Retiring this Bible
I got a new Bible. Hope it serves me as well as this one has for the last 13 years.
I’ll always keep this one…Jenny gave it to me as a gift when I was ordained into ministry. (She also gave me my new one for Christmas.)
Lots of passages are scratched up with hand-written reflections or teaching notes. The pages have been falling out for a long time and a few months ago I finally lost the first 7 chapters of Genesis! I’ve used this Bible to teach in Liberia, the Dominican Republic, the Philippines, Mexico, Canada. It’s been my companion at dozens of funerals, 100+ weddings, 1000+ sermons, and plenty of conversations across the table from someone who literally needed a Word from God.
But I’m looking forward to the next one. I wrote some notes in it during Beka’s teaching on Sunday and some more before I spoke to our whole staff this morning. Off to a good start…
.Real.Greg.Lee. 
Thank you for not mentioning Brandy’s teeth marks in your Bible! That still haunts me!
I totally remember that…and the Bible has many other marks now to go along with them!