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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When someone is grieving, what should we say? How can we help? How do we comfort without offering shallow platitudes? What does the Bible mean when it says our help comes from the Lord? Scripture deals plainly and honestly with suffering and simultaneously points people to the rich hope we find in God. Bible Gateway interviewed Kaitlin Wernet, who, along with Caleb Faires, Rebecca Faires, and Cymone Wilder, wrote and designed The Book of Comforts: Genuine Encouragement for Hard Times (Zondervan, 2019).
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“On the morning of December 31, 2000, I watched a white, cardboard coffin travel up a conveyor belt into the belly of a Boeing 757, along with the other baggage. The body in that coffin had belonged to my son. But he had gambled with it once too often.” Thus opens the memoir of bestselling author, pastor, and professor Jack Deere, in which he confronts the question of where is God when your life falls apart. Bible Gateway interviewed Jack Deere about his book, Even in Our Darkness: A Story of Beauty in a Broken Life (Zondervan, 2018).
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Bible Gateway’s Bible Audio App lets you simultaneously and synchronously read and hear Scripture verse by verse. Listen to this timeline of events recorded in the Bible leading to Good Friday and Resurrection Sunday.
Learn more about, and download, the free Bible Gateway Bible Audio App.
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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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This leadership study in the life of Jonah – the ninth in the weekly series on the Bible Gateway Blog – is one of the 120 “Profiles in Leadership” lessons in The Maxwell Leadership Bible / Third Edition.
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Olympic athlete Ryan Hall, American Record holder for the half marathon (59:43) and author of Run the Mile You’re In: Finding God in Every Step (Zondervan, 2019), says, "In my running career, I’d had plenty of failures. The ones that stuck out the most were my costing my team an NCAA cross-country team championship during my freshman year at Stanford...."
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Watch this endearing stop-action video of “rocks crying out” presenting the life-changing story of Jesus riding into Jerusalem on a donkey in the days prior to his crucifixion and resurrection.
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In this 58th lesson on how to live the Bible, pastor and author Dr. Mel Lawrenz, says, “Taking up our cross and following Christ is not specifically the suffering in our lives, but the sacrifice of our lives in obedience to Christ....” 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 are in the season of Lent. Browse the Lenten Resources section in the Bible Gateway Store.
Mother's Day is May 12. Browse the Gifts for Mothers section in the Bible Gateway Store.
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Passover is a great time to reflect upon God’s power and love. Bible Gateway has a new free email devotional where you can learn about it.
Read the Bible Gateway Blog post, Unlocking the Secrets of the Old Testament Feasts: An Interview with Michael Norten.
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The traditional configuration of the books of the Bible has its roots in scrolls, arranged in a variety of ways depending on the type of reading experience desired. Read this Bible Gateway Blog post to see how to get back to those ancient roots when reading Scripture.
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Register for ChurchSource's free 30-minute webcast April 16 at 3pm EDT with Joel and Nina Schmidgall, authors of Praying Circles Around Your Marriage (Zondervan, 2019). The topic will be: Transforming Your Marriage Through Prayer. Get free downloads for signing up! Can’t make it? Sign up anyway and you'll be sent the recording after it's over.
Read the Bible Gateway guest blog post by Joel and Nina Schmidgall, Prayer: The Antidote to What Ails Your Marriage.
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The events of Easter are described by four different Gospel authors. And four different perspectives make for four slightly different accounts. What should we make of these differences? Are these accounts truly contradictory? Do they weaken the trustworthiness of the Bible?
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Is the word “Easter” derived from the name of a pagan goddess? Is it appropriate to use that term to refer to the Resurrection day of Jesus Christ—and is the entire Lent season and Easter holiday tainted by association with ancient pagan religion?
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“Holy Week” in the Christian church calendar commemorates the chronology of Jesus’ triumphal entry, last supper, betrayal, arrest, crucifixion, and resurrection.
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Our year-long 25th anniversary celebration ended with 2018 and now we're starting our next 25 years! We've enjoyed hearing what Bible Gateway means to you. Here's an example from a Bible Gateway enthusiast: “Whenever I am talking about the Lord, and I can't quite remember the exact quote or passage, your site is always there. Waiting to rescue me.”
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In the new Six Hours One Friday Online Bible Study, Max Lucado delves into the meaning of Jesus' last hours on the cross. Through his death, your life has purpose and meaning. And the empty tomb proclaims that death does not have the final word. Sign up for the study now and get free access to 4 teaching videos with Max, free access to two Facebook Live Community events with Max, free downloads of the first 2 chapters of Six Hours One Friday: Living in the Power of the Cross to get started, and free beautiful printable art of John 3:16.
Read the Bible Gateway Blog posts, Hope for the Hopeless: An Interview with Max Lucado and Anxious for Nothing: An Interview with Max Lucado.
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