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Hi there, to all of our earthly, but heavenly family, brethren! How are you? We ask that sincerely! Drop a line or two to let us know what’s up in your life. It helps us to know how to pray for you. Our Resurrection Sunday was full, with church and Sunday School in AM, dinner with our sons and others, then 5:00 evening service, followed by a time of more food and fellowship.

Fellowship is a vital part of our Christian lives. We fellowship as brothers and sisters in Christ; we are brethren. Do you know why we call each other brethren? In Hebrews 2:11,12,17; Hebrews 3:1 & 12, and in Hebrews 10:19 and 13:22, Jesus calls the saved, brethren. Prior to that, Jesus called his followers, brethren, in the gospels. We are called brethren by Paul repeatedly in the books of Acts, Romans, I & 2 Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Colossians, and I Thessalonians, and once in II Thessalonians.

We are to love one another, forgive one another, and forbear one another, as brethren. This subject is covered, at least briefly, in New Life Series, lesson 3, page 2. The lesson itself will remind you of God’s expected behavior toward all men and before all men, as an example of godliness, but especially toward the brethren, thus maintaining fellowship.

Have you seen this lesson yet? If not, we recommend that you take time to review it. Pulling up the answer key will be the best way to review its content. We trust that you will be helped, or that you are able to teach others how brethren are to be a godly example before the world, and for Jesus Christ.  Jesus is our brother as well as our Savior. We need to fellowship with Him and with the brethren. Until next time, God bless you all, dear brethren!

We recently had the pleasure of meeting a young man from Ohio, who has a ministry outreach  to sportsmen. We spoke with him by phone to see if we could offer him any help. During the conversation he asked, “Do you send out Bibles?”. Our answer, of course was, “Yes, we do”.

He shared that somehow, a man in a Texas prison had gotten his name and address, and wrote, asking if he could send him a Bible. He asked if we would mind doing that for him. We were very pleased to accommodate him in that area, and have since gotten a nice King James Bible to the inmate.

On lesson 4 of  Finding Direction In God’s Word we always ask if the student has a King James Bible or if he or she needs one. If they say they need one, we ship them a Bible that we purchase from Missionary Bible and Literature Foundation.

What a thrill it has been, over the past 25 or so years, to not only get good Bible lessons to folks, but to also send out Bibles to all who need one!

If you know of someone who needs a King James Bible, and you cannot get it to them, please contact us. We will gladly send them one! If you are using the lessons to teach, it would be wise to make sure that all of your students have the correct Bible. If you need our help, please do not hesitate to call or text and ask for Carl.

Hello to all of you, “BTY” followers! We are doing a “BTY” run through Virginia, North and South Carolina and Florida. We experienced many difficulties in the first days on the road! We constantly sought God for direction. We asked Him to show us if we were to turn around and go back home, but God said to keep going and just follow His leading, and we did.

There was cold and unusually windy winter weather on the mountains where the truck broke down one day and the RV’s heat system failed for two days causing us to have to get motel rooms two nights. We hated paying for a room when we had an RV in the parking lot!  

I like to say that the stops of a good man are ordered by the Lord! Those stops                      had us right where we were needed! In one situation we were able to direct                          a lady, who helped us, back to a more faithful walk with the Lord

While working to get our furnace running again, a dear man found his heart turned back from bitterness against God for the death of his child and 2 other family members. This all came about as Kay reached out with tracts while Carl attended to getting the camper or the truck back to where we could move on.  

As a result of following God through what seemed like a wilderness journey, Carl found preachers who were either just starting jail or prison outreach or were already doing it.  Each one said that he wondered what he was going to do to properly disciple his people.

They were excited to see the lessons and their content, and said that they would be plugging into the Bible To You lessons! One layman was starting a home for men in recovery, or just getting out of prison but desiring to learn God’s way of living.

 Since getting into Florida, there have been numerous blessings as our brothers and sisters in Christ in the Fundamental Independent Baptist, King James Bible churches as Carl challenges the brethren to redeem the time by using Bible To You lessons in any capacity they are able to use it.

 We are hearing these kinds of statements: “I was just looking for something like that”  or  “I have been wondering about some of the things you wrote about”!  So, our friends, We will continue along the paths God leads us on. We beseech you to pray for the advancement of God’s Word through Bible To You as we make this run. And remember, the stops of a good man are ordered by the Lord!

There were two subjects that came up often in conversations that seemed in need of  Bible lessons with clear, unquestionable teaching to help others make vital decisions.

One is the subject of “Hell”, an unthinkably horrible place that far too many are heading for, and can be warned of.  This lesson stands alone as a powerful teaching aid!

The other subject was on “burial versus cremation”,  which you may have wondered how we can find enough proof in God’s Word to show God’s way to those who need to recognize that our culture, and our reasoning, have led Christians into a pagan practice!

These lessons are on this site, ready for your use. Use them well; the need is great!

