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More than three quarters of hotels (79%) say their rooms feature religious material, according to a new survey. That’s up slightly from 2015, when 77% of hotels had religious material.
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“Love” was the most popular English keyword search at BibleGateway.com in 2016. “Amor” topped the Spanish list. The heart emoji was the second most searched for emoji at Bible Gateway.
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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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Thomas C. Oden died December 8 at age 85. He was active in the Confessing Movement in America, particularly within the United Methodist Church, and was president of The Institute for Classical Christian Studies. He suggested that Christians need to rely upon the wisdom of the historical church, particularly the early church, rather than on modern scholarship and theology.
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Does the rush of celebrating Christmas get in the way of appreciating its profound meaning? A baby in a manger became the King on the cross. Christmas proclaims the truth of Easter to come. This year seize the significance. Focus on what matters. Bible Gateway interviewed Max Lucado about his book, Because of Bethlehem: Love Is Born, Hope Is Here (Thomas Nelson, 2016).
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Book chapters help readers understand and follow a book’s story line as it advances step-by-step. The Bible is a bit different. Instead of being divided into chapters, it’s divided into books. But the 66 books of the Bible can be divided into 10 major sections based on their literary form and content. We can understand the Bible better if we understand how each section advances the great story of God’s redemption of fallen humanity. Bible Gateway interviewed J. Carl Laney about his series of blog posts, The Story of the Bible in 10 Chapters, on Western Seminary’s blog Transformed.
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It's been a long and turbulent year! Experience the peace and joy of Christmas with these free time-limited email devotionals that will help you focus on the real meaning of Christ's coming to Earth.
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¡Este ha sido un año largo y turbulento! ¿Está usted listo para experimentar la paz y el gozo de la Navidad? Los siguientes devocionales le ayudarán a liberarse del estrés y la agitación de la temporada de fin de año, para concentrarse en el verdadero significado de la Navidad. ¡Regístrese hoy mismo!
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Reading the accounts of Jesus’ birth and resurrection back-to-back, I note that Jesus began and ended life wrapped in restraints: the swaddling clothes in a manger, the burial shroud in a tomb. In order to visit earth, he fully accepted its constraints—the story of Christmas, and also of the cross. In order to restore earth, he broke out of the constraints, casting off the burial clothes to herald a new era that would end in hope and glory.
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December 9, 1965 is when the TV animated special A Charlie Brown Christmas premiered on the CBS network. The pinnacle scene in the program is when Linus recites the Gospel of Luke, second chapter, verses 8 to 14, after which he says, “That’s what Christmas is all about, Charlie Brown.”
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If your understanding of the Bible isn't where you want it to be, decide now on a Bible Gateway reading plan that will help you make opening God's Word a regular part of your life in the New Year!
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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 adaptation from Four Portraits, One Jesus: A Survey of Jesus and the Gospels, Mark L. Strauss says, “The birth narratives in both Matthew and Luke help answer the question, 'Who is Jesus and where did he come from?' One of the ways each book does this is by recounting Jesus’ genealogy. The problem is: the genealogies are different.”
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In his book The Worship Pastor: A Call to Ministry for Worship Leaders and Teams (Zondervan, 2016), Zac M. Hicks says: "Worship leaders who understand their disciple-making role know that they are there to equip people for ministry to God and equip people for ministry to one another."
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