Comments on: The B-I-B-L-E #5 http://preachermike.com/2006/03/14/the-b-i-b-l-e-5 Sniffing out the work of God in the world... Tue, 16 Mar 2010 01:23:27 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: The B-I-B-L-E | PreacherMike http://preachermike.com/2006/03/14/the-b-i-b-l-e-5/comment-page-1#comment-82283 The B-I-B-L-E | PreacherMike Wed, 27 Jan 2010 12:46:26 +0000 http://www.preachermike.com/2006/03/14/the-b-i-b-l-e-5#comment-82283 [...] following posts in the series can be found here: The B-I-B-L-E #2 The B-I-B-L-E #3 The B-I-B-L-E #4 The B-I-B-L-E #5 The B-I-B-L-E #6 The B-I-B-L-E #7 The B-I-B-L-E #8 And I’d now add this as The B-I-B-L-E [...] [...] following posts in the series can be found here: The B-I-B-L-E #2 The B-I-B-L-E #3 The B-I-B-L-E #4 The B-I-B-L-E #5 The B-I-B-L-E #6 The B-I-B-L-E #7 The B-I-B-L-E #8 And I’d now add this as The B-I-B-L-E [...]

]]> By: Wanda Childers http://preachermike.com/2006/03/14/the-b-i-b-l-e-5/comment-page-1#comment-50315 Wanda Childers Tue, 13 Feb 2007 19:43:13 +0000 http://www.preachermike.com/2006/03/14/the-b-i-b-l-e-5#comment-50315 Greg, listened to what he is saying" TODAYI WILL BE TAUGHT THE WORD OF GOD" He is not saying it is in the WORD of God...He is just directing to the WORD. You go there and read the WORD and you will find the answers...and when you receive God's truth. I assure you ...you will never be the same! Greg, listened to what he is saying” TODAYI WILL BE TAUGHT THE WORD OF GOD” He is not saying it is in the WORD of God…He is just directing to the WORD. You go there and read the WORD and you will find the answers…and when you receive God’s truth. I assure you …you will never be the same!

]]> By: Greg http://preachermike.com/2006/03/14/the-b-i-b-l-e-5/comment-page-1#comment-9346 Greg Wed, 15 Mar 2006 17:11:23 +0000 http://www.preachermike.com/2006/03/14/the-b-i-b-l-e-5#comment-9346 Yeah, but where in Joel Osteen's Bible did he find this gem: "God wants us to prosper financially, to have plenty of money, to fulfill the destiny He has laid out for us." Yeah, but where in Joel Osteen’s Bible did he find this gem:

“God wants us to prosper financially, to have plenty of money, to fulfill the destiny He has laid out for us.”

]]> By: David http://preachermike.com/2006/03/14/the-b-i-b-l-e-5/comment-page-1#comment-9334 David Wed, 15 Mar 2006 13:20:02 +0000 http://www.preachermike.com/2006/03/14/the-b-i-b-l-e-5#comment-9334 "This is my Bible: I am what it says I am; I have what it says I have; I can do what it says I can do. Today, I will be taught the Word of God. I boldly confess: My mind is alert; my heart is receptive; I will never be the same. I am about to receive the incorruptible, indestructible, ever-living Seed of the Word of God. I'll never be the same -- never, never, never! I'll never be the same, in Jesus' Name. Amen." --- recited by the Lakewood CC before the message is presented by Joel Osteen “This is my Bible: I am what it says I am; I have what it says I have; I can do what it says I can do.
Today, I will be taught the Word of God.
I boldly confess: My mind is alert; my heart is receptive; I will never be the same.
I am about to receive the incorruptible, indestructible, ever-living Seed of the Word of God.
I’ll never be the same — never, never, never! I’ll never be the same, in Jesus’ Name. Amen.”

