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April 18, 2019

Steps Toward Wholeness and Healing

Christine CaineBy Christine Caine

It’s hard for someone who is supposed to have it all together to admit that she needs help. But that’s exactly what I had to do. Hurting people hurt other people. I was hurt, and because of that, I hurt Nick and who knows how many others. If I was to stop hurting and instead find wholeness and healing, then I needed to forgive those who had abused me. But I also needed to go farther: I needed to trust Nick, who loved me, and I needed healing in my relationship with God.

I grappled with this idea for weeks after Nick and I talked in the driveway.

Here I was teaching students how to trust God in their daily walk, and now I had to learn to do that myself at a whole new level.

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Mel Lawrenz
April 17, 2019

The Notre Dame Fire: Civilization Burning

[Read author and pastor Mel Lawrenz’ Bible Gateway Blog series, How to Live the Bible and sign up to receive his essays via email here.]

April 15, 2019 the great cathedral Notre-Dame de Paris burned. The orange monster rose and fell over the middle of the great church, eating the consumable guts of the building, spitting out red embers and belching out columns of smoke that could be seen for miles. Residents of Paris gathered to gaze and gawk. This cannot be happening. Hot embers fell on people’s heads. Hundreds of millions of people around the world watched on television. This was not just a fire, but the dying of at least part of history. How many buildings do we have that were built with 13,000 oak trees that started growing more than a millennium ago? How many buildings do we have that are symbols of the very meaning of civilization? Notre-Dame de Paris is a church building, but also a landmark of civilization whose construction was started 858 years ago, taking 200 years to build. When its construction began, Paris only had 100,000 residents. The stature of the building must have been overwhelming.

Notre-Dame cathedral burning

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Guest Post
April 16, 2019

Rahab: Desperate Enough to Change

Kasey Van Norman

by Kasey Van Norman

When we first meet Rahab in the book of Joshua, she has no idea that she is about to go down in history as one of the most faithful women in the entire biblical narrative. She knows only two things—she is desperate and she is greatly in need of deliverance. Rahab’s life can no longer stay the way it’s always been. Very literally, the walls of everything she’s known would soon crash in around her.

Here we stand, on the banks of Jericho—the gateway city to the land of Canaan. The Israelites must take this city if they are to inherit the full promise of God and the total land of Canaan. Joshua, and millions of Israelite soldiers, look up at the wall in to the red-light district, where a prostitute, named Rahab, was waiting. While millions prepared to enter their long-awaited rest, God’s eye remained fixed on one rebel woman awaiting her deliverance.

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Guest Post
April 15, 2019

Grace Beautifies the Broken Road

Jay DeMarcusBy Jay DeMarcus of Rascal Flatts

I’m often asked what it means to be a Christian. I don’t find the answer to be as easy as saying, “A follower of Christ.” For me it’s a bit more complicated. Those kinds of pat answers tend to pass right over the nuance of things. And I hate that. I like the details. I like breaking things down and getting at the heart of things.

When I say I’m a follower of Christ, what am I saying? That I’m just like him? That I’ve got all my stuff together? No way.

First of all, I don’t believe that being a follower of Christ is about being perfect. God doesn’t expect perfection from us. No one’s perfect. Jesus himself said, “No one is good—except God alone.” So the only perfect person to walk this earth was Jesus Christ. And the last time I checked, he was the Son of God.

Newsflash: I’m not the Son of God. Neither are you.

That’s why it’s called being “a follower of Christ.” Because we follow after him. And boy is it a journey!

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Jonathan Petersen
April 15, 2019

5 Ways to Share Your Faith with New Parents and Baby

Buy your copy of the NIV Baby Gift Holy Bible, Leathersoft, Blue, Comfort Print in the Bible Gateway Store where you'll enjoy low prices every dayWith flowers blooming, birds chirping, and sun shining, the spring season makes us think of new life. Just like the world during springtime, new parents who are welcoming a little bundle of joy into the world are undergoing a beautiful change.

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But it can be a trying time for newly-minted moms and dads as they try to figure out a new rhythm. How can you support these new parents in their endeavors to raise a healthy, godly child? Here are five tips:

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Guest Post
April 15, 2019

John Maxwell Profiles in Leadership: Samaritan Woman – Unnamed, Greatly Valued

John Maxwell This is the tenth lesson in bestselling author and speaker John Maxwell’s Leadership by the Bible series. If you know someone or a group who would like to follow along on this journey through Scripture, tell them to sign up to receive John’s free email devotional here.

By John C. Maxwell

John 4:1–42

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All she ever wanted was to be loved and accepted. All she ever received was shunning and shame—until Jesus came to town. When Jesus valued this woman and offered her life, she told everyone about it. During the two days Jesus was in the village, many people recognized he was the Messiah and accepted his love and forgiveness.

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Jonathan Petersen
April 14, 2019

Bible News Roundup – Week of April 14, 2019

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Jonathan Petersen
April 12, 2019

Hear the Drama of Christ’s Resurrection with the Bible Audio App

Learn more about, download, and immediately begin using the free Bible Gateway Bible Audio AppBible Gateway’s Bible Audio App lets you simultaneously and synchronously read and hear Scripture verse by verse. It’s a great way to experience the dramatic final days of Jesus leading to his arrest, crucifixion, death, and resurrection.

The following chronology of events recorded in the Bible leading to Good Friday and Resurrection Sunday is based on the Bible Gateway Holy Week Timeline, which we invite you to download, print, and share with your church or community.

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Bible Gateway's Infographic Holy Week Day-by-Day
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Guest Post
April 12, 2019

How Billy Graham Overcame His Doubts about the Bible

Matt BrownBy Matt Brown

Billy Graham passed away in early 2018. nearly 100 years after he was born. That day, America—and the world, really—lost one of the greatest evangelists of all time. He undoubtedly communicated the gospel message to more people face-to-face than anyone in human history. Three hundred million people heard him share the simple gospel message live, and countless millions more watched and listened through television, radio broadcasts, and online videos.

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I am among those who got to hear Billy Graham preach the gospel live. As a boy, I attended his 1996 Minneapolis Crusade. I remember DC Talk rocking out the Metrodome and then hearing Billy Graham share the gospel. I remember being astonished as thousands of people from all over the stadium made their way down to the front of the stage, with tears running down their cheeks, to make a decision of faith in Jesus Christ.

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Jonathan Petersen
April 10, 2019

Video: Telling the Palm Sunday Story in Rocks

Patti RokusWatch this endearing stop-action video of “rocks crying out” presenting the life-changing story of Jesus riding into Jerusalem on a donkey in the days prior to his crucifixion and resurrection. It’s produced by Patti Rokus, author of the book, He Is Risen: Rocks Tell the Story of Easter (Zonderkidz, 2019).

Luke 19:35-36 (NIrV)

They threw their coats on the young donkey and put Jesus on it. As he went along, people spread their coats on the road.

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