Now here in Mexico City, our volcano (which is about 100 miles from us as the crow flies) has started with exhalations. The nearby towns have evacuation alerts and drills, and they are constantly being patroled by civil authorities trying to prepare the people for disaster. Sometimes you can see the red of lava and fire reflected in the clouds billowing out. Other times it seems things calm down.

Our church continues to be assaulted by Satan. Our attendence is down for about 2 months now. Satan is attacking our people, and some of our couples are having marital problems between them. We did have about 3 new couples coming, but all have been missing lately. It is very depressing.

I was going to a general doctor for my diabetes, and somebody recommended that I go to an internist, which I am doing. I had some blood tests, and my triclycerides are elevated, and it is causing me to feel bad constantly. The good news is that both my glucose and cholesterol are down to close to normal, and I am losing weight. The new doctor has prescribed a lot of new medicine for me that is costing us a lot financially. We have no health care any more from living outside of the country, and being diabetic. Please pray for my health. I was trying to get some exercise by going to a gym last month, but that kind of ended abruptly when I had a wisdom tooth pulled. I am still recovering from that also.

We are planning on returning to the US in August of this year for around 6 months. If any of my pastors would like for us to visit with you and present our ministry, please get in contact with me, and I would be glad to try and plan a stop in your church.

It is very disturbing to have all of these after quakes, and gives you the impression that another big one is trying to break out. The fault that causes this earthquake situation hasn’t seated itself yet, and that means that until it does, we will have more of the same. We (Mexico) have a Mayan myth that according to ancient prophesies the world will end in 2012 of the Mayan Calendar. The government and others play that down. The actual Mayan myth is that a new Calendar (end of the old one) will begin, so some “experts” interpret this. None-the-less it doesn’t help the situation here.

Tule’s family in Pinotepa National basically are living in the back yard of their houses because it has caused widespread panic and fear. In that area, the earthquakes are up and down shaking, like a Mexican jumping bean, moving the buildings up and down about an inch. They are usually accompanied by a lot of noise like the earth is breaking. Tule laughs at what we called earthquakes here, because they are circular in motion and not as scary.

Most people here in Mexico City don’t worry much about these earthquakes either, and when “the big one hits”, they just hope they won’t be in a structure that collapses. Personally I like houses with 1 floor, because in a few dozen steps you are outside. My first year here I rented an apartment on the 9th floor, and since you cannot use the elevator in an earthquake, and there were 2 flights of stairs on each floor, and two stories of parking before the first floor, and meant I had to “run” down somewhere aroung 22 flights of marble (like glass) stairs, and I figured out with the first tremor that the building would fall way before I ever got all the way down those things, or I would break my neck running, so just walk normal (and pray fast and a lot while walking).

Our church continues to grow some and retreat some. We have another new family, Paul and Lulu. Carlos and Diana (our other new family which is Adolfo’s nephew) don’t seem to be very faithful over time. Paul and Lulu are coming from the center of the city, about one and half hours transit time without a car. They seem very happy with our church, and like the preaching. Marcos and Sonya (a core family) decided to leave our church and go to another one, and apparently it was over some personal problems they had in their marriage. Sonya didn’t want to go to the same church as Marcos. We talked with them, and it appears they have returned with us.

Tule and I continue to “get old”, and we have continuing aches and pains. My diabetes advances. I am having more problems with my eyesight (having a lot of problems reading the kids school books), and my cholesterol and triglycerides are high (but strangely my glucose is actually lowering). I decided to go to an internist doctor with this (at the suggestion of a General Practionist “regular” doctor), and I am trying to cut out all fats and greasy things, and all red meats. Kind of boring diet, but I guess that is what I have to eat.

For you guys who have never tried it, try cooking green snapped beans (the ones with long casing which are snapped, not shelled), boiling them first, then take some and put them with egg whites (scrambled) for breakfast. Not too tasty, but ask your doctor. They are very high in fiber, and with egg whites you can eat them without cholesterol concerns. (I have to have them in a taco, with a little bit of Texas Pete hot sauce or ketchup.)

Dear Praying Friends,

We passed the earthquake without problems. It was nerve-racking but not much happened to us. Some of the furniture fell over or moved from its place, but other than that, God spared us cracked walls and such (or anything worse). The sidewalks are buckled up around the city.

