First Trimester Completed - Second Trimester About To Begin - Classes Set To Being Week of February 10, 2014

We are pleased to report that three of our students have completed requirements for Trimester 1 and are now qualified to enter into studies of Trimester 2 which begins soon.  Here are our happy disciples who worked hard these past 12 weeks; coming to classes, studying and taking mid-term and final exams and completing Trimester 1.  We congratulate their efforts.

A mother and her daughters who just completed Trimester 1.

Lizeth and Lucero posing for the camera with the Director.

First Class Completes Course on Libros Romanos

As Founder and Director of Instituto Biblico Juarez I am pleased to report that after 10 weeks of instruction by both Rev. Paul Johannson via bi-lingual DVD and myself and study and mid-term exam and final papers our first group of students have successfully completed the course on Libros Romanos here in Juarez.  We are all looking forward to joining new students in the Fall Trimester as new courses will be offered.

Psalm 34

Psalm 34

English Standard Version (ESV)

Taste and See That the Lord Is Good

34 I will bless the Lord at all times;
    his praise shall continually be in my mouth.
² My soul makes its boast in the Lord;
    let the humble hear and be glad.
³ Oh, magnify the Lord with me,
    and let us exalt his name together!

⁴ I sought the Lord, and he answered me
    and delivered me from all my fears.
⁵ Those who look to him are radiant,
    and their faces shall never be ashamed.
⁶ This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him
    and saved him out of all his troubles.
⁷ The angel of the Lord encamps
    around those who fear him, and delivers them.

⁸ Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good!
    Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him!
⁹ Oh, fear the Lord, you his saints,
    for those who fear him have no lack!
¹⁰ The young lions suffer want and hunger;
    but those who seek the Lord lack no good thing.

¹¹ Come, O children, listen to me;
    I will teach you the fear of the Lord.
¹² What man is there who desires life
    and loves many days, that he may see good?
¹³ Keep your tongue from evil
    and your lips from speaking deceit.
¹⁴ Turn away from evil and do good;
    seek peace and pursue it.

¹⁵ The eyes of the Lord are toward the righteous
    and his ears toward their cry.
¹⁶ The face of the Lord is against those who do evil,
    to cut off the memory of them from the earth.
¹⁷ When the righteous cry for help, the Lord hears
    and delivers them out of all their troubles.
¹⁸ The Lord is near to the brokenhearted
    and saves the crushed in spirit.

¹⁹ Many are the afflictions of the righteous,
    but the Lord delivers him out of them all.
²⁰ He keeps all his bones;
    not one of them is broken.
²¹ Affliction will slay the wicked,
    and those who hate the righteous will be condemned.
²² The Lord redeems the life of his servants;
    none of those who take refuge in him will be condemned.

ISOM Curriculum Ordered

Exciting news !  ISOM curriculum has been ordered and we will begin offering our first trimester of classes in the Fall.

http://isom.org

The Priesthood of All Believers

What is meant by the "Priesthood of all believers?"

1 Peter 2:9-10 (New Living Translation)

9 But you are not like that, for you are a chosen people. You are a kingdom of priests, God's holy nation, his very own possession. This is so you can show others the goodness of God, for he called you out of the darkness into his wonderful light. 10 "Once you were not a people; now you are the people of God. Once you received none of God's mercy; now you have received his mercy."

http://www.gotquestions.org/priesthood-believers.html

Psalm 1

Psalm 1

¹ Blessed is the one
    who does not walk in step with the wicked
or stand in the way that sinners take
    or sit in the company of mockers,
² but whose delight is in the law of the Lord,
    and who meditates on his law day and night.
³ That person is like a tree planted by streams of water,
    which yields its fruit in season
and whose leaf does not wither—
    whatever they do prospers.

⁴ Not so the wicked!
    They are like chaff
    that the wind blows away.
⁵ Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment,
    nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.

⁶ For the Lord watches over the way of the righteous,
    but the way of the wicked leads to destruction.

New Students Last Night For our Pentateuch Class !

