Matthew
Commentary on the Gospel
According to Matthew
John
Commentary on the Gospel
According to St. John
Amos, Obadiah, Minor Prophets, Major
Jonah, Micah,
Message
Nahum,
Habakkuk,
Zephaniah,
Haggai,
Zechariah,
Malachi,
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The Sower
W. Bruce
W. Bruce
G. McCurdy
W. Worcester
Overall, the cover-to-cover commentary effort is coming along nicely.
It’s useful and accessible now to the world’s Bible readers. It’s a great resource
for ministers and teachers, and it provides a strong platform for current New
Church explainers to use. We hope to parse more of it, as time and funds allow,
and we want to add a steady flow of new explanations, too.
We would like to express our appreciation for the help and generosity
of Andy Dibb, George Dole, The Swedenborg Foundation, George McCurdy
and Dove Press, Jon and Karin Childs and Fountain Publishing, Chuck Ebert
and NewSearch, Carroll Odhner and the Swedenborg Library, and others, for
providing much of this material. We’ve been awed by the level of scholarship
and dedication that is evidenced by this body of work, and by the steady
support for publishing, over many years, provided by the Swedenborg Society,
the Swedenborg Foundation, and the New Church branches. How did people
ever do this work without computers?
How’s Traffic?
We’re seeing140,000 site visits a month now, up 102% from this time last year.
That’s good! We’re happy, but it’s still a long way from the traffic that the top
Bible Study sites get. The road to being a top-tier Bible Study site is going to
require a bunch of steps. If we can keep taking them, we can hope to see 100x
growth.
What’s next? We want to really help people on their spiritual journeys.
We are planning to gradually shift more emphasis to helping users get what
they need. Until now, we’ve placed a lot of emphasis on stocking the shelves
with content. That’s been a fundamental, important, necessary thing – but it’s
not sufficient.
To make the site more and more useful to visitors, we need to be really
good at helping people make spiritual progress. We have been thinking about
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