The book of Jeremiah recounts the life and ministry of the prophet Jeremiah. It tracks Jeremiah’s message that the Kingdom of Judah will fall to the Babylonians from the point before the exile when his ministry began to the fulfillment of his proph...

Ukrainian servicemen and women training in Britain have asked for Bibles as they prepare to return to the front line. In recent weeks, Bible Society has been able to provide 226 Ukrainian Bibles, 15 Russian Bibles and hundreds of copies of Beyond Di...

With this downloadable script and PowerPoint slides, you can make the case for the historical credibility of the gospel and its power to change lives beyond Christmas.

We want to help Christians working with refugees from Ukraine in their ministry. So we’re offering free copies of Ukrainian and Russian Scriptures and resources to those who can use them.

A term used in both the Old and the New Testaments to refer to an occasion when God would intervene in the world in a dramatic and noticeable way. Some thought the Day of the Lord would be a glorious and joyful day (e.g. Joel 2.28-32); others that i...

Also called the dispersion, to describe the scattering of Jews beyond the territory of Israel. The period of dispersion or diaspora is often traced to the time of the exile when many Judeans were taken in exile to Babylon. During the Roman empire J...

Also called by the Greek word diaspora, to describe the scattering of Jews beyond the territory of Israel. The period of dispersion or diaspora is often traced to the time of the exile when many Judeans were taken in exile to Babylon. During the Ro...

A place mentioned numerous times in the Old Testament but it is not entirely clear where Tarshish was, other than far beyond the land of Israel across the sea. Some identify it as another name for Carthage in North Africa, others as Tartessos in Spain.

Share your prayer for people across the Middle East and North Africa. Let’s pray for an end to conflict, for peace, reconciliation and an opportunity to rebuild lives. Please pray for the many ways we’re reaching people with God’s love in this ...

Like 1 Timothy, this book is addressed to Timothy, whom Paul calls ‘beloved child’. Whereas 1 