Praises and Prayer Requests for August 2017
We so appreciate your prayers! Here are some specific requests for this month:
1. Praise God for His abundance in provision of resources. Please pray that we will be wise stewards of time, personnel, and finances. Please ask for God's clear guidance and for us to have responsive hearts to His lead.
2. Praise God for a team with whom to share the work of ministry. Praise God that He knows all our needs before we ask. Please pray that God will provide for our volunteers, staff, translators, contractors, donors, and all connected with this ministry . . .
"Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers. Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change. Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures" (James 1:16–18, ESV).
"If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself,' you are doing well" (James 2:8, ESV).
"I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in 
**This response is a good demonstration of how to ask a questioner for clarification and/or further information while also still providing a helpful general answer. **
Question: How should Christians treat the fact that there is an agreement amongst mainstream scholars that the Exodus didn't happen?
Answered by: Austin Chadwick, who has been a volunteer with us since October, 2016 and previously for 9 months in 2013.
Answer: Thanks for sharing this thoughtful question!
Since you did not share the source for your assertion that there is 
"But when one turns to the Lord, the veil is removed. Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit." (2 Corinthians 3:16–18, ESV)
"For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery." (Galatians 5:1, ESV)
"How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? 