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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Here’s a "subway map" timeline that shows where the myriad characters of the Christmas story were during events surrounding the first Christmas. This visualization traces the Christmas story as told in Matthew 1-2 and Luke 1-2, showing you who is with whom throughout the story.
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John 3:16 continued to be the most popular verse at BibleGateway.com. But the Psalms dominated Bible Gateway’s most popular verses of the year.
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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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While the Old and New Testaments have been roughly organized at least since the Bible canon was established, it wasn’t until 1,000 years later that something resembling our modern chapter and verse system was widely accepted.
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What if you could approach the Bible at your own pace, starting and stopping as you would in a world-class museum: reading individual exhibits, observing colorful displays, and gaining an overall understanding as you proceed? Bible Gateway interviewed Christopher Hudson about his book, Self-Guided Tour of the Bible: Maps, Charts, Timelines, Simple Overviews (Rose Publishing, 2016).
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George Frideric Handel's Messiah is one of the most beloved musical works of the western world, playing an especially sentimental role in many people's Christmas traditions. The libretto of the work, taken directly from the King James Version (KJV) text of 14 books of the Bible, has turned many phrases into memorable, singable, cherished lines of Scripture. Bible Gateway interviewed Jessica Miller Kelley, editor of the devotional book, Every Valley: Advent with the Scriptures of Handel's Messiah (Westminster John Knox Press, 2014).
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Christmas is a great time for adults to read to children about the birth of Jesus. For your Christmas enjoyment, here are two videos with British actor David Suchet reading about the Nativity from the award-winning Jesus Storybook Bible (Zonderkidz, 2007).
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Do you want 2017 to be the year you really get to know the Bible? Whether you're a complete newcomer to the Bible or know it well, these devotionals are a great way to get grounded in God's Word during the New Year. Choose the one that most interests you! All devotionals begin on January 1, 2017.
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This guest Bible Gateway Blog post is by Michael Norten, author of Unlocking the Secrets of the Feasts: The Prophecies in the Feasts of Leviticus (Thomas Nelson, 2015). He says, "The purpose and the traditions of Hanukkah are so intriguing, that Christians should appreciate this festival more than a passing acknowledgment of the season."
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In our Facebook Live event "Bible Reading is Broken, and It’s Not Your Fault" (watch it here), we talked with the Institute for Bible Reading to find out a few of the ways Bible reading has become more challenging for everyday readers than it needs to be. The good news is that overcoming some of these challenges is easy, especially with an online tool like Bible Gateway! Here are two simple ways you can make your Bible easier to read...
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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:
See the Bible Gateway Blog post, An Interview with the Editors of The CEB Women’s Bible.
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In this excerpt from The Story of God Bible Commentary: Daniel, Wendy L. Widder says, “The book of Daniel is often read for its contribution to our understanding of end-times events, but sometimes Christians have been so obsessed with this that we have missed its main message: God is in control, no matter how things look, and his kingdom will one day fill the earth.”
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In his book First Things First: Growing in Pastoral Ministry (Zondervan, 2016), Ken Kamau says: "The moment you decide to step out of the crowd and follow Christ not only as a disciple but to publicly declare the message of the cross, you enter a battle zone."
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