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One of the most unique email devotionals on Bible Gateway just celebrated its one-year anniversary! That devotional is The Plan, a weekly devotional centered around a single question: Can God’s Word be trusted? To answer that question, The Plan walks through the many prophecies and promises made throughout the Bible and identifies which ones have […]
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If you’re in a pastoral or other leadership role in your church community, you may be interested in the Emotionally Healthy Leadership Conference, taking place later this week. It aims to teach leaders to “integrate two missing components in today’s church—emotional health and contemplative spirituality.” In-person attendance at the conference is sold out, but you […]
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Have you taken our Bible quote quiz yet? In it, we provide 16 quotes and challenge you to identify which are from the Bible, and which are from popular fantasy novels like The Lord of the Rings and A Game of Thrones. Many of you are telling us that you enjoyed the quiz, so I […]
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In light of Hollywood’s abundance of Bible-related films this year, we thought it would be interesting to create a brief test to see how well you can discern Scripture from literary and movie script. The quiz below contains 16 quotes. It’s up to you to decide which ones are from the Bible, The Lord of […]
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The angel said to the women, “Don’t be afraid. I know that you are looking for Jesus who was crucified. He isn’t here, because he’s been raised from the dead, just as he said.”
Today is Good Friday, the bleakest moment in the Gospel story. Have you read the story of Jesus’ arrest, trial, and execution? Do you know why it’s relevant to us today?
How do we know that Jesus was the Messiah—the long-awaited Son of God who would reconcile humans to their Creator? The basic tenets of Christianity are so well-known at this point that it’s easy to lose fact of the sheer audacity of their central premise: that a humble man born in a small town thousands […]
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The real drama of the Easter season is about to begin: Palm Sunday (that’s this coming Sunday) is the start of what is often called “Holy Week”—the final days leading up to Jesus’ arrest, crucifixion, and resurrection. The account of Holy Week makes for a very exciting read—partly because of the spiritual importance behind its […]
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Christian critics have given Noah mixed reviews, but one thing Darren Aronofsky’s epic did accomplish was to get people reading the original story of Noah in the Bible. Over the weekend, visits to the Noah story in Genesis 6-9 at Bible Gateway saw a 223% increase over the previous weekend! I imagine this represents a […]
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Are you planning to watch the Noah movie? Unless you’ve managed to stay completely off the internet in recent weeks, you’ve witnessed some of the many ongoing discussions, reviews, and debates about the film’s merits, both as a work of art and as a dramatization of an important Bible story. The movie premieres today in […]
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