Imagine your church deciding to sponsor the translation of an entire book of the Bible for a community that doesn't have a single word of Scripture in their own language. Churches all over the country have started doing this through a program called Adopt-a-Verse, and it’s not as hard as you think. Before we talk about that, let’s look at what Bible translation costs. In the Bible translation world, the standard benchmark for funding field projects is $35 per verse. When you
Happy Pentecost! This weekend, we marked one of the most pivotal moments in the Bible. We celebrated the arrival of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost. Before He went to the cross, Jesus promised that He would not leave us as orphans. He died, rose again, and ascended so that the Holy Spirit could come and live inside us. Because of Christ’s finished work, we now have the very same power that raised Him from the dead living in our actual bodies. To understand what this means practi
