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Jonathan Petersen
March 8, 2021

Larry Walker, NIV Bible Translator (1932–2021)

Dr. Larry Walker

Hebrew scholar and Semitic languages specialist Dr. Larry Walker, the last living translator of the original team of biblical language experts who produced the New International Version (NIV) of the Bible, died March 8, 2021 at age 88.

According to CT, he cared deeply about accuracy and specifics, believing a commitment to the doctrine of biblical inerrancy could serve as the basis for the highest quality of scholarship.

“Larry Walker was an Old Testament scholar and stalwart defender of the full authority and truthfulness of Scripture,” says Southwestern Seminary president Adam W. Greenway. Walker was professor of Old Testament and Semitic languages at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary from 1967 to 1980.

Read about Dr. Walker in articles at Christianity Today and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.

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Drew Reichard
March 8, 2021

Walking with Christ to the Cross, Week 3

The season of Lent invites us to return to God with our whole heart. It’s a theme that runs throughout Scripture and God’s relationship with his people. Throughout this Bible study, which you can read on your own or in a group setting, you’ll find links to Bible Gateway with notes that open automatically on your screen to the right of the Bible text in the Study sidebar.

We recommend that you sign up for a free 30-day trial to Bible Gateway Plus in order to access all the material. However, it’s not necessary for you to become a member in order to enjoy this devotional series.

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Seek the Lord

The invitation at the heart of Lent is to wholeheartedly seek the Lord, and to call on him for mercy, forgiveness, and restoration. It’s a time to reckon with the areas of our lives in which we feel defeated, have grown cold to God, or feel stuck in self-defeating or sinful patterns. And yet it’s also a time of great hope, because greater than any human failure is God’s lavish grace and faithful love. Even as we humbly reckon with our sin, we boldly expect to be forgiven and changed.

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Jonathan Petersen
March 7, 2021

Bible News Roundup – Week of March 7, 2021

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Died: Luis Palau, Who Preached the Gospel from Portland to Latin America and Beyond
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Thomas Nelson Releases The Open Bible® for the First Time in the NIV
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Jonathan Petersen
March 3, 2021

Leading Up to Easter: What You Don’t Know About the New Testament Will Surprise You

Join The New Testament You Never Knew Online Bible Study with N.T. Wright and Michael F. Bird

The New Testament You Never Knew Online Bible Study with N.T. Wright Starts March 8

Bible scholars N.T. Wright and Michael F. Bird say the New Testament is filled with startling and unforeseen twists. According to Wright, “When we see Jesus announcing the kingdom of God saying the time is fulfilled, this is the time for God to become King, we also see Jesus doing all kinds of things like healing people and celebrating with all the ‘wrong’ kinds of folk, and then explaining that this is what it looks like when God becomes King. It is not what people expected.”

Bible Gateway, the most visited Christian website in the world, is hosting The New Testament You Never Knew Online Bible Study, presented by Drs. Wright and Bird, from March 8–April 4, 2021. Free registration for the event is at BibleGateway.com/NTWright.

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Mel Lawrenz
March 3, 2021

How to Live the Bible — Status or Service?

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This is the one-hundred-forty-sixth 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.

In the days leading to Jesus’ final entry into Jerusalem and the events that would result in his death and resurrection, his disciples were asking all the wrong questions. Jesus tells them about his impending death, and a couple of them, James and John, were concerned about where they would end up. As Mark tells the story…

A painting of Jesus walking in a field with his disciples

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Guest Post
March 3, 2021

Whack-a-Mole Parenting

Jodie BerndtBy Jodie Berndt

“If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.” —John 15:7

When I was working on the original edition of Praying the Scriptures for Your Teens, the folks at Zondervan let me know they were meeting to discuss the cover design. “Do you,” they asked, “have any specific ideas or input to contribute?”

“Well,” I said, “if you were to poll my friends who are raising teens right now, they’d probably tell you to just go ahead and make the cover black.”

“Black?”

“Yes, but you could put a ray of light cutting across the darkness to symbolize God’s intervention in our desperate lives.”

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Jonathan Petersen
March 1, 2021

Zondervan Publishes 2021 Artisan Collection Bibles

Buy your copy of the NASB Artisan Collection Bible, Red Letter Edition, 1995 Text, Comfort Print in the FaithGateway Store where you'll enjoy low prices every dayZondervan, a division of HarperCollins Christian Publishing, announces the release of its New International Version (NIV) and New American Standard Bible (NASB) Artisan Collection Bibles.

[Read the Bible Gateway Blog post, New Artisan Collection Bibles: An Interview with Olivia Joy]

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Drew Reichard
March 1, 2021

Walking with Christ to the Cross, Week 2

The season of Lent invites us to return to God with our whole heart. It’s a theme that runs throughout Scripture and God’s relationship with his people. Throughout this Bible study, which you can read on your own or in a group setting, you’ll find links to Bible Gateway with notes that open automatically on your screen to the right of the Bible text in the Study sidebar.

We recommend that you sign up for a free 30-day trial to Bible Gateway Plus in order to access all the material. However, it’s not necessary for you to become a member in order to enjoy this devotional series.

Waiting and Persevering for God’s Promise

From Genesis to Revelation, the Scriptures are full of God’s promises to his people—promises to provide, to rescue, to save. God was true to every promise, but between the promise and the fulfillment, God’s people often had to wait and persevere through hardship and opposition. They had to have faith. As we walk through the season of Lent to Easter, the Scriptures have much to teach us about what it means to wait on the Lord, to persevere, and to have faith in God’s promises for our own lives.

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Jonathan Petersen
February 28, 2021

Bible News Roundup – Week of February 28, 2021

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‘The End Seems Near’ for Luis Palau
⇨ ANS
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Larry Crabb, Former Colorado Christian University Professor, Bible Teacher, Psychologist Dies at 76
⇨ The Christian Post
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Jonathan Petersen
February 26, 2021

Purim and the Bible

Esther before Ahasuerus; Giovanni Andrea SIRANI; 1630s; Oil on canvas, Museum of Fine Arts, BudapestThe Jewish holiday of Purim, based on the Bible’s book of Esther, commemorates the saving of the Jewish people from genocide at the direction of the Persian official Haman.

[Read about Esther in the Encyclopedia of The Bible on Bible Gateway]

According to the Cultural Backgrounds Study Bible (one of the many study references available to you when you become a member of Bible Gateway Plus), the story is set during the era when the Persians ruled over Judah, in the reign (486—465 BC) of King Xerxes (Hebrew “Ahasuerus”):

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