I would ask that you please pray for Tule sisters. She is from a small village called Tacubaya, and one sister (Vitelia) lives there, and her other sister (Nayita) lives in a larger town call Pinotea National. They have not ceased from replicas (smaller earthquakes that follow a serious one), and since the principle earthquake, they have had over 200 replicas of 5 or more on Richter’s scale. This has forced the people in the area to sleep outside because so many houses are adobe or simply cannot support such semic activity, and if they stood through the first big one, the replicas destroy them little by little over these days. There are houses with the roof caved in, the walls cracked, and several of Tule’s sister’s (Vitelia) neighbors have total loss of their house, and it hasn’t stopped shaking yet. Image an earthquake that in minor but just won’t stop for over a week now. There is also talk of a volcano forming about 30 miles from Tacubaya. This is a folk lore from the people there (there is a large hill jutting up from the ground there, and this village is at the foot of that hill). But the National University of Mexico has sent experts to dispell the myth, and instead of dispelling it, the military was sent in to evacuate the village and people and cuarentine the area. There is no lava and explosion, but there is unprecedented semic activity there, and the government appears very concerned sending in several hundred troops to keep people away from the area.

The people in the whole area around the epicenter (the volcano is very close to the epic of the original quake) are very panicky and nervous. It just won’t stop shaking. They don’t want to leave their homes (no place to go), and they would lose their possessions from others who take advantage of the situation. But please pray for them.

Also please pray for us. I am having health problems with a stomach infection and the flu. We were without water for about 4-5 days as a water main in our area broke, and it took them a while to fix it. We also didn’t have electricity (on and off) for several days after the earthquake).

Our church work continues to go well, and we have several new families who have started to come just this last month.

In Christ,

David Cox

HEAVENLY GROUND

Thoughts on 2 Timothy 1:8 and 15 

by

J. B. Stoney

The great failure of the church was giving up Paul. “All… in Asia” did not give up evangelical truth but they gave up Paul; anything popular you may have, but not Paul. Why? Because he is heavenly. 

Colossians 2:20 is “over Jordan.” In Romans (6:1-11), [you are] “dead to sin “—dead with Christ—out of the man; but in Colossians you are out of the place where the man is. Gilgal is the actual spot: all of man goes. Many understand Marah (Exodus 15:23-26) who do not understand Gilgal (Joshua 5:2-12). Marah is that I refuse the thing that would draw me from the wilderness. In Gilgal you drop it all: it is cut off, and cannot be resumed. 

The children of Israel ate the Passover when they got over Jordan, and the day after they ate the old corn of the land! That Passover was a type of the Lord’s Supper in which I can say, I have reached the consummation of His accomplished work; I begin a new day, and I eat the old corn of the land. 

What has hindered souls from understanding the mystery is that they are not consciously on heavenly ground. No man gets clear of the intrusion of the flesh until he gets to Gilgal. We ought to be able to say to every offer of the flesh, I do not want your learning, I do not want your sanctimoniousness, I want nothing but Christ, for I am “complete in him” and He is everything and in all. I am looking [down].

You know very little about a person if you only know what he was, and not what he is; and that is the difference between the manna and the old corn of the land.

There is nothing a man so revolts from naturally than to see that this scene is gone. But though this scene is gone for me I am supported down here by supplies from the place where my Lord has gone. By the Holy Spirit I walk the path He has trod to the place where He has gone; where He is. There are many who have for a moment tasted it; and I would ask, Had you your relatives, your property, there? No, I had only the Lord. And were you happy without them? Perfectly so!

There are many in heart over Jordan who have never accepted it. Your acceptance of the new place necessitates dropping everything connected with the old place. Like a recruit brought to the barrack gate; he drops the old, the civilian, to get the new. The apostle said when he was caught up into the third heaven, he did not know whether he was in the body or out of the body.

They say that a man in a balloon loses first the sense of feeling, then the sight of things below, then his hearing, and lastly consciousness. You do not get the right idea of sanctification until you come to this. In 2 Corinthians 12 Paul has come down from the place where he did not know whether he was in the body, and now he will have a crippled body. The more I understand the exaltation, the more I shall be crippled here.

Once you separate the [assembly] from the gospel, [you are] prepared for any departure, human subsidy, and carnal support of any kind. I have no doubt Laodicea springs out of this (carrying on christian things without Christ). How often the evangelist deplores the state of his converts: your converts are the pattern of yourself. No one ever understood the gospel thoroughly that did not understand the [assembly].