Just when I was ready to cancel last night's Pentateuch class for lack of students, in walk 11 new students; men from the re-hab ministry down the road from us.  They decided they would join us.  God is good.  Here is Pastor Clemente Talamantes teaching at the beginning of the class and praying with the students at conclusion.  God has stretched our faith and proven once again that if we do our part, He will do His.  Glory !

New Students For Our Pentateuch Class

Pastor Clemente Praying with them at conclusion of class

What Are The Prison Epistles of Paul - If You Don't Know...Then Welcome To Bible School - Possible New Course For the Fall Semester

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Prolific Paul - Writer of Much of the New Testament

Are you aware that more than half of the New Testament was written by one man - Paul The Apostle

Under the inspiration and anointing of the Holy Spirit of God Paul was led to pen these writings that are now a part of a large "book" that we call The Bible;

Have you taken the time to read and study these writings.  Every Christian should.  As Paul wrote to his disciple Timothy in 2 Timothy 2:15....we are all called to study Scripture, to show ourselves approved of God...

 1.   1 Corinthians
 2.   2 Corinthians
 3.   Galatians
 4.   Ephesians
 5.   Philippians
 6.   Colossians
 7.   1 Thessalonians
 8.   2 Thessalonians
 9.   1 Timothy
10.  2 Timothy
11.  Titus
12.  Philemon
13.  Hebrews
14.  Romans

Romanos 3:21 Nueva Versión Internacional (NVI)

La justicia mediante la fe

"Pero ahora, sin la mediación de la ley, se ha manifestado la justicia de Dios, de la que dan testimonio la ley y los profetas."

El Pentateuco Continues

We are continuing to offer our course on the Pentateuch this evening into our 3rd week of teaching here at Instituto Biblico Juarez.  Here is the first chapter  Book of the Bible - the book of beginnings - Genesis in both Spanish and English.

Génesis 1

Nueva Versión Internacional (NVI)

La creación

1 Dios, en el principio,
    creó los cielos y la tierra.
² La tierra era un caos total,
    las tinieblas cubrían el abismo,
y el Espíritu^[a] de Dios iba y venía
    sobre la superficie de las aguas.
³ Y dijo Dios: «¡Que exista la luz!»
    Y la luz llegó a existir.
⁴ Dios consideró que la luz era buena
    y la separó de las tinieblas.
⁵ A la luz la llamó «día»,
    y a las tinieblas, «noche».
Y vino la noche, y llegó la mañana:
    ése fue el primer día.

⁶ Y dijo Dios: «¡Que exista el firmamento
    en medio de las aguas, y que las separe!»
⁷ Y así sucedió: Dios hizo el firmamento
    y separó las aguas que están abajo,
    de las aguas que están arriba.
⁸ Al firmamento Dios lo llamó «cielo».
    Y vino la noche, y llegó la mañana:
    ése fue el segundo día.

⁹ Y dijo Dios: «¡Que las aguas debajo del cielo
    se reúnan en un solo lugar,
    y que aparezca lo seco!»
Y así sucedió. ¹⁰ A lo seco Dios lo llamó «tierra»,
    y al conjunto de aguas lo llamó «mar».
Y Dios consideró que esto era bueno.
¹¹ Y dijo Dios: «¡Que haya vegetación sobre la tierra;
    que ésta produzca hierbas que den semilla,
y árboles que den su fruto con semilla,
    todos según su especie!»
Y así sucedió. ¹² Comenzó a brotar la vegetación:
    hierbas que dan semilla,
y árboles que dan su fruto con semilla,
    todos según su especie.
Y Dios consideró que esto era bueno.
¹³     Y vino la noche, y llegó la mañana:
    ése fue el tercer día.

¹⁴ Y dijo Dios: «¡Que haya luces en el firmamento
    que separen el día de la noche;
que sirvan como señales de las estaciones,
    de los días y de los años,
¹⁵ y que brillen en el firmamento
    para iluminar la tierra!»
Y sucedió así. ¹⁶ Dios hizo los dos grandes astros:
    el astro mayor para gobernar el día,
y el menor para gobernar la noche.
    También hizo las estrellas.
¹⁷ Dios colocó en el firmamento
    los astros para alumbrar la tierra.
¹⁸ Los hizo para gobernar el día y la noche,
    y para separar la luz de las tinieblas.
Y Dios consideró que esto era bueno.
¹⁹     Y vino la noche, y llegó la mañana:
    ése fue el cuarto día.

