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A Ministry With An Eternal Impact · Bible Tract Echoes Podcast

• 0:00
  [SPEAKER_01]: Hey friend, thank you so much for joining me once again on Bible Tract Echoes.
• 0:05
  [SPEAKER_01]: Not long ago, I asked my brother, that's my youngest brother.
• 0:09
  [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, Ethan, I have two younger brothers, Caleb, and Ethan, and Ethan, works alongside me here at Bible Tracts Incorporating.
• 0:18
  [SPEAKER_01]: It does a wonderful job as our lead designer.
• 0:21
  [SPEAKER_01]: I asked him to take just a few moments and to share his heart with me and in an article form with our partners through our latest news letter, tell us a little bit about the work he does here at BTI.
• 0:37
  [SPEAKER_01]: And to put together this article, the title is a visual ministry, eternal impact, and the sub-title, partnering with churches to share the gospel more effectively, partnering with Christians to share the gospel more effectively.
• 0:54
  [SPEAKER_01]: Here's what he said, I remember being a directionless, as a senior in high school, unsure of where I would go to college or what I would study.
• 1:04
  [SPEAKER_01]: Around that time, I began dabbling in graphic design as a hobby.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I did not perceive that being a career path for me, let alone something I could do full time in the ministry.
• 1:16
  [SPEAKER_01]: Fast forward a decade, and God has allowed me to work for living doing my quote-unquote hobby.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: The Lord led me to the right Bible College, where I was offered the opportunity to work on the
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  [SPEAKER_01]: After seven years of learning and honing my craft, God moved me to BTI.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: In the year and a half that I have been privileged to serve at BTI, it has been an honor to work alongside pastors and ministry leaders in their design needs.
• 1:52
  [SPEAKER_01]: The majority simply need high quality tracks and invite cards, but I've been privileged to be a part of several large scale projects that have been especially rewarding.
• 2:04
  [SPEAKER_01]: Recently, I had the opportunity to work with a church planter in Naperville, Illinois, who has his very first church service is scheduled for late March 2026.
• 2:16
  [SPEAKER_01]: We were able to partner with this excited and driven young man to create the church's visual identity and develop a website and design and print tracks and invite cards.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: As I look back on my life, it's amazing to see how God can take an 18 year old boy, who simply wanted to kill some time making designs that would never see the light of day, and now allow him to serve those on the front lines of reaching their cities with a gospel.
• 2:48
  [SPEAKER_01]: Psalm 97 verse 4 says delight, die self also in the Lord, and he shall give the desires of
• 2:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'd encourage your friend.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe take to heart what my brother Ethan said, and consider delaying yourself in the Lord.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It's amazing how something he saw is nothing more than maybe a hobby ten years ago, is now his life's work and has a huge impact on reaching people with the gospel.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Next, I'd like to change gears just a little bit and talk about goodly heritage.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Her men's music group just launched our fourth CD, our fifth CD is coming out very soon.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Every culture has music, and God's people should, too, anthropologists tell us that there is no culture in the world that does not have in some form or fashion,
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  [SPEAKER_01]: music.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: From the most sophisticated nation in the western world to the depths of the Amazon, all the way up to the tundra of the Arctic Circle.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Music plays a role in every cultures make up.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: As Christians, we must do our best to ensure that only God's music influences
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  [SPEAKER_01]: our children and us.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And that's why we found it goodly heritage.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It seems there are sometimes a dirt of men in the Christian music industry who practice what they preach, practice what they sing.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I understand I make no accusations from an ivory tower in order I put the men of goodly heritage on a pedestal.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: We are not professionals, vocally nor are we quote unquote professionals in ministry.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: We are simply men striving to be servants to God and His people.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And that's the spirit behind our music.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: What we sing in the vocal booth, we desire to live out in our daily lives.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I would consider it a privilege if you would watch a short vlog about our latest recording process and meet some of the men involved in goodly heritage.
• 4:58
  [SPEAKER_01]: Though the gospel and tracts are far in a way the most important aspects of our ministry here at BTI, we do count it in honor to encourage God's people through song as well.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And I want to thank you so much for listening and supporting the work that we do you can actually watch.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: a little video about our latest recording project at goodlyheritage.org slash media and you can actually find all the places that you can listen to goodlyheritage on at that website.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Goodlyheritage.org G. Now, we have the opportunity over the next few months to have a young man kind of in-turning with us and on the BTI staff.
• 5:42
  [SPEAKER_01]: His name is Gilbert.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Gilbert Conzford, I've maybe mentioned him on the radio before, but I just wanted to ask you to pray with us, pray for us, a good young man doing a great work for the Gospels' sake, and he joined the BTI staff back in January, and will be with us just through the summer.
