September Newsletter

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Need ideas for your church and in particular the children’s ministry? For ideas check out the Children’s Resources by Lisa Goodyear, Margaret Carey, and Jerry Lawrence. While you are browsing on bible.org, read the ideas presented on the Heartprints Blog written specifically for those whose heart is in children’s ministry. Read the blog on recruiting, training and see our newest post for Spanish readers on users.

A note to Senior Pastors or Asst Pastors: Do you consider the Children’s Ministry an important link to the rest of the ministries of your church and if so why? For September’s contest, the bible.org Children’s Ministry would like for you to tell us why you believe this is vital to your church. One Sr. Pastor or Asst Pastor contest winner will receive a gift certificate from the bible.org store.

September Back To School Sale!
Need a Bible that fits into your backpack? Need a Bible download for your laptop or desktop? Want to listen to the Bible on your iPod? Our Back to School $15.00 sale can help you get all the items you need to make Bible reading more interesting. Click for details.

Conference Plans

For years bible.org has attended the scholarly Evangelical Theological Society Conference where the original concept for the NET Bible was born. However, this year, in an attempt to save money and get our ministry better known among churches, we have decided to concentrate more on local conferences that cater more to pastors and Church ministry leaders. At these conferences we hope to interact with conference attendees about how bible.org and the NET Bible can help them. If you are registered for a conference in the Dallas area, stop by our bible.org booth and say hello. If you are going to a conference in the Dallas area that you think we should attend let us know. Read about each here: Conference Schedules for bible.org

CY 2009-July 2010 Financial Report

As you can see from the chart, God is continuing to bless bible.org with the gifts to support the development and delivery of the NET Bible and quality Bible study material for free to the world.Our 2009-2010 deficit to date has been reduced to 69k We are overwhelmed with how God has raised up new donors this year and the generosity they show. We give Him all the praise for as James 1:17 reminds us: “All generous giving and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or the slightest hint of change.”
You can continue to help us eliminate our 2009/2010 shortfall and Donate now by clicking HERE

Note-** All income (Donations and Bible sales/revenues) are accounted for. The original plan was for the store sales to be greater than store expenses and the store would donate all its profits to the ministry but to date the sales have not been sufficient to accomplish that goal. As sales increase and are greater than store expenses we will show those profits on the donation line above

Bible.org Mailbox- Thank you for your emails. We are always so blessed to read what you have to share. If you have been blessed by the ministry of Bible.org send us your email so we can share and encourage others.. We have only limited space here and we want to share additional emails we receive so we have set up a new group on users.bible.org titled Sharing how bible.org has blessed me where we will post some of the emails that comes our way. Check out Marty, Pastor Brad, and Samantha's email from our August inbox!
Here’s a snippet from our new group on users:
“Marty: "And Then I found the NET Bible":…..All I was really looking for was a software Bible that I could have on my laptop when I couldn't connect to the Internet. Read more.
“Pastor Brad” "Praise for the Theology Program"…..I have taken the audio part of the Theology program over the last 2 years, and have been truly blessed by its content, its intention and I'm so grateful. Read more.
“Samantha” "Student Finds Clarity": I would like to say thank you for such clarity of the the nature of the church. I am a senior enrolled in a Christian Studies course. Read more.

Facebook Update: Have you checked out www.facebook.com/bible.org lately? Update We now have 12,303 fans (friends). Since Textual Criticism is an important topic to Biblcal study, we made this week's bible.org focus on Facebook as Textual Criticism. Textual Criticism is the study of the available manuscripts of the Biblical Texts in order to confidently determine what the original manuscripts said. There are 1000's of text critical (tc) notes in the NET Bible. See as an example tc note 29 in Matt2:18 . Be sure to sign up and follow bible.org’s weekly Focus on Facebook . The intent is to offer a topic or study or author to read, discuss and enhance your study time. If you have not signed up you can do so easily by signing up Here

Blogs: Check out the newest blogs. Keep in tune with Dr. Bock and Dr. Burer as they discuss issues of news as they journey through their year of sabbatical “across the ocean”.
Learn how to recruit workers for Sunday School and how to keep Jesus in Sunday School lessons on Heartprints.Check out Tapestry to read "Jailbreak: God's Rescue from the Enemy's Prison" and Impact for how to Live in Harmony with the Holy Wind.