Good morning, everyone. In this installment of Grace Cafe, we introduce the listener to the fact that the Scriptures were not recorded in English. This is a startling revelation to most. I remember being just a little bit put off as recently as 1982 to discover that the language I was reading the Scriptures in was not the language God wrote it in. This introduced me to the concordance, a reference volume containing every word in the Bible as they appear in various English translations, the divine contexts of these words (every single instance of appearance), and the original words (either Hebrew or Greek) behind the English words. This opened up whole new veins of truth to me, not the least of which was the salvation of all humanity.

In addition, the gang at the table in Studio B at the WCCD radio station in Independence, OH (a suburb of Cleveland), investigates the great type of Joseph and how this account lends additional evidence to the truth of Christ being the Savior of all humanity, even of those Who hate Him.  

Rodney Paris, the arranger of this Grace Cafe series, tags a very important "Return to Zender" video at the end of the radio segment, titled, "Jesus Christ's Faith Saves Us, Not Our Own." This message alone is worth the price of admission. 

Thanks to Rodney for preserving these twenty-five year-old cassette messages, and my sister Kelly who gets them to you. Grace Cafe remains, for me, one of the highlights of these thirty years of work. I can't tell you what a blessing (and relief) it was to work directly with others in the announcement of the truth. I enjoyed this luxury for five weeks. The most brutal aspect of this job is the solo nature of it. This is not to say that I don't have plenty of help and encouragement behind me, including Kelly, Rodney, and all of you who support this work, without whom I could not be doing any of it. I'm talking about the day-to-day production of the content. Only one person can do that—except for those five fabulous weeks in Independence, Ohio, in the summer of 1999.  

Thanks to all of you for your love of truth, your love of me, and your zeal to see this work continue until the day of the snatching away of the body of Christ.  

Grace, peace, and love from the peninsula,

—Martin