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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A tornado caused large-scale destruction at William Carey University with nearly all of the 30 buildings on campus affected. "We had extensive damage to our beautiful Bass Chapel, but the Bible on the pulpit was left undisturbed, and it's opened to Psalm 46: 'God is our refuge and strength in times of trouble,'" WCU president Tommy King said.
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Vatican City will be among the postal administrations commemorating the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation, along with Lithuania, Germany, and Brazil. The Reformation dates to Oct. 31, 1517, when German scholar and monk Martin Luther nailed 95 theses to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany.
Read the Bible Gateway Blog post, The Authority Of Scripture: An Interview with Matthew Barrett and browse the Reformation Studies section in the Bible Gateway Store.
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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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How do you think language scholars should translate the following sentence? Bob and Jane went into the house and began to argue. “You’re driving me crazy,” Jane said. “Stop beating this dead horse.”
Browse the various Bible translations in the Bible section in the Bible Gateway Store.
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No book was more accessible or familiar to the American founders than the Bible, and no book was more frequently alluded to or quoted from in the political discourse of the age. How and for what purposes did the founding generation use the Bible? How did the Bible influence their political culture? Bible Gateway interviewed Daniel L. Dreisbach about his book, Reading the Bible with the Founding Fathers (Oxford University Press, 2017).
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Leading worship is more than a performance; it's about shaping souls and making disciples. How does the Bible offer a clear guide to leading worship?
Bible Gateway interviewed Zac Hicks about his book, The Worship Pastor: A Call to Ministry for Worship Leaders and Teams (Zondervan, 2016).
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"In the communities of the faithful, men had to impress upon themselves and upon others what Jesus said and did, for the more convinced they were that he was neither a Jewish pretender nor an unsubstantial deity like one of the deities of the cults, the more urgent it was for them to recall that his words were the rule of their life...."
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We’re excited to announce that throughout the month of February, the NIV Application Commentary on Genesis is available as part of the Bible Gateway Plus digital library! If you’re a Bible Gateway Plus member, you can log in and access it right now! If you aren’t yet a Bible Gateway Plus member, click here to try it free for 30 days (and get access to the NIV Application Commentary on Genesis along with dozens of other titles).
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The vision Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., articulated was deeply rooted in his understanding of the Bible. Many of his most famous speeches were sermons, and all of them drew on his conviction that true love for God and his Word involved actively pursuing justice across racial and ethnic boundaries.
See the Bible Gateway Blog post, God’s Justice: The Holy Bible—An Interview with Tim Stafford.
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Take a timeout to have a laugh with this Top 10 List, including:
6) A small family of woodchucks has taken up residence in the Psalms of your Bible.
5) You become frustrated because Charlton Heston isn't listed in either the Concordance or the Table of Contents.
4) Catching the kids reading the Song of Songs, you demand: “Who gave you this stuff?”
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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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When most people think of prophets, they think about prediction of events that will happen in the future. But did you know? Only a fraction of prophetic literature actually concerns the future—as little as 8%. However, that small fraction of predictive prophecy presents us with some of the Bible’s greatest interpretive challenges. The main interpretive challenges for us regarding the predictive aspects of the Old Testament prophets can be grouped around six central issues....
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In his book Visit the Sick: Ministering God's Grace in Times of Illness (Zondervan, 2014), Brian Croft says, "Never underestimate the intuition of those who are sick. They can usually tell if we are visiting out of a sense of duty or obligation or out of genuine love. Before anything else, this is the first heart issue we must honestly assess."
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