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Announcing the Legacy Standard Bible (LSB) is now available on Bible Gateway

We are happy to announce that the Legacy Standard Bible (LSB) is now available to read, search and use for your Bible study on BibleGateway.com. We received a steady stream of requests for this translation and pray that the addition of this translation helps bring clarity to your understanding of God’s Word. Working with Three […]

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Growing Gratitude

By Christopher Reese As we approach Thanksgiving, our thoughts turn to giving thanks for all the good things the Lord has done and provided, especially since the beginning of the year.  At the same time, we know that gratitude is a virtue that we should continually pursue as followers of Christ.  In what follows, we’ll […]

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Pray Like a Band of Wild, Unruly Monks

By Tyler Staton The way to pray like Jesus taught us to pray includes this unavoidable invitation: learn to live like a monk in the ordinary world. Historically speaking, this is the drum that God’s people have always been beating. In the Hebrew tradition, which contains the very roots of the Christian faith, there has […]

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How to Live the Bible — Holding and Pondering

This is the two-hundred-twenty-third 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. “Let the word of Christ […]

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How to Break Free from Addiction: An Interview with Irene Rollins

What does it take to break the cycle of addiction and shame? One woman knows. She enjoyed a seemingly perfect life as a wife, mom, and leader of a megachurch while she hid her alcoholism that almost destroyed everything. Are you, or someone you know, in an addiction cycle, unaware of how unmanageable your life […]

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How to Live the Bible — Finding Good Answers

This is the two-hundred-ninteenth 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. There are two basic ways […]

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Free Bible Commentaries, Dictionaries, and Encyclopedia for You to Consult on Bible Gateway

• Free Bible Commentaries • Free Bible Dictionaries • Free Bible Encyclopedia • Free Parallel Bible • Create Your Bible Gateway Free Personal Account The Bible tells us we are to do our “best to please God. Be a worker who doesn’t need to be ashamed. Teach the message of truth correctly” (2 Timothy 2:15). […]

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How to Live the Bible — Respecting the Text

This is the two-hundred-eighteenth 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. Every person wants to be […]

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How to Live the Bible — The Many Voices of the Bible

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 […]

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Top 5 Bible Passages From Bible Gateway’s Top 10 Cities

From time to time we like to take a look at our stats to see if we can learn anything new about how people are using Bible Gateway. This morning we looked up statistics on traffic from major cities over the past month. We were specifically looking to see what passages people in different cities were looking up. What follows is a list of the top ten cities based on traffic from the past month to Bible Gateway as well as the top five passages—irrespective of translation—that each city was reading….

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