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Don't forget Father's Day, June 21. Click to browse gift ideas for dads in the Bible Gateway Store that are appropriate even after Sunday's celebration.
Archaeologists have discovered a rare 3,000-year-old inscription of the name Esh-baal mentioned in 1 Chronicles 8:33 & 9:39. Esh-baal was a son of King Saul. Read more from Live Science.
Americans have less confidence in organized religion today than ever measured before—a sign that the church could be “losing its footing as a pillar of moral leadership in the nation’s culture,” a new Gallup survey finds. Read more from RNS.
Influential Christian author and speaker Elisabeth Elliot, 88, died June 15. Among her many bestselling books is Through Gates of Splendor, recounting how her first husband, Jim, was killed during their short-lived but legendary missionary work among unreached tribes in eastern Ecuador in the 1950s. Read more from Christianity Today.
⇨ See more Bible-related stories in this week's Bible News Roundup.
In his latest Bible lesson on Bible Gateway Blog, pastor and author Mel Lawrenz says, "The Bible speaks of “false teaching.” There's a difference between truth and falsehood, and when it comes to Bible interpretation, there's a lot of teaching that's garbage—and it smells that way. Read on for ways to know if someone is giving false teaching from the Bible." If you want to understand the Bible better, read this installment of his series on our Blog and encourage your friends and followers to receive it by email.
What if Jesus is more interested in bringing heaven to earth rather than the other way around? Two pastors believe if you know where to look, you can see that the coming of a new heaven and a new earth already has begun. That life on earth is renewed every time you live out Jesus’s prayer that God’s ways will be followed on earth. Bible Gateway interviewed Josh Ross and Jonathan Storment about their book, Bringing Heaven to Earth: You Don't Have to Wait for Eternity to Live the Good News (WaterBrook Press, 2015). Read this interview.
This August, Zondervan will add a vital member to its study Bible family. The New International Version of the Bible, the world’s most read and most trusted modern-English Bible translation, is now complemented by study notes and resources designed and edited by general editor and The Gospel Coalition co-founder, D.A. Carson. The new NIV Zondervan Study Bible presents the best of evangelical biblical scholarship, appealing to a broad spectrum of Bible readers. Read more.
Biblica and Zondervan have come together to make the New International Reader's Version (NIrV) of the Bible available to all English-reading children and those who read at a lower level. For centuries, God's Word has been translated and shared so that all who read it can understand it and experience the good news of the gospel. Biblica and Zondervan are united in the mission to bring the Word of God to people of all ages, including children. Read more.
Writing the Bible out by hand offers us the unique opportunity to participate in an activity that forces us to slow down the process of reading and encourages a more reflective engagement with God’s Word. It gives us more time to think about what is written and to dwell on the meaning and implications of a passage. Read the rest of this article, one of 12 practices explained in our new Scripture Engagement section.
Father's Day is an annual occasion to help us take stock of what it means to be a father. This year we're presenting to you an "interview" with Joseph, the father of Jesus, taken from the NIV Men's Devotional Bible (Zondervan, 2012). Read more.
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