Parents with teenage kids ? We polished your shoes

What makes the Today’s Bosnian Version Bible the best Bible translation in the Balkans ? “It is certainly readers taking ownership of the text”, says the translation team member, expert in biblical Hebrew language. Lots of ink has been spilled trying to explain what makes your teenager memorize the Bible verses. This is a very…

What’s under the bonnet of a Today’s Bosnian Version Bible ?

A text that has been proofread twice manually before publishing, with localized weights and measures, thoroughly researched cultural context and modern language rendering of demanding Bible passages. These and other translation refinements all add up to a smooth reading without obstacles, cost $ 6 per month and never have the reader get stuck in complex…

Clinical depression – bite of spiritual snake

It has been years before I fully understood chapter 21 in the BaMidbar (book of Numbers): Moses leads the entire nation through the wilderness and they face opposition from the Edomites, resulting in a detour – longer journey through the desert towards the promised land. And people start complaining. Natural, it seems, for who wouldn’t…

Cracks

It is Sunday in Sarajevo. As always, I am reading the Bible in original Hebrew and I am pulling out the unknown words from the scripture. Worship is in my headset – “Haruach Vehakala” – “The Spirit and the Bride”. As I browse through the myriad of Hebrew words, I search Google for their Bosnian…

Fast Food Of Your Life

If the customer orders chicken in the restaurant and the cook makes him vegetarian pizza – every time – guess what’s going to happen to the cook ? Important topics are those brewing in your life for decades. Mine is business. In the role of start-up entrepreneur, for seven years I worked on selling websites…

Traps In The Desert

The Bible translation ministry provided many challenges and great lessons. In retrospect, one of them I will never forget and is worthy to be shared. Here is how it goes. Being on tight budget, instead of renting rooms for vacation at Croatian coast, I received the gift of boarding with the Christian couple. Their ministry…

Devil Inside – Other Side Of The Lake With Jesus On Board

Dear brothers and sisters, future readers of Today’s Bosnian Version Bible Translation, today I am sharing with you the interpretation of the New Testament passage where Jesus teaches by example how to calm the storm and what lays in the heart of the wordly man. Interpretation is like a stove to the cake. If you…

Shanty Town Dung Beetle Wisdom

I just came back from a shanty town in the midst of a burning trash dump. I spent two days in it. It wasn’t what I expected. The story goes like this: During the conference one year ago, I met the pastor who led the Congolese refugee church. Right after the conference, God asked me…

Everyone Else’s Blood Pudding

What’s wrong with signing up for a credit card ? Everyone has one. Every normal person has one. These are the normal words I heard my ex-wife pronounce when she wanted my consent for her to sign up for the American Express credit card. Couple of years later, she ended up with light form of heart attack…

The Right Sacrifice

At my current age of 40 years old, I have for more than 3 years been living with my parents. I started  the ministry in a small room of a two bedroom communist-style apartment. There hasn’t been a day I didn’t ask God to send me away and release me from that place. Cigarettes, alcohol,…

Rock’N’Roll Kembu Consecration

This week’s reading portion are books about Jim Jones and Papua tribes worship practices. Jim Jones asked his members to do some awkward things. Among many such, one caught my attention. He asked the teenager in his church to imitate a Pentecostal Roller pretending to speak in tongues. So, the devil will pretend to speak in…

Vegas Lights

I guess nobody is interested how I earned my Bible skills neither in the story of repetitive readings throughout the years. However, there are things which pop up as a consequence of dull work of reading and this text is about those. Abraham’s three visitors are before me in the Genesis section before destruction of…