²⁰ Y dijo Dios: «¡Que rebosen de seres vivientes las aguas,
    y que vuelen las aves sobre la tierra
    a lo largo del firmamento!»
²¹ Y creó Dios los grandes animales marinos,
    y todos los seres vivientes
    que se mueven y pululan en las aguas
y todas las aves,
    según su especie.
Y Dios consideró que esto era bueno,
²²     y los bendijo con estas palabras:
«Sean fructíferos y multiplíquense;
    llenen las aguas de los mares.
    ¡Que las aves se multipliquen sobre la tierra!»
²³ Y vino la noche, y llegó la mañana:
    ése fue el quinto día.

²⁴ Y dijo Dios: «¡Que produzca la tierra seres vivientes:
    animales domésticos, animales salvajes,
    y reptiles, según su especie!»
Y sucedió así. ²⁵ Dios hizo los animales domésticos,
    los animales salvajes, y todos los reptiles,
    según su especie.
Y Dios consideró que esto era bueno,
²⁶     y dijo: «Hagamos al *ser humano
    a nuestra imagen y semejanza.
Que tenga dominio sobre los peces del mar,
    y sobre las aves del cielo;
sobre los animales domésticos,
    sobre los animales salvajes,^[b]
y sobre todos los reptiles
    que se arrastran por el suelo.»
²⁷ Y Dios creó al ser humano a su imagen;
    lo creó a imagen de Dios.
*Hombre y mujer los creó,
²⁸     y los bendijo con estas palabras:
«Sean fructíferos y multiplíquense;
    llenen la tierra y sométanla;
dominen a los peces del mar y a las aves del cielo,
    y a todos los reptiles que se arrastran por el suelo.»
²⁹ También les dijo: «Yo les doy de la tierra
    todas las plantas que producen semilla
y todos los árboles que dan fruto con semilla;
    todo esto les servirá de alimento.
³⁰ Y doy la hierba verde como alimento
    a todas las fieras de la tierra,
a todas las aves del cielo
    y a todos los seres vivientes
    que se arrastran por la tierra.»
Y así sucedió. ³¹ Dios miró todo lo que había hecho,
    y consideró que era muy bueno.
Y vino la noche, y llegó la mañana:
    ése fue el sexto día.

Genesis 1

New International Version (NIV)

The Beginning

1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. ² Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.

³ And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. ⁴ God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. ⁵ God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.

⁶ And God said, “Let there be a vault between the waters to separate water from water.” ⁷ So God made the vault and separated the water under the vault from the water above it. And it was so. ⁸ God called the vault “sky.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day.

⁹ And God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear.” And it was so. ¹⁰ God called the dry ground “land,” and the gathered waters he called “seas.” And God saw that it was good.

¹¹ Then God said, “Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds.” And it was so. ¹² The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. ¹³ And there was evening, and there was morning—the third day.

¹⁴ And God said, “Let there be lights in the vault of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark sacred times, and days and years, ¹⁵ and let them be lights in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth.” And it was so. ¹⁶ God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. ¹⁷ God set them in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth, ¹⁸ to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. ¹⁹ And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day.

²⁰ And God said, “Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the vault of the sky.” ²¹ So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living thing with which the water teems and that moves about in it, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. ²² God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth.” ²³ And there was evening, and there was morning—the fifth day.

²⁴ And God said, “Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: the livestock, the creatures that move along the ground, and the wild animals, each according to its kind.” And it was so. ²⁵ God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.

²⁶ Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals,^[a] and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”

²⁷ So God created mankind in his own image,
    in the image of God he created them;
    male and female he created them.

²⁸ God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”

²⁹ Then God said, “I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. ³⁰ And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds in the sky and all the creatures that move along the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food.” And it was so.