Weekly Brief is your 1-minute smart and fast report to keep you informed of important Bible-related trends, statistics, articles, and pivotal happenings on the Web and at Bible Gateway. Forward to your friends and share with your followers to encourage them to subscribe.
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Based on more than 1.7 billion pageviews and over 180 million unique visitors to Bible Gateway from December 2015 through November 2016, here's a glimpse at how people engaged with the Bible in 2016. "Love" was the most popular keyword searched for in English ("amor" was #1 in Spanish), John 3:16 was the most read verse, and 🙏 was the most popular emoji used to search the Bible. Use the interactive tool yourself.
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See the three ways Bible Gateway users search the Bible: perennial searches, event-driven searches, and holiday-themed searches. For example, event-driven searches: the Bible search for the term “end-times” spiked in 2016 during the Dallas shooting of police in July and the US presidential election in November.
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See more Bible-related articles in this week's Bible News Roundup.
See previous editions of Bible News Roundup and Weekly Brief.
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The Institute for Bible Reading (IFBR) is an activist think tank that provides tools and frameworks to fundamentally change the way people read the Bible. Bible Gateway hosted a brief Facebook Live interview with IFBR on the topic of how Bible reading is broken, how it’s NOT your fault, and the practical, simple steps for you to take toward reading the Bible well.
Read the Bible Gateway Blog post, Learning to Read the Bible Well: An Interview with Glenn Paauw.
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It’s our annual tradition here at Bible Gateway to unroll a few high-quality Christmas-focused free email devotionals during Advent. We hope you’ve checked out one or two of them! But that's not the only place you can find inspirational Christmas content. Many of the “regular” devotionals in our library have been sharing insights about Christmas lately. Check these out as well.
Browse the Christmas section in the Bible Gateway Store, where you'll enjoy low prices every day.
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ÂżCĂłmo experimentamos el gozo de la Navidad? El pastor Mel Lawrenz, autor de la popular serie de libros «CĂłmo entender la Biblia» (disponible solo en inglĂ©s) e Influencia Espiritual (disponible en español), nos presenta AlegrĂa de Navidad, un devocional para cada dĂa de la temporada navideña.
Ver todos los libros y biblias en español en la Tienda en lĂnea de Bible Gateway.
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To hear someone read the Word is a different experience than to simply read silently to oneself. A well-prepared and gifted reader can bring out meaning in a text through voice inflection, rhythm, and intonation. A talented reader can present the Word of God to a group or congregation so that the listeners may experience the Bible in a rich and powerful manner.
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Families have different ways of celebrating Christmas. So do churches! How is your church observing the Christmas season this year? Share your answer in this poll.
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Each year, we highlight the highest-rated Reverend Fun cartoons related to Christmas. Here are the top-rated cartoons as of 2016!
Browse the humor section in the Bible Gateway Store, where you'll enjoy low prices every day.
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This feature in 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:
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In this excerpt from the Zondervan Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament: John, Edward W. Klink III says, “Unfortunately, interpreters have minimized the functional importance of the dialogues of Jesus in the narrative of the Gospel and have, therefore, misjudged their important role in directing and establishing the theology of the Gospel.”
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In his book The King Jesus Gospel: The Original Good News Revisited (Zondervan, 2016), Scot McKnight says: "The gospel of Jesus and that of the apostles, both of which created a gospel culture and not simply a salvation culture, was a gospel that carried within it the...requirement to summon people who wanted to be “in” to be The Discipled."
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Reading the Bible in multiple languages and multiple versions is always just a click away online at Bible Gateway and in print from the Bible Gateway Store, where you'll save money while supporting the ministry of Bible Gateway when making a purchase.
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