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Weekly Brief is your 1-minute smart and fast report to keep you informed of important Bible-related trends, statistics, articles, and pivotal happenings on the Web and at Bible Gateway. Forward to your friends and share with your followers to encourage them to subscribe.
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What is Christian hospitality and how important is it? How is God's relationship to us fundamentally an act of hospitality to strangers? How is hospitality part of the salvation message? Bible Gateway interviewed Joshua W. Jipp about his book, Saved by Faith and Hospitality (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2017).
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Approaching the Bible for the first time can be intimidating. At 66 books, nearly 800,000 words, and numerous kings, prophets, and deliverers, as well as priests and apostles, where should you begin? In what order should you read it? Is there an alternative to reading the Bible from Genesis to Revelation? Bible Gateway interviewed John Goldingay about his book, A Reader's Guide to the Bible (InterVarsity Press, 2017).
Become a member of Bible Gateway Plus and get immediate 24/7 access to the King James Version Study Bible Notes and other valuable Bible commentaries.
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Underwater excavations at Lechaion, the ancient harbour of Corinth, provide insight into engineering by the Roman Empire. Read about Corinth in Smith's Bible Names Dictionary on Bible Gateway.
Browse the Biblical Archaeology section in the Bible Gateway Store.
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See more Bible-related articles in this week's Bible News Roundup.
See previous editions of Bible News Roundup and Weekly Brief.
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One of the central figures in the Christmas story is Herod the Great, who was king of the Jews when Jesus was born. Herod and his sons ruled Judea during Jesus’ life and ministry. But who was this man? And why was he so hostile to the news of the birth of Jesus?
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In this 8th lesson on how to live the Bible, pastor and author Dr. Mel Lawrenz says, "the fruitful, productive, good life is truly possible when we come to live within the higher law of Jesus Christ, which is not a system of rules and mechanical conformity, but a new law of the Spirit who gives life and sets us free from the law of sin and death...." If you want to know how to live the Bible everyday, read this installment of his series on our Blog and encourage your friends and followers to receive it by email.
Discover the true joy of Christmas with this short-run free email devotional, Christmas Joy by Mel Lawrenz, in either English or Spanish.
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Be sure to see Bible Gateway's Christmas “subway map” to understand the who-where-and-when of the Nativity when Jesus was born in Bethlehem.
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While our focus at Christmastime is naturally on the birth of Jesus Christ, it might surprise you to learn that Jesus’ was not the only miraculous birth associated with Christmas!
Browse the New Year, New You section in the Bible Gateway Store.
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Christmas is a great time for adults to read to children about the birth of Jesus. For your Christmas enjoyment, here are two videos with British actor David Suchet reading about the Nativity from the award-winning Jesus Storybook Bible (Zonderkidz, 2007).
Browse the Resources for Children section in the Bible Gateway Store.
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Here are 15 brief Scripture passages from different versions of the Bible that tell the story of the birth of Jesus. Read them yourself or to your family
Discover the true joy of Christmas with this short-run free email devotional, Christmas Joy by Mel Lawrenz, in either English or Spanish.
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See this beautiful illumination of Luke 2 in The Saint John’s Bible depicting the birth of Jesus.
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Reformation Trust Publishing, the publishing division of Ligonier Ministries, has released the Reformation Study Bible, Condensed Edition. After distributing more than 110,000 copies of the Reformation Study Bible since 2015, this new Condensed Edition represents an expansion to the product family in order to serve Bible readers looking for a more portable solution.
Read the Bible Gateway Blog post, How to Freely Access the Reformation Study Bible on Bible Gateway.
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Make this a Christmas you'll never forget with this online Bible study! Get access to all four study videos with Max and the FREE download of the "Let Your Light Shine" toolkit with Scripture readings.
Read the Bible Gateway Blog post, Because of Bethlehem: An Interview with Max Lucado.
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Do you want 2018 to be the year you really get to know the Bible? Get a jump on your New Year resolutions right now by choosing the Bible Gateway Bible reading plan that's right for you!
See the new Pastor Resources Page on Bible Gateway.
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This feature in Weekly Brief is intended to help you become aware of one of several practices explained in our Scripture Engagement section. This week read:
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