Logistheca

Have you beheld His glory? Sometimes we forget what it means to; most times we forget to. The holidays near year’s end provide countless special moments and positive vibes like no other time: the magic of Christmas trees and light displays, the warmth of fireplaces and strangers’ greetings, the familiar traditions of cookies and decorations. There is something unique about this season, something all of us distinctly feel with both sights and sounds. One of our family customs is to read on Christmas morning the majestic prologue in the Gospel of John (John 1:1-19), where each year he reminds us of the central truth we could so easily miss: “And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth” (v. 14). We know that Jesus Christ came. But what is His glory? The word “glory” is such a common word in the Scriptures yet one we rarely take a moment to think through its meaning. What is most typical

We have resources. They have needs. We need to get them what they need. We have the Word. God says to go. We must get the Word where it needs to go. While serving on a pastoral staff for several years, one of my greatest joys was interacting with our missionaries. One thing that began to burden my heart was a recurring need: useful, biblical resources. Of course, the missionaries or nationals knew best the needs and how to utilize materials, but they simply did not have them accessible to the language, let alone a means of producing the resources themselves. It was out of this growing angst, to get different people groups around the world the helps they desperately need, that the concept of Logistheca was born. Particularly in the West, in the English-speaking world, in America, we have an almost embarrassingly exorbitant wealth of Bibles, tools for researching them, and courses of study around and through their truths. Most of the rest of the world has less than a fraction