— recited by the Lakewood CC before the message is presented by Joel Osteen

]]> By: Beverly http://preachermike.com/2006/03/14/the-b-i-b-l-e-5/comment-page-1#comment-9332 Beverly Wed, 15 Mar 2006 12:59:42 +0000 http://www.preachermike.com/2006/03/14/the-b-i-b-l-e-5#comment-9332 I love that story.. I love that story..

]]> By: paul http://preachermike.com/2006/03/14/the-b-i-b-l-e-5/comment-page-1#comment-9331 paul Wed, 15 Mar 2006 10:39:54 +0000 http://www.preachermike.com/2006/03/14/the-b-i-b-l-e-5#comment-9331 I am sure there is a treasure worth more than $20 in every book. God obviously knows me better than I know myself and the mystery of that holy living word is awesome! I am sure there is a treasure worth more than $20 in every book. God obviously knows me better than I know myself and the mystery of that holy living word is awesome!

]]> By: Dee Andrews http://preachermike.com/2006/03/14/the-b-i-b-l-e-5/comment-page-1#comment-9330 Dee Andrews Wed, 15 Mar 2006 04:44:16 +0000 http://www.preachermike.com/2006/03/14/the-b-i-b-l-e-5#comment-9330 I don't know what is next, but thanks, Mike, for this series on the B-I-B-L-E. It's just been wonderful. In its entirety. Thanks. I don’t know what is next, but thanks, Mike, for this series on the B-I-B-L-E. It’s just been wonderful. In its entirety.

Thanks.

]]> By: mchristophoros http://preachermike.com/2006/03/14/the-b-i-b-l-e-5/comment-page-1#comment-9329 mchristophoros Tue, 14 Mar 2006 21:28:07 +0000 http://www.preachermike.com/2006/03/14/the-b-i-b-l-e-5#comment-9329 The twenty-dollar bills reminded me. When we lived in Portland TX, our preacher was (the late) Holland Boring, Jr. He loved for someone to ask, "Which translation should I use?". He replied, "The one you'll READ." Michael The twenty-dollar bills reminded me. When we lived in Portland TX, our preacher was (the late) Holland Boring, Jr. He loved for someone to ask, “Which translation should I use?”.

He replied, “The one you’ll READ.”

Michael

]]> By: Deb http://preachermike.com/2006/03/14/the-b-i-b-l-e-5/comment-page-1#comment-9328 Deb Tue, 14 Mar 2006 19:05:37 +0000 http://www.preachermike.com/2006/03/14/the-b-i-b-l-e-5#comment-9328 This ‘little series’ is so rich on many levels. Thanks, Mike, for helping us peel back the layers! Recently, upon the recommend of one of your Blog posts, I looked up the info for the TNIV. Today’s commercialisation of the Bible, together with how each publishing house markets their translations/various interpretations, is just astounding – so many trendy renditions. All this dressing up just to have to coax people to open the covers -- it’s kinda like dousing Brussels sprouts in a ton of cheese sauce to force a kid like me to eat them! I’m just as spoiled, though, because I was so bummed not to find the Study Bible version (I found out it will be available Sept 2006.) I guess that one is too scary to be popular? That said, I will never forget how wonderful my white leather (with a zipper) King James smelled – my very first Bible given to me on Christmas when I was six years old. It is so amazing that you are doing this series, because one of the recent books that has had such a profound affect on me is Brian Moynahan’s ‘If God Spare My Life: William Tyndale, the English Bible and Sir Thomas More – a Story of Martyrdom and Betrayal’ (Little, Brown). We have come such a long way from the Bible smuggling times of Tyndale’s days. One of the most painful stories I have ever read has to do with Tyndale’s journey to Hamburg, where he hoped to complete his work on the Septuagint. His disastrous shipwreck on the Dutch coast cost him, among most of his resources and precious funds, his just-completed translation of Deuteronomy. Of all books to have to duplicate and do over again – the thought just exhausts me! The TNIV might be, in our day and time, a vast improvement over Tyndale’s hard spiritual graft of a lifetime. I am sad that when, as a child in the C of C, I asked questions like ‘Where did my Bible come from? If Jesus spoke Aramaic, then why can I read this in English?’ no one told me the stories of such early erudite Believers as Wycliffe or Tyndale. They were certainly not popular or considered successful in their time. Indeed, for all Tyndale’s arduous work, Sir Thomas More would condemn him as ‘a hell-hound in the kennel of the devil’. With More’s obsession for making Tyndales’s life the thorniest of trials, Tyndale’s passion for communicating the personality of Jesus to the English masses could only be buoyed by the power of the Holy Spirit. Sorry to write so much … this stuff is just so exciting! Awaiting the B-I-B-L-E #6. This ‘little series’ is so rich on many levels. Thanks, Mike, for helping us peel back the layers!

