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Where do I start?

Maybe some background of why I wanted to develop a Christian Bible


study tool correspondence school might be interesting to you.
On March 28, 2002, I was on my way up a windy road in northern Idaho to go have
breakfast when suddenly my cat started getting sick on the front floor of the right side of the
car. I looked over for 2 or 3 seconds and then the car started going down the steep cliff
towards a huge boulder!!! I might have turned the steering wheel, but I don’t remember. I
know I prayed and closed my eyes. Then I opened them to see that the car was going sort of
forward too into underbrush towards a tree near a stream. My cat and I survived!!!! I only
had a few minor scratches and bruises!!!! We made it out via the broken left front window
and up almost to the roadside. I yelled for help, and a driver of a car which had a window
open heard me and turned around to help pull me up the rest of the way. It was a
miracle!!!!!!!!!

I believe that true Christians will be kept from physical death until the “before ordained”
good works, which Ephesians 2:10 speaks about, are finished. I have had one other experience
riding in a car on a mountain road where I thought I would die because the car spinned
around on ice.
Now let me back track somewhat. Since I became a true Christian in May 27, 1967, I
desired to know about God’s truths. Since October of 1974, after being unjustly fired from a
Christian school, I really immersed myself into developing Bible study tools. By September
1978, after teaching two 4th-grade-class years in a Christian school, my passion for being part
of the Great Commission started growing.
Matthew 18:
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Then the eleven disciples went away into Galilee, into a mountain where Jesus had appointed
them. 17 And when they saw Him, they worshipped Him: but some doubted. 18 And Jesus came and
spoke unto them, saying, “All power is given unto Me in Heaven and in Earth. 19 Go ye therefore,
and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy
Ghost: 20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with
you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen
Other meaning Scriptures for me, especially in relation to all of the above are:
Romans 8 :28-- “And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them
who are the called according to His purpose.”
Philippians 4:8-- “Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest,
whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever
things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.”
In March of 2003, I met a wonderful nurse via Praize Messenger. I flew to Germany on
faith hoping for an Ephesians 5 marriage on June 7th. A little while later, the Holy Spirit
guided me to change the Christian correspondence school course list from the one I had hoped
that a Christian radio station in Albuquerque, New Mexico would use:

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Truth Christianity Bible School List of Courses (As of May 15, 2001)

1. Study Guide for The Pursuit Of God


2. Kingdom of God Bible Studies
3. Study Guide for The Believer's Prayer Life
4. The Importance of the Bible and Psalm 119 Bible Study Tools
5. Direct and Implied Commandments to True Christians
Found in Contexts Mentioning Christ's Second Coming
6. God Pleasing Hope and Waiting on and for God
7. Basics for True Christian Living
8. Christian Anagrams
9. The Kingdom of God (Romans 14:17)
10. God Wants
11. True Christian Characteristics
12. The World's Greatest Man in History
13. Ephesians 5 Questions and Lists for a God-Pleasing Marriage
14. Leadership for Churches for Revival Bible Study

Look at the remarkable expansion and differences:


Preparation for Heavenly Living Correspondence School List of Courses (as of August 20, 2003)
101 New Way of Thinking 204 Anagrams of Christianity
102 Scriptures about the Mind 205 Answers to Wrong Control Tendencies
103 After Christian Conversion 206 Attitude Control and Types of Anger
104 Wonderful Children of God 207 Vengeance Bible Study
105 Desire for God-- Psalm 63 208 Deceit & Deception
106 Commitment to God God Pleasing Love Meanings, Goals, and
107 Thankfulness study 209 Preparations
108 "Let"-- Christian Permission 210 Ephesians 5 questions
109 Galatians 1-2 Bible Study 211 Spouses: Love as Jesus Did
110 Ephesians 1 Questions 301 Divine Glory and Proper Human Glorifying
111 The Greatest Man in Human History 302 Upward For Intimate Communion with God
112 Bible Study about the Holy Spirit 303 More About Jesus Christ
113 Romans 8 & 12 study guide 304 Restoration Principles and Techniques
114 Bible Study About Baptism Basics for Christian Living-- Fill in the Blank
115 Eternal Life for Righteous Believers 305 Version
116 Importance of the Bible Basics For Christian Living-- Short Answer
117 Two Psalm 119 Responses 306 Version
True Christians’ Responsibility for 307 Divine Peace
118 Righteousness 308 Divine Joy
119 What will not be in Heaven 309 God Wants-- Philippians Study Tool
120 The Commandments of Jesus 310 Justification, Sanctification, & Glorification
121 Waiting for or on God course 311 Epistles Study for Subjects
122 God-pleasing Hope 312 ETRS formatting
201 Summary of Ephesians 313 Good Local Church Goals
202 God-Pleasing Friendship 401 Christianity in the Last Days
203 Christian Character Traits 402 Proper Doctrine and Teaching
403 Three Revelation 2-3 studies
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Humanism and New Age vs. Main Christian 407 Related to Current Political Events Anywhere
404 Doctrines 408 Dear Intercessors
405 Relating to Society Introduction Bible Study 409 Last Day Challenges (ETRS version)
406 Challengers in the Last Days and the Solution410 Leadership for Church Revival

