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Mary Magdalene sees Jesus Christ alive! See John 20.Jesus Christ died a brutal death, but on the third day, He rose again! Not only that, He is still alive! It gets better. We who believe in Him also get eternal life! See John 3:16. This great news is too good to keep to ourselves. Thank …
Read More Jesus Christ is Risen!The Last Supper (John 13) as envisioned by Leonardo da Vinci and repainted by Giampietrino What would it have been like to be with Jesus Christ at the Passover meal that was his last supper before He was crucified? He surprised His disciples by washing their feet. He gently sent His betrayer on his way. …
Read More Dining with JesusSilver dinar of Vespasian, photographed by Michael Johnson at the Museum of the Bible I found the cure to worry about taxes and tariffs. It works, even though I have seen a lot of worry and sensationalism in the news and deep divisions among friends concerning opinions about taxes, tariffs, and politics. In our partnership …
Read More Taxes, Tariffs, and TestsWe see a lot of fighting going on in this world: wars, political battles, battles over moral issues, tribalism, domestic violence, violent crime, and more. What we don’t see in the usual news is the unseen spiritual dimension behind all of this trouble. Of course, people are involved, and that is bad enough with our …
Read More Spiritual WarfareThis 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 …
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