I never saw the brother who left the heavenly ground who did not become Babylonish—not Egyptian, for Egypt is the gross world, but Babylon is the refined, or if you will, aesthetic world.

Laodicea is christian religion without Christ Himself. Do not give up the heavenly side! Do not give up Paul! Do not be ashamed of “the testimony of our Lord nor of me his prisoner.” 

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Take Heed How ye Hear

“Take heed therefore how ye hear: for whosoever hath, to him shall be given; and whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken even that which he seemeth to have.”

MAN was in darkness as to the mind of God until He was pleased to reveal it. Hence His word is a lamp to our feet and a light to our paths. He tells us His mind in His word, which otherwise we could never have known by research or thought of our own. His revelation is therefore light; “The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple”. The darkness is the conclusion of man’s mind untaught and undirected by the word of God. Man follows the bent of his own mind, and makes himself the centre, just as Cain did at the very first. He builds a city and calls it after his son Enoch; it is characteristically what is derived from himself. The children of Lamech, the seventh from Adam in the Cain line, are Jubal, the father of all such as handle the harp and organ, and Tubal-cain, the instructor of every artificer in brass and iron. Up to the flood we have man left to himself, without any revelation from God that we know of, save the promise that God would through the seed of the woman bruise the serpent’s head. We have no positive record of God’s mind save as it was communicated orally. Enoch was translated that he should not see death, and none of the fathers died before his translation, except Adam; and Lamech the father of Noah was more than a hundred years old before the translation of Enoch. I notice this to show how man was at first entrusted with the oracles of God, and that they were not committed to writing; but while he was left to himself and to his own resources, the family of faith, like a silver thread, was preserved through God’s mercy, and Noah, the remnant of it, was saved in the ark.

There can be no question as to the great difference between man without revelation, and man with it. The great philosophers at Athens indirectly admitted that the mind of man, however fertile and able, could not discover the true God. They had an altar inscribed, “To the unknown God”, Acts 17. Thus their research and learning had only disclosed their ignorance of God, and it is just here Paul addresses them; he presents to them the light of revelation.
If it be admitted – and it cannot be denied – that man is in darkness as to everything that suits God, for I cannot know the mind of the Supreme unless He divulges it; then if I accept the light of revelation, I must refuse the darkness which is in principle and practice quite independent of the mind of God. The darkness, that is man’s mind, is solely and entirely set on discovering and securing everything to exalt himself in his departure from God, as we have seen in Cain. God’s light has been given to show to man the way God can have mercy on him, and how He would set him up anew well pleasing to Himself; and as this light is received, an entirely new course must be pursued to that which man had invented or desired for his own benefit and enjoyment. Man’s thoughts or plans at best cannot exceed his own measure, and as it must be limited to himself, it could not propose anything beyond human power, and therefore it must be finite, and within the region of human sense.

Thus man is in will a creature independent of his Creator; he seeks and designs for himself, absorbed in promoting his own pleasure and profit, though ignorantly, and blind as to his real profit; which is as great an anomaly as if a bird were to refuse the instruction of its parent, and attempt to run only, never using its wings. The blessed God alone knows what is best for man, and He declares it in His word. He tried man first without law, and then with law, and lastly He sent His Son “with healing in his wings.” In the Greek we have man left to his own mind, unenlightened by revelation; in the Jew we have man in the flesh with the law as a given standard. Then grace and truth came by Jesus Christ, God’s Son from heaven, “which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.”
The simple point is, does the light from God supersede and supplant in our minds the reasonings and judgment of man, and is it adequate and sufficient to direct or fit man for his true relation to God in every position in which he may be set? If this be answered in the affirmative – and it could not truly be answered otherwise, or God’s revelation would not have perfectly disclosed His mind and will respecting us – it is plain that there is great responsibility in hearing, and that the word, “Take heed how ye hear,” is a solemn one for us. Every word of God is light, and as it is received there is light in him who receives it, and this light is not to be put under a bed or under a bushel, but is to be manifested in the darkness. When the light of God comes to man, it finds him governed and influenced by his own and his fellows’ conclusions, which is simply the light of his own reason; and therefore if he accepts the word of God, and as he does so, he must refuse the one while adopting the other.

