the You Bible App is a great Bible Study App tool. The key feature that makes it great for Bible Study is the powerful search engine that does a word search, or a Book, Chapter and Bible Verse search, on whatever topic you desire. As you search and find the Bible Verse you want to incorporate into your Bible Study, you can then create a Playlist of those Bible verses for instant recall and use. You can then share those Bible Verses with friends and family, do a personal Bible Study, or Group Bible Study.

Did you ever ask yourself, why should I do Bible Study? It could be just for personal edification, wanting to get to know the Bible better, or maybe finding out more “truth” in the Bible. Is Truth an important thing to know? These Bible Study scripture may give us an answer about the importance of “Truth”:

Jesus said this in John 8:32, “And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”

Paul said this in 2 Timothy 2:15: “Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth”.

Solomon, the wisest man, said this about truth in Psalms 25:5: Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou art the God of my salvation; on thee do I wait all the day. Psalm 25:5

Paul said this in 2^nd Thessalonians 2- 9:12: ^9 “Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, ¹⁰And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. ¹¹And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: ¹²That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness”.

The above is a sobering thought for all believers.

Studying the Bible for truth is a way to keep believers from being deceived by a lie. That could have very profound negative consequences on our lives. If you know the truth, you cannot be deceived or shaken in your belief and knowledge of the truth. I think we all can agree that the truth of the Bible should be the light that guides our steps, to avoid life pitfalls. Studying the Bible provides believers with a solid foundation in God’s Word and grounds the believer in the truth of his Word.

Here is what Solomon said about that in Psalms 1: “Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. ²But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. ³And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper. ⁴The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away. ⁵Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous. ⁶For the Lord knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.”

That’s what knowing the truth can do, make us like that tree planted by river that can’t be shaken and will not wither.

The above was a quick Bible Study demonstration for you that was done on the fly and being instant in and out of season, as Paul admonished in 2 Timothy 4:2, when he said the following, “Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long suffering and doctrine”.

I thought about what I wanted to say the holy spirit gave me inspiration and insight. I used my Bible App as the key Bible Study App tool to look up all the Bible Verses that were used above. I then wrote as the spirit of God direct my fingers on my laptop. The truth of his Word can keep you in the spirit of truth at all times.

Download the You Bible App today and start experiencing a whole new way to do Bible Study.

Chicago Tribune Article About Alexander Scourby

Chicago Tribune February 22, 1990 Journalist: Sandy Bauers A Knight-Ridder Newspaper

Alexander Scourby is reputed to have been the world`s best audio-book narrator, bar none. He is heralded as having the greatest voice ever recorded.
Scourby, a radio, film and stage actor, read 422 books for the Talking Books program of the American Foundation for the Blind, including Homer`s “Iliad,” Tolstoy`s “War and Peace,” Joyce`s “Ulysses,” Faulkner`s “The Sound and the Fury” and the King James Version of the Bible.
Although Scourby considered Talking Books his most important work, he also made several recordings for Spoken Arts and Listening Library, and it`s well worth the purchase price to hear the master.
For Spoken Arts, he read Walt Whitman`s “Leaves of Grass”, Edgar Allan Poe`s “The Pit and the Pendulum,” and several titles in the Voices of History collection of famous speeches.
For Listening Library, Scourby read “The Great Gatsby and Other Stories,” “The Stories of Ernest Hemingway” and some of the poems on “A Treasury of Great Poetry.”
What made Scourby so great? People who try to describe it generally stutter through glowing adjectives and adverbs, concluding that it`s an intangible, indefinable quality. But they all agree on one thing: He was a man with a truly rare gift.
For Listening Library`s Tim Ditlow, Scourby`s readings are “totally believable, and I`m totally transported” to the period of the story. He cites “the warmth, the resonance” of Scourby`s voice and concludes, “If I could name exactly what it was, I`d probably diminish it. When you hear him, it goes right to your heart.”
Ditlow`s father, Anthony, is blind and was well-acquainted with Scourby`s readings when he founded the Listening Library in 1958. What the elder Ditlow likes is Scourby`s subtlety: “He never over-emphasized, but you knew at all times all the various scales of emotion. I always used to say Alex could read the phone book and make it interesting.”
Comparing Scourby to some of today`s best audio-book readers, Anthony Ditlow said, “They`re all good, but they`re just good. They`re not superb.” At the American Foundation for the Blind studios in New York City, manager Don Weightman remembers Scourby as “one of a kind.” “We`re talking about an X quality here. What really came across was the fact that he was believable,” Weightman said. “Beautiful voices are a dime a dozen, but when you get the quality of believability, that`s something rare.” Fellow Talking Books reader Flo Gibson, who also reads for her own audio- book company in Washington, said it was Scourby she listened to for inspiration.
His readings “certainly have an elegant quality to them,” she said. “But what I like are his pregnant pauses-he uses his pauses so well. His subtle hints of dialect are superb.”
While most narrators try to “act” a book, raising and lowering their voices when the speaker changes from a man to a woman, Scourby simply changed the rhythm slightly, Gibson said.
People who knew Scourby describe a man meticulous in his research and preparation. For Scourby, Weightman said, the author came first. And for listeners, Scourby comes first.