How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord is laid for your faith in his excellent word.

Well, no doubt you've heard it before or even thought of yourself, studying the Bible is boring.

Or maybe, I can never understand what it's talking about.

Well, welcome to Through the Bible.

You've hopped aboard the Bible bus at just the right time since we're at the beginning of a new five-year journey through the whole word of God.

So how do you answer that question?

Is it really possible to understand the

Bible? Well, we find a clue in the psalmous prayer for God to open my eyes that I may see wonderful

things in your law. In this lesson, Dr. J. Vernon McGee, our teacher, gives us more insight into how to

understand Scripture, giving us another of his seven principles to help us study the Bible.

But first, Greg Harris is here, and we've got some time to talk about through the Bible's ministry, this time in Central Asia.

Yeah, a really tough part of the world to do ministry.

And we have a newsletter article written by one of our team members, James, who was traveling there.

And I actually checked my calendar about two and a half years ago.

I was also in Kazakhstan meeting with a lot of these team members.

And we say this a lot, but perhaps we always have new listeners.

And so I think it's important that we bring

everybody up to speed. When you say you're going to take the whole word to the whole world,

it doesn't mean you just go to the easy places. No, and Central Asia is definitely a place

I have not been, you have, but is definitely a hard place to do ministry. It is. It's dangerous.

There's opposition, and we got this really amazing report from

FBC that I think we'll say it better than I can. You want to start reading this? It starts off,

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