Here are your July Bible Affirmations! This month, we’ve gathered a collection of Scripture verses for you to repeat to yourself once a day, to remind you that every single day you are loved and treasured by the one true God.
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Here are four free email devotionals from Bible Gateway for your summer reading pleasure. At least one of them is sure to capture your particular interest. To subscribe to any or all of them, click one of the titles that links to the signup page. Tell your friends!
Anchor Devotional
This devotional guide by HAVEN Today radio broadcast features brief Scripture selections together with current insights and experiences woven into a few short paragraphs each day. (Read it online at Bible Gateway.)
Full of study features that will help today’s teens learn more about God, the Bible, and how God’s Word relates to their lives, the NIV Teen Study Bible (Zondervan, 2022) will help them keep in step with all God has done, is doing, and will do in the world.
The included reference sections in this Bible will help teenagers discover the eternal truths of God’s Word and apply them to the issues they face every day, including offering biblical advice about dealing with everything from friends, family, and school to problems like bullying and depression.
As teens navigate their hectic and sometimes stressful lives, this study Bible will help them to deepen and understand their faith while reassuring them that God is always with them and they are never alone.
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This is the two-hundred-seventeenth lesson in author and pastor Mel Lawrenz’ How to Live the Bible series. If you know someone or a group who would like to follow along on this journey through Scripture, they can get more info and sign up to receive these essays via email here.
Sometime today I will go to my mailbox, remove its contents, go into the house, and sort the mail. I will be able to tell from the size, packaging, and addresses on the mail which pieces are advertising, bills, and personal mail. This sorting into types helps me discern the value of the different pieces.
There is a large bookstore I frequently visit. I know just where to find histories and biographies, novels and picture books, technical manuals and reference works. Knowing the different genres and where to find them helps me gain what I am looking for.
By Amy Elizabeth Olrick
So many things in life are beyond our control and even beyond our imagination. I think about that whenever I read an article about a tragedy involving a child—an eight-year-old drowned in a pool, a toddler run over in his driveway, the college freshman dead after drinking too much one night, a son lost to suicide.
I want to reach out to those mothers and say—say what? Maybe something like, This article doesn’t talk about how you used to cut up his grapes to make sure he wouldn’t choke. It doesn’t mention how you would stay up all night, cradling her close when she had those high fevers. Remember how you waited by the phone all night, ready to pick him up and bring him home, and the hours you spent praying and desperate, trying to find help? Your baby had a good mother. You are a good mother.
In this Q&A, Lynn Cowell (@lynncowell) and Amy Carroll (@amydohmcarroll) talk about their new Bible study book in the InScribed series, Esther: Seeing Our Invisible God in an Uncertain World (HarperChristian Resources, 2022).
Why did you write a study on the book of Esther?
Lynn: It’s funny; this Esther Bible study came out of a pile of rejection letters! But that’s not really where the story began. The beginning took place several years ago in our everyday friend conversations. Amy began sharing a process she was learning and writing about: listen, feel, do, speak. It’s a process she began with the Lord when working through the uncertainties of her life. I think Amy thought it was an “Amy process” and I think I did too. But one day, while reading my Bible, I saw this process being played out in the life of one of the characters in my Bible. It was right there in the life of Esther. I couldn’t wait to tell Amy! The process God gave Amy he didn’t just give Amy. It’s a process his people have been going through all throughout the Bible. In fact, recently I was thrilled to find this process again, played out in Acts 10 in the story of Peter, Cornelius and the gospel being available to all people.
Listen, feel, do, speak isn’t just an Amy thing. It’s an all of us thing; a practice we can develop as we learn new things about and with God as we face uncertainties.
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This is the two-hundred-sixteenth lesson in author and pastor Mel Lawrenz’ How to Live the Bible series. If you know someone or a group who would like to follow along on this journey through Scripture, they can get more info and sign up to receive these essays via email here.
When we read Scripture are we trying to understand facts or seeking to have faith?
One can approach Bible study as a search for facts. Who wrote this passage? Where was the author writing from, and to whom, and for what purpose? When was this written? What is the exact meaning of the language used?
By Kathi Lipp
The prudent see danger and take refuge, but the simple keep going and pay the penalty. —Proverbs 22:3
When is the worst time to decide what to do in an emergency?
When the emergency hits.
As someone who watches all kinds of “emergency” shows on TV—ER, Chicago Med, Hill Street Blues, Grey’s Anatomy, M*A*S*H—I always thought that when something bad happened, I would get my hero on and do the right thing. I had the secret thought that if my kid were pinned under a car, I’d be able to lift a Toyota Sienna minivan to get her out from underneath.
But as my husband, Roger, and I learned through firsthand experience, most of us temporarily lose our minds in the midst of a crisis. Our emotions make us stupid. And that is why the concept of predeciding is so vital.
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