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300 Bibles Confiscated In China Today 2008-08-18 09:00:48 China confiscated 300 Bibles from American Christians today, who are refusing to leave China without them. Link to article on Fox News here:
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Coming Soon: “Voice Of The Saints” 2008-08-17 19:38:48 Bibledonate.org has acquired the domain: www.voiceofthesaints.com. It will be developed into an interactive website that will provide a forum for the persecuted to share stories of international persecution so that we may better understand how to help those that suffer persecution. Read more:Coming Soon
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The Bibledonate.org Newsletter 2008-08-17 19:29:38 The first issue of the Bibledonate.org newsletter was electronically mailed to over 200 subscribers this afternoon. We continue to add subsribers to the database as quickly as possible and we hope to have the newsletter into every subscriber’s hands within the next 2 weeks. Thank you for your interest in the newsletter and your patience! If you would like to [...]
Night Lights 2008-08-17 01:43:26 When I look to the heavens late at night, I see the reflection of so many people that have come into my life. Friends light up each other’s lives. A best friend is like the moon. You can always count on the moon – even on cloudy nights. The closest friends are like the planets. Planets are the brightest lights in the night [...] Read more:Lights
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Seashells On The Mountain 2008-08-15 13:07:29 Mount Everest: 29,035 Feet. To put this mountain into perspective, if you jumped out of an airplane cruising at 29,000 feet, it would take a little over 3.5 minutes before you hit the ground. Since the late 1950’s, men and women have pushed themselves to the summit — a place where virtually nothing can survive and birds cannot soar. Those who have tested themse Read more:Mountain
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Do Penguins Ever Slip On The Ice? 2008-08-13 13:14:48 Is it a fish or is it a bird? Although it swims like a fish, it has feathers like a bird. In fact, it has about 70 feathers per square inch of it’s body. The average penguin will live approximately 15 years and spend up to 75% of his life in the water. He even drinks sea water, but outside of a Zoo or [...] Read more:Penguins
2062 Bibles Ordered Over Past 10 hours 2008-08-12 07:45:14 For those of you that are wondering about the change in the bible order count from earlier this morning, there was a second page of electronic orders that we failed to include. 2,062 Bibles have been ordered over the past 9 1/2 hours.
I cannot begin to express the need and the desire by people across [...]
Friendship 2008-08-11 19:16:37 The owners of a house in Colorado came home from work to find this wild fawn taking a nap on their couch with the family dog. The fawn apparently became separated from his mother. The dog heard the distress call of the fawn and went to investigate. They quickly became friends and the fawn followed the dog home, through the doggy door, and took his place next to his new friend on the couch. Read more:Friendship
Can You BELIEVE This? 2008-08-10 14:00:08
Those who have experienced the northern lights describe it as magnificent, multi colored lights moving across the sky. Living in the southern part of the United States, I have never seen the Aurora Borealis. Every few years, the local weather service will mention the possibility of seeing the Northern Lights from my area. I always stay up late hoping [...]
No title 2008-08-09 12:26:03 Did you know it cost $91.00 to ship 20 Bibles to Africa? While we obtain the bulk of our Bibles from donation of surplus Bibles from Christians across the United States, we still have to mail the Bibles to those who have requested them.
When this ministry was organized, I knew the time would come when we would require financial [...]
Bibles for India 2008-08-09 09:08:39 Although I recognized the need, I am absolutely shocked by the demand for surplus Bibles, which we as Americans take for granted. Here is a letter I received from India
this morning — exactly as it was received:
Dear Brother and Sister In Christ
Greeting in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ
I am Brother Job [...]
God Remembers The Broken Hearted 2008-08-08 16:37:04 Psalm 34:18 The LORD is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit. Read more:Broken
A Plea For Bibles 2008-08-08 14:38:47 By donating your surplus, unused Bibles, we can continue to ship Bibles to those that do not have a Bible. We are happy to accept Bibles that have been highlighted, underlined, written in, etc. We DO ask the Bibles are complete, without missing pages. If you can contribue a surplus Bible, please ship it to [...]
Tale Of The Tombstone 2008-09-05 13:01:16 I was fortunate enough to land several lawn service contracts with three cemeteries during the summer of 1986. It was dirty work in a hot environment but I found comfort working in such a peaceful place. Trimming grass away from each headstone provided me with a few moments to get to know a little something about the person buried there. [...] Read more:Tombstone
Orphans Of The Titanic 2008-08-31 13:17:45 Having struck an iceberg at 11:40 p.m. on April 14, 1912, the Titanic
floundered for three hours before slipping beneath the icy surface of the Atlantic Ocean, killing 1,507 passengers. Fortunately, fifty three children survived the disaster. Unfortunately, several of these children were orphaned.
