[1] WORDsearch became part of the ministry of B&H Publishing Group of LifeWay Christian Resources of Nashville,[2] but was sold to competitor Faithlife in 2020.
[8] WORDsearch is frequently used by pastors for the creation of sermons, and teachers for preparation of cell group and Sunday School lessons.
[9] QuickVerse 10, is a discontinued variant of the WORDsearch program that reads the same digital books and features most of the same functions.
[10] myWSB.com is a free, web browser-based Bible software program with a different functional approach, but nearly the same library of resources as WORDsearch and QuickVerse.
A second area of strength in the WORDsearch library is counseling, with collections from authors June Hunt, Neil T. Anderson, James Dobson, Joni Eareckson Tada, Gary Chapman, and many others.
Jim and Cheryl earned PhDs in Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill supervised by Dr. Fred Brooks, and became evangelical Christians partly through his witness.
Their shared interest in Bible study, teaching, and computer software led Jim to create the WORDsearch program while on sabbatical from IBM (ROLM) Corporation.
In 1993, Dr. Jim Sneeringer and Randolph Beck of Austin acquired the assets of NavPress Software and continued to publish with that name.
[18] In July 2003, WORDsearch acquired the assets of Epiphany Software, Inc. of San Jose including the program and brand Bible Explorer.