Some part of your reading should, each day, be stored in the stomach of memory enough to be digested. At times it should be brought up again for frequent rumination.
Category Archives: Resources
Top 5 Reading & Study Apps
I use my mobile devices for a lot of different things. Perhaps the biggest use comes in the form of reading and study. My usage in this area spreads across both my iPhone 5s and my iPad, almost interchangeably, although there are some things I do almost exclusively on one or the other.
I also own an Amazon Kindle Touch, but I find that it doesn’t really play into this discussion much. I only use it for reading, and only then for reading fiction. For most of the rest of my reading, I prefer to use other methods, primarily in book form.
On the other hand, I really like the mobile versions of my Bible study software, which tops off this list.
The Bible is not an end in itself, but a means to bring men [and women] to an intimate and satisfying knowledge of God, that they may enter into Him, that they may delight in His presence, may taste and know the inner sweetness of the very God Himself is the core and center of their hearts.
A. W. Tozer - The Pursuit Of God
(Regal Publishers, 2013)
Top 5 Social Media Apps
With a smart phone in today’s world, there are several essential apps that come in very handy. At times it seems as if you can’t function at all without these, they’ve become so useful to us.
Regardless of whether you like or dislike social media, it seems as if it’s here to stay… at least for the foreseeable future. I’ve read many blog posts about abandoning social media for simplicity. While I think I understand what they are saying, and agree to a point, I find that I cannot do the same.
There are simply too many people that I connect with only through social media, and to give it up would be to abandon those relationships as well.
And so there are a series of apps that I find extremely helpful on this front.
Of all the spiritual disciplines prayer is the most central because it ushers us into perpetual communion with the Father.
Richard Foster - Celebration of Discipline
(San Francisco: Harper Collins, 2002)
Top 5 Productivity Apps
For the longest time, I was a BlackBerry user. I carried one of those devices for several years, and enjoyed its capabilities. But, inevitably, I had to let it go. There simply were not enough applications being developed for it, to meet my needs and wants. I switched to an Apple iPhone 4, and haven’t looked back
As I learned how to navigate the world of the iPhone, I found that there were tons more apps available, plus more in development, and they seemed to be much more stable than the old platform I’d been using.
I was more than satisfied with my options. Soon after I made the switch, Apple released the iPhone 4s. I did not upgrade. The added feature of Siri wasn’t enough justify the purchase. When the iPhone 5 hit the market, I drug my feet again, waiting until the iPhone 5s was released before I pulled the trigger on a new purchase.
With that purchase, I upgraded by three generations, and increased my storage capacity by a huge margin from the 8G that I currently had. It made a world of difference in almost every way.
A constitution founded on these principles introduces knowledge among the people, and inspires them with a conscious dignity becoming freemen; a general emulation takes place, which causes good humor, sociability, good manners, and good morals to be general. That elevation of sentiment inspired by such a government, makes the common people brave and enterprising. That ambition which is inspired by it makes them sober, industrious, and frugal.