I changed the above order and numbering three more times. See the results at PFHL
and TW Bible courses-- http://www.humyo.de/9538789-696137425 . Also, see other Bible
study tools I have developed which can be downloaded for free from the following places:
• New Bible study tools-- http://www.humyo.de/9538789-699532671
• My other Bible studies-- http://www.humyo.de/9538789-699553525
But the Correspondence school never became. During the last week of December 2003,
I started getting contacted in Praize Messenger because my ID there was “Biblelover8”.
Most wanted Bible studies to use. Some in India were made “pastors” and “evangelists” by
USA missionaries, were not taught Bible. The first contact was from a pastor in Africa.
Most of the following people received my 60 PFHL courses via 11 e-mails (I thought that
Yahoo mail had limits about how much could be attached): Pastor Justine in Zambia, Erik
in India, Easudas in India, Chris in Hungary, Billie in USA, Tony in Nigeria, Tokunbo in
Nigeria, Swarna in India, Nadeem in Pakistan, Lois 1 in USA, Sylvia in USA, Buta in
Pakistan, Shahzad in Pakistan, TJ of India in India, Emmanuel 1 in India, Gary in USA,
Gazal in Pakistan, Lisa in South Africa, Anu in Oman, Dorothy in Ghana, Roland in
Holland, Lillemor in Sweden, Mary 1 in USA, Augustine in United Arab Emirate, Ute in
Germany, Christine in USA, Mark in USA. Later, after some of the pastors in the Third
World countries said that they needed shorter Bible study tools to print on copiers, I
invented the TW edition of the PFHL courses, mostly by deleting the indented formatted
Scripture. I started e-mailing them in August 2004 via 6 e-mails. The following was the
last report in my Excel Worksheet tracking system:
Current Status of Preparation for Heavenly Living
Correspondence School

