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A majority of American adults (57%) say knowing what is right or wrong is a matter of personal experience. At the same time, a majority (59%) also agrees “the Bible provides us with absolute moral truths which are the same for all people in all situations, without exception.” David Kinnaman, president of Barna Group which conducted the research, calls it "widespread cognitive dissonance" and says, "When we peel back the layers, we find that many Christians are using the way of Jesus to pursue the way of self." Read more from Barna Group.
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American women are more likely than men to say they attend worship services regularly, but the gap in church attendance has been narrowing in recent decades as the share of women attending weekly has declined. Now only 28% of women and 22% of men say they attend religious services at least weekly. Read more from Pew Research Center.
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Kenneth E. Bailey, the scholar who introduced evangelicals to Middle Eastern culture and history, died May 23, 2016 at age 85. Bailey gave Western readers “the eyes to see” the deeper significance of Jesus’ life and stories by placing them in the cultural context of the Middle East, publishing books like Jesus Through Middle Eastern Eyes (IVP Academic, 2007) and Paul Through Mediterranean Eyes (IVP Academic, 2011). Read more from Christianity Today.
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May 30 is Memorial Day in the USA. Many countries designate holidays, festivals, or monuments to help people remember important events in their shared cultural history. The Bible mentions many memorials designed to remind people of important truths. Do you know what these Bible memorials were intended to remind people about? Take our quiz to test your Bible knowledge.
With last week's look at the New Testament book of Philemon, our Letters to the Church series has come to an end! If you've been following along since the beginning, you've explored each of the "Pauline epistles"—the letters written by the apostle Paul to the early Christian communities. By reading through these letters, you've gotten a thorough look at the state of the early Christian church, and a comprehensive tour of the spiritual priorities that should dominate a Christian's everyday life. If you missed this series, or if you want to revisit any of the entries, here's a list of what we covered.
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Decades of historical and cultural research on the ancient world will soon be accessible in the NIV Cultural Backgrounds Study Bible (Zondervan, August 2016). Notes and resources hand-picked by Bible scholars John H. Walton (Old Testament) and Craig Keener (New Testament) complement the New International Version of the Bible, the world’s most read and most trusted modern-English Bible translation. Read more, watch the video, and see the sample.
In this 27th lesson about studying the Bible, pastor and author Mel Lawrenz says, "If you use a Bible translation that came from the diligent work of Bible scholars who know how to do the work of linguistics and textual analysis and translation, you are indeed holding the word of God in your hand." If you want to study the Bible better, read this installment of his series on our Blog and encourage your friends and followers to receive it by email.
Also read previous articles in the How to Study the Bible series on such topics as the best way to approach your study; how Scripture examines us; the roles observation and curiosity play; how to develop a biblical vocabulary; what a topical study is; and much more.
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Endorsed in its time by Francis Scott Key, John Jay, and Theodore Roosevelt, the American Bible Society (ABS) was founded in 1816 with the goal of distributing free copies of the Bible in local languages throughout the world. Today, the ABS is a Christian ministry based in Philadelphia with a $300 million endowment and a mission to engage 100 million Americans with the Bible by 2025. Bible Gateway interviewed John Fea about his book, The Bible Cause: A History of the American Bible Society (Oxford University Press, 2016). Read this interview.
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We live in an image-based culture in which we increasingly rely upon visuals to help us understand new and difficult concepts. Infographics convey data, concepts, and ideas in fresh new ways. Bible Gateway interviewed Tim Challies, who, along with Josh Byers, is the author of Visual Theology: Seeing and Understanding the Truth About God (Zondervan, 2016). Read this interview.
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 World English Bible (WEB).
Have you ever read a chapter from the Old Testament and wondered, why did God put that in the Bible? Everyone has. Lots of people—even in the church, even in the academy—don’t really know how to read the Old Testament. It’s time to change that. In this online course, John Walton and Andrew Hill will walk you through the Old Testament, book-by-book. Learn more.
In his book The Story of God Bible Commentary: Romans (Zondervan, 2016), Michael F. Bird, writes: "For those who are spiritually gifted, it is vital that they nurture humility in themselves. Otherwise their giftedness is not an offering to God or a tool for growing the church; instead, it becomes an idol to the cult of self." Read the rest of this book excerpt.
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