Bob Creson

  “I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not…the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to ‘order’ than to justice; who prefers a negative peace, which is the absence of tension, to a positive peace, which is the presence of justice; who constantly says, ‘I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direction action.’…Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection…We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people…We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly…We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.” Martin Luther King, Jr. 

La traducción de la Biblia con lleva más que simplemente traductores. Es un esfuerzo de equipo, y un sinnúmero de servicios en áreas que probablemente nunca usted esperaría. ¡Vea este video para saber cómo Dios puede utilizarlo a usted para alcanzar a la gente sin Biblia!

Oblivious to the celebration going on around them, this couple is totally focused on their new Bible….God speaks Chamula!

The Chamula people of southern Mexico earned the nickname “The Impossible People” by their fierce resistance to anything new. To them, change was dangerous.  In fact new ideas that even hinted at change were dangerous — they threatened to provoke the wrath of the vengeful Chamula gods and upset the balance that kept the Chamula culture intact.  It was imperative that all new ideas be vigorously squelched by the shamans and political leaders whose job it was to guard the traditions of the ancestors. Continue reading →

“My uncle’s new God is no different from the all the gods of our ancestors,” grumbled Mariano. “He demands perfection just like they do, and I cannot attain it!”

Reading Scripture in his Chamula language for the first time, he’d come across Mark 9:33:  “If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It’s better to enter eternal life with only one hand than to go into the unquenchable fires of hell with two hands” (NLT).  The Ten Commandments were no more encouraging. “I can’t keep those laws!” he said to himself. Continue reading →

Silence reigned in the room in southern Mexico where Wycliffe translator Ken Jacobs and a team of Chamula Bible translators sat waiting for their colleague Fortunato to close in prayer. They’d just finished revising Luke 8:26-39 where Jesus healed a demon-possessed man living in a village cemetery. Jesus worked on the “fringes” of society to include people who had previously been excluded, and this was a vivid picture of exclusion. Continue reading →

Jacques, a Karang man in Cameroon, is blind, yet he weeds his soy field with confidence and skill. Amazingly, even without his sight, he is able to find the little soy seedlings among the many overgrown weeds. He gently and patiently pulls out the killer weeds that surround each plant, rarely hurting the precious seedling. Sometimes the plant suffers damage, but because the soil is now ready to produce growth, the seedling will recover. Continue reading →

Dallas and I saw this sign last week on a beautiful hike at Wallace Falls just outside Seattle. It struck me as a statement made by an honest seeker but someone who is rather confused, looking to creation rather than the author of creation for answers to life’s most perplexing questions. Continue reading →

 Jean is a Karang man living in Cameroon. Translation advisor Bob Ulfers met Jean while testing translated Karang Scripture in his village. A frail old blind man, Jean would sit at a distance and listen as the Scripture passages were read and discussed.

Bob decided to start greeting him. “Soko ngernzuk! (Hello, Elder!)” he’d say to him. Soon Jean started sitting closer and even began contributing to the discussions, helping to provide feedback to the Karang translation team as they finalized the translation. Continue reading →

Building on the teaching of Jesus, (John 3:3, 16-17 NLT) the writers of the New Testament continually refer to their message (the birth, death and resurrection of Jesus) as Good News because believing the message results in a new start—being born again—(1 Peter 1:23, 25 NLT) reconciliation, (2 Corinthians 5:17-21 NLT) and a transformation of the way we think about ourselves and God…(Romans 12:2 NLT) Continue reading →