Okay, I’m excited. I was visiting someone’s blog this evening and, as I hovered over the Scriptures referenced on their page, a small pop-up window appeared that allowed me to read the verse myself without ever leaving their site. I thought it was pretty cool, until I realized the potential of implementing such a feature here at A Look at Life from a Deerstand – then it became really cool! I immediately headed over to Reftagger.com to find out how I could add this awesome program to my own site.

Anyway, after messing around with it for a while, I’m thrilled to announce that you can now view every Scripture reference I use right here without ever touching a button. Just hover over the text itself (ex. John 3:16), and it will pop right up in a convenient little box and even allow you to click over to Biblia.com and read the context of the passage. Pretty neat, huh?

But, as exciting as it is, there are a couple strings attached that I should probably mention. First of all, when viewing my old posts, you’ll still have to click over to the online Bible I’ve been linking to in the past for most of the verses. For some reason, Reftagger wouldn’t pick up on references enclosed in parentheses and I currently have to override the system to make it work in those cases - something that would take a long time to do in each of my old posts. Second of all, if you’re viewing this post from your inbox, you’ll probably still have to click on all the links manually and read the passage in a separate window. Sorry about that, but I don’t think Reftagger supports e-mail formatting.

Either way, I’m really happy about this new feature and I hope it makes it easier for each of you to dig into God’s Word right here on my blog. Let me know what you think!