Beginning date: 12/29/2004


Current date: 6/30/2005
Number of students/distributors: 305
Number of countries: 41
Number of courses sent out from
Germany: 10,647
PFHL courses sent: 8,832
TW courses sent: 1,815
Courses returned: 1
Courses graded: 1
Units earned: 3
No correspondence school, but I received many e-mails of appreciation and testimonies
of the Bible study tools being forwarded or printed for others.
On March 2, 2005, I began the http://groups.yahoo.com/group/for_daily_improving
group with a series of selected Dr. John Stott quotes I had put into three groups with this as
a title: “Which problems do you think are the most common in Christian church”. I
subtitled the group “Changing Because We Love God”, but it never became such a group.
I even reposted the first postings hoping to get a different kind of discussion from which I
saw in other Christian groups. I signed up for over 20 of them and saw that there was very
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little exhortation for sanctification and Bible teaching. In my first attempt, a man took
over and made it just a place for negative apologetics against religious groups and religious
individuals. Finally I forced him out. My next monitors did quite well, but the messages
never became exhortation for sanctification and Bible teaching.
From January of 2004, I also was encouraged to do Biblical counseling via e-mail. Some
of my Internet friends were so depressed and didn’t even want to live anymore. Now they are
doing various Internet ministries and some even have 1 Corinthians 13:4-8, Ephesians 5
marriages. (I have e-mailed many of essays and teachings about the just mentioned to many
individuals.) In order to do such ministry, I have had to live Proverbs 3:5-6 in order to be
sensitive to the perfect Helper (John 14:26) and so I give God the glory for all of the good
news about Internet friends I have advised or/and taught. During these years in Germany, I
have received more divine peace and divine joy than I had in my whole life (Romans 14-17
and Philippians 4:4-8). My websites were at http://www.geocities.com/bibleloverbill and
http://www.geocities.com/for_sharing_truth . Yahoo will be deleting GeoCities in October.
In October of 2005, I found out about blogging via Yahoo 360. I did not recruit anyone
to be on my friends list, but within six months about 300 asked me to be on it. Many times,
comments were posted to my blogs or special messages were sent to me which said that a
blog was just what they needed that day. In 2006, there were many on my Friends list that
wrote wonderful spiritual blogs which I copied and pasted into MS Word and e-mailed to
others. It was almost like we had a church of a few hundred people in Yahoo 360. And we
rarely had spiritual warfare during that year. But then Yahoo warned us that they were
going to close 360 down. Many of my friends went to other blogging sites and our
“church” died in Yahoo. I have not seen any thing like I just mentioned in Multiply,
MySpace, Christian blog sites, and Facebook, so I was discouraged and depressed
sometimes. Yahoo 360 was finally deleted on July 13, 2009. I found out the night before
and was able to transfer the many blogs to my Yahoo profile--
http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/GJ3GRZYV63XBT5OARG7AKESKPI .
One night in early 2007 when I was in bed, the Holy Spirit told me a new way to share
my Bible study tools and collection of good articles and commentaries about spiritual
issues, current events, and psychological issues-- start some more Yahoo groups to mainly
use the “Files” sections. The next morning I found out that each group could only have
25MB of files for others to download. I had over 6000 files, mostly MS Word documents,
so I made 14 groups. The uploading software only allowed one file at a time, so it took a
long time for me to do the project. Just after I finished creating and filling the 14 groups,
Yahoo decided to allow 100 MB in the “Files” section of each group. But I did not get
angry and I improved my collection as I compiled the following 5 new groups and
afterwards deleted the extra groups of the just mentioned effort. The below groups with
almost 100 MB of items in the “Files” section for downloading by any members were begun
in February of 2007.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Christianity_Basics_Source_1
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Christianity_Basics_Source_2/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/psychological_and_counseling_concerns/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/End_Times_concerns
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/for_discerning/
Then in early January of 2008, I found out about Diino which allowed 2 GB of files and
photos in their free storage/share accounts. This allowed me to have a one place for my
Internet friends to go to in order to get information they needed in the above indicated
general subject areas. I have made many subfolders to help easier selecting. Meanwhile
beginning the Fall of 2007, the Holy Spirit had me do less in my Great commission and
Biblical counseling Internet ministries, and to spend a lot of time being “a watchman on the
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wall” for the United States in relating to the Presidential campaign for the November 2008
vote. 2007-2008 have been tough years for me and we only had one vacation trip. I was
shocked how bad politics had become. I even switched my prayer support of the main
candidates several times. I shared my recent downloads of current event articles and
commentaries in Diino. (Many of them are at http://www.humyo.de/9538789-703983181
and http://www.box.net/shared/occxgs99y1.)
But early in 2009, Diino decided to delete their free accounts on August 1, 2009. I had
discovered Box.net in April, but it allowed only 1 GB for its free accounts. One day in
May, the Holy Spirit guided me to a blog about free storage places. I tried a few of the
suggestions, and in June found out that humyo.com had the best storage/share. Its free
accounts were 5 GB for text files and 5 GB for photos, videos, and music. And there wee
two ways to easily upload. My collection of Bible studies, articles, commentaries, and some
of my photos are in the following places in many subfolders:
Christian basics and controversies-- http://www.humyo.de/9538789-696203133
for Counseling Ministry-- http://www.humyo.de/9538789-705817357
Other Events and Concerns-- http://www.humyo.de/9538789-703983181
pictures & photos for blogs etc-- http://www.humyo.de/9538789-710883871
Personal Photos of Germany-- http://www.humyo.de/9538789-703517329
I had to create a new website at http://ourchurch.com/member/f/fortruth to replace my two
websites in Yahoo GeoCities due the deleting of them by Yahoo later in 2009. After I update
my Box.net accounts, I will try to search other website ministries to see if they can promote my
Bible study tools. My favorite ones are also located at http://www.box.net/shared/xiqxmratsx .
I hope to encourage more individuals to do similar ministries. I am thankful that my wife lets
me do such. So many people need God’s wonderful truths. Give God the glory for anything
good you see in this document and in the links, because I have had to rely on the Holy Spirit
for almost every thing I say and do. But Proverbs 3:5-6 living is wonderful!!!

Mount Hermon Spiritual Leadership Conference Questions


(Given by Campbell McAlpine and answered by Bible lover Bill on March 1l, 1975)

1.) What is my calling from God? a communicator of truth for those who feel that they have
been or are righteous
2.) What is my vision? To help other Christians make the Bible a personal guide for change
3.) What is my ministry?
a. What do I like doing for God best? I enjoy sharing Scriptural truths and Christian love.
b. How does God use it? to comfort or provoke individuals in their respective concerns
about the truth
4.) Am I fulfilling my ministry?
a. Is there anything I am doing that I am not happy with? I have too many concerns.
b. What will God have me not do? Remain concerned about what other people think or believe.
5.) What is the scope of my ministry? at least country wide
6.) Am I doing all I should to develop my ministry? I am trying to adapt to His timing and
trying to keep my eyes increasingly more on Him.
7.) Do I recognize or make room for the work of others in the realm of responsibility? I try to,
but I am very concerned about others who do not.
8.) What are my needs? to humble myself and submit myself more to God
9.) How can my needs be met? being involved in a Great Commission active Christian
community or organization

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