Recently, upon the recommend of one of your Blog posts, I looked up the info for the TNIV. Today’s commercialisation of the Bible, together with how each publishing house markets their translations/various interpretations, is just astounding – so many trendy renditions. All this dressing up just to have to coax people to open the covers — it’s kinda like dousing Brussels sprouts in a ton of cheese sauce to force a kid like me to eat them! I’m just as spoiled, though, because I was so bummed not to find the Study Bible version (I found out it will be available Sept 2006.) I guess that one is too scary to be popular? That said, I will never forget how wonderful my white leather (with a zipper) King James smelled – my very first Bible given to me on Christmas when I was six years old.

It is so amazing that you are doing this series, because one of the recent books that has had such a profound affect on me is Brian Moynahan’s ‘If God Spare My Life: William Tyndale, the English Bible and Sir Thomas More – a Story of Martyrdom and Betrayal’ (Little, Brown). We have come such a long way from the Bible smuggling times of Tyndale’s days. One of the most painful stories I have ever read has to do with Tyndale’s journey to Hamburg, where he hoped to complete his work on the Septuagint. His disastrous shipwreck on the Dutch coast cost him, among most of his resources and precious funds, his just-completed translation of Deuteronomy. Of all books to have to duplicate and do over again – the thought just exhausts me!

The TNIV might be, in our day and time, a vast improvement over Tyndale’s hard spiritual graft of a lifetime. I am sad that when, as a child in the C of C, I asked questions like ‘Where did my Bible come from? If Jesus spoke Aramaic, then why can I read this in English?’ no one told me the stories of such early erudite Believers as Wycliffe or Tyndale. They were certainly not popular or considered successful in their time. Indeed, for all Tyndale’s arduous work, Sir Thomas More would condemn him as ‘a hell-hound in the kennel of the devil’. With More’s obsession for making Tyndales’s life the thorniest of trials, Tyndale’s passion for communicating the personality of Jesus to the English masses could only be buoyed by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Sorry to write so much … this stuff is just so exciting! Awaiting the B-I-B-L-E #6.

]]> By: Greg http://preachermike.com/2006/03/14/the-b-i-b-l-e-5/comment-page-1#comment-9327 Greg Tue, 14 Mar 2006 17:47:24 +0000 http://www.preachermike.com/2006/03/14/the-b-i-b-l-e-5#comment-9327 My wife has an old, pale blue KJV Bible that she got from her church. Inside is written an old gem from her youth minister: "Only this book can keep you from sin. Only sin can keep you from this book." A timeless truth, indeed. My wife has an old, pale blue KJV Bible that she got from her church.

Inside is written an old gem from her youth minister:

“Only this book can keep you from sin. Only sin can keep you from this book.”

A timeless truth, indeed.

