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Surprising Stories of People Rescued and Changed: An Interview with Jim Cymbala and Ann Spangler

What do a Wall Street broker, a party girl, a student, a homeless man, an addict, a teenage mom, and a drug enforcer have in common? All were in despair spiraling out of control until something unexpected happened to change their lives forever. Bible Gateway interviewed Jim Cymbala and Ann Spangler about their book, The Rescue: Seven People, Seven Amazing Stories (Zondervan, 2018).

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How to Move Past Your Disappointment: An Interview with Chad Veach

 

Are you disappointed with your life? Do you feel like you’ll never accomplish anything remarkable? How should you pay attention to what God has in store for your life? Bible Gateway interviewed Chad Veach about his book, Faith Forward Future: Moving Past Your Disappointments, Delays, and Destructive Thinking (Thomas Nelson, 2017).

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Infographic: 9 Facts About Jesus’ Resurrection

 

Sean McDowell, co-author of the newly updated edition of Evidence That Demands a Verdict: Life-Changing Truth for a Skeptical World (Thomas Nelson, 2018), says the historical fact of the resurrection is the very foundation for the Christian faith.

Read the Bible Gateway Blog post, Evidence That Demands A Verdict Redux: An Interview with Josh McDowell and Sean McDowell.

 
 


See more Bible-related articles in this week’s Bible News Roundup.
See previous editions of Bible News Roundup and Weekly Brief.

 
 
 
 

[VIDEO] He Is Risen! — Resurrection Sunday

 

Watch this video and read the Scriptures that tell of Jesus’ stupendous resurrection!

 

Read the Bible Gateway Blog post, Was Jesus’ Death on the Cross Faked?


What I Hate the Most about Being a Mom

 

In this guest Blog post, Ruth Schwenk, author of The Better Mom: Growing in Grace Between Perfection and the Mess (Zondervan, 2018), says, "Our failures, whether big or small, are opportunities for God to do some much-needed work in our hearts."


Celebrating Passover

 

Passover this year is from March 30–April 7, 2018. See this Blog post to learn more about it in text and video, to learn about The Complete Jewish Study Bible (Hendrickson Publishers, 2016), and to read Jewish-related Bible translations on Bible Gateway.

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Hope Begins When We Understand That, For the Believer, Nothing is Lost

 

If you knew that God was going to restore your life and everything you love any day; if you believed a great and glorious goodness was coming to you—not in a vague heaven but right here on this earth—you'd have a hope to see you through anything, an anchor for your soul, "an unbreakable spiritual lifeline, reaching past all appearances right to the very presence of God" (Hebrews 6:19). Join The FREE All Things New Online Bible Study with John Eldredge.

Read the Bible Gateway Blog post, The New Heaven and New Earth: An Interview with John Eldredge.


Where Did the Bible Come From?

 

The Bible is a collection of 66 books believed to have been written by more than 40 divinely-inspired authors. It’s thousands of years old. What is its origin? How did we end up with these 66 books?

 

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Spotlight: Singing Scripture

 

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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