About the Site

This site is dedicated to providing in-depth Bible teaching. This is its raison d’être, its reason for being. Everything else flows from this underlying purpose.

The below links represent my effort to document how this site works, and why. Read straight through, this is a fair bit of material, so I would instead recommend referencing sections over time, as needed.

Overview

How You Can Help This Ministry
We all need one another in the body of Christ, and those in ministry (be it teaching like myself, or evangelism/missions, or other callings besides) especially need the support of other believers. Bearing this in mind, this page goes over some ways in which you can help this ministry.
Frequently Asked Questions
This page contains frequently asked questions about this ministry, and my responses to said questions.
Copyright and Terms of Use
All the teaching materials of this ministry may be freely used and accessed, and even remixed and reworked (for different ministry purposes, e.g.), as long as proper attribution is given and the materials are not being charged for. However, the same copyright terms must apply to any derived materials, such that they are also made freely available to all for noncommercial use. You could summarize all this in a sentence by stating that this ministry is very much against charging for and making money off of Bible teaching, so as long you don't run afoul of that, you're most of the way there.

Content

Content Organization
This page goes over how content on the site is organized. Among other things, it explains how this site supports text, video, and audio (all three content mediums), the content types this site uses, the hierarchical page types within each content type (list pages, aggregation pages, and content pages), the concepts of content level (spiritual difficulty level) and writing level (how hard the writing itself is to read), and the fine-grained sectioning this site employs by using special content sections to mark out different types of content (for example discussion of application, as opposed to direct teaching).
Content Features
This page goes over some notable features that enhance content on the site. Among other things, it explains how site content uses dynamic auto-scrolling tables of contents, maintains a thorough subject index with bidirectional links (content links to the subject index and vice versa), embeds feature-rich Bible app windows via the STEP Bible app API, automatically tags all Bible verses on the page to display scripture references in tooltip pop-up windows, implements footnotes that display in a tooltip on hover (very similar to the verse tagging), and utilizes direct paragraph-level or even sentence-level links to web resources or resources in Bible software programs, to make navigating to quoted or cited text instant and painless.
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