Our Lord Jesus Christ is certainly a master teacher. He knows just how to create teachable moments in the lives of those with whom He interacts. In John 4, we catch a glimpse of our Saviour as He, wearied and thirsty from the journey towards Galilee, sits upon an ancient well and asks a Samaritan woman for a drink of water. In His own moment of thirst, He uses the concept of how water satisfies one’s physical thirst to communicate

The May 2012 Open Bible Bulletin pdf copy is here.  To view in Google Docs please click the expand arrow in the right corner of the window below: http://nbbi.ca/obb/2012-05obbweb.pdf

Sigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist who founded the discipline of psychoanalysis. His many other Freudian theories have garnished much attention and spurred on much debate. His insights have been scrutinized, analyzed and often times rejected. What about the man? Freud died at the age of eighty-three a lonely, bitter, disillusioned soul. He wrote in 1918, “I have found little that is good about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash…” The thoughts that

“Where is God my maker, who giveth songs in the night?” Job 35:10b It was on a fateful night in 1910 in the small town of Harrodsburg, Kentucky that a man found himself unable to sleep. He decided to get up from bed and walked over to the window to take in the darkened landscape. Expecting perhaps a tranquil moonlit scene, his eyes instead were met with horror as he saw flames racing across the field toward the neighbour’s house.

What is it about certain people that, when they are gone from us, we ask ourselves this question, “What makes their memory so persistent and their loss so sharply felt?” The Bible says, “the memory of the just is blessed”, Proverbs 10:7. This was vividly brought to my attention when one of our graduates, who is a veteran missionary, sat across from me in my office and said “I have been walking around the campus soaking up some good memories.

Below you will find pdf copy of the February 2012 Open Bible Bulletin. If you would like to see all the online articles from our monthly Open Bible Bulletin (current and past) please visit this link: http://nbbi.ca/category/open-bible-bulletin/

  Below is the pdf copy of the January 2012 NBBI Open Bible Bulletin. We will be posting the individual articles separately in the coming days. (Updated: December 31, 2011)