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 does healthy spirituality look like? How is it achieved? How can you slow down to develop a truly transformational relationship with Christ? Peter Scazzero says Christians cannot grow spiritually while remaining emotionally immature because our souls and psyches are inextricably linked. Bible Gateway interviewed Pete Scazzero about his book, Emotionally Healthy Spirituality, Updated Edition (Zondervan, 2017).
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If you’ve ever been given empty clichés during challenging times, you know how painful it can feel to be misunderstood by well-meaning people. Far too often, it seems the response we get to our hurt and disappointment is to suck it up, or pray it away. But Scripture reveals a God who meets us where we are, not where we pretend to be. Bible Gateway interviewed Esther Fleece about her book, No More Faking Fine: Ending the Pretending (Zondervan, 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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With the Olympic Winter Games soon upon us, browse the Olympic Games section, and prepare for Easter by browsing the Lenten Resources section, in the Bible Gateway Store.
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The award-winning New Bible Commentary (InterVarsity Press) is the most recent addition to our growing library of study resources available in the Bible Gateway Scripture sidebar when you sign up for a Bible Gateway Plus membership!
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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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How do you use Bible Gateway in your everyday life? What’s the thing you like best about Bible Gateway? How has Bible Gateway helped you celebrate moments in your life or sustained you in times of crisis or grief? Join the celebration by telling us what Bible Gateway means to you—and tell your friends and followers by using the #MyBibleGateway hashtag to communicate the fun!....
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In this 13th lesson on how to live the Bible, pastor and author Dr. Mel Lawrenz says, “The only way to receive the powerful truth of God is to seek to understand what the Bible meant when originally written so we can apply what it means to our lives today....” 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.
Browse the Christian Living section in the Bible Gateway Store.
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This month enter for a chance to win a copy of the CSB Study Bible black premium goatskin leather edition (Holman Bible Publishers, 2017), which has a suggested retail value of $149.99. Two winners will be selected at random.
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To celebrate January being National Bible Month in The Philippines, we’re announcing that the Bible translations Ang Biblia (1978) and Ang Biblia (2001) are now joined on Bible Gateway with our other Tagalog language Bibles.
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Join the Online Bible Study—Defiant Joy with Candace Payne—and get access to all 6 FREE study videos, Joy Printables, a FREE eBook of Simple Joys with contributions from bestselling Christian authors, and other fun goodies! Laugh it up and declare that 2018 is your JOY YEAR!
Read the Bible Gateway Blog post, How I Rise Above the Lies that Haunt Me by Candace Payne (a.k.a. Chewbacca Mom).
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Do you wish you knew more about the Jewish background of Scripture? Are you curious about the ways that the Christian faith connects to its roots in Jewish history and culture?
See the new Pastor Resources Page on Bible Gateway.
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Would you like to draw closer to Jesus during the approaching Easter season? Drawing on both the Bible and the insights of great thinkers like Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Dallas Willard, these free devotionals will walk you through Lent, learning about Jesus Christ and the remarkable experience of living life today in his presence.
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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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