Today we surpassed 2000 works for download. According to the plugin counter, a total of 731,469 downloads have occurred since I remade the website from scratch back in December 2024. So that is about 97 days since the website has been made again from scratch (third time in 2024 that I had to remake it from scratch because of hackers that brought it down). So I calculate that our visitors downloaded about 7,540 per day on average.
Yet no donations, guys. But enjoy! I am shouldering the entire burden of this ministry, and you guys are getting the good stuff.
Maybe I am wrong, but if Jesus promised that a believer who gives something so small as a glass of water will not lose their reward for that, I think God is going to bless me and reward me in heaven. He can do the same for you if you donate something. Just my point of view here. It is not like the Bible would really change the way Christians think of life, much less change their actions, right?
For as long as God gives me strength and ability (and financial wherewithal to keep it up), I want to continue this ministry. I have spent some days half the day finding, sorting, changing the names on these modules to standardize them, and uploading them to the site.
Luke 10:7 And in the same house remain, eating and drinking such things as they give: for the labourer is worthy of his hire. Go not from house to house.
Matthew 10:10 Nor scrip for your journey, neither two coats, neither shoes, nor yet staves: for the workman is worthy of his meat.
I understand this as my policy. I do not charge for my spiritual service for the body of Christ. As people give of their own free wills, I am content with that. I do not beg. I am just proposing a way to donate for those who want to help with this ministry because it benefits them. Each person will give account of his own life and actions in heaven before the Lord, so that applies to me as well as to you.
1 Timothy 5:18 For the scripture saith, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn. And, The labourer is worthy of his reward.
God’s principle is to honor those who serve you, even if they do not formally “charge you” for their services. I am not asking for a salary. I am asking for help to cover my $1000+ yearly hosting services for my 34 websites that are part of my ministry. To summarize, I have about 5 theWord websites in English, and one in Spanish. Besides those, I also have an English and a Spanish MySword websites, as well as English and Spanish eSword websites. There is my Christian Kindle, EPUB, and Mobi website (another one in Spanish). From these websites I draw works to put into theWord (except MySword, which those modules come from theWord to MySword).
I write tracts which I use to preach from in my church here. We distribute the day’s sermon in tract from before every sermon I preach. They are front and back of a single sheet of paper, and they have all the verses we will study that day. At times I do a Powerpoint, and don’t make a tract, but we are approaching 700 Spanish tracts that I am trying to get uploaded to my folletosytratados.com website. These are in webpages but with a PDF copy that can be downloaded and printed. Some people have written me that they download one copy and print up dozens for their people. They also use them to preach from.
With all the burdens I carry constantly, I am trying to translate these tracts into English. I will share some images from the Administration side of that coxtracts.com website.
Coxtracts.com Visitors for the First part of March 2025
Our Coxtracts.com Top Downloads
So, I am working feverously in all of my websites. I am not lazy, and I get up early to work on my ministries (including several sermon preparations each week). But my point is, those who benefit from my services to the body of Christ should give something back.
I figured out that if 1 out of 1000 of my visitors would donate $2.50 US dollars per year, I could cover everything. You cannot even buy a cup of coffee for $2.50. It would be nice if those 1/1000 people would donate the price of a McTrio at McDonalds. This is ONCE PER YEAR! If you do it this year, I might not be alive next year, and these sites will disappear. But you would have done your good deed. But those donations would add up with the peaks of visitors (providing they are not another bot attack to bring my sites down). I regularly have 90 gigabytes of traffic and downloads PER MONTH on my hosting account.
I won’t mention that, besides the hard work that I put into this website, the fact that when something “breaks” one of my sites, I usually try to fix it myself, and if I cannot, then I call my hosting customer support, and those sessions are sometimes 3 to 4 hours long, and sometimes, they just tell me how to fix it, but don’t do it for me, so I have to try, and then go back on customer chat later the same day to get more help.
My health is failing, and I am in my 60s, fast approaching 70 years old. My contemporaries are almost all retired, and I still keep going for Christ. I have diabetes and high blood pressure, as well as a tumor in my kidney that we are watching. Pray that God gives me good health, energy, and clarity of mind.
But when I went through college, there were no personal computers, no laptops, no electronic tablets, nor cell phones. So I have had zero classes on computers, zero classes on building, designing and maintaining websites, and zero classes on how to use electronic Bible software. I learn by studying on my own with whatever means I have available. Back in the 1980s, that was mainly by PC magazine articles. Today it is googling a lot.
So you are benefitting from my sweat and tears, because none of this has come easy for me. Besides running this website ministry, I am a missionary and a pastor of a local church on the mission field. We have been at 50% of our missionary support since the 1990s.
I put service over retirement, doing the work of God on the mission field before running around the United States being a professional fundraiser, and now that we are facing retirement (great if you can, but it doesn’t look like that is the case for us), our only option is to trust the Lord and keep working. If I had made different decisions in the past, I could be retired somewhere in the US, watching TV or my cell phone with no websites to worry about. Just delete them all.
We decided to leave our mission board years back and go independent under a local church (no regrets there either), and now churches don’t want our kind of missions. I work on principle, not convenience. Sorry, just how God has taught me.
How to Support us
Please help me maintain this website. Because of the number of theWord modules which I am uploading, I cannot review each module individually. If you download a module from this website, and it is corrupted, poorly formatted, or you think there is a copyright violation, please email me the exact name of the file in question to [email protected]. (This includes if the module is not what it’s filename would appear, like the wrong author, etc.) I would appreciate it very much.
If you find this work useful in your studies, please consider a small donation for the time and effort I, David Cox, have put into making this module and uploading it to the Internet for years. https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/davidcoxmex
If your bank has Zelle transfers, you can Zelle me any amount of donation to my email, [email protected]. You can also write me with your thoughts at this email. If you have modules that you do not see on this website, you can donate theWord, MySword or ESword modules (as well as PDFs, EPUBs, MOBI, RTF, Microsoft Word Doc files, etc) to this email address or use wetransfer.com to send larger amounts of works. I do not promise to get everything up, but I will try.
1 Timothy 5:18 For the scripture saith, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn. And, The labourer is worthy of his reward.
Pray for us
Finally, for many people out there, they are struggling with life like we are. I understand. But you can support this ministry without it financially costing you anything. I would actually prefer this method of your support. You can pray for us. When you visit this website, just say a short prayer for us, “Lord, bless brother David and Tule.” God works on prayer, so we do too. Don’t minimize the necessary element of prayer in this ministry. Your prayers matter greatly.
Your prayers are what keep hackers from ruining this website. Remember that. Beyond the costs of everything, your prayers will defend this ministry so that others in the body of Christ can get a blessing too.
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