The Great Commission is our Mission.
This week was one of taking care of a lot of little tasks: None of those things, by themselves, seem like much, at least to me. Sometimes mission work involves taking care of personal health, maintaining the house where we make our home and my office, helping others do the ministry God called them to, …
Read More Little Things Add UpMap of the Federated States of Micronesia with arrows pointing to Satawal and Nukuoro islands This week, we got two more Micronesian Bible translations online: Nukoro and Satawalese. Both are for languages originating on small atolls among the Caroline Islands. See the red arrows pointing to tiny dots on the map, above. These are fairly …
Read More Two More Micronesian Translations OnlineTopographic map of Turkey This week, I got an encouraging email from a dear friend, Bible translator, and pastor in Turkey. That is a land where there are a lot of people who don’t yet know the Good News about Jesus Christ. I thought you would be encouraged by the testimonies he shared. As financial …
Read More Delight in TurkeyInductive Bible study that I was leading in Papua New Guinea in 2010. There were people from many language groups attending, but all of them were fluent in English or Tok Pisin or both. I instructed in both languages (interpreting for myself). Now, in 2025 in the U. S. A., my in-person inductive Bible studies …
Read More Celebrating 25 YearsMost of the time, we make serving up Bibles world-wide look easy. Sometimes, not so much. On February 19th, 2025, the eBible.org server crashed hard. I administer that machine remotely, as it is in a data center more than 4,000 miles from my house. It stopped responding to all commands. I tried allocating a new …
Read More Making Hard Things Look EasySolomon Islands Focus on Solomon Islands Solomon Islands is a Pacific island nation with 70 living indigenous languages. We operate a web site called Solomons.Bible that provides access to Bible translations in 14 of those languages, plus English, which is also widely spoken there. More Bible translations have been done for this nation, but I …
Read More Focus on Solomon IslandsThe World English Bible is a translation of the Holy Bible. Actually, it is more of a series. Please allow me to explain. The original, classic World English Bible (WEB, or sometimes WEBUS) is an update of the American Standard Version of 1901, with updates in the New Testament to conform the translation to the …
Read More World English Bible OptionsWho doesn’t have any access to a Bible in their own language? According to the Progress.Bible web site, there are still 980 languages spoken on Earth with no Scripture, and nobody working on Bible translations in those languages. Those are represented by the red dots on the map, below. (Click on the map for a …
Read More Who Doesn’t Have Access to a Bible?I think it was in 1999, at a Colorado Christian Writers’ Conference, that I was talking with one of the presenters about typos, and he said “Typos are the great lost sock of the publishing industry.” I wish I could remember his name to give proper attribution. That is a great analogy! Sock go into …
Read More The Great “Lost Sock” of the Publishing IndustryIt is easy to argue that there are too many English Bible translations, already. It is nice to have multiple translations to compare, to hopefully understand a passage of the Bible better. But having too many Bible translations in one language could also be confusing or divisive, so we don’t want to add variants without …
Read More Why So Many World English Bible Editions?I just did a bit of cleanup on our server farm. I had an FTP server on eBible.org that has been running for over four decades. When I started it, FTP was an old (already) but useful standard for moving files around the Internet. It was invented in a simpler, more trusting time, when sending …
Read More FTP and Internet Bit RotI just updated the history of the World English Bible on eBible.org.
Read More Updated History of the World English Bible