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Are you overwhelmed with your to-do list? Do you feel guilty when you say "no" to anything? Were you taught that "no" is a dirty word? Do you think saying "no" is a sign of weakness? What does the Bible say about saying "no"? Bible Gateway interviewed Kevin G. Harney about his book, No Is a Beautiful Word: Hope and Help for the Overcommitted and (Occasionally) Exhausted (Zondervan, 2019).
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The Bible talks about trees more than any living creation other than people. Have you missed the forest...and the trees? For example, the Bible refers to its wisdom as a Tree of Life (Proverbs 3:18). What is the hidden language of trees that can help us better understand God? Bible Gateway interviewed Matthew Sleeth, MD about his book, Reforesting Faith: What Trees Teach Us About the Nature of God and His Love for Us (WaterBrook, 2019).
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Christian apologist, Bible scholar, prolific author, professor, speaker, philosopher, evangelist, and theologian Dr. Norman Geisler died July 1, 2019, 20 days before his 87th birthday. According to the statement by his son, Dr. David Geisler, and the extended Geisler family, “he has left behind an amazing legacy that will continue to have a ripple effect for many years to come.”
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IMPORTANT RESOURCES FOR YOU
The 50th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing is July 20. Browse Heavens' Declare resources in the Bible Gateway Store.
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This leadership study in the life of "the servant girl" – the 21st 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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Read and hear this Bible Gateway exclusive Sneak Peek and First Listen of the forthcoming book No More Holding Back: Emboldening Women to Move Past Barriers, See Their Worth, and Serve God Everywhere (Thomas Nelson, 2019) and unabridged audiobook on CD by Kat Armstrong, who says, "We probably need to be reminded that Jesus’s life, death, and resurrection secured us all an epic Eden redo."
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Chris Norton, who, along with his wife Emily, is the author of The Seven Longest Yards: Our Love Story of Pushing the Limits While Leaning on Each Other (Zondervan, 2019), says, "From the moment my body hit the ground after the tackle that put me in this mess, I had focused completely on what I could not do. I could not move; I could not feel; I could not breathe. The obstacles kept getting bigger and bigger until they completely overwhelmed me. Everything changed when I switched my focus to what I could do...."
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Jackie Green and Lauren Green McAfee, authors of Only One Life: How a Woman's Every Day Shapes an Eternal Legacy (Zondervan, 2018), say, "Whenever we reject God, enslavement and bondage arise. The liberating power that Jesus Christ unleashed on the world in the first century has proven to be the most potent force the world has ever seen for rescue...."
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In this 13th lesson on how to live the Bible, pastor and author Dr. Mel Lawrenz, says, “All people need to hear the sound of liberty ring loudly and clearly through their hearts and minds. And only the living God can deliver that kind of liberty. It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Proclaim liberty!” 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.
Browse the Christian Living section in the Bible Gateway Store.
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Visit the US Supreme Court and you’ll see, on the South Wall Frieze, Moses holding the Ten Commandments. Bible Gateway interviewed Angela E. Kamrath, vice-president and project director of American Heritage Education Foundation, on her book, The Miracle of America: The Influence of the Bible on the Founding History and Principles of the United States of America for a People of Every Belief (Xulon Press, 2013).
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No book was more accessible or familiar to the American founders than the Bible, and no book was more frequently alluded to or quoted from in the political discourse of the age. How and for what purposes did the founding generation use the Bible? How did the Bible influence their political culture? Bible Gateway interviewed Daniel L. Dreisbach about his book, Reading the Bible with the Founding Fathers (Oxford University Press, 2017).
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John Dickson, author of A Doubter's Guide to the Bible: Inside History's Bestseller for Believers and Skeptics (Zondervan, 2014), says, "God’s ways, embodied in his commandments to love him and those around us, are what we’re made for, and when we follow them, we are free in the true sense...."
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Simply register and watch on demand ChurchSource's free 40-minute webcast with Dr. Bill Mounce, author of Greek for the Rest of Us: The Essentials of Biblical Greek (Zondervan, 2013) and Mounce Reverse-Interlinear New Testament (available free on Bible Gateway). The topic is: Demystifying Bible Translations.
Read the Bible Gateway Blog posts, How You Can Easily Read the New Testament in its Original Language on Bible Gateway and How to Conduct a Word Study with Bible Gateway Plus
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Join this free 5-session online video Bible study from now to July 28. Max Lucado, author of Anxious for Nothing: Finding Calm in a Chaotic World, invites you to dive deep into Scripture and explore God's treatment plan for worry found in the most underlined verse in the Bible: Philippians 4:6-7.
Read the Bible Gateway Blog post, Anxious for Nothing: An Interview with Max Lucado.
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