Christian Contentment and William Tyndale

What do William Tyndale and Christian contentment have to do with each other? Actually, a great deal inasmuch as the life ‘Master’ Tyndale was to lead in God’s providence could have been greatly hindered by the absence of contentment – biblical contentment, something often missing from or too seldom consistently practiced by many Christians. His was not an easy life, often lived on the run or in obscurity, but it was a magnificently productive life. He was no doubt a man of great gifts, but without an almost herculean diligence and self-discipline, he would not have accomplished all that he did.

This year is the four hundredth anniversary of the appearance of what is called either the Authorized Version or the King James Bible. A great deal of that Bible’s translation came either directly or was highly influenced by William Tyndale’s seminal translation of the Greek New Testament into English – for the first time in 1526. There had been other translations from Latin versions of Scripture but this was the first in English from the original. The justly famous 1611 translation was also influenced in those portions of the Old Testament that Tyndale was able to complete from the Hebrew before his death as a Christian martyr by strangulation and burning at the stake.

We have much to learn and profit by considering these two themes. Please make arrangements to register and come to the conference. Please also inform and bring others to this excellent opportunity to benefit and be blessed by God’s servants who will be bringing the fruit of their labors to us.