It seems that the time is growing short for us to live and serve the Lord, for we believe that the signs of the Time are showing the strong possibility of the Lord’s return! As we shop and buy gas we see the prices rising shockingly! It makes low income home owners like us, wonder how to keep paying the taxes and doing upkeep. It does not really matter, for God can supply water in the dessert, food carried by ravens, a feast outside of a starving city, and on and on!  I remembered something my 95-year-old Bible scholar friend told me. She said that the American monetary system has to fail so that the government would join the other nations in a one world monetary system.

That told me that the one world government is not too far off, as we can see. God did say that Christians  should be able to discern the time, Matthew 16:3.  We plan to keep on spreading God’s Word, affecting lives, changing their direction from roaming in the world, to preparing for eternity with the Lord! How we long to know that each of you is staying on the right path, and striving to please the Lord, and reaching to others in order to change the direction they are going spiritually.

Bible To You is here to help, so please spread the word to others about the effective sets of lessons available. We are the Light of the world, but we are also the ones who take that light. One missionary said it like this; Jesus cannot go with his own light, therefore many people cannot see light. We must take the light in His place. Time is short; who knows how long we really have. The Bible to You lessons are free except for some paper and ink; use them before we cannot even afford paper and ink!

P.S. One of our female students was recently released to go home. She wrote requesting that we continue sending her the lessons at home, praise God!

Faith Baptist Church is our home church. It happens to be a small independent Baptist church where the King James Bible is upheld and music standards have not turned to the world nor to the modern church scene.

We desire to see souls won for Him; we also care about their spiritual growth. On our last blog entry we urged folks to consider doing a salvation lesson with someone else and offer them a chance to accept Jesus as their Saviour. We actually had a very special Christmas day joy of our own using Bible To You lessons!

A young couple with small children had accepted our offer to help them to be discipled by doing Bible To You lessons, but our paths did not cross again until Christmas Day. We were able to start their journey through the lessons on Christmas morning when we presented them with lessons 1 and 2 for adults and a storyline lesson for their first grader. The young man’s mother was there also, so we offered her 2 lessons to work on. She  received them as gladly as if we had given her a Christmas gift!

Any time you share the Word of God, it is a gift! Maybe some Bible To You gifts went out from you, for Christmas. If not, then why not give the gift of His Word for New Years?! there is still time!

How many of you remember the song, I’m Dreaming of a white Christmas?  All the Christmas preparations as well as our devotional reading from Galatians of Christ Jesus being the supreme sacrifice that satisfied the Law and made an atonement for sin, got us thinking of what a wonder it was the day each of us was washed as white as snow by the Saviour!

Perhaps someone may experience that wonder of being washed by the blood of Jesus this Christmas week, or even on Christmas day. Check out Finding Direction In God’s Word, Lesson One to see if you may be able to lead someone, in need of the Saviour,  through the lesson. Take note that there are Finding Direction In God’s Word-Lesson Ones in Adult, Junior, Primary, and Spanish adult series.

What a wonderful way to give someone else a white Christmas, all clean and white inside, if they will receive the Lord’s way of salvation. What an easy way to make their need clear, as well as making the way of salvation clear, by copying out a lesson and doing it with someone! At the end, you can invite them to repent and ask God for salvation through Jesus! Then they will be washed; they shall be white as snow, and have their own White Christmas, so to speak!

The following is a portion of our “Bits of Home Chat” we will be sending to our students for a few weeks. We are sharing it with you in order to spur you on into a more effective witness life through December 2022! By the way, have you begun using the lessons yet? there are lots to choose from? 

It’s already December of 2022; where has the time gone?! It has been a blessing to have much less results from COVID although we lost several relatives and friends to it. It feels so much better to walk among people without experiencing their fear of getting too near to me. That is helping me to get the children’s tracts into the hands of mom’s and dad’s when I see they have children with them.

Yesterday I thought I saw a little girl following a gramma, but it was a downs person. I quickly decided that I would go ahead anyway and give it, so I asked if the older lady would share it with her. She took it with reserve, but at least she took it. That cute little tract with the plan of salvation in easy-to-understand form, can speak to even an older person, so whoever reads it will have the witness of Christ and the power of the Holy Spirit will be there to say, “This is of the Son of God, the Saviour of the earth”! Oh, how wonderful the Word of God is!

This is the month we commemorate and greatly celebrate the birth of Jesus. Our hearts should swell with the very thought that He left Heaven, took on the form of a man, lived as the child of a carpenter , a common person, and then died in pain and disgrace as He bore the sins of the whole world!

This month, you folks as well as Carl and I, must remember that we have, within us, the Holy Spirit. We have in our hands, the Word of God! We need to use the witness of the Word to show the way to new life in Christ! Pray for a revival of us Christians and for an impowering to reach to the lost.

We need the power and the leading of God to be effective. Give God extra time. Confess sins and ask for renewal wherever you need it. Dedicate the rest of December to aiding others to have the opportunity God gave you through his Word! Worship Him in the spirit of holiness; praise Him for physical life and for eternal life. There is not much of 2022 left, but it can be used to the greater glory of God, if we have the will to do so!

      Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all ye lands. Serve the LORD with gladness: come before his presence with singing. Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name. For the LORD is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations.

From the Earleys, with Bible To You