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Bible teacher, pastor, broadcaster, and bestselling author Dr. Tim F. LaHaye died July 25, 2016 in a San Diego area hospital, days after suffering a stroke. He was 90 years old.
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The Satanic Temple is bringing its fight over constitutional separation of church and state to the nation’s schools.
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See more Bible-related articles in this week's Bible News Roundup.
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As the 2016 Summer Olympics are starting, ESPN has published a magazine article and video about Olympic gold medalist Michael Phelps that chronicled his downward spiral following the Beijing Olympics and his subsequent recovery. A key turning point in Michael’s life was when his friend Ray Lewis gave him a copy of The Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren (Zondervan, 2013). In the interview, Phelps says, "It’s turned me into believing that there is a power greater than myself and there is a purpose for me on this planet…I think it helped me when I was in a place that I needed the most help.”
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In his book, Before Amen: The Power of a Simple Prayer (Thomas Nelson, 2014), he says prayer is the only tutorial the first followers of Jesus ever requested. And Jesus gave them a prayer. Not a lecture on prayer. Not the doctrine of prayer. He gave them a quotable, repeatable, portable prayer.
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ICYMI: We hosted a Facebook Live interview with bestselling author Joni Eareckson Tada during which she answered reader-submitted questions about living with chronic pain, depression, anxiety, and other challenges from her perspective as a quadriplegic. If you missed the interview, you can still watch it.
Joni is the general editor of the forthcoming Beyond Suffering Bible (Tyndale House, October 2016).
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How do we follow the Prince of Peace in a world filled with angry politics, spiritual uncertainty, and frightening violence? Explore what it means to serve Jesus actively and intentionally in this new two-week devotional that draws on the very best writing of author and theologian Dallas Willard.
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The annual Justice Conference was held in Chicago, Illinois in June, at which a commissioning service was held for the new NIV God's Justice: The Holy Bible (Zondervan, 2016).
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This feature in Weekly Brief is intended to help you become aware of one of several practices explained in our Scripture Engagement section.
This week:
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Often, when we read the Old Testament, we read it as though Israel existed alone. What we don’t often realize is that the Israelites interacted with the peoples around them, just as we do today. Ugaritic is probably the easiest way to begin accessing that understanding of the broader Ancient Near East.
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In their resource Learn the Old Testament Pack (Zondervan, 2016), Andrew Hill and John Walton say, "Instead of looking to the Bible to give us tips for living or decision-making, our first line of interpretation should be to seek to understand how God is revealed."
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