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“A voice is heard in Ramah, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.” Jeremiah 31:15; Matthew 2:18 In a chilling part of the nativity story we read about Herod having all the male children under two years old killed in Bethlehem. Over the […]
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The message of the gospel that Paul brought to the culturally diverse city of Ephesus forever transformed its citizen’s lives. But the church in Ephesus had the same problems we face today: it was a multiethnic group of believers who found it difficult to come together as one and put aside their differences… In this […]
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What are biblically practical ways to conquer racism? How should we consistently interrogate our everyday actions to maintain a steady anti-racist posture? In what ways is the Christian faith the ultimate solution to racism as we embrace the implications of what Jesus taught his followers? Bible Gateway interviewed Jemar Tisby (@JemarTisby) about his book, How […]
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This guest post is by Bryan Loritts, author of the book, Insider Outsider: My Journey as a Stranger in White Evangelicalism and My Hope for Us All (Zondervan, 2018). Guest Post by Bryan Loritts “To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the […]
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“If one part [of the Body of Christ] suffers, every part suffers with it.” 1 Corinthians 12:26 The world has become less tolerant and less safe for hundreds of millions of Christians. Based on current statistics, every day around the world … 8 Christians are killed for their faith 23 Christians are raped or sexually […]
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By Mary Jo Sharp The heart is more deceitful than all else And is desperately sick; Who can understand it? —Jeremiah 17:9, NASB As I tried to imagine the depth of pain, the horror of suffering that so many humans have inflicted on each other, I began to have that most unwelcome feeling of having […]
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How does reading the Bible change a man from a convicted KKK terrorist to a devoted follower of Jesus Christ? How does the dramatic power of Scripture bring liberation from the grip of racial hatred and violence and cause a man to become co-pastor of a racially mixed church and the president of the C.S. […]
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By Irving Hexham The Bible begins by proclaiming the great truth that God created the heavens and the earth. It continues by telling the story of the creation of humankind and states very clearly that all people are made in the image of God. Not surprisingly, given the fact that God is the creator of […]
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[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, […]
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By Cara Meredith There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. Galatians 3:28 My friend Shannon and I wove our way through the National African American Museum of History and Culture in Washington, DC. Two days before, we’d sat […]
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