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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How can parents be intentional in raising their kids to be steadfast followers of Jesus? How should the home be a holy place for children? Bible Gateway interviewed Phil and Diane Comer about their book, Raising Passionate Jesus Followers: The Power of Intentional Parenting (Zondervan, 2018).
Become a member of Bible Gateway Plus and get immediate 24/7 access to the King James Study Bible Notes and other valuable Bible commentaries.
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Have you considered how radical the apostle Paul was in his life and teaching and the extreme unlikelihood of what he achieved? He was a fervent Jewish leader and yet he is central to any understanding of earliest Christianity. His effective legacy and intellectual influence cannot be complete without an understanding of his Jewish heritage. Bible Gateway interviewed N.T. Wright about his book, Paul: A Biography (HarperOne, 2018).
Become a member of Bible Gateway Plus and get immediate 24/7 access to the NIV Study Bible Notes and other valuable Bible commentaries.
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Why doesn't Christian faith resolve our frustrations and problems? Watch this fourth video lesson by Kevin Myers, author of Grown-Up Faith: The Big Picture for a Bigger Life (Thomas Nelson, 2019), on how to develop spiritual maturity by seeing the big picture of the Bible and how it gives you a better life.
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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 Peter – the fourth 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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Christina Meredith, author of CinderGirl: My Journey Out of the Ashes to a Life of Hope says, "Suffering is an unavoidable part of the human experience. I encourage you to embrace the idea of suffering, because it is coming—with or without your permission. It is a gift in disguise that unlocks the hero within us...."
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In this second installment, Terry Looper, author of Sacred Pace: Four Steps to Hearing God and Aligning Yourself with His Will (W Publishing, 2019), says, "To consult my Friend Jesus in prayer as the first step in my decision-making process helps to 'unmake' my mind and start me toward a sacred pace. It softens my heart and inclines my ears toward him." Discover a slower, more mindful way of making decisions that will help you sift through your motives and priorities until you want God’s will most of all.
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In this 54th lesson on how to live the Bible, pastor and author Dr. Mel Lawrenz says, “God knows that we will not always live in the house of mourning, but when we do mourn we need to spend time in that house, learn what must be learned there, and come out stronger for it....” 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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Ash Wednesday was March 6. Browse the Lenten Resources section in the Bible Gateway Store.
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Throughout Scripture, ashes are an important symbol of grief and repentance—a substance, like dust, to which our bodies return. Since Ash Wednesday—the first of the 40-day season of Lent—was this week, read this Blog post of Bible passages that refer to ashes.
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This Bible Gateway Blog post is a Bible Gateway exclusive opportunity for you to read and hear the new book A Brave Face: Two Cultures, Two Families, and the Iraqi Girl Who Bound Them Together (W Publishing, 2019) by Barbara Marlowe and Teeba Furat Marlowe. Order the book and unabridged audiobook on CD in the Bible Gateway Store.
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Register for ChurchSource's free 30-minute webcast March 12 at 3pm EST with Grant Skeldon, author of The Passion Generation: The Seemingly Reckless, Definitely Disruptive, but Far from Hopeless Millennials (Zondervan, 2018). The topic will be: How to effectively engage and connect with millennials in the church. Get free downloads for signing up! Can’t make it? Sign up anyway and you'll be sent the recording after it's over.
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With the Easter season fast approaching, Bible Gateway would like to introduce you to a new free email Bible study with original content intended to make learning Scripture a more immersive and faith-transforming journey.
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Bible Gateway has a new, free, 15-day free email devotional bringing you the never-before-published wisdom and teachings of Christian philosopher Dallas Willard!
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A new service called MasterLectures, from our partners at Zondervan Academic, gives you unlimited access to an always-growing library of videos.
Get your questions answered with Bible Gateway’s new Online Bible Learning Program. Get 20% off now! Use coupon code LEARN.
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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: “As a pastor I use Bible Gateway weekly in my sermon preparation for comparing passages, versions, and using the study helps.”
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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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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 Pastor Resources Page on Bible Gateway.
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Reading the Bible in multiple languages and multiple versions is always just a click away online at Bible Gateway and in print from the Bible Gateway Store, where you'll save money while supporting the ministry of Bible Gateway when making a purchase.
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