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Bible Lesson Maker
Program Author: Steve Sprague
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BIBLE TOPICS BLOG.
This is a blog of summaries of the SS Class that I had the pleasure and honor of teaching at Grace Community Church in Lima Ohio. Grace Community Church

WHAT IS BIBLE LESSON MAKER?
This software is designed to be a browser/editor combination. The editor is an RTF (Rich Text Font) editor that has the ability to edit and print in color. Its text editing is superior than that of a plain text editor. There are 5 built in tabbed browsers that are linked to predefined study bible websites. The user may add their own sites too. Just research your topics...copy and paste to the editor and add your own text and notes and print out to your printer. BLM incorporates two "Paste" methods. One of them will export any embed_disabledded tags that were in the HTML. The other method will export "as is" you will find the need for both methods. You will see what I mean when you start pasting data to the Editor. Sample screen shots are below. Please see personal notes at the bottom of this page.

 DOWNLOADS: UPDATED JULY 10 2008 2:15pm Click this to download the installation package
1. This is the MAIN FILE PACKAGE...GET THIS FIRST. This has been distributed and tested and runs with only the setup files. Run the setup and it will self install and you can choose to run the program at the end of installation! There is an Un-install included so you can remove Bible Lesson Maker... File Size = 490KB (Setup Pack Compressed)
phishing_disabled .NET SUPPORT FILES:Get the .NET Support Files Here
2. However you may need additional framework files here. Most folks with XP SP2 and Vista have not needed these additional files...File Size = 2.98MB (Setup Pack Compressed)

UPDATE FILE ONLY: UPDATED JULY 12 2008 7:00PMGet this to update the EXE only
3.You may get just the EXE that includes the latest fixes and updates if you already have the main files from above.
(Latest additions include: New Tab Navigation and Export Preview Window. PDF Support - Editor enhancements - Support for Local NT KJV in RTF , Peoples New Nestament PDF and KJV Entire Bible PDF (See Help/Whats New from program menu)...File Size = 578KB (Single EXE Not Compressed)
BIBLE TEXTS YOU MAY CHOOSE TO GET:
4.These are public domain resources and are free to use in any format. I highly reccomend that you get the KJV listed first here. Just unzip it and place it on the C:\ drive. This will allow you to use the Local Bible Tab in case you are not online. You will also be able to open these files from the zip directly into the Editor for lesson and sermon development and add your own commentary.

Click this to download KJV in Rich Text Format (RTF) --KJV in RTF format for Local Tab. Unzip to C:\kjv It will have the Books of the NT in RTF format...File Size = 3.85MB (Setup Pack Compressed)

THESE NEXT 2 FILES ARE MADE AVAILABLE FROM CCEL WEBSITE. YOU MAY RECIEVE UP TO 3 BOOKS WITHOUT BEING ASKED BY THEM TO DONATE:.

Click this to download People's New Testament. Right=Click - Save Target As...--Peoples New Testament in PDF. Place this as C:\pnt.pdf....You can then open directly into Personal Tab

Click this to download the KJV PDF Right-Click - Save Target As...--KJV OT and NT in PDF. Place this as C:\kjv.pdf....You can then open directly into Personal Tab


If you are a Visual Basic 2008 Programmer you may get the source code here at the source page Go here


GET INSTA-VERSE! WORKS GREAT WITH BIBLE LESSON MAKER.

Get InstaVerse!

Screen Shots and Descript_disabledions:
Main view:
 This screen shows the Main Research Window. This is one of the 5 research browsers built into BLM. Each browser is linked to a research site (Used with permission. KJV is Public Domain). Each tab is a fully functional browser designed to allow you to research and export data into the editor (viewed below). Also BLM has a Journal, Notes and Prayer editors. You may keep a journal, make notes, and document prayer needs. The Personal Tab now supports PDF files. You may now DL KJV and Peoples NT in PDF to enhance BLM so that you do not need to be online all the time.




Editor view:
 Editor View: This is a nice editor. You can see the font and color and print capacity. The editor has some basic search and find and "Search and Hightlight" functions. Double click and search a word !




Editor/Browser View:
 This shot shows the editor split and a support browser for viewing bible research data and editor data:



Greek Bible Study:
 This view shows the Greek Bible Study Tab. Thank you to Peter Coad for his blessing in allowing this to be used. It makes BLM so much better.

This is a shot of The Greek Bible Study Site



NeXt Bible:
 The NeXt Bible is another tool BLM incorporates to enhance bible study and lesson development. I thank the folks at NeXt Bible for their support.

This is a shot of The NeXt Bible Site


Search God's Word:
 "Search God's Word" is another tool for indepth bible study. Thank you Phil Ware for your blessing!

This is a shot of Search God's Word


Online Parallel Bible:
 The Online Parallel Bible is a wonderful part of BLM. I want thank John Isett for his blessing in allowing their tool to be a part of BLM !

This is a shot Online Parallel Bible


Personal note from program author:

Bible Lesson Maker is the result of some time that I had taking a break teaching adult Sunday School and the desire to write a Windows Program that I and others could use to compile Bible Lessons or Sermons. I found that I spent allot of my time online researching the sites that BLM integrates into one program that can be used to research and compile lessons. Knowing what sites I used and the need for a Word Processor I designed , built and wrote "Bible Lesson Maker". My greatest passion is teaching Gods Word and my hobby is Windows programming and the result is BLM. BLM is not a "bible software" as that goes, it is a study tool. An all-in-one research and compiler. There are Bible Study softwares out there that are far superior to this program I have written. And the programmers skills are superior to mine. But if this software can be a handy tool for someone besides me that would be nice.

BLM is not complete. It needs some more work. I doubt it will ever be done. I have taken great care to be sure there are no bugs. Let me know if you should find them. BLM is easy to use. Once it is loaded...just click the "House" icon in each of the browser views and it will load that specific site and at that point that tab is a working browser. I have added navigation buttons just like a web browser. Its pretty easy and you should be able to figure it out pretty easily. There is a link at the top of this page for programmers to have a copy of the source code so that you can see how BLM is written and how it works. I was blessed to find gracious folks on the internet that shared some code that without BLM would not be possible. I hope some bible student finds BLM a useful tool. I hope some programmer finds the source code as helpful to him as the code I found was to me.

There is no charge nor will there ever be for BLM. This wouldnt even be possible if not for some of the code shared with me by others. Which is why I want to share all the code with whomever wants it. Use BLM all you want and your suggestions will be welcomed. I have contacted the authors of all the sites integrated into BLM and have their blessing.

I hope you enjoy and find this software a help to you,
Steve


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