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It’s finally done. We’ve finally posted outlines of every book of the Bible.

I recently formatted and uploaded Tim’s outline of Malachi.

Malachi appears to be a contemporary of Nehemiah, prophesying approximately 70 years after the end of Zechariah’s prophecy, and the last prophet in Old Testament Scripture. Malachi apparently prophesied while Nehemiah was in Babylon (Nehemiah 13:6), and addresses some similar sins.

Read the rest of our overview and outline of Malachi here.

We’ve added yet another unbelievable Christian testimony to truthsaves. This is Scot’s story. He lived life numbed by alcohol and hard drugs. Doctors actually told his family members to start preparing for his death. He had no hope, or so it seemed.

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for peace and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.
Jeremiah 29:11 (ESV)

Read Scot’s amazing journey through the valley of the shadow of death.

I just uploaded our overview and outline of Zechariah.

Zechariah was a contemporary of Haggai and began to prophesy before the last two prophecies of Haggai. He is known as an apocalyptic prophet in that he gives us a series of eight visions. Tim calls this book “The Prophecy of the Two Advents.” Both the first and second returns of Christ are prophesied of in this book.

The rest of the overview and outline of Zechariah is right here.

Here’s a short excerpt from our overview of Haggai:

Haggai was the first of the three postexilic prophets. He was the first prophet after the death of Jeremiah and Ezekiel. Daniel lived until approximately within 15-20 years of Haggai’s prophecy, but Daniel’s prophecies were in Babylon and Daniel was not listed among the prophets of Israel in the Hebrew Scriptures. God raised up Haggai to motivate His people back to His work.

To read the full overview and outline of Haggai, click here.

We have an almost comprehensive collection of Bible book outlines on truthsaves. Feel free to check them out.

I just finished formatting Tim’s Zephaniah outline.

We know Zephaniah as the Prophet of the Day of the LORD. While hope is contained for the righteous, judgment and wrath are the wellspring of the book. Zephaniah prophesied somewhere between 630 and 621 B.C.

Check out our outline of Zephaniah here.

This program performs an essential function - it keeps you from forgetting stuff. I have a tendency to forget things unless I write them down. I also tend to lose papers on which I write things down. No longer. And, of course, it’s completely free. Oh, and it has a very imaginative name:  Stickies.

Actually, this program has been around a long time, but the author continues to improve it. It’s by far the best free sticky note program available. Other choices exist, but most have disabled functions unless you buy the full version, or they simply don’t have the simple elegance of function this program possesses.

Some of the functions I appreciate:

1. stickies can be hidden to re-appear whenever you’d like
2. you can set an alarm to sound (as a helpful reminder)
3. stickies stay where you put them, even through re-boots (you can’t lose them)
4. it initiates no registry changes (now that’s nice)

Of course this amazing free sticky note program performs other cool functions but you’ll have to download it for yourself to figure out what they are.

Download Stickies here.

Boldly sharing God’s Word wherever we go isn’t always easy. But when we do our part, God can work mighty miracles! Check out this story of my friend Henry; he continues preaching even when under fire, and God uses him in awesome ways.

Check out Henry’s testimony here.

I don’t really know how in the heck Aegisub works, but it does. I also don’t know what else it’s capable of doing, but I use it for adding subtitles to videos edited in Virtualdub.

You’ll need Virtualdub, Aegisub, and VSFilter (VSFilter is the plugin that makes it all work). So, get Virtualdub, then go grab Aegisub and don’t forget that pesky plugin, VSFilter. I’d get the VS filter without the installer, unzip it, drag the VSFilter.dll to your Virtualdub plugins folder, rename it VSFilter.vdf, and you’re good to go.

Now, next time you have a video you want to add subtitles to, just open Aegisub, drag the video onto the interface, add the text where you want it (I’m not going to tell you how to use it; you’ll have to figure it out), and save it. Typically I use the .ass extension (really).

Then open your video in Virtualdub, go to Video –> Filters –> Add –> TextSub (the new plugin), browse to your file (with the .ass extension), open it, and . . . . you’re done! Of course you have to save your new video but you should now have subtitles.

If you’re interested in using a simple script for fading text, check out this link.

If you want something easier than all this for adding subtitles to your videos, I’d suggest buying some commercial software like Pinnacle or Sony Vegas. But I’m not suggesting that anyone really buy those packages. I think you’d be much better off figuring this stuff out on your own!

For a bit more assistance figuring this out, check out this informative Youtube video (just remember that Aegisub now comes with its own installer - you don’t have to download all the separate .dll files like it says in the video).

Habakkuk was an early contemporary of Jeremiah, most likely prophesying from 609-606 B.C. He prophesied immediately before Judah went into captivity in 605 B.C. to Babylon. We might call Habakkuk the questioning prophet. He posed two questions, one in 1:2-4 and one in 1:12-17. The answer of the LORD came in 1:5-11 and in 2:2-20. The book ends with a magnificent prayer/song of Habakkuk in chapter 3.

Read more about this fascinating book of prophecy in our overview and outline of Habakkuk.

Tonight I finished up formatting Tim’s Nahum outline. It gives much excellent historical background on the city of Nineveh.

Nahum stresses the fact that violence and oppression will not go unpunished. He makes it clear that living under God’s wrath is not a very smart idea.

Read our overview and outline of Nahum here.

I just uploaded an outline of Micah. While Micah prophesies doom and destruction like other prophets, he also makes blatantly clear that God doesn’t desire sacrifices or lip service; He desires an intimate relationship with us.

^6:6 “With what shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before God on high? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old?

^6:7 Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?”

^6:8 He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?

Read our overview and outline of Micah here.