I have some great news for you. If you would like to attend a John Ankerberg Show taping, why not come with us on our Prophecy Cruise to Alaska June 28 through July 5.
Besides our wonderful musical guests, I will be doing the teaching sessions just like I do our TV programs. I will ask questions of Jeff Kinley and Pastor Gary Hamrick on the rapture, the Ezekiel 38 war, the tribulation, the battle of Armageddon, Christ’s second coming to earth, and His 1000-year millennial reign on earth.
It will be a wonderful vacation cruise on Holland America’s luxurious Koningsdam, which will take us through the Inside Passage and on to see Alaska’s towering mountains, cascading waterfalls, and awe-inspiring glaciers. We will also visit charming Alaskan ports such as Ketchikan, Skagway, Juneau, and Sitka.
So, come and enjoy “The Prophecy & End Times Cruise” with John Ankerberg and Friends, June 28-July 5, 2025. Book your cabin now online at inspirationtravel.com, or you can call them Monday through Friday Pacific time at 1-888-600-3370.
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Now, beginning April 13, I have invited Morgan Jackson to be my guest on the John Ankerberg Show. I have asked him to give us a report on what God is doing with the Audio Bibles you provided in December and January. Our goal was to give Audio Bibles to people who have never had a Bible in their own language.
Do you remember the Abuelita (little Grandma) who lived high up in the mountains of Peru that Morgan Jackson told us about? Abuelita was a little 80-year-old woman who was dying. She had never heard about Christ and had lived her whole life in darkness.
But a Christian who knew she was dying left an Audio Proclaimer on the ground next to her, quietly playing Scripture. When Abuelita listened to the words of Jesus for the first time, God pierced her heart. As a result, she called out to Jesus and was saved. Then she asked Jesus to heal her and let her walk. He did.
She asked the Christian who had given her the Audio Proclaimer if she could use it when he wasn’t using it. He said yes.
She told her family what had happened to her and that she wanted to take the Audio Bible to other mountain villages to let people hear Jesus speak. But her family said, “The mountain trails where you want to walk are 15-16,000 feet high. You can’t take the Audio Bible and walk on those mountain trails to the villages. You’re going to die. You’re too old.”
But she said, “I have lived in darkness my whole life. And now that I know Jesus, I don’t want anybody else living in the same sin and darkness that I did. I will play the Audio Bible as I go. I can’t read or write, and I may be old, but for the rest of my life I can use this Audio Bible. But now I can walk, so I’m walking. And if I don’t come back, you will find my body on the mountain trails by listening for the Audio Bible playing.”
Folks, people who find Jesus by listening to the Audio Bibles become some of the best evangelists. Maybe you’ve given an Audio Bible to somebody just like this little grandma.
Now, here is what I want you to know. As of last Thanksgiving, Ankerberg donors had provided Audio Bibles so that 18,038,121 people in different countries were sitting in listening groups learning from the Audio Bibles that you have given over the last 10 years.
But as a result of the gifts you gave between Thanksgiving and now, I am happy to report we are now reaching 19,197,693 people in 253 languages in 83 countries. In other words, in that short time, your gifts have made it possible to reach 1,159,572 more people.
Most importantly, Faith Comes By Hearing has calculated from all the Audio Bibles they have given to people around the world, that approximately 90 people will listen to one Audio Bible, and 45 of those people will accept Jesus as their Lord and Savior. This means that approximately 579,786 people have accepted Christ as their Savior in just the last few months because of your gifts.
What does God think about your gifts? We are told in Scripture:
“How are they to believe in Him whom they have not heard? And how are they to hear without a preacher [the Audio Bibles]? And how are they to preach unless they [the Audio Bibles] are sent? Just as it is written: ‘How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news of good things!’” (Romans 10:14, 15)
I believe those of you who have given Audio Bibles—or micro-SD cards for cell phones, or BibleSticks—through your gifts all of you are the ones bringing the “good news of the gospel” to people like that little grandma in the mountains of Peru.
While Morgan is on our program this month, I hope that we can provide another million people with Audio Bibles so they can hear the gospel for the first time. If you have never won a person to the Lord, this will be your chance to win many people to Christ by providing one, two, three, or four Audio Bibles.
Also, we have two other special donors who will each provide 1 Audio Bible for every 1 you give. If you give one, they will each provide one, so you will be giving 3; if you give two, you will really be giving 6; if you give four, you will really be giving 12; and so on.
Please pray about this, and ask God how many people He would want you to try and reach with the good news from God’s Word. And then remember, we are grateful to God for all you have done.
Now, as we celebrate Easter this month, I want to remind you of Paul’s words about the importance of Jesus’ resurrection. He tells us, “For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,…” (1 Corinthians 15:3-4). He says that is the gospel that he preached to them.
Because Jesus died for our sins, then rose again, we can declare, “Death has been swallowed up in victory. Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?... Thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ” (1 Corinthians 15:54-57)!
He is risen. He is risen indeed!
Until the whole world hears,
John and Darlene
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