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 practices of the Puritans, who lived centuries ago, can inform modern Christians in their spiritual lives of reading the Bible, praying, and meditating? What have we forgotten from the past that we need to reclaim for the health of our spiritual formation? Bible Gateway interviewed Joanne J. Jung about her book, The Lost Discipline of Conversation: Surprising Lessons in Spiritual Formation Drawn from the English Puritans (Zondervan, 2018).
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Where do you turn in a world full of despair, depression, anxiety, and instability? A world where an increasing number of people are choosing suicide out of an extreme lack of hope? How can the realization of God’s promises in the Bible stem whatever hopelessness you feel to bring you lasting security? In this Q&A, Max Lucado talks about his book, Unshakable Hope: Building Our Lives on the Promises of God (Thomas Nelson, 2018).
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Celebrating its 25th anniversary, the world’s most visited Christian website, Bible Gateway has been viewed more than 14,000,000,000 times by people using more than one billion devices.
See the Scripture Engagement section on Bible Gateway.
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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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Voted one of Christianity Today‘s Books of the Year, the New Bible Commentary has set the standard for works of its kind for over 40 years. Its quality and clarity has had a lasting impact on many Bible readers. And it's available in the Bible Gateway Scripture sidebar when you become a member of Bible Gateway Plus!
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In this 33rd lesson on how to live the Bible, pastor and author Dr. Mel Lawrenz says, “Devotion patterns are habits—prayer, worship, and reading and studying Scripture—which develop over time and will bring our longing right to God himself. They are the habits of devotion that the first Christians knew were the spiritual exercises that would make them strong....” If you want to know how to live the Bible every day, read this installment of his series on our Blog and encourage your friends and followers to receive it by email.
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"We would like to be able to make a life or death decision in a vacuum or even at an arm’s-length distance from others. But we can’t. Your point of view and how you act on it not only matters to you and your family; it matters to a wide network of friends and associates as well. In other words, to society. The cultural drift is channeled by your decision to either pull the plug or hold on to life."
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This guest Blog post is by Sarah Arthur, author of A Light So Lovely: The Spiritual Legacy of Madeleine L’Engle, Author of A Wrinkle in Time (Zondervan, 2018). It tells the story of the woman at the center of it all—her imagination, her faith, her pattern of defying categories, and what you can learn from her legacy.
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Even though we're more than half-way through the year, if you haven’t yet determined to regularly and consistently read the Bible, RIGHT NOW is always the best time to make that decision. And you can always rely on Bible Gateway to provide you with a variety of resources to make it happen.
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Many marital problems arise because of a breakdown in understanding. A biological reason helps to explain what’s going on....
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Jesus had a lot to say about families. But what was his own family life like? And what was family life like more generally during New Testament times? In this video, Dr. Mark Strauss explains what family life was like.
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We've heard from many of you during our year-long 25th anniversary celebration, such as, "Bible Gateway keeps me on track and focused on what God wants me to do." Tell 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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Explore the land of Jesus with Kathie Lee Gifford, who says, "I want you to experience the thrill of discovering the Word of God in its original languages of Hebrew and Greek. I want to take you to the Holy Land, to walk where Jesus walked." Sign up now to get FREE access to all 6 weeks of study videos + other FREE resources.
Read the Bible Gateway Blog post, Sneak Peek: The Rock, the Road, and the Rabbi by Kathie Lee Gifford.
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This feature in Weekly Brief is intended to help you become aware of the plethora of Bible versions available for you to freely read on Bible Gateway. This week read:
Tell your pastor to visit the new Pastor Resources Page on Bible Gateway.
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