Prayer is an important part of the Christian's life. (Click here to read the rest.)

Announcing the addition of new content to Glimpses of His Glory, a section of our site devoted to resources that may be of particular interest to those involved in women's ministry. We have added Ponnamal Her Story by missionary Amy Carmichael and The Excellent Woman as described in the Book of Proverbs 31:10-31 produced by Anne Pratt and the Religious Tract Society in 1900. It contains beautiful illustrations. We have also added two resource index pages for Women of Scripture; Rahab and Ruth. We hope you are blessed by this material.

Come visit the new Blue Letter Bible blog! Our new blog will be updated every weekday providing you with:

• Tips and tools to maximize the fruitfulness of your study at Blue Letter Bible
• Regular news updates about Blue Letter Bible’s ministry
• Biblical commentaries, devotionals, and other resources
• Regular articles on theology and doctrine
• Articles highlighting martyrs, missionaries, and theologians (past and present)
• Cultural commentary from a Biblical perspective
• Links to ‘the best of the best’ content from other ministry websites that we find helpful
• Book giveaways and other fun gifts from our ministry

In our weekly staff devotion here at the ministry, Pastor Rob Douglass gave a fabulous devotion based on Psalm 139. We thought that we would share it with our BLB community. We pray that you are blessed by our LORD through His Word.

We are pleased to announce the addition of William Smith's Bible Dictionary of 1884. This means that we now have ten dictionaries (with over 58,000 entries) available in our Dictionary Search! These dictionary entries have also been added to the D button for many, many verses.

We are pleased to announce the addition of new audio commentaries: According to Prophecy, an collection of audio studies on the end times by Donald Perkins. Our heartfelt thanks to this contributor for providing these messages to the Body of Christ.

We're pleased to announce a new web tool for those of you who run blogs or church websites or, really, any website on which you reference scripture. The tool (what we're calling the BLB ScriptTagger) finds any Scripture reference on your site and creates a hover-over displaying the text of the referenced passage.

Like this: Deut 6:4-9 or John 3:16. Just roll your mouse over either of those references and you'll see what we mean.

The BLB ScriptTagger will create these automatically. All you have to do is add the reference. Once the script is in place (a one-time addition of, at minimum, a single line of code), you won't have to do anything else to link these references. So check out the BLB ScriptTagger: easy to install and easier to use.

After we put together the BLB app for the iPhone, we believed (silly us!) that it wouldn't be too much more trouble to port it over to iPad. A couple months of good hard work later and we've got the BLB iPad app ready to go.

Blackberry and Android users, please pray that God would offer provision and direction for the development of an app for your platforms. In the meantime, our Mobile version of the BLB, at m.blb.org, offers Blue Letter Bible tools designed specifically for mobile connections.

Introducing the BLB app for iPhone
Over the past couple months we've been hard at work on an iPhone application. Something that would carry over some of the unique tools the BLB offers onto Apple's popular device. And now, the BLB is available (for free!) for the iPhone from their App Store.

For more information, please see our BLB iPhone App page. This is just the start and we plan to continue to hone the program into something truly wonderful.

The Blue Letter Bible is now using Twitter and Facebook. We hope to use these platforms to encourage you in the Word, to interact with our users, and to keep you up to date with new additions to the site. Please feel free to join us on whichever of these tools you're already using:

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