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| | | | What does it mean when the Bible says God's plan for your life is to give you a hope and a future? Can you know his plan? Can you trust it? What is active dependence on God? What is God's definition of good? Bible Gateway interviewed Megan Fate Marshman about her book, Meant for Good: The Adventure of Trusting God and His Plans for You (Zondervan, 2020). |
| | | | How can you help your young children understand that the stories in the Bible can be connected to each other as tiny truths to teach one grand lesson: the story of God's love for his children, starting with the magnificence of creation and including Moses parting the Red Sea, Jonah being swallowed by a giant fish, and ultimately the birth, death, and resurrection of Jesus, the rescuing King? Bible Gateway interviewed Joanna Rivard and Tim Penner about their colorful storybook, The Tiny Truths Illustrated Bible (Zonderkidz, 2019). |
| | Bible Gateway exclusively published this week a Sneak Peek and First Listen of the forthcoming book, audiobook, and DVD Take Back Your Life: A 40-Day Interactive Journey to Thinking Right So You Can Live Right by Levi Lusko (Thomas Nelson, 2020), pastor of Fresh Life Church, in which he says, "You might be surprised to know that the origin of the word deadline actually has something to do with real dying...." | |
IMPORTANT RESOURCES FOR YOU
2020 is the Year Of The Bible. Select the free Bible Reading Plan that's right for you this year. | | | | While Bible Gateway's website has a fresh new look, it retains the easy, free Bible search-and-read functionality you've come to expect and appreciate. One new feature that users are enthusiastically calling out is the Bible Book List that drops down under the search bar when you click the down arrow.... |
| | | | Nobel Peace Prize winner, former President Jimmy Carter is the editor of the new NRSV Simple Faith Bible: Following Jesus into a Life of Peace, Compassion, and Wholeness (Zondervan, 2020).... |
| | In this 116th lesson on how to live the Bible, pastor and author Dr. Mel Lawrenz says, "The Scriptures teach that God designed us for work and rest, and that we can glorify God in both...." 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 Personal Growth section in the FaithGateway Store. |
| | One in eight of 1.8 billion Scriptures distributed last year was a Bible. Annual distribution of complete Bibles has increased from more than 34 million in 2015 to nearly 40 million in 2019. Almost a quarter of Bibles distributed in 2019 were digital downloads, compared to 17% digital in 2018.... | | |
| | Drs. Les & Leslie Parrott, authors of Real Relationships: From Bad to Better and Good to Great (Zondervan, 2019), say, "Feelings are always fleeting. The wholeness we long for in human contact is forever elusive. Why? Because human beings can never make us whole. In short, that's why we need God's love...." |
| | Scripture is clear that God holds us accountable for our words. They are not taken lightly, and this theme appears again and again throughout the Bible. The Psalms and Proverbs are full of the separation of the righteous from the foolish by the words that come from their mouths. And James writes (3:6) that the tongue "corrupts the whole body, sets the whole course of one's life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell." |
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