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Are you heading your YOUTH MINISTRY? Or are you a CELL GROUP LEADER? Or a PASTOR? We know leading a group is hard, and getting folks to read the Bible is harder. That’s why eBible is launching a new custom reading plan and group Bible study tool to help you lead and manage your sheep. Here’s what you can do with it.

• As a PASTOR, you can offer follow-up discussions on your sermons after Sunday – great for keeping in touch with people who may have been missing on Sunday, or offer online discussions on what you just preached.
• As a CELL or YOUTH GROUP LEADER, you can track memory verses, send reminders during the week, and even host online Bible study discussions – great for those globe-trotters in your group!
• As a MINISTRY, you can create daily devotionals to uplift members, or even a custom reading plan for specific events – eg Lent or Advent reading schedule.

Ready to get started?

Build Your Own Reading Plans or Devotionals

Start YOUR MINISTRY here: http://ebible.com/ministry

The sky’s the limit to what you can do. Here are some ideas.

• Theme-based plan i.e. “Finding Hope”
• Goal-based plans i.e. “Psalms in 31 days”
• Daily devotionals i.e. “Spiritual Coffee for the Day”
• Verse-of-the-Day i.e. “365 days of Love, Joy and Peace”
• Reading plan or devotional for a small group, Bible study Group, or Church-wide.

Online Group Bible Study

First go to the Reading Plans page and find a reading plan to subscribe to.

Once you subscribe to a plan, you will be given the option to start a new group or invite an existing group to read the Bible with you.

Group Comments

Once you have a group going, you’ll be able to discuss your readings together and get email notification anytime a group member makes a comment.

Group Discussions

You can see each other’s progress delivered to you via email daily.

Conclusion

Two powerful tools to aid you in your spiritual journey this year. A customized reading plan that’s specific to you and your group. An online group collaboration tool that helps you stay motivated and accountable to each other.

Only on eBible.com.

Colin Wong
CEO, eBible

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The New International Version (NIV) English Bible translation has arrived on eBible.com! Mobile eBible apps to follow shortly. The NIV Bible will only be available via Supporter subscription due to publisher licensing restriction. We currently do not have permission to show the NIV for free yet.

The eBible Team

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Name Your Highlights

Starting today, you can name your highlights on eBible. We noticed that people organize their highlights in paper-based Bibles around colors. For instance, you may choose to highlight all verses on hope and inspiration as green, or all verses on grace as red. You get the idea. Well now you can organize your highlights just like that in eBible too.

Go here to name your highlights: https://ebible.com/highlight_labels

Highlight Labels

After that, you can restrict your search to just highlighted verses in a particular color. In this example I searched for the word “tithe” on all highlights that I labeled under “finance”.

Search Highlight Labels

Organizing your highlighted verses around colors, labeling them and then being able to search them is an incredibly powerful ability to help you remember all the key verses that are important. We highly recommend you take advantage of this amazing tool in eBible.

Gift Certificates

Want to share the gift that keeps on giving? Starting today, you can send a year long subscription of eBible to your friends, family and co-workers.

Gift an annual subscription of eBible to someone you care about today: https://ebible.com/gifting

The eBible Team

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Shadow Highlights

One of the most powerful features on eBible.com is the ability to do word-level highlighting and layering one highlight on top of another. Now for the very first time you can see highlights you did from another translation into your current translation as well.

Here’s an example of a highlight I did in KJV.

Highlights in KJV

I then switched to the NASB translation and see this.

Shadow highlights from KJV appear on the NASB translation

Highlights from other translations appear as gray in color. Now if I choose to put my own highlight on this translation, it will override the shadow highlight.

Highlights in NASB, with shadow highlights from KJV

Support eBible through Annual Subscriptions

We want to take the opportunity to thank many of you who supported eBible through our monthly supporter plan.

One popular request so far is to have an annual supporter option. We heard you and starting today this is available. Annual subscriptions will save you an additional 15%. This comes from the reduction in credit card fees charged on us by our payment processor, and we extend the savings to you.

Annual Supporter Plan

You may upgrade to the annual plan any time. We will pro-rate your existing monthly subscription to the annual program.

CLICK HERE TO UPGRADE AND SUPPORT EBIBLE

Thanks again for your continuing support! Your help will ensure eBible continue to build bigger and better features to provide the best possible Bible reading experience ever.

The eBible Team

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