• 6:01
  [SPEAKER_01]: He's taking one semester off.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: of the Bible College.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: He's about to enter his third year, this upcoming fall, and he has a desire to learn all he can from the BTI team.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: He's already been such a joy to be around, and he's an asset in so many different ways.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Chief among his abilities is an eye for photography, actually.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And over the next few months we will be featuring some of Gilbert's favorite pictures of course.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: You can't necessarily see them through the radio, can you?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Well, if you go to our Facebook or Instagram page, you can see some of those.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: He was with us in Mexico.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: He was with us in New Zealand and Australia.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And if you go actually to my social media or his, but mine is at Mike and McCurray, at MICAH,
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  [SPEAKER_01]: MCC, you are why you can see some of the pictures that Gilbert has taken, and we look forward to seeing what God will do through this young man, and I'm sure you will enjoy some of his creative work over the following months.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: In speaking of Mexico and Panama, he got to go with us to Panama, actually back in August.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And speaking of the need in Latin America, there's a great need for the gospel, south of the border, and BTI because of faithful partners like you has poured millions of tracks into Spanish speaking countries throughout our 85-year history.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And we do not plan to stop anytime soon.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Nearly 600 million people worldwide speak Spanish, and Jesus loves every single one of them.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: We need your help as we endeavor to reach even further though.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: We have an incredible opportunity to print well over one million tracks this year for people in Mexico, in Central and South America, and we do not want to miss this chance.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: We already have almost $25,000 pledged toward this need, and we would love to raise another maybe $37,000 or so.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Over 500,000 Spanish language tracks will have already been put into production this year by the time you hear this broadcast.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: But now is not the time to take our foot off the gas.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And in addition, we actually just released our newest gospel film.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It's our first edition for Spanish speaking people.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: This film is set in Panama, it's featuring one of our most popular tracks, The New Birth.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It's just been released, and we anticipate Lord willing many panamanians receiving Christ as result.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: We have plans to produce more films for other Latin American countries as well, but we need your support, both in prayer and financially to make this possible.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: You can view this brand new film at bibletracksink.org.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Now don't worry, if you don't speak English, we have a version I think with subtitles and you can even watch an English language version as well.
• 9:05
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'd encourage you please, please consider supporting these works by partnering with BTI through recurring giving.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Realize only eternity will tell the timeless impact of these gospel tools.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I didn't encourage your friend.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It's not just English speaking people that need the gospel.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It's people around the world.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Speaking of that, as we look back and we only have today, the remainder of the day, a few minutes left, and then we have tomorrow to rejoice in what God has done and
• 9:36
  [SPEAKER_01]: Then, we're going to turn our sights firmly to 2026 as we get into next week's broadcast or we're going to get back to Bible studies and maybe Paul the Veen preaching to us, but I want to thank God one more time for what a year God gave us in 2025.
• 9:51
  [SPEAKER_01]: As excited as we are about what's ahead, I want to be very careful not to forget what God has already done.
• 9:58
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think of all the many times God commands us to remember, consider, to see His blessings.
• 10:06
  [SPEAKER_01]: Psalm 103 verse 2 says, Blessed the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all His benefits.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: James 1 verse 17,
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above and come a down from the father of lights with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning, Psalm 34 verse 8, O taste and see that the Lord is good, blessed is the man that trusteth in Him.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: 1.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Chronicle 1634, O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is good, for His mercy in Duroth, for ever Psalm 31.19, O how great is that goodness, which thou has laid up for them that fear thee, which thou has wrought for them that trust in thee, before the sons of men.
• 10:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: In that vein, if you haven't had a chance to see our end of year review update video that we published towards the end of last year, I'd encourage you to go to bibletracksink.org.
• 11:09
  [SPEAKER_01]: You can see our video updates.
• 11:11
  [SPEAKER_01]: We will have our first quarter Q1226 review update.
• 11:16
  [SPEAKER_01]: Coming out here in just a few days, a few weeks, and encourage you to view that as well.
• 11:23
  [SPEAKER_01]: I want to thank you so much for tuning in.
• 11:25
  [SPEAKER_01]: Once again, two Bible tract echoes tomorrow on the broadcast.
• 11:29
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to talk about all the ways that you can connect with us in this modern age.
• 11:35
  [SPEAKER_01]: We might not use carrier pigeons or smoke signals today.
• 11:38
  [SPEAKER_01]: But there are still so many ways that you can connect with the BTI team we'd love to hear from you.
• 11:44
  [SPEAKER_01]: And in this modern day, this digital age with all the modern technology that we have, God is still using tracks in an incredible way every single week we hear of folks that have accepted Christ because of a gospel track.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I'd encourage you.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Go to bibletracksink.org.
• 12:03
  [SPEAKER_01]: That's bibletracksink.org and you can order some gospel tracks for free today.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: We would love to print them and ship them to you at no charge.
• 12:15
  [SPEAKER_01]: If you have any questions, feel free to text me, 309, 316-724-0.
• 12:23
  [SPEAKER_01]: We look forward to talking to you tomorrow the last day of the week, as we conclude another week.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: A Bible track that goes have a great day for his glory.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: We'll talk to you very soon.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: God bless.
• 13:12
  [UNKNOWN]: Thank you.
• 13:16
  [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you for tuning in to Bible Tract Echoes, the radio ministry of Bible Tracts Incorporated.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Want to see our gospel tracks and other resources?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Visit us online at BibleTracksink.org that's BibleTracksink.org or follow us on social media to learn how you can partner with this ministry.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Thanks again for listening.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: May the Lord richly bless you as you live for him.