Many Thanks!
The Read, Write and Learn Bible was produced through the goodness of God. He is dream giver and vision initiator. Thank you Lord, for giving me a dream in you.
I also want to thank Jen Wilking for catching the vision and producing the amazing web site. Reverend Kate Simmons, a dearly loved family member and pastor, reviewed this product for doctrinal issues. Lavon (Petey) Prater, my mother and friend, spent countless hours proofreading and correcting my errors! She's also spent many hours watching my children so I could write. She's a gifted writer and poet who seeks to glorify God in her writing. She is a wonderful example for me. “Thanks mom.” My dear husband Jason, encourages me in the journey and shows me Jesus daily. And I thank the children: my own children, who teach me the simple love of Jesus every day, my Sunday School class, and all the children we know, The Read, Write and Learn Bible is for you from God. I pray that you know God's love for you and love God back. The words of the apostle Paul below are my heart cry for you and I. May we know God. May we be people of substance, all for God's glory.
1 Corinthians 2:1-16
When I came to you, brothers and sisters, I did not come with superior eloquence or wisdom as I proclaimed the testimony of God. For I decided to be concerned about nothing among you except Jesus Christ, and him crucified. And I was with you in weakness and in fear and with much trembling.
My conversation and my preaching were not with persuasive words of wisdom,
but with a demonstration of the Spirit and of power, so that your faith would not be based on human wisdom but on the power of God. Now we do speak
wisdom among the mature, but not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this
age, who are perishing. Instead we speak the wisdom of God, hidden in a
mystery, that God determined before the ages for our glory. None of the rulers of
this age understood it. If they had known it, they would not have crucified the
Lord of glory. But just as it is written, "Things that no eye has seen, or ear heard, or mind imagined, are the things God has prepared for those who love him." God has revealed these to us by the Spirit. For the Spirit
searches all things, even the deep things of God. For who among men knows
the things of a man except the man's spirit within him? So too, no one knows the
things of God except the Spirit of God. Now we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may know the things
that are freely given to us by God. And we speak about these things, not with words taught us by human wisdom, but with those taught by the Spirit,
explaining spiritual things to spiritual people. The unbeliever does not receive
the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him. And he cannot
understand them, because they are spiritually discerned. The one who is
spiritual discerns all things, yet he himself is understood by no one. For who has
known the mind of the Lord, so as to advise him? But we have the mind of Christ.