It seems as if everything is going mobile these days: Facebook, Twitter, the Bible. Jeff Swanson has developed a new organization of the Bible for eBook, which is suitable for reading on the Kindle and Kindle reader on cellphones and computers, as well as Apple, Nook and Sony eReader.

Whether you are a student of biblical history or just want a highly organized format for Bible study, the eBook version of the Bible facilitates easier study; and searching Scripture allows for keyword searches to find exactly what you are looking for, as well as provides hyper-linking to each prophecy, “looping” it to trace the prophecy, guiding you through the text with a click to each point at which it appears, eventually leading you back to your launching point.

Jeff Swanson calls The Plan “half eBook and half software programming,” taking the high-tech nature of this complete NIV translation of Scripture a step further, using modern technology to match exact dates with biblical history. Swanson has used computer algorithms predicated on the 66 dates in the Bible that can be accurately placed on a calendar in order to calculate the relative dates of the rest of the events in the Bible, resulting in an astonishingly accuracy rate of 99.9 percent, the modern answer to Archbishop Ussher’s 17th century calculations.

Whether you consider yourself a high-tech person, the digital format of The Plan will enhance your reading and understanding of the Bible. Although many of us never may have imagined a world in which technology and religion complemented each other, Swanson has proven it is possible and highly effective in his synthesis of computing technology and Scripture. The Plan is a significant step toward the entry of the church in the high-tech information era in which we live, proving that it is not stagnant, but is progressing with the rest of society.