If your church needs a good-looking, flexible way to offer sermon audios and videos, religion lessons and textual studies, Bible Study does it better than any competing Joomla component available today.

Having meticulously explored the features, functionality and support offered by this and similar components, I can say unequivocally that only Bible Study met all my church's needs.

The component's administrative and front-end structure is easily understood, although the documentation could use fleshing out for the more advanced functions such as setting up podcasts or streaming audio and video. Nonetheless, the time required for even novice developers to get good results is not particularly long and the results are very satisfying.

As others have noted, Tom Fuller is quick to respond to support questions through the Bible Study forum, and he is eager to help you succeed in the setup you're looking for.

There were some bugs I encountered, but these had more to do with style than functionality. Tom squashed them promptly.

I wish there were more than one good multimedia sermons-and-studies component for most churches, but I firmly believe only this one will not disappoint you in the end.

Three, two, one, mark. nextEvent hits the spot exactly.

As a long-time developer who too often has been remiss in offering reviews and ratings, I have to say this module is a gem, not only for its highly configurable but easy user interface, but for its stylish way of complementing schlu.net's EventList.

Having installed an earlier version, I was taken aback when the developer stayed in touch over the next two days to squash every single bug I brought to his attention. His persistent support was so generous that there is no way for me to guarantee the same to every user. He replied to my concerns FOUR times in just half a day. Remarkable.

But having thoroughly tested this module on my site, I can tell you that nextEvent is more than ready for prime time. It is a star on my front page.