Do you know the difference between “Lord” and “LORD?” Why would capital letters be used to distinguish between two Hebrew words? Is it important for you to know? This article will explain the issue of translating The Name and why it matters, not only in our English Bibles today, but in translations throughout history and […]
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“The root issue in all of these considerations (helping the poor) is that God, who is a worker, ordained work so that humans could worship Him through their work. Relief efforts applied inappropriately often cause the beneficiaries to abstain from work, thereby, limiting their relationship with God through distorted worship or through no worship at
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Over the past months we sometimes questioned whether the new All-Nations building would become a reality. Navigating agricultural zoning requirements and our needs as an organization was not easy! God kept turning all the stoplights green, and we are making plans to build. Thank you for your prayers and contributions to this project so far.
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“We [the church] are invited to participate in an activity of God which is the central meaning of creation itself. We are invited to become, through the presence of the Holy Spirit, participants in the Son’s loving obedience to the Father. All things have been created that they may be summed up in Christ the
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We are preparing to send out our Summer Newsletter! If you have not been receiving our newsletters in the mail, go to the following link and sign up by August 5 to get on this mailing list. https://allnationsbt.org/connect/stay-informed. If you sign up after the 5th, you will begin getting our newsletters with the Fall issue.
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“Poverty is the result of relationships that do not work, that are not just, that are not for life, that are not harmonious or enjoyable. Poverty is the absence of shalom in all its meanings.” —Bryant L. Myers
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“…as I began to learn about suffering I learned that trust in those strong arms means that even our suffering is under control. We are not doomed to meaninglessness. A loving Purpose is behind it all, a great tenderness even in the fierceness.” —Elisabeth Elliot
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We are helping to fund a Hebrew lesson series in BibleLing, a free suite of biblical-language tools. BibleLing is the vision of one of our first members, to meet a real need in global Bible translation. Agencies like us send trained translators, but translation work can only be effectively done with native language speakers as
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“For whatever one may say of the (ultimate) unattainability of translation, it is and remains nonetheless one of the weightest and worthiest occupations in the overall being of the world (i.e., for humanity).” —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1820; translated from German
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Last week Lynelle and I, with two of our children, visited several ABT members who are deep into the study of everything linguistic at SIL (Summer Institute of Linguistics) on the campus of University of North Dakota. Every year we try to have an ABT representative spend a day or two on campus to connect
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