2010 Year in Review

Each of us understands how we all too quickly can begin to take things for granted. This is true of our health, employment, and perhaps even of our marriages. A few weeks ago, this truth hit home for me when I was in Scotland and missing my congregation in Cleveland. Even in my absence, I was still able to minister to them by teaching them the Bible six days out of the week via our radio program.

I quickly realized that this privilege and responsibility is not limited to Northeast Ohio but extends to each of you too. If it is true that “absence does make the heart grow fonder,” then that partially explains the sense of wonder and gratitude I feel for the opportunity I have been afforded in teaching the Bible daily across this nation and beyond.

My desire to preach the Bible in this context is driven by a strange appreciation and affection that I feel for individuals whom I have never met and probably never will. This commitment was reinforced last week as I read a letter from a man serving a life sentence in prison. He told me he was in “lockdown” and asked for a book to help him share the Gospel with fellow prisoners. He said he wanted to be ready when they allowed him back in to “the yard.” Like the apostle Paul, his imprisonment is not an impediment to, but an opportunity for the Gospel.

I hope that the content in the 2010 Year in Review will stir in you that same love to share God’s Word with people you may never meet and encourage you to see the scope of all that God is choosing to do through our partnership. Your role is not unlike the part God gave to that lovely couple, Aquila and Priscilla. In Acts 18, we read about how the expulsion of the Jews from Rome caused them to move to Corinth and in turn to play an important role in the life and ministry of the apostle Paul. They also opened their hearts and their home to another famous preacher, Apollos, thereby enabling both of these men to preach to the multitudes.

There is little doubt that the effective ministry of the Word today continues to be significantly undergirded by men and women who find great fulfillment in the supportive role entrusted to them by our heavenly Father. I cannot thank you enough for the vital part you play in the ministry of Truth For Life, and I dare not miss the opportunity to encourage you to enlist others in helping us to do this one thing with renewed passion as we press toward the goal that is represented in the financial challenge and ministry opportunity set before us today.

Pressing toward the goal together,

Alistair Begg

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