After much hard work, we are happy to announce that our new website, www.EtLibros.com is available to the public. Thank you so much for your prayerful support as we’ve been translating, coding and designing the various pieces of this exciting project. If you have any Russian speaking friends, feel free to share Et Libros with them. For those of ya’ll who don’t speak Russian, I thought I’d put an English version of the “About Us” (Russ: О нас) page, as well as the author bios, and links to English versions of some of the articles.[Read More]
missiology
Peace when you’ve been hurt
If someone says that you have hurt him, then do not deny it. If you do, then Jesus thinks you’re a pig.
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Abundant Eternal Possession
I came so they could have life and so they could have it abundantly.
-Jesus
Eternity lasts forever, so not a single day could be added to or taken away from it. What, then, does Jesus mean when He says that He wants us to have eternal life abundantly? It is not that He wants us to have more eternity, but that He wants us to have more in eternity.
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Nuances in English translations of John 3:16
One of my favorite authors calls John 3:16 the most beautiful 25 words of the English language and I agree. The book he wrote was translated into Russian, where John 3:16 only occupies 21 words (not to mention that the original Greek is actually 26 words). When the book was translated into Russian, it maintained the figure of 25 words. It was a good translation, but sometimes when we explain the Gospel, we need to use localization.
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Kurdish Language and Missions
We’ve been reading a book called Ethnic Realities and the Church: Lessons from Kurdistan. It is a record of mission work in Kurdistan from 1668-1990 and is packed with wisdom that is relevant to missionaries all over the world. Even the American church could stand to learn a few things from Blincoe’s research.
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A blind poet described the sea… what happened next will change how you share the Gospel
One of these greens is not like the other…. Can you pick out which one?
If you were a member of the Himba tribe in Nambia, you probably could have picked out the square in the middle of the top-right quadrant as being unique. However, here’s a member of the same tribe struggling to pick out a blue square in the midst of green squares: