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Defending the Bible

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Highlights since last Report

  • Scott was honored to officiate the wedding ceremony for Vernon and Danielle Chisolm.

  • Scott and Alexis taught separate men’s and women’s classes on Priscilla and Aquila at Woodstock.

  • Scottie’s Military Science Program placed 3rd place in a statewide Raiders competition. Scottie has also been promoted to Sergeant of his company.

  • Samantha participated in the Atlanta Girl’s Choir Christmas concert.

  • Alexis helped to chaperone the Woodstock youth at Exposure Youth Camp.

  • Scott completed a FHU Masters course in New Testament World.

  • Scott began teaching How We Got the Bible to the Woodstock HS and MS class.

  • Scott taught What is the Bible? on a Kenyan radio program over WhatsApp


2024 Logos Answers Statistics Summary

  • 30 lessons published in 8 languages

  • 16% increase in traffic over 2023

  • 64% increase in Watch Time over 2023

  • 26% increase in Interactions over 2023


Defending the Bible

How much value do you place in the Bible? Do you treasure it as the very words of God? Do you immerse yourself in the Bible as if your very life and vitality depended on it? Do you feel, like the Psalmist, that instruction from Yahweh’s lips is better than thousands of gold and silver pieces? (Psalm 119:72). If so, you might want to know a little about how we got the Bible.


During the past month, I have had several opportunities to not only teach from the Bible, but more specifically to teach about the Bible. The first opportunity came when I was asked to teach “How We Got the Bible?” to the High and Middle School class at Woodstock. I have been wanting to teach this class for some time. While I was at Bear Valley, that was one of my favorite courses, taught by Dr. Owen, who is an expert in the field. The very next semester, I had the privilege of studying “Biblical Text, Canon, and Inspiration” at the Masters level with Dr. Burleson, who has his PhD in textual transmission. Ever since then, I have had a passion for teaching on this subject.


The ability to defend how we got the Bible should be developed by any Christian who shares their faith with nonbelievers. It is a rational prerequisite to explaining to someone that the Bible is actually the Word of God. Yet it surprises me how much we tend to sweep topics like translation differences under the rug, or tend to have postmodern views about inspiration at the expense of historical context. If we are not being rational about our own holy book, how can we reasonably expect to evangelize to nonbelievers who don’t take it as the words of God? On top of that, we do our children an injustice if we tell them the Bible is the word of God, but we don’t explain to them the infallibility of the Bible in the face of critical evidence. The reason is because many of our children will go on to learn from more liberal professors who seek to discredit the Bible and wreck faith in God. So, I think the best approach is openness, research, and introspection on this topic.

So far, while teaching on the topic at Woodstock, many of the teens at Woodstock have been excited and encouraged by the study so far.


Since I was already teaching on the Bible at Woodstock, I also decided to make it the focus of my lesson over the radio in Kenya and of my most recent podcast episode. The radio station I presented for has a reach of over 1.2 million in Migori County alone. Following the lesson, 20 people phoned in to our missionary partner, Julius, sending thanks for the lesson or requesting further study. Julius has asked me to continue presenting at least once a month for the radio program. The podcast episode can be found on our website 👉 “What is the Bible?”


2024 Benevolence Report

The major focus for our mission work is digital, global, evangelism — teaching the Word of God to people all over the world from our own native soil. Since we don’t have the interpersonal connectivity of traditional missionaries who are planted into a community, our work doesn’t get to focus as much on benevolence. However, teaching the Word of God should always be accompanied with living and demonstrating the Word of God through acts of kindness and generosity, whenever possible. In addition, since we depend on workers who are involved in much poorer communities, we are always open to ways to help our missionary partners when given the opportunity. This is not a significant part of our budget, but we would still like to make you aware of a few opportunities last year that the Lord has given us to meet needs with your help.


  • Church building in Manilla. Our Tagalog Editor, Jayvee Carreon, is the minister at Metro South church in Manilla. They ran out of money to complete the construction of their church building. It is at a great location — only a few blocks from the Manilla airport. We sent funds so they could worship with a roof over their heads.


  • Leadership Bible studies in jungles of Cambodia. Our Khmer Editor, Vanny Chan, preaches at a small congregation in the capital and largest city, Phnom Penh. When he heard about the trouble another congregation was facing in a remote coastal town, Kampot, Vanny wanted to put together a mission team to go, strengthen, and reestablish leadership at the congregation with monthly Bible study campaigns. However, for Vanny to travel three hours by scooter and pay for all the necessary expenses for him and one other preacher would have been cost prohibitive. We offered our support to their campaign for several months.


    Separately, we also helped support the hospital visits for a family in Vanny’s congregation. Both mother and daughter fell gravely ill, and they could not afford to get the medical care they required. (Health insurance is not a thing is many other countries). We provided funds for their care. The daughter of Limheng is doing better. The mother has been diagnosed with heart disease. Please pray for their continued healing.


  • Support for Arab Christian Missions. Our Arabic Editor, Wissam Al-Aethawi, preaches at a congregation in Dearborn, MI, as well as directs a mission work, Arab Christian Missions. He travels throughout the country on campaigns and engagements to help the church reach out to Muslims in America. Currently, his work is running at a significant budget deficit. However, he has never charged Logos Answers for his editorial work. We decided that we should send some support his way for the great and difficult work he is doing.


We would like to thank you for all of your support provided to our mission work in the past year. The Lord has used us, and He has used you as instruments in proclaiming His glory to the world. While most of our support goes toward supporting our family, our mission trips, and our Logos Answers platform, we do have many opportunities to help others along the way. Many you will never hear about. But we wanted to let you know a little of the impact you have on the Lord’s Kingdom throughout the world.


Exciting Plans for Next Year

Every new year brings great excitement for me. I love reassessing the previous year, making plans for the upcoming year, rethinking systems and goals, and the burst of energy and motivation that comes with the new year. Yet, I can’t help feeling a special excitement for our plans for next year. We have several interesting projects in the works that will be significant for us and hopefully powerful for others as well. These projects are still in early stages, so I don’t want to share too much too soon. However, I want to encourage you to continue your interest in our work, and to urge you to keep an eye out. If you have not already, now would be a great time to subscribe to our Logos Answers website right here 👉 logosanswers.org. By subscribing, you can be the first to know of any new videos that have dropped on the English site —— and then be the first to share with a friend!


Love,


The Ihle Crew

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