Michel Navratil (age 4) and Edmund Navratil (age 2) survived the sinking of the Titanic. Al Read more:Orphans
Letters to God 2008-08-30 08:35:25 When the U.S. Postal Service handles a letter that is deemed undeliverable, it will eventually arrive at one of the Postal Service’s two ”Mail Recovery Centers” (MRC’s) located in Georgia and Minnesota, The MRC is a facility where a final attempt is made to process or return undeliverable mail. It is at this facility, where undeliverable and unreturnable items of Read more:Letters
Must See TV (The Boy From Greece Athena) 2008-08-27 11:58:14
The 17 year-old Senior at GreeceAthena
High School loved the game of basketball. Challenged by Autism, Jason McElwain had not displayed the athletic talent required to make the team; but he refused to give up. Jason attended every practice and assisted the team in whatever way he could. Within a short amount of time, [...]
Thoreau’s Walk With God 2008-08-26 12:40:33 “The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?”
- Henry David Thoreau
Henry Thoreau suffered with Tuberculosis over his life. During a thunderstorm in [...]
The Answer To A Prayer 2008-08-25 19:31:54 During the great depression, a hard working carpenter volunteered to construct crates to ship clothes, which his church was sending to an orphanage in another state. The man worked hard all afternoon and built sturdy crates. When he was finished, he gently packed the clothing into the crates and nailed them shut. Then he delivered the crates to the train station and even [...] Read more:Prayer
Track Your Donated Bible 2008-08-24 18:42:19 When you donate a Bible to Bibledonate.org, we promptly reply with a Thank You card. Along with the card, you will also receive the name and address of the person who received your Bible. We encourage you to write to the Bible recipient and encourage him or her on their journey in Christ. This provides you with an opportunity [...] Read more:Track
Star Chaser 2008-08-24 18:00:58 One day a man was walking along the shore and noticed a child running back and forth between the wet sand and back to the edge of the ocean. Out of curiousity, he followed the child up the beach. As he drew closer, he could see the child picking up small objects off the sand and [...]
Underwater Looking Up 2008-08-24 12:19:23 If you enjoy swimming then you have undoubtedly jumped into a swimming pool and spent a few moments gazing up at the surface. It’s a beautiful view with every imaginable shade of blue dancing across the surface of the water.
Water is clear when you fill a glass or bathtub with water, but a larger body of water such as a lake [...]
Words of Encouragement 2008-08-23 19:41:42 You can’t battle a shadow without dancing under the sun.
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The Man That Beat Babe Ruth 2008-08-22 20:03:01
Game 7 of the 1926 World Series matched the Saint Louis Cardinals against Babe Ruth
and the New York Yankees. Tied at 3 games each, the Saint Louis Cardinals took a 3-2 lead into the bottom of the 9th inning of game 7, where the legendary Babe Ruth was on deck.
40 Year old Grover Cleveland [...]
Who Packs Your Parachute? 2008-08-22 12:59:56 Charles Plum was a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and a fighter pilot in Vietnam. On his 76th combat mission, his plane was destroyed by a surface-to-air missile. The shocked pilot quickly gathered himself before parachuting into enemy lines. He was eventually captured amd spent a number of years as a prisoner of war.
After the war, Charles Plumb became a [...] Read more:Parachute
What Makes A Hero? 2008-08-20 20:13:27 The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts offers nine, 45 minute class periods on a course titled, “What Makes A Hero?”
One of the course objectives is to ascertain the qualities of the exceptional — the Hero.
I believe the qualities of heroes have already been defined in 1 Corinthians 13:13: “But now faith, hope, love, abide [...]
If Only I Had Known It Was The Last Time 2008-08-20 09:52:20 Life is full of “firsts:”
- The first time you hold your newborn baby.
- The baby’s first smile.
- Her first laugh.
- His first words.
- Her first steps.
- His first day of school.
- Her first dat
Vigilance 2008-08-19 08:10:35 The adult Whitetail Deer weighs between 110 and 300 pounds. They have numerous muscles attached to oversized ears that rotate in every direction so as to pinpoint the sound of a pin drop. They have eyes on the side of the face, providing a 310 degree view of their surroundings — and it becomes even more acute [...]
Announcing The Newsletter! 2008-08-08 14:25:36
We will begin publishing an electronic newsletter next week. It will contain many stories similar to the stories you read on this blog. If you would like a free subscription, please send an email to ross@bibledonate.org. You can opt out at any time.
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