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Grace & Peace: Revelation #2

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Grace and Peace

“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16:11)

“John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace be unto you, and peace, from him which is, and which was, and which is to come; and from the seven Spirits which are before his throne; And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood, And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen” (Revelation 1:4–6).

John is writing to the seven churches of Asia Minor, modern day Turkey, which churches are subsequently named in chapters two and three of Revelation. They are the churches of Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea. More will be said about each of them in turn. [Read more…]

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Consultant checking of 1 & 2 Corinthians

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This January the Bakwé team and I will be working with a Wycliffe translation consultant to do a verse-by-verse check of our translation of 1st and 2nd Corinthians. Please keep us in your prayers! Especially pray for health and stamina for us all as we work on this together over 3-4 weeks.

Currently, my Bakwé colleague, Alexis, is working on the second draft of Revelation while I am working on the first draft of Matthew. Matthew is the last book of the New Testament we have to translate! Translation is a joy, and learning more Bakwé as I go along is a lot of fun. Every now and then a Bakwé equivalent will make me chuckle. In Bakwé, to be patient, or to be perserverant, means literally to “scratch inside the stomach.” So, recently when translating Revelation 1:9 the Bakwé say, ‟I, John, your brother and partner in the tribulation and the kingdom and the patient endurance [scratching-inside-the-stomach] of Jesus Christ, …” Of course, to the Bakwé it makes perfect sense!

We should finish up drafting the NT by March. Then it will take another year or more to get all the remaining books checked by a consultant. With the increased number of translations being done in Africa, there is a shortage of translation consultants to go round. Please pray that more consultants become available.

Other Bakwé books published

Every year we publish more Bakwé titles for the Bakwé reader. In our training in literacy we were told that a society will not be a literate society unless there are around 200 different titles available for people to read. This year we published another reading primer for one of the other big Bakwé dialects, a book on traditional funeral proceedings, a book on the history of the Bakwé, and finally a second printing of our bilingual dictionary.

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Grace & Peace: Revelation #1

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Grace and Peace

“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11)

“The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John: Who bare record of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw. Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand” (Rev. 1:1–3).

Throughout the book of Revelation, the earth has many plagues that rain down upon it. Over the last two douglas-wilson-revelation-1thousand years, the book of Revelation has itself been treated to nearly the same number of interpretations, some of them the size of hailstones. In the course of this study, we will endeavor not to do any of that ourselves, at least not on purpose.

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Year-End BBQ

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Celebrate the end of finals this Friday night! CRF will be hosting an end of year BBQ at the Gray’s house. Come play some games, eat delicious burgers, and kick off the summer with great fellowship! Be sure to invite your friends and RSVP on the facebook page.

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