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What Is Shaping You?
There’s a section in department stores these days called “shapewear.” It’s in both women’s and men’s clothing. These stores are banking on our concern with the shape of our bodies and our willingness to invest in garments that promise to give us the shape we’re looking for. But when we read Paul’s letter to the church in Rome, we discover it’s not what is shaping our bodies that he is most concerned about. He’s concerned about what is shaping our perspective, our priorities, our pursuits, and our opinions. He writes: Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed … View Resource
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Help Me Teach the Bible: An Interview with Nancy Guthrie
TT: What led you to begin teaching the Bible? How have your life experiences shaped your teaching ministry? NG: I am grateful to have grown up in a home in which going to church and serving the church was a given. I studied Bible in college and then began a career as a publicist in Christian publishing that lasted about twenty-five years. In that role, I worked closely with many excellent communicators of God’s Word, and I had the opportunity to observe how they handled and applied the Scriptures as well as how they operated—for good and for bad—in … View Resource
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Ministry to Grieving Parents
When we witness the anguish, the anger, the questions, the devastation that comes to families that experience the death of a child, we find ourselves desperate to figure out what we can do, what we can say, that will truly help. In the retreats my husband and I host for couples who have faced the death of a child, participants often talk about the ways people have “been there” for them in the midst of the worst pain they can imagine, as well as the ways people have added to their pain. If you could be a fly on the … View Resource
Nancy Guthrie
Nancy Guthrie is an author, conference speaker, and Bible teacher. She is author of The One Year Praying through the Bible for Your Kids, What Grieving People Wish You Knew about What Really Helps (and What Really Hurts), and the Bible study series The Promised One.
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