scriptive.org blog

Scriptive.org is live to the public as of April 6th, 2013 at 9:30pm MT! We had a great celebration and time of prayer at the Inverness Hotel & Conference Center in Denver, CO. See below for highlights from the night!

This Saturday (April 6th, 2013) at 9:30pm Mountain Time, Scriptive launches Version 1.0 on the web at www.scriptive.org. We’re having a small launch event in Denver, CO to celebrate this milestone and deploy the web application for public access. Here’s a behind the scenes look at our development team hard at work:

God has an incredible heart for provision. Sometimes He provides a friend to support us in difficult times. Sometimes He provides a difficult time to keep our hearts close to Him. And sometimes, like what’s happened in the past few days, He provides financial means to accomplish His will. I’m pleased to announce that we’ve [...]

Scriptive Founder Charles Roach was invited to give the staff devotional at the National Christian Foundation (NCF) on March 11th, 2013. Charles will speak to the entire staff at the NCF Headquarters in Atlanta, GA, telling his story, showing how God orchestrated the beginnings of Scriptive, and desiring to encourage the staff with Scripture and [...]

One of our good friends and supporters, Bob Heykoop, introduced us to Denver Seminary President, Dr. Mark Young. Charles was blessed to be introduced to multiple staff members and enjoy a luncheon at the Seminary as well. After the meeting, Dr. Young agreed to promote Scriptive both internally and externally, providing this resource for future [...]

What’s a “Hack Session” you might ask? It’s when web developers wire-in and focus 150% of their brainpower and time towards a certain goal, or iteration, to be completed at the end of the session. Scriptive had a goal: to create a life events and circumstance data model to better recommend accurate and context-driven Scripture [...]

I get to meet the coolest people! Today, I drove to Denver and had lunch with Bob Heykoop after an introduction from Chris Chancey (Denver Seminary Student Council President). Bob volunteers his time and greatly supports the students at Denver Seminary. He works in investments and insurance around the Denver area and has a huge [...]

We are pleased to announce that Blair Cunningham, Partner at Signature FD, has joined the Board of Advisors at Scriptive. We’re excited for Blair to join the team and look forward to spending more time with him! He is truly a generous, kind, wise, and selfless man and we are truly blessed to learn from [...]

Scriptive Prayer Meeting: Prayer for Scriptive.org direction, funding, development, and future users. Introduction at 7pm Prayer from 7:15 – 8:15pm   Progress Introduction: We’ve received a match of $40,000 from an international Christian organization in CO Springs! Already, we’ve been given $5000 towards this goal. $35,000 left to raise. Prayer for Direction: – God’s will in [...]

We’ve done it! Just a moment ago, we released Version 0.8 of Scriptive (our ‘Alpha’ website). You can view it here: http://alpha.scriptive.org* It’s released on an invite-only basis because there’s still some work left to do before we can release it to the general public. After weeks and weeks of work, Spencer, Charles, and Frank spent [...]