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Stories About Scripture: The Story of a Scribe

What does it mean to have a sense of reverence about Scripture? Pastor Mel Lawrenz of The Brook Network has written a series of short essays called “Stories About Scripture” to explore this question. Here’s his newest essay, about the incredibly daunting task of transcribing the Bible. Continue reading

Filed under History, The Bible

Get to Know Your Bible with The Heart of the Story Devotional

The Bible is the best-selling book of all time—statistically speaking, you probably have at least one copy of the Bible sitting on your bookshelf. Why, then, do so many Christians struggle to actually read and understand Scripture? If that describes your relationship to the Bible, the new Heart of the Story devotional can help. Continue reading

Filed under Bible Study, Devotional, Newsletters

In praise of the King James Bible

Monday, May 2 marks the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible, and over the last few months there has been much reflection online about the significance and ongoing influence of the venerable KJV. We thought it might be useful to collect links to some of the more interesting KJV-related articles. Continue reading

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Doubt, contradictions, and the problem of evil: responding to Bart Ehrman

If you follow the world of Bible apologetics, chances are you’ve heard of Bart Ehrman’s critiques of orthodox Christianity. A new site provides a series of polite and reasonable responses to Ehrman’s claims. Continue reading

Filed under Apologetics, Bible Study

Top Five Passages From Our Top Ten Cities

From time to time we like to take a look at our stats to see if we can learn anything new about how people are using Bible Gateway. This morning we looked up statistics on traffic from major cities over the past month. We were specifically looking to see what passages people in different cities were looking up. What follows is a list of the top ten cities based on traffic from the past month to Bible Gateway as well as the top five passages—irrespective of translation—that each city was reading…. Continue reading

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