Ten Websites Every Pastor Should Know

Never before in the developed world have pastors been so resourced in terms of information.  Here are ten very helpful sites for the pastor:

• BibleGateway.com
  
  On this site you can search a multiplicity of Bible translations in a variety of languages by word, phrase, topic, or passage.  Among the twenty-one English translations are
  
  
  • the New International Version,
    
  • Today's New International Version,
    
  • the English Standard Version,
    
  • the New American Standard Bible,
    
  • the Holman Christian Standard Bible,
  • the New Living Translation, and
  • the New King James Version. 
    

• Crosswalk.com's Bible Study Tools
  
  This very helpful site includes
  
  
  • an online Hebrew and Greek Interlinear Bible,
    
    
  • several full-Bible commentaries including
    
    
    • Matthew Henry's famous commentary,
    • A.T. Robertson's Word Pictures of the New Testament,
    • Spurgeon's Treasury of David, and more. 
      
      
  • Several Bible Dictionaries including
    • Baker's Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology, and
    • Smith's Bible Dictionary
      
      
  • Lexicons in Hebrew and Greek
    
  • Naves Topical Bible
    
    
  • And a number of other helpful resources
    
    
• BibleStudy.org's Bible Maps & Timelines
  
  Just what it says.  Lots of maps from the Old and New Testaments
  
  
• StudyLight.org
  
  This site features
  
  
  • A Devotionals Page that includes
    
    
    • Oswald Chamber's My Utmost for His Highest
    • CH Spurgeon's Morning and Evening
      
      
  • A Commentaries Page that features
    
    
    • Adam Clarke's Commentary
    • Albert Barnes' Notes on the New Testament
    • John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible
    • Jamieson, Fausset, & Brown's Commentary on the Whole Bible
    • John Wesley's Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible
      
      
  • Bible Encyclopedias including the classic
    
    
    • International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE)
      
      
  • The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
    
    an amazing resource – this is an entire Bible of cross-references.
    
    
• Leadership University - A large repository of fine articles relevant to the pastor including pieces on apologetics, systematic theology, philosophy, etc.
  
  
• Fides Quaerens Internetum – a portal to the theological net featuring sites from a multiplicity of theological perspectives.
  
  
• Grace Online Library – a fine collection of articles, books, etc from the Reformed tradition.
  
  
• Christian Classics Ethereal Library – a dizzying assortment of entire books. 
  
  
• Creeds of Christiandom
  
  
• Christianity Today - CT is the source for what's going on today in evangelicalism
  

Thanks to my teammates here for suggestions!

This is just my opinion of ten very helpful websites for pastors.  If you are thinking, I can't believe he didn't mention ______, please enlighten us in comments!

Comments

[Kristie Rutzel]

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[Bob Robinson]

A great resource on the web is the Blue Letter Bible.

http://www.blueletterbible.org/

It can chart every word in every verse of the KJV with its original language equivalent, with concordance look up with a simple click.

It also displays NIV, NKJV, ESV, NLT, NASB, RSV.

Plus: Charts and Outlines, ISBE, Introductions to Books of the Bible, Timelines, Maps, and Devotionals.

[Kennedy Fraser]

You may find www.textweek.com useful for those that follow the lectionary.

Kennedy

[PhilMcCallum]

TodaysPastor.com is designed like talk radio for pastors. Instead of focusing on what a pastor does in his ministry, http://www.TodaysPastor.com gives attention to who he is. It features Podcasts with seasoned leaders on heart topics for pastors plus resources useful in reaching contemporary people.

[Tim Day]

A great resource is the Net Bible at http://www.bible.org/netbible/index.htm

One of the best resources out there for scholarly interaction with the text as well as a fresh translation.

Highly recommend it!

[Shawn Kaufman]

http://www.Monergism.com - By order of magnitude, the most extensive resources anywhere on the historic Christian faith, from a Reformed, Evangelical perspective.

[stephen shields]

thanks to everyone for your suggestions! I plan to repost this post at some point in the future incorporating many of your suggestions.

[David at free Christian resources]

The Desiring God website is also superb. It has all John Pipers sermons going back 25 years in mp3 and text format.

You may also want to have a look at my blog which I am slowly building up.