James Poole

[insert bio here]. Serving as director of @wycliffeuk. Views my own, etc.

[Andy Crouch @ahc]

This is very much worth reading.

[Shane Morris @GShaneMorris]

Pointed out to my 13-year-old today that a Joseph, son of Jacob brings his family to Egypt for survival in the Old Testament, and a Joseph, son of Jacob brings his family to Egypt for survival in the New Testament. Her open-mouthed expression was a priceless parenting win.

[Jason Kovacs @jasonkovacs]

How does God feel toward His children when they sin?

1. His posture toward them does not change.
2. He feels fatherly compassion, not disgust.
3. He is grieved because sin wounds His beloved, not because His patience is drained.
4. He moves toward sinners, not away.
5. He disciplines, but never to destroy, only to restore.
6. His love remains as full on your worst day as on your best.

[James Poole @1JamesPoole]

@2D0XPS Upload a high resolution photo to Google's Gemini 3 and the AI will give you a transcription. I just tried with the low-res photo you posted and it gave a decent overview. Gemini 3 is good at this sort of thing

[James Poole @1JamesPoole]

@danitreweek British/Australian evangelicalism wasn't shaped by American fundamentalism, so we don't experience the same tensions

[James Poole @1JamesPoole]

In persecuted contexts, church leaders say their people need the Bible in the language they cry in

[Chris Howles @ChrisHowles]

"Bible translation is not about producing books on shelves. It is about unlocking eternal hope. It is about giving people the opportunity to hear God speak to them in the language they dream in, laugh in, and cry in."

What a stunning, striking quote from @1JamesPoole @wycliffeuk

[James Poole @1JamesPoole]

@ChrisHowles It has been an unprecedented year!
And I'm grateful for the honorary doctorate you've awarded me 😂

[James Poole @1JamesPoole]

If you haven't seen this, it's worth reading. In the last year, Bibles have been translated for almost 200 million people – equivalent to the population of Western Europe! 👇

[Evangelicals Now @EvangelicalsNow]

📖Wycliffe Bible Translators' 'State of the Bible' report celebrates a year of remarkable progress in Bible translation.

"The vision of a world where everyone can know Jesus through the Bible is no longer a distant dream, but a rapidly approaching reality." @wycliffeuk 🙌✝️ https://t.co/P5x5YzY2qA

[James Poole @1JamesPoole]

https://t.co/ts8omO6Okx

[James Poole @1JamesPoole]

The biggest obstacle to world mission is being dismantled faster than ever:
“the number of Christians and churches has grown hugely because people can understand the word of God”

[James A. Furey @JamesAFurey]

It is with some personal surprise that, after 30 years as an atheist, I’ve come to say:

I believe in one God,
the Father almighty,
maker of heaven and earth,
of all things visible and invisible.
I believe in one Lord Jesus Christ,
the Only Begotten Son of God,
born of the Father before all ages.
…

I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life,
who proceeds from the Father and the Son

[James Poole @1JamesPoole]

Your reminder that Jesus was multilingual, and would have switched languages depending on the context 👇

[Wes Huff @WesleyLHuff]

This is all over the place in Matthew. I personally am convinced that Matthew recorded many verbatim teachings of Jesus that he originally spoke in Greek and reveal Jesus’s wit in said language.

Just look at the alliteration in the opening or the sermon on the mount:

”Blessed are the poor (πτωχοὶ);”
”…those who mourn (πενθοῦντες);”
”…the meek (πραεῖς);”
”…those who hunger (πεινῶντες).”

Matthew 5:6: “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness.” Thirst is “διψῶντες” and righteousness is “δικαιοσύνην.”

Matthew 5:8: “Blessed are the pure in heart.” “Pure” is “καθαροὶ,” “heart” is the “καρδίᾳ,” both kappa alpha (κα) repeats. 

The beatitudes have eight initial terms, of which the third declension plurals are all grouped in beatitudes two to five. Beatitudes two and four to seven end with the rhyming sound “ontai,” which ends a verb. The final position of these verbs isn’t grammatically obligatory and appears to be purposeful .

Matthew 4:25 states that “Large crowds from Galilee, the Decapolis, Jerusalem, Judea and the region across the Jordan followed him.” Broad Galilean Aramaic would not have helped the folks from the notoriously Greek Decapolis. It is far more likely that those from “Jerusalem, Judea…. and the region across the Jordan” would have spoken Greek as opposed to those from the Decapolis speaking Aramaic / Hebrew. Jesus then appeals to the broader audience and, I believe, preached the sermon in Greek.

@DrPJWilliams and Stanley Porter both have some good further content on this if you’re curious.

[Danny Kruger @danny__kruger]

"Now, splendidly, everything had become clear. The enemy at last was plain in view, huge and hateful, all disguise cast off. It was the Modern Age in arms."

After this week I feel like Evelyn Waugh at the time of the Nazi-Soviet Pact in 1939. The politics of 'progress' has found its fulfilment in the union of two total malignancies: the campaigns to abort babies at full term and to kill old people before their time. Here is our enemy, all disguise cast off. 1/7

[James Mildred @JamesMildred]

How should the church respond to today's vote? This quote helps:

“I say in a hundred years, if Christians are known as a strange group of people who don’t kill their children and don’t kill the elderly, we will have done a great thing.”

Stanley Hauerwas

[Andrew Lilico @andrew_lilico]

The 9th Commandment (do not make false testimony) is widely misunderstood. Many people believe it forbids lying. I think that's clearly wrong. Not because I say lying is sometimes OK - Kant & others offer interesting arguments against ever lying. But that's not what the 9th is.

[James Poole @1JamesPoole]

@ChrisHowles Yes, can't do both

[James Poole @1JamesPoole]

@ChrisHowles IMHO it may be better to say God's attribute is that he loves to seek and save the lost. This should then be true of all believers. We're then free to apply different titles to those commissioned with different responsibilities (eg apostle/missionary). 3/3

[James Poole @1JamesPoole]

@ChrisHowles I'm not sure this gives us the vocabulary we need, because 'missionary' is being used inconsistently. If 'missionary' is one who is sent, it isn't the best word for God: the Father is the one who *sends*. 2/3

[Wycliffe Bible Translators @wycliffeuk]

✝️‘He is not here; he has risen!’ – Luke 24:6

This Easter, the Bakweri people in Cameroon are reading the New Testament in their own language for the first time.

That’s resurrection hope — freshly unlocked.🔓
#HappyEaster #BibleTranslation