{"id":6640,"date":"2011-02-08T03:12:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-08T03:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=6640"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:36:25","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:36:25","slug":"day-88-bibles-give-to-papua-new-guinea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=6640","title":{"rendered":"Day 88 – Bibles (Give … to Papua New Guinea)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Storly got onto a track during Sunday School today where he started asking about folks within our class who have connections to some sort of charity work or missions – places\u00a0that have needs of one sort or another.\u00a0 (This is all in the context of our study of “The Hole in Our Gospel<\/a>“.)\u00a0 One of the couples have a daughter and son-in-law (and grandkids) on the mission field with Wycliffe in Papua New Guinea.\u00a0 Apparently, there is a need there for English translations of the Bible and there is an effort underway in our church to collect a thousand Bibles to send. I immediately thought this would be a tailor-made\u00a0Give.\u00a0 I have collected a fair share of Bible over the years.\u00a0 This afternoon I took some time to gather together some Bibles and realized I had even more than I had thought! Look at this stack:<\/p>\n\n\n

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That’s fourteen Bibles.\u00a0 Fourteen! There’s the J.B. Phillips translation of the New Testament (given to me by evil pastor Gjerde), God’s Game Plan FCA Student Bible, two copies of the Serendipity New Testament for Groups, a copy of The Message Old Testament Wisdom Books, The Message Bible, one New International Version (which I got at the Urbana Missions Conference in 1987), a New American Standard Version, and the Young Reader’s Bible presented to me on August 28, 1977 by my home church. I’ve got to keep one or two (or three), but the others tend to gather dust.\u00a0 I’ll definitely keep the top orange Bible.\u00a0 It’s compact and has a durable cover.\u00a0 There’s\u00a0another one in there I’d like to keep:\u00a0a Greek\/English interlinear version of the New Testament.\u00a0 And maybe one of the study Bibles – the Ryrie Study Bible is very helpful at times and I also like my study Bible with\u00a0the Wesleyan slant. To me, this stack of Bibles\u00a0represents just one more example of how blessed we are\u00a0with resources that many Christians around the world could only dream of.\u00a0 And what do we do with God’s blessings?\u00a0 We allow them to sit on our shelves and gather dust. Not these Bibles… they’re headed overseas.\u00a0 If you have an extra Bible or two around your house, get ahold of me and we’ll make sure they get included in the shipment.\u00a0 P.S. Found three more Bibles in the house – Melissa’s leatherbound Bible, and Caleb’s,\u00a0and a big honking King James version we got as a gift when we got married.\u00a0 That’s 17 Bibles in our house.\u00a0 Wait.\u00a0 One more.\u00a0 Just remembered I have a Bible that belonged to my grandmother, Lucile Henke.\u00a0 She was Lucile Linville when the Bible was presented to her by her church on April 3, 1927.\u00a0 I’ll be keeping that one, too. Or passing it on to one of my brothers. That’s 18 Bibles under our roof.\u00a0 That’s crazy. Oh yeah …\u00a0I have at least one more Bible I keep on my shelf at school.\u00a0 19.\u00a0 That’s over three Bibles per family member…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Storly got onto a track during Sunday School today where he started asking about folks within our class who have connections to some sort of charity work or missions – places\u00a0that have needs of one sort or another.\u00a0 (This is all in the context of our study of “The Hole in Our Gospel“.)\u00a0 One of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6642,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6640\/revisions\/6642"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}