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<b><span lang="en-US"><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><font
face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><i>What
can you imagine?<br>
How big can you think?<br>
God thinks bigger...<br>
Do
you want to ask Him for something?<br>
Ask big because you're dealing
with a big God.</i><br>
Ephesians 3:20 from the <i>Discoveries Bible</i>
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size="2"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000">I
want to tell you about the <i>Discoveries Bible</i> project. </font></font></font></span></span>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font
style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">I
am concerned – and have been for decades – about something I see
happening in the church. When certain words are heard or read, the
listener (or reader) goes into “religious neutral” - the words
have been used so often that they have been deprived of any real
meaning. The rich meaning that was intended is lost because we “zone
out.” </font></font></font>
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style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">A
couple years ago I heard about a court case that demonstrates this
reality. A separation of church and state advocate was suing a
governmental agency because a prayer was said during that agency's
proceedings. The court upheld the right of the agency to include the
prayer because the words used in the prayer had lost any real meaning
and therefore could not be construed to have religious significance.
(Amazing, isn't it?)</font></font></font>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font
style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">Consider
these biblical words and phrases: salvation, holy, worship, truth,
praise, love, fear of the Lord, redemption, faith, sacrifice, blessed
and so on. These words permeate the scriptures, but as Christians,
most of us have heard them so often that they now carry little real
meaning any more. Please understand what I'm saying: These are
incredibly important realities that are being conveyed by words that
don't work as well as they used to.</font></font></font>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font
style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">So
do we need another Bible translation or paraphrase? No, not exactly.
But I do think we need to see the Bible that we have with new eyes. </font></font></font>
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style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">More
tomorrow ...</font></font></font>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font
style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">Be
encouraged!</font></font></font>
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<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font
style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">Dwight
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