There ought to be a standard way to reference Scripture passages in a blog that has these properties:

• it displays the reference itself
• it displays the text itself (optionally, and with the option of abbreviating it)
• it's linked to a URI that will display the chapter context
• the URI as text makes sense (so you could compose a new one)

BibleGateway.com provides something like this. Here's the text for a link to John 3:16-17 (if you navigate there through their interface, you get some other parameters in the URL for the language, the version, and some display parameters. But the URL seems to work okay without them, maybe through cookies).

http://www.biblegateway.com/cgi-bin/bible?passage=John+3:16-17

This seems general enough (though this probably won't let you reference discontinuous sections, like John 3:16-17, 20). The reference and the text still have to be done by hand, though. 

Now if i just had a Radio macro that generated this automatically from something reasonable, like <%imageref()%>. "someday" i'll have to look at the tutorial ...

"Everyone will know you are my disciples, if you do what I tell you ..."

I'd like to survey the imperatives of Jesus, just to refresh my memory, and to do so briefly enough to provide an overview. Much of what Jesus did and taught provided context, explained what God and His Kingdom are like, showed him dealing with situations. But i suspect there are relatively few imperatives: "watch", "be on your guard", "seek to enter by the narrow gate". I'd like to pull them all together in one place ... (more here: work in progress)

From a fascinating interview with Larry Wall on slashdot, mostly about Perl (the hugely successful scripting language that he created), but with one section about faith ...

"It doesn't take great energetic gobs of faith on your part--after all, Jesus said you only have to have faith the size of a mustard seed. So just how big is that, in information theory terms? I think it's just two bits big. Please allow me to qoute a couple 'bits' from Hebrews, slightly paraphrased:

You can't please God the way Enoch did without some faith, because those who come to God must (minimally) believe that:
    A) God exists, and
    B) God is good to people who really look for him.

That's it. The 'good news' is so simple that a child can understand it, and so deep that a philosopher can't. "