It is here that all the difficulty lies, and all the responsibility as to hearing the word. If the word of God were only to improve and to add to the mind and thoughts of man, it would be comparatively easy to bow to it; it would be a further step in the science of human development. But when it introduces an entirely new principle of action, and not merely new actions, it is evident that if His word be accepted, it must be fatal to that which is already in existence. If the same identity, man, is governed by different and entirely new principles, it follows that as the better and greater are adopted, the former and inferior must be repudiated. The butterfly was once a caterpillar, but its mode of action is now quite different, and it could not return to that of its prior and inferior state.

If I see that man in himself is ignorant of what suits God, and that at best he can only order for himself up to his own measure, it is plain that when the light of God comes in, there must be an entirely new principle of action, as well as a new mode, and that as the word of God gets a place and rules, so the other must be displaced and silenced. The simple lesson of Christianity is that it is the word of God, His light, which is to control and influence me in every transaction of life; and every one of the principles which I have derived from men, and heretofore acted on, must be feared and refused. If I say that man has been walking in the twilight of reason, and that revelation is the light of the sun for him, I give the idea that God’s light only increases the light of human reason; but the moment I see that the light from God is above the brightness of the sun, and that it reveals Himself, then I see that everything which He reveals as to His purpose respecting man must be characteristic of Himself.

To man, fallen and ruined because of sin, and unable to resist the assault and influence of Satan, the god of this world, God imparts His mind; and as it is simply received from God, if through grace there is capacity to take it in (for an eye is this capacity; see Luke 11), the body is full of light. If the light be but taken in, the body yields to the force and power of it and expresses it; but if there be any wrong selfish motive of action, it perverts the light, as jaundice discolours every object, however good and perfect the light may be. When there is not a clear and full expression of the light, there is either a defect in the eye or in its power on the body. In the one case it is the way the light is perverted on receiving it, and the other is its influence practically; there is a dark part. Now it is a very solemn thing how I, through grace, receive the light from God; for if I have not a true sense of the responsibility of hearing and accepting the word of God, the greatest light becomes the greatest darkness. It is the most painful fact connected with God’s people, that it is men who have been in the forefront in accepting God’s word who have most grievously apostatised from it and brought reproach on the truth; and it is thus that the house of God is made a den of thieves.

Cain showed at the outset how little a man, even with good intentions, could meet the mind of God. And as we come on we see that, even in a righteous man like Lot, the true ground, Canaan, is no security against failure; and in the case of Aaron, that occupation in the closest way with the ways and works of God does not preserve from the people’s untoward influence when His word is forgotten. Again, a later day and with greater light, Peter would have compromised the truth by refusing to eat with the gentile saints (Gal. 2). Hymenaeus and Philetus (2 Tim. 2) were evidently men of note, or there would have been no use in mentioning their names; and they damaged the truth more than the most open adversary who was ignorant of it could have done.
The great damage done to the truth of God in every age was that it was not faithfully expressed by the recipients of it. It was placed under a bed without design, out of the way, or under a bushel designedly, and therefore was not manifested. In every instance it is the man who has received revelation, and has not been governed by it, but has reduced it to suit himself and minister to his own advantage, who is at any given time the most repugnant to God and most opposed to Him. The name of God was blasphemed among the gentiles through the Jew, and every dispensation has been marked by the way man has formalised for himself the truth of God without the power of it. So that every new revelation tested the sincerity of God’s people, for the question was, would they accept what was entirely outside of human conviction and simply of faith?
God says, “To this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word” (Isa. 66:2). “With what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you: and unto you that hear shall more be given.” The soul in a right state before God says, “Speak, Lord; for thy servant heareth”. And this will always be accompanied with the sense of the claim His truth has on one. In this day it is not so much dullness of comprehension we have to lament, as the little sense of responsibility in hearing. The most conscientious as a rule are the slowest and most fearful in hearing or accepting any additional truth, because they are most sensible of its claim when once heard. In divine things, the one who knows most always feels how little he knows, while he longs to know more of that of which he already knows most. He listens to the word as that which he needs and by which he grows; but he hears with the deepening sense that, as he accepts it, it will impart a more divine tone and spring to every act and movement of his life; that it cannot be accepted without confirming the truth already received, and rebutting and refusing in a greater degree the scope and tendency of carnal feeling and wisdom. It is a wondrous operation of God’s Spirit in his soul, that of implanting the mind of God to supersede the principle of action heretofore dominant there. He does not know how he may be shaped by it, or to what he may be appointed; but like the vessel to the potter, or the tablet to the engraver, or the canvas to the painter, he is ready and prepared for the wondrous and beautiful touches which will make him a truer picture, or imitator, or expression of the one perfect Man. And as he hears, so is the measure of his gain; and more is given where most has been received.

