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The following is a repost of one our earliest website posts titled "God's Planning". It's hard for me to comprehend that it has been 7 years since our first website became active. I appreciate everyone that has supported us over this time and pray that you have been blessed by what has been published . Most of all I pray that you have been blessed by the Word of God to the salvation of your eternal soul.
God's Planning
"The Lord not only inspired His Word to be recorded, but He also set up the process for its distribution.  How thankful we are for the written Word and also the various mediums we have, to read and meditate on this beautiful record.  It is important to remember, and be thankful for what God has provided for us.  The context of history helps to give us understanding what we have for today.  The Spirit of God has moved through history and inspired the leaders of the Church.  I am looking forward to our time to remember the Reformation in it’s 500th year.  To properly understand history it is important to respect those leaders that have held this Word, which is Christ, as the only standard of truth.
I have attached an article by our late Pastor Alvin Holmgren. Â I have appreciated his love of the truth and diligence in the scriptures. Â He also had a profound sense of the importance history supplies. Â Throughout the scriptures we see the writers looking back with thankful hearts to properly point to the future. Â Jesus spoke to us of the work of the Spirit to guide us to all truth.
John 16: 13-15
13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.
14 He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you.
15 All things that the Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that he shall take of mine, and shall shew it unto you.
The Word of God is more prevalent today than it has ever been my friends. Â I hope you enjoy the article that Pastor Holmgren sent to the Christian Monthly in 2005 and as recently republished.
Pastor Stan"
"On October 31, 1517, Dr. Martin Luther, a professor at the University of Wittenberg, published
the Ninety-Five Theses and lit a fire that burns to this day. In the Middle Ages, there were many
versions of parts of the Bible in the vernaculars and a few complete translations late in that
period. The absence of printing and the smaller number of people who could read limited the demand and the use. Portions were put into the Slavonian dialects in the ninth to eleventh centuries; into Spanish in the twelfth century. There was a complete French Bible in the thirteenth century, and a complete Italian translation probably in the thirteenth century by Jacopo da Voragine, and certainly in the fifteenth century, by Nicholas de Nordo. The Scandinavian countries had Bibles in their own languages in the fifteenth century. There were very early translations of portions into German dialects before Luther’s New Testament in 1522, and his complete Bible in 1534.
The first complete Bible in a language that can be called English was John Wycliffe’s in 1380,
revised in 1388. The Protestant Reformation gave a real impulse to Bible translation. Johan
Gutenberg, called the inventor of printing, was born in Mainz, Germany, about 1397. In the autumn of 1439, with partners, he founded a company that practiced a secret art invented by Gutenberg. This appears to have been the beginning of typography. From 1450 onward, Gutenberg worked at perfecting the type apparatus of his 42-line Latin Bible, the printing of which he finished in 1455. It was printed on a mechanism adapted from a winepress, and use movable type. His 42-line Bible is usually found in two volumes on 1,282 pages of folio size.
There still exist forty-seven known copies, of which twelve are printed on vellum and thirty- five on paper. The three-volume copy in the Library of Congress, Washington, DC, has been called the most beautiful copy on vellum. The American People’s Encyclopedia, Grolier, Inc.
With the advent of the printing press, the Word of God and Luther’s writings were distributed at a pace not possible a century before. Prior to this time, it was as though the Word of God remained in a sheath. It was through Luther’s dedication that the Bible was unsheathed, and its life-giving effect was felt throughout many lands."
The late Rev. Alvin C. Holmgren (Submitted to the 2005 Christian Monthly)"
Submitted by Pastor Stan
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