Category Archives: Discipleship
By Banning Liebscher I hate delays. I do everything I can to avoid them. I stay away from certain streets, airports, and the freeway during high-traffic hours because I hate delays. I don’t think I’m alone in this; so much of the technology of our modern world is built around eliminating delays wherever we find […]
Filed under Books, Discipleship, Guest Post
How does the coronavirus outbreak relate to the vivid, end-time biblical prophecies about plagues, pestilences, and pandemics? Jesus listed “pestilences in various places” as a sign of his coming. In the prophecy of the four horsemen of the Apocalypse, the fourth rider kills one-fourth of the earth with pestilence and the “wild beasts of the […]
Filed under Books, Culture, Interviews
As COVID-19 continues to plague our world, our nation, and our communities, the importance of turning in desperation to God’s Word cannot be overstated. I’d like to share 5 Psalms that represent a spectrum of emotions, from confidence to despair—sentiments that many of us might feel within the span of a single hour. [Read the […]
Filed under Bible, Devotionals
The following is an excerpt from The Quran with Christian Commentary: A Guide to to Understanding the Scripture of Islam. Copyright © 2020 by Gordon Nickel. Published by Zondervan. Used with permission. All rights reserved. [Browse the Understanding Islam section in the Bible Gateway Store] [Read the Bible Gateway Blog post, Loving Our Muslim Neighbors […]
When your prayers for healing haven’t been answered, the fog of depression isn’t lifting, your marriage is ending in divorce, or grief won’t go away, it’s easy to feel you’ve failed God and, worse, he’s failed you. If God loves us, why does he allow us to hurt? Bible Gateway interviewed K.J. Ramsey (@kjramseywrites), author […]
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“Is it really possible for a Christian to be anxious for nothing?” asks this note from the Believer’s Bible Commentary regarding Philippians 4:6-7. A sentence later, the commentary author provides the resounding answer: “It is possible as long as we have the resource of believing prayer.” The Challenge of Prayer Such an event as the […]
Filed under Bible Study, Discipleship, Prayer
By Caitlin Crosby Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in them. For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—comes not from the Father but from the world. The world […]
Filed under Discipleship, Guest Post
Pastors, church leaders, and serious-minded Christians now have a new online source of biblical learning: ExegeticalPreaching.com, a blog dedicated to the critical explanation and interpretation of Scripture. [Sign up to receive the free email daily Bible verse in the NASB translation from Bible Gateway] Using the New American Standard Bible, 1995 Edition (NASB) (NASB ’95 […]
Filed under Church, Discipleship
By Nik Ripkin “It is to remain with him, and he is to read from it all the days of his life, so that he may learn to fear the LORD his God, to observe all the words of this instruction, and to do these statutes.” DEUTERONOMY 17:19 [Select from a variety of free email […]
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The Adventure Bible, published by Zonderkidz, has surpassed 10 million units sold since first appearing 31 years ago. [Grab your spyglass and compass and sign up to receive the Adventure Bible Family Devotions free once-a-week email devotional from Zonderkidz and Bible Gateway] Created in 1989 by Dr. Larry Richards, the Adventure Bible is the bestselling […]
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