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A handwritten letter from Charles Darwin in which he made it clear he did not believe in the Bible will be auctioned off on Sept. 21 in New York. Read more from Fox News Latino.
Dr. D.A. Carson explains that the unique perspective of the new NIV Zondervan Study Bible is its emphasis on biblical theology: the “ways in which many important themes work their way through Scripture and come to a focus in Jesus Christ.” With this centering on God’s unfolding revelation in the storyline of Scripture, this just-released study Bible unpacks his redemptive work in Christ book by book. View this video interview at The Gospel Coalition.
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According to UNESCO Institute for Statistics, about 757 million adults and 115 million youths around the world cannot read or write a simple sentence, and women are the first to be denied these basic skills. Explore an interactive literacy map to see which countries are most affected. Read more.
The popular Amplified Bible (AMP) is now updated and available on Bible Gateway, along with the Amplified Bible Classic Edition (AMPC). For the update to the AMP, the goal of the translation team was to enhance the appeal of the Amplified Bible by refreshing the English and refining the amplifications for relevance and clarity. The result is an Amplified Bible that's easier to read and better than ever to study and understand. Read more.
Consumerism has a pesky way of leading to stress. Can shopping less really contribute to living more? And what does the Bible say about how to find true joy apart from the acquisition of things? Bible Gateway interviewed Scott Dannemiller about his humorously-serious book, The Year without a Purchase: One Family's Quest to Stop Shopping and Start Connecting (Westminister John Knox Press, 2015). Read this interview.
In this guest blogpost, Jennifer Dukes Lee, author of Love Idol: Letting Go of Your Need for Approval—and Seeing Yourself Through God's Eyes (Tyndale House Publishers, 2014), tells the lesson taught by a 7-year-old who went a little crazy with a green highlighter on the pages of her Bible. Read more.
In 1998, Saint John’s Abbey and University, Collegeville, MN, commissioned a calligrapher to produce a hand-written, hand-illuminated Bible. Using ancient traditional materials such as hand-ground pigments, Chinese stick ink, goose and turkey quills, and calf-skin vellum, the work of sacred art was 13 years in the making. The result is described as the calligrapher’s Sistine Chapel. Read more.
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The goal with Scripture engagement is never to try to do them all. Knowing God and being changed by him is the goal. These practices are tools God uses to meet us and change us through the Bible.... Read the rest of this article, then see all the resource articles in the Scripture Engagement section of Bible Gateway.
This feature in the 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, learn about and read the Easy-to-Read Version (ERV).
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