If you do not hear with the sense of responsibility, you are not really a canvas ready to receive the colours of Christ; but if you are, you will bow to the truth, prepared of heart, and assured that as it is heard, so must there be a manifestation of it. It must not be put under a bed or under a bushel. You must maintain it, or it will not maintain you. If you do not use light, you will lose it. As you express it, you put on the armour of light. The evergreen resists the frost. Truth will not preserve you unless you preserve it, and then it is an armour to you; but if it be neglected, the receiver of the greatest truth will become like the sow that was washed, wallowing in the mire.

J.B.S., 1871
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    One is used daily to help folks decide. No, not the Bible… the TV guide. 
    As the pages are turned, what shall they see? Oh, what does it matter? turn on the TV! 

    Then confusion reigns—they can’t all agree on what they should watch on the old TV. 
    So they open the book in which they confide. No, not the Bible… the TV guide. 

    The Word of God is seldom read. Maybe a verse now and then when they fall into bed. 
    Exhausted and sleepy and tired as can be—not from reading the Bible—from watching TV. 

    So then back to the table side by side, lie the Holy Bible and the TV guide. 
    No time for prayer; no time for the Word, the plan of salvation is seldom heard. 

    But justification, so full and free is found in the Bible, not on TV. 

Please pray for us.

NEWS ARTICLE: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2095242/John-Wanda-Casias-dead-Baptist-missionary-couple-U-S-strangled-Mexican-city-plagued-drug-violence.html

VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mj4elP5ChTs

VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gj0nNtML5SA

I don’t want to alarm people with these news items, but we do need your prayers. It appears that sleepy Mexico has become the center of organized crime and violence in the world.

I think the issue here is very well put by McGarvey, when he argues that we are not at liberty to “invent” new conventions, organizations, and methods (especially not changing the content of the gospel message).

He argues that it is legitimate to use the means available (which best accomplish our biblically set goals), but not parting from the methodology and precedent set in the Bible.

Here the issue would come down to the following conclusion…

We “NEED” mission boards because local churches refuse to obey Scriptures and be the sending organization that equally supports with actual follow-up of activities, money, time, personnel, etc. to complete the mission God gave us. Instead of doing the job God gave them to do, local churches have abandoned this to unbilical third parties (i.e. mission organizations) which have no scriptural warrant, and which today have taken over missions. While they divert millions of dollars into US stateside buildings and self promotions, they drain away precious scarce mission resources, personnel, and dollars into”non-missions” ministries, i.e. activities which drain but do not directly get people saved, which do not directly disciple people in a local church.

Today the majority of the money which is given in local churches to “missions” does not comply with fulfilling the great commission, i.e. it does not pay the salary of an individual that goes into another country to win the lost, nor to plant and raise up local churches. This is the great higher and better vision of mission boards than local churches.

To be involved in missions and to live from missions, every missions minister should be witnessing weekly in the street. To accept anything less is sheer hypocripsy. Why is it acceptable for a mission’s board director and office staff NOT WITNESS WEEKLY yet they demand their missionaries to do it? Isn’t hypocripsy holding (and beating others with the thing) a higher standard for others, yet accept a lower standard for one’s own self?

FOR THE DAVID COX FAMILY IN MEXICO CITY

Dear praying friends,

Seasons greetings from down south in Mexico. We are having below freezing temperatures here, so it feels like a US winter down here! Praise the Lord none of our family is sick right now.

NEWS: Erika and Gerardo are getting married. Two of our young singles (about30 somethings) have been dating and are getting married December 3rd. I am preaching the sermon and Gerado’s pastor from Los Angeles (Miguel Morales) is coming to perform the actual ceremony. We are very happy for this young family.

NEWS: We are moving into another house 2 doors down after the wedding. The present owners asked us to leave because they want to sell the house, so we were offered this new place. Please pray that we get all the details worked out as far as curtains, telephone, kitchen furniture installed, etc. before Christmas. We had to buy a stove (the old house had a stove already, but the new one doesn’t), and we have had some extra expenses this past month. We will probably wait until January or February to get everything fixed up in the new house for lack of money.

