Mobile Daily Devotional

Back To The Bible has a great collections of daily devotions that I’m gonna convert for the mobile phone. They have Morning and Evening (Charles Spurgeon), Streams in the Desert (Mrs. Charles E. Cowman), and Through The Year (Warren Wiersbe). There are also devotions written by Woodrow Kroll (President of Back to the Bible), Theodore Epp and Elisabeth Elliot.

With so many choices, which should I start working on first?

This release only has the first 7 days of the month in it. The rest of the month will be added when they become available online. Download this release from Our Daily Bread Downloads.

This site started providing Our Daily Bread, Global Prayer Digest and others for mobile phones in May 2006. The download stats so far:

*July 2006 stats is up to 27th July.

This is the stats from this site. I think a lot of people are downloading these same applications from GetJar.com. The applications have a few thousand downloads each according to their stats.

So, there you have it. The number of downloads for the past 3 months.

For the past week, this website has been having a yo-yo like experience. Dreamhost that hosts this site had a string of problems. Those problems caused this website to go offline for a few hours for a few days over the past week. For those of you who couldn’t get in this site during that period, now you know why.

The hosting has been very reliable for the past year until last week. They have been working very hard to resolve the problems and have been very open with the problems that they are facing. All this happened just as my hosting fees was due for renewal. I decided to give them another chance and renewed my hosting for another year.

Pray for Northeast Asia: The World’s Economic Powerhouse in the 21st Century

The focus of this issue of Global Prayer Digest is on China, Japan, South Korea, North Korea and Mongolia. Read about Bertha Stanley and her experiences as a missionary to Korea and China. Pray for the people groups in Northeast Asia using the facts and information from this prayer digest.

You can download a copy of this prayer digest into your mobile phone at Global Prayer Digest Downloads. Previous issues of the Global Prayer Digest for java enabled mobile phones are also available.

The Global Prayer Digest is available in PDF file for download or viewing online at http://global-prayer-digest.org/. The PDA and mobile phone web browser edition is available at http://global-prayer-digest.org/pda/index-2006-8.html

How would you score on a scale of 1 to 5 to the questions below? How would you complete the sentences?

1. How successful am I?
I would be more successful if …

2. How significant am I?
I would be more significant if …

3. How fulfilled am I?
I would be more fulfilled if …

4. How satisfied am I?
I would be more satisfied if …

5. How happy am I?
I would be happier if …

6. How much fun am I having?
I would have more fun if …

7. How secure am I?
I would be more secure if …

8. How peaceful am I?
I would have more peace if …

These 8 areas are discussed in the final lesson in the Beta Course – The Next Step in Your Journey with Christ!. The discussion is about the need to evaluate and examine our lives in the light of God’s Word concerning these 8 aspects of our personal life.

1. Success
Key Concept: Goals
Success is accepting God’s goals for our lives and, by His grace, becoming what He has called us to be.

2. Significance
Key Concept: Time
What is forgotten in the passing of time is of little significance. What is remembered for eternity is of greatest significance.

3. Fulfillment
Key Concept: Role Preference
Fulfillment is discovering our own uniqueness in Christ and using our gifts to build others up and glorify the Lord.

4. Satisfaction
Key Concept: Quality
Satisfaction is living righteously and seeking to raise the quality of the relationships, services and products which we are involved.

5. Happiness
Key Concept: Wanting What You Have
Happiness is being thankful for what we do have rather than focusing on what we don’t have.

6. Fun
Key Concept: Uninhibited Spontaneity
The secret to fun is removing unbiblical blocks such as keeping up appearances.

7. Security
Key Concept: Relating to the Eternal
Insecurity comes when we depend on things that will pass away rather than on things that will last forever.

8. Peace
Key Concept: Establishing Internal Order
The peace of God is internal, not external.

The memory verses related to this 8 areas is available for download as a mobile phone application in the Freedom in Christ download page under God’s Guidelines for the Walk of Faith. I have created two versions of the application; in NASB and NIV.

Do you surf the web using your mobile phone?

I was going through the web server logs for the past week and noticed that there were visitors using mobilephone to access this website. For the past 7 days, we had visits from the following phone models.

Sony Ericsson K300i
Nokia 6061
Nokia 3120
MOT C650 (twice)
Samsung SGH T509
Samsung SPH A940

I tried browsing this website using the Nokia Series 40 emulator. It was a horrible experience having to scroll left, right, up and down to view the site. I shall add creating pages with a simpler layout for mobile phones into my todo list for this website.

Our Daily Bread July, 2006, full version (1st to 31st July) for java enabled mobile phones is now available at Daily Devotions on Mobile Phone. This will replace the earlier release for July 2006 (1st to 15th July).

While browsing around Mobile Ministry Magazine, I came across a review of eBible.com. Registration is by invitation only at the moment, and I promptly submitted my email for an invite. Much to my surprise, I received my invite within the day.

I was very pleased to find my favourite bible translation, the New American Standard Bible available there. There’s a bookshelf of 19 titles for me consisting of Bibles, Dictionaries, Encyclopedias and Commentaries. After trying out the various features in the site; my favourite is the popup window of bible verses when the mouse icon moves over a verse reference. The overall feel of the site is great.

I was using Firefox on my Dell laptop on my initial visit to the site without any problem. When I tried out the site on my Apple iBook G4 with Safari, the navigation using the mouse and keyboard seems to have a mind on its own. Navigating between chapters was problematic. Safari support still needs work. With Firefox on the iBook, navigation between chapters worked without any problem.

Overall, pretty impressive for a beta software. Kudos to the development team!

31-July-2006 Updates : I’ve invites available. Post a comment here to get an invite.

21-July-2006 Updates : I’m out of invites for now. You can still post a comment to get an invite and I’ll put you in the queue. I’ll post an update when I get more invites.

I stumbled across Mobile Ministry Magazine and was impressed with its focus on using technology and Scripture to preach the Gospel to all nations. I dropped them an email about the mobile phone software that I’ve been working on and Antoine from MMM posted the info on their blog. That’s a first for fourteenfloor.com; the first known mention of this website on another blog.

For all guys and gals interested to find out how your mobile device can be used as a tool for ministry, head on over to Mobile Ministry Magazine.