Making Plans for the New Year? Read These 4 Bible Verses First
“I’m just not going to make plans for the new year,” my friend told me recently. “Nothing ever goes the way I want it to anyway—so why bother?” This new year, you might be feeling the same way. Between the unfulfilled hopes from last year and the great unknowns of the coming year, making plans might feel futile. Each year…
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First Ever Sign Language Bible Almost Complete
There are 400 unique sign languages worldwide. No sign language in the world has its own Bible translation … but we are inching closer and closer to changing this. A network of Bible Translation agencies has been collaborating to complete the first ever sign language Bible in – American Sign Language (ASL). While the New Testament and portions of the…
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I’ll Say a Little Prayer For You
Early in my marriage, my wife used to ask me to “whisper a prayer” whenever a situation would arise. I thought her expression was quaint, maybe even lacking a degree of seriousness. However, it was not like her to take prayer lightly. In those early years of our marriage, prayer was a struggle for me, but my wife was steadfast…
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A New Bible for Young Koreans
Did you know, South Korea is one of the biggest distributors of the Bible? For over 120 years, Korean Bible Society has labored to spread God’s Word around the world. They translate, publish, and donate Bibles to other nations, especially nations that have difficulty sharing God’s Word due to economic, political, or religious reasons. In 2018, Korean Bible Society provided…
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Why Read Matthew’s Gospel?
There’s something I’ve noticed when I get together with old friends to talk about days gone by: we remember the same events differently. Sometimes these differences involve discrepancies that beg to be resolved. But usually they involve different perspectives; different angles on the same event, with each person contributing a part of the whole that none of us possesses alone.…
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4 Prayers for Guidance When you Feel Trapped
I never thought I’d watch a movie about a man cutting off his own arm. But there I was, eyes glued to the screen, watching James Franco stab himself. The movie, 127 Hours, is based on the true story of a climber whose arm was trapped by a falling boulder in a 3-foot-wide canyon he was climbing. After five days…
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The Cross On Which Jesus—and Our Old Self—Died
The cross, the central symbol of the Christian faith, holds such power for believers that they are often willing to go to great lengths to display it. In a remote field in Lithuania tens of thousands of crosses of every imaginable size and design have been planted on a hill by pilgrims coming to offer prayers or to memorialize a…
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