How to Pray for Your Nation: Wisdom from God’s Word
It’s a common question: “Where are you from?” Many of us have spent our whole lives in the nations we call home, while others are building new lives far from their birthplace. None of us can choose where we are born or the blessings or challenges that come with living there. For Christians, the question “Where are you from?”…
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Seven Easter Verses You May Have Missed
Chances are, you’ll use those great go-to Bible verses for your Easter services. Mary Magdalene mistaking Jesus for a gardener. Peter and John racing to the empty tomb. The strange encounter on the road to Emmaus. Perhaps even Thomas’s displays of doubt and faith. These are powerful accounts of a world-changing event. But the resurrection pops up in other Scriptures…
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How to Study the Book of Revelation
I have chosen a new subject for a Bible study group I lead. The book of Revelation. This was not my first choice. In fact, I opposed it quite strenuously. “You think Revelation will reveal secrets,” I told the group, “but it will only confuse you more. You will bicker over trivial interpretations. You will unfurl your charts and expound…
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How to Talk with People Who Don’t Believe the Bible
There are two types of people in the world: those who divide the world into two types of people, and those who don’t. As Christians, and especially as Christian leaders, we tend to be in that first group. We see an essential division in the world. The saved and the lost. Believers and unbelievers. The churched and the unchurched. While…
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Looking for Love in the Bible
When people start reading the Bible, they sometimes assume all the characters they meet there (or at least the good ones) are exemplary. Well, they are, but what kind of examples do they set for us? Even the most faithful figures in Scripture slip up. Perhaps in your ministry, you’ve scoured the Bible for good role models in matters of…
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Getting Past Chapter Breaks
Help! We’re being held captive, bound by a rusty 800-year-old device! I’m talking about the chapter divisions of the Bible invented by Archbishop Stephen Langton in the early 1200s. While his system has benefited Bible students—helping us find and talk about specific parts of Scripture—it has also created separation, setting up fences that divide thought from thought. Some of these…
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How to Share the Bible’s Transforming Power
“The Bible does not present us with texts to be mastered … but with a Word intent on shaping our lives, on mastering us.” Joel B. Green offers this valuable insight in a piece on the Catalyst site (”Cultivating the Practice of Reading Scripture”). This is a helpful reminder for everyone who teaches and preaches the Bible. While we want…
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