See www.bibleliteracy.com  for much more helpful information.

Approximately 37 % of quotes of the Founding Fathers were from the Bible.

Without a modest awareness of general Biblical content, many references regularly used in modern conversation would have little or no meaning.

About Chuck Stetson, CEO of the Bible Literacy Project:

“Chuck Stetson serves as Chairman of the Board of the Bible Literacy Project. Stetson was formerly Vice Chairman of the Board and Chairman of the Education Committee for the National Bible Association. Mr. Stetson has been a board member of an independent private school for six years. He is also a Managing Director of Private Equity Investors, Inc., a private investment firm where, among other things, he invests and builds value in privately held companies. Stetson holds a master's degree in business from Columbia University's Graduate School of Business and an undergraduate degree from Yale University. He has authored articles for Harvard Business Review, Pratt's Guide to Venture Capital, and The Journal of Corporate Strategy. He has also created the Doubleday Pocket Bible Guide. He is co-editor of  The Bible and Its Influence and General Editor of Creating The Better Hour: Lessons from William Wilberforce. In May, 2008, he was honored by Concordia University at Portland with a Doctor of Laws degree.”

Hear CEO Chuck Stetson in this brief  radio recording … in his own words …

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In my (HHH) personally thinking of commonly used words and phrases that come from the Bible, a few of them I state below:

· David and Goliath 
· The wisdom of Solomon
· Walking on water  
· Wandering in the wilderness  
· The parting of the Red Sea   
· The Promise Land
· Turning water into wine
· The Ten Commandments
· The ten plagues
· The burning bush
· Sodom and Gomorrah
· A Damascus Road experience
· Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John
· The shepherds and the wise men
· The star of the East
· From Genesis to Revelation
· The Creator
· The Prodigal Son
· Heaven and Hell
· Moses and the children of Israel
· Handwriting on the wall
· The good Samaritan
· Returning good for evil
· The woman at the well
·  The woman taken in adultery
·  40 days and 40 nights
· The mount of temptation
· Jezebel
· The widow’s mite
· Loaves and fish
· Daniel and the lion’s den
· The fiery furnace
· Passover
· Moses in the bulrushes
· The potter’s field (graveyard for the poor)
· 30 pieces of silver
· The pharaohs of Egypt
· The Lord’s Supper
· Lazarus raised from the dead
· Silver and gold have I none
· The Philippian jailer
· John the Baptist beheaded by King Herod
· The slaughter of the innocents
· Wars and Rumors of wars
· David and Bathsheba
· Dying to self
· The love chapter
· It is appointed unto men once to die, but after the judgment

 (And I am really just getting started …)