[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 187 (Thursday, November 21, 2019)]
[House]
[Page H9126]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    CELEBRATING NATIONAL BIBLE WEEK

  (Mr. BUDD asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BUDD. Madam Speaker, I rise today to celebrate the 78th 
anniversary of National Bible Week.
  In this very Bible, the Apostle Paul tells us in 2 Timothy, Chapter 
4:

       For the time is coming when people will not endure sound 
     teaching, but have itching ears, they will accumulate 
     themselves teachers to suit their own passions and will turn 
     away from listening to the truth and will wander off into 
     myths.

  Even as I look behind me at the words ``In God We Trust,'' I wonder 
if we as a nation are succumbing to what the Apostle Paul warned about 
2,000 years ago.
  There is a solution to this problem, and it is found in the very same 
chapter. Paul writes:

       Preach the Word, be ready in season and out of season; 
     reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and 
     teaching.

  He writes in the prior chapter, 2 Timothy, Chapter 3, that all 
Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for 
reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, and that a 
person of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.
  So we see the people of His creation are intended for purposeful good 
works, and we are guided into that purpose by God through the very 
Scriptures that we celebrate this week.

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