]]> By: Travis http://preachermike.com/2006/03/14/the-b-i-b-l-e-5/comment-page-1#comment-9326 Travis Tue, 14 Mar 2006 17:45:21 +0000 http://www.preachermike.com/2006/03/14/the-b-i-b-l-e-5#comment-9326 My shocking discovery about the Bible: Mine has no 20 dollar bills in it! I've search and shook. Nothing but old church bulletins and scribbled on attendance cards. Perhaps I have bought the wrong Study Bible. Are the 20 dollar bills apart of some new "Health and Wealth Jabez" study Bible? My shocking discovery about the Bible: Mine has no 20 dollar bills in it! I’ve search and shook. Nothing but old church bulletins and scribbled on attendance cards. Perhaps I have bought the wrong Study Bible. Are the 20 dollar bills apart of some new “Health and Wealth Jabez” study Bible?

]]> By: Greg http://preachermike.com/2006/03/14/the-b-i-b-l-e-5/comment-page-1#comment-9325 Greg Tue, 14 Mar 2006 15:33:17 +0000 http://www.preachermike.com/2006/03/14/the-b-i-b-l-e-5#comment-9325 Greg, the quote from Wade reminds me of a sermon by John Ortberg in which he spoke of this idea of living the life we've always wanted. Basically, it was a challenge to live transformationally. It's interesting we now have to qualify the word Christian with transformational,or missional, etc. Greg, the quote from Wade reminds me of a sermon by John Ortberg in which he spoke of this idea of living the life we’ve always wanted. Basically, it was a challenge to live transformationally. It’s interesting we now have to qualify the word Christian with transformational,or missional, etc.

]]> By: PW http://preachermike.com/2006/03/14/the-b-i-b-l-e-5/comment-page-1#comment-9324 PW Tue, 14 Mar 2006 15:07:28 +0000 http://www.preachermike.com/2006/03/14/the-b-i-b-l-e-5#comment-9324 First, new site is now officially really cool as I can comment from my Blackberry! Second, how many shocking discovery's are we going to get. Can't stand the suspense and not sure how many more I can absorb. I'm overwhelmed! First, new site is now officially really cool as I can comment from my Blackberry! Second, how many shocking discovery’s are we going to get. Can’t stand the suspense and not sure how many more I can absorb. I’m overwhelmed!

]]> By: Greg http://preachermike.com/2006/03/14/the-b-i-b-l-e-5/comment-page-1#comment-9323 Greg Tue, 14 Mar 2006 14:48:00 +0000 http://www.preachermike.com/2006/03/14/the-b-i-b-l-e-5#comment-9323 Joel: That second phrase is crucial. It also depends on how we use Mike's previous posts ("The B-I-B-L-E #1 through 4"). I think sometimes we manage to interpret Scripture or at least apply it in ways which affirm our current practices and understandings, and don't require much change on our part. Wade Hodges shared a quote on his blog last year that really stuck with me. It's part of why I don't want to be a preacher (apart from the fact that I would make a lousy preacher). The quote was something along the lines of, "Churches today want affirmation, not transformation." Sort of makes church seem more like a country club than a place where disciples are formed for following the radical way of Jesus. Joel:

That second phrase is crucial. It also depends on how we use Mike’s previous posts (”The B-I-B-L-E #1 through 4″). I think sometimes we manage to interpret Scripture or at least apply it in ways which affirm our current practices and understandings, and don’t require much change on our part.

Wade Hodges shared a quote on his blog last year that really stuck with me. It’s part of why I don’t want to be a preacher (apart from the fact that I would make a lousy preacher). The quote was something along the lines of, “Churches today want affirmation, not transformation.”

Sort of makes church seem more like a country club than a place where disciples are formed for following the radical way of Jesus.

]]> By: Joel Maners http://preachermike.com/2006/03/14/the-b-i-b-l-e-5/comment-page-1#comment-9322 Joel Maners Tue, 14 Mar 2006 14:22:36 +0000 http://www.preachermike.com/2006/03/14/the-b-i-b-l-e-5#comment-9322 I heard someone once say, "I have no doubt that we can interrogate scripture. The question is, will we allow it to interrogate us." I heard someone once say, “I have no doubt that we can interrogate scripture. The question is, will we allow it to interrogate us.”

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