3 Ways to Take the Bible Back to School with You This Fall
It’s that time of year again. The evenings are getting cooler. The days are getting shorter. And millions of kids across the country are facing another school year and feeling a whole range of emotions. For some kids, school is an exciting place to meet new friends, learn new things, and spend time doing their favorite activities. But for others,…
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Meeting the Apostle Paul on the Big Screen
While Paul: Apostle of Christ covers events just after the New Testament’s coverage ends, it is richly informed by Scripture. It draws us into the ancient world, where those who follow Jesus are exploring how to live out their faith in critical situations. Viewers will come away with a greater sense of the world of the Bible, especially the fearsome…
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Finding Hope After a Loved One Dies
You wonder when the pain will stop—the crushing weight of the world’s emptiness. You wonder when you’ll stop picking up the phone only to realize there’s no one to call. You wonder when a song or smell that reminds you of that person won’t clutch at your throat and blind your eyes without warning. “A single person is missing from you,…
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How to Survive and Thrive as an Introverted Leader
I’m an introvert and active in our church. Being involved in church stuff is pretty much in my DNA. I was born this way! Well, perhaps it’s more accurate to say I was shaped this way. As a kid, church was central to our family life. If the church doors were open, we were there. Mom and Dad were always…
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Pray for Dr. King’s Dream of Racial Justice to be Realized
From a jail cell in Birmingham, Alabama, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote an impassioned 7,000-word letter in response to fellow clergymen who accused his activities as being “unwise and untimely.” What activities? Just four days earlier, King and more than 50 other people led a non-violent demonstration through the streets of Birmingham, protesting the racist treatment suffered by…
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How to Pray Before You Read the Bible
When I first started reading the Bible regularly, I read in energetic bursts. I read because I felt I needed to. It seemed that every few verses, God was speaking to me. I would press my finger to the page, running it over a line of text, as if I could absorb it better that way. I was scared, so…
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How to Read John 6 Through a Jewish Perspective
Shortly after graduating from college, I had the opportunity to study and live in Israel. Although I had grown up studying the Bible, there was nothing like living in the land where Jesus and the patriarchs walked. During that time, I read the Scriptures with fresh eyes, seeing old, familiar stories in a new light. Stories that had become one-dimensional…
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