The two words “nothing undone” from Joshua 11:15 probably best describe the life and ministry of Joshua, the man God chose to lead His people into the promised land. These words are described in Joshua 11:15 and 23. That is, God accomplished through Joshua all that He originally intended and declared to do through Moses. In Exodus 33, God told Moses that He would drive out all the Canaanites, but not through Moses or with the then present generation. Joshua

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

In his 1998 book, “The New Tolerance,” Josh McDowell gives the definitions of “traditional tolerance” and “the new tolerance.” He defines the new tolerance by quoting Fernando Savater who wrote, “Tolerance… is that all opinions are equal… and all should be respected or praised.” I agree that this cancer of unbelief was permeating society and is even more so now, fourteen years later. But what is real tolerance and biblical tolerance, and how does it fit Christianity today. Is there

Whenever we think of obedience and disobedience we automatically think of the nation of Israel and their vacillating relationship to God. I have been reading Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy this month and noted three basic observations about Israel and our God – the disobedience of Israel, the consequences of disobedience and the continued faithfulness of God despite disobedience. The disobedience of Israel is easy to document, from the murmuring about food and water to the molding of a golden calf

  Messages and challenges usually come from experience and from God’s working in the heart of the writer; so it is with this challenge. I’ve been studying the book of Colossians and at the end of chapter one, Paul speaks to the church people there about the ministry to which God has called him and, I believe, it serves as a challenge to each of us today. He begins this section of the book in verse 23 when he simply

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)