How to Pray for America Using the Latest State of the Bible Research
In the final chapter of the State of the Bible 2022 report, entitled, What We’ve Learned, Where it Leads, we recap our top 10 stories of 2022 regarding America and the Bible. We hope that these insights will inspire your prayers for people across our nation to engage the Bible, making it central to their faith and allowing it to…
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Five Questions to Guide Your Bible Reading
Though I’d grown up in the church and had earned my share of Scripture memory badges in Sunday School, I was an adult before I realized I didn’t actually understand much of the Bible. I knew how to pull out a verse of encouragement when I needed hope, and I knew how to identify sin in myself and others, but…
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Why bother?
The Bible is usually the last thing I want to face in the morning. I lie in bed in the early dawn, that netherworld between darkness and light, my phone in my hand, teetering between clicking on Facebook and clicking on my Bible app. I grew up nurtured on the understanding that your morning “quiet time” in God’s Word is…
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What would Jesus talk about at the table?
I have been thinking a lot about Jesus’s encounters with people at the dinner table. I wonder what it would be like to have him as a mealtime companion. What would he talk about? Would he walk the path of least resistance, trying his best not to bring up uncomfortable topics; or would he hone in on his dinner companion’s…
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4 Verses to Overcome the Shame of Rejection
The first time a good friend “broke up” with me in middle school, I ran home crying to my mom. She patiently listened as I detailed every aspect of our friendship, everything we said, everything that happened the last time we had a sleepover at her house. I spent hours agonizing over what I must have missed—some glaring sign I…
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A Practice of Gratitude
The Bible tells us to rejoice. All the time and in everything. I spend my days juggling a toddler, freelance work, volunteer positions, a husband, friends, and a household. I cook meals that are too complex. I regularly overschedule my days. I am not continuously mindful of my very good God or my role as his ambassador. However, at the…
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Engaging Migrants with the Gospel of Jesus
“My family is waiting for me,” says Hassan*. Hassan left his country to provide a decent living for his family back home. Now in Bahrain, he works in horrible conditions, lives in a labor camp, and barely makes enough money to send home. Approximately 55% of Bahrain’s workforce are migrant workers like Hassan. They leave developing nations like Sri Lanka,…
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