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NIV Outdoorsman Bible: Navigating the Night

By Jason Cruise Current research has proven that deer can see some variations of color. Deer are dichromatic, and see mainly in blue-green and yellow hues. The reason deer have greater night vision than humans is because the anatomy of their eyes is different—they have more rods in their eyes than they have cones, and […]

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Scripture’s Skeleton and the Reality of Evil

By Gary Thomas An adult has 206 bones. If you remove a particularly important one, however, like the hip bone, you’re going to be in a world of hurt. You couldn’t walk, run, or stand, even though the other 205 bones are in perfect shape. Or let’s say you take away the seven bones that […]

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Sneak Peek: How the Bible Prepared This Airline Pilot to Have Nerves of Steel

The following is a Bible Gateway exclusive Sneak Peek and First Listen of Nerves of Steel: How I Followed My Dreams, Earned My Wings and Landed the Plane (W Publishing, 2019) by Captain Tammie Jo Shults (@captainshults). Order the book and unabridged audiobook on CD in the Bible Gateway Store. By Captain Tammie Jo Shults […]

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NIV Outdoorsman Bible: The Call Beyond the Cabin

By Jason Cruise At five years old my world was filled with the smell of oak trees, the sight of my daddy’s 30-30, the sounds of my granddaddy’s old green truck, and the thrill of going to a cabin where we would journey out to pursue the elusive whitetail. [Read the Bible Gateway Blog post, […]

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How Quiet Makes the World a Better Place

By Rebekah Lyons Growing up, I always considered myself an extrovert. I never declined an invitation or opportunity to hang with friends. If homework or studying for a test threatened to get in the way, I’d pull an all-nighter. College life suited me. There were late night hangs in the dorm, morning workouts with friends, […]

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Hunger, Thirst, and a Heart That Grew Ten Sizes

By Melanie Shankle Maybe it was partly fear of not being good enough to be truly saved or fear of missing out on fun (this is most likely), but something caused me to sign up for the youth group mission trip to Reynosa, Mexico, the summer after my freshman year. At that point in my […]

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What if What I Fear Most Happens?

By Jess Connolly God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam and the mountains quake with their surging. — Psalm 46:1–3 (NIV) What if the circumstances […]

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Do You See a Problem or an Opportunity?

By Mandy Arioto Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will. — Romans 12:2 The idea that our lives should be a certain way is one thing […]

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What’s in a Name?

By Bianca Juarez Olthoff Unless you’ve legally changed your name, you’ve probably had no choice in the name people call you. I always think it’s fun to sit with a pregnant woman and discuss possible names for her baby. Whether the names are inspired by a story or a family member, we intuitively know there […]

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Trusting the Vinegrower

By Tom Lin, president, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship While my wife Nancy and I had a wonderful ministry and community in Boston when we got married, we sensed that for our own spiritual growth and for our own long-term fruitfulness as a couple, we should uproot ourselves. The morning after our wedding, we packed up our […]

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