OUR CHURCH: Our church work continues going well. We have had a few families leave us, but that is not anything new. Many of the people who attend our church come from over 1 to 2 hours commute time to our church, but they come anyway because of our doctrine and stand. They find it hard after a while, and have to stop coming. One of these two families in particular were disgruntled, and because they were not coming regularly, I wasn’t asking them to participate in the Adult Sunday School, and besides that his son dated Erika, and she didn’t like him. So they decided to move on. Another family had some problems and left us in September, and since then they have moved on to another church, and now in the end of November, they have left that church and are now “church hoping”. I feel sorry and sad when our people leave us, and many come back to us after church hoping for a while, and they cannot find any good church out there.

Some of our people have also been absent sporadically because of flu and colds, and that doesn’t look to change much over the near future. I am in the process of turning more and more of the Sunday School over to the men, and helping them plan all the way into next summer. I think they like it.

OUR FAMILY: We are kind of sad as Kelsie continues studying the 11th grade of High School, because this coming summer she will pack up and go to the states for her last year, and probably study in the states if that can be arranged financially. Even so, it is sad as we realize she is growing up.

OUR HEALTH: My diabetes hasn’t advanced much (nor gotten any better), and between that and just getting old, I find myself having to take short 20 minutes naps from time to time. I still get up at 5:30 or 6:00AM and study until 11PM or midnight. Tule has osteoporosis, which causes her discomfort and pain sometimes. We are hoping that we will hear less noise in the new house, and can sleep better. We’ll see.

MY WEBSITES: I have decided to spend some time and energy in my websites, and try to get my teachings, tracts, books, sermons, sermon audios, etc. out via the Internet. I am also finding great help in some of my sites where I download books for my study. These resources help my sermon preparation tremendously.

We thank you for your financial support and prayers.

In Christ,

David Cox davidcox@davidcox.com.mx

P.S. Orlando Bible Church is now going to send out my prayer letters from there (Orlando Florida). I have been sending out regular paper letters to you from here, and it costs about $2 dollars each, and they are not getting to you. If there are people (besides my financial supporters) who want a copy, please send a letter to Orlando Bible Church requesting to be put on the prayer letter list. I still update my personal and ministry website also, http://www.davidcoxmex.com

Prayer letter for the Cox’s
in Mexico City, Mexico
October 26, 2011

Dear praying friends,

We appreciate your prayers and financial support. Life continues to fly by us so fast. Kelsie is in the 11^th grade this year, and we are trying to get her caught up, so that next year she can attendOrlandoBibleChurchHigh School. The good people there at our home church are putting her up her last year of High School, and after that, we really don’t know what she will do. She wants to continue and study pharmacy, but that is a difficult road, and there are a lot of decisions as far as where (Mexico/US, or where in theUS), and whether any school would accept her coming from home schooling and a Christian high school. As I understand it most are flooded with applications. We will have to wait and see, pray a lot, and just try to get her in wherever. Expenses are also a problem as we are barely making it as far as our living expenses, and we have no money saved up any more.

Our church continues doing well. We have had a family leave recently and that discouraged many. None-the-less, we have had counseling with several after each church service it seems, many new people. We had two baptisms last month. We continue to have new people come both from our weekly door to door work, and also from our members inviting family and friends. We grow a little, and then some don’t come all that much, and others seem to take their place, and when everybody comes we don’t have room for everybody. I am going to take the youth group for a couple of months (teen Sunday School) while our men rotate teaching through Hebrews. They are doing a good job, and some are loving the opportunity to speak, and others are not so excited, because it is a lot of work, and getting up before others to speak is part of the problem. Pray for them.

We have found another house about 2 doors down from our present house, and we should be completely moved in there by the end of the year. It is the same rent as where we are now, but the house is slightly more austere than here. The people seem nice. There is an apartment behind the house, and the elderly lady and her daughter and grandkids will live with her there, and we will share the drive-way (hopefully that’s all).

We continue to get old and tired it seems. We try not to lighten up on our labors, but be faithful to our Lord in labor as in doctrine. God continues to bless, and our book website has over 1200 free books for download (about250 inthe Spanish one). I have about 210 Spanish tracts now. I continue to get a lot of counseling emails from people around the world also (both English and Spanish). I am working on translating my literature into English. Please pray for us. We NEED your prayers!

David Cox

http://www.davidcoxmex.com/ – our ministry website

http://www.twmodules.com/ – Free book website

http://www.coxtracts.com/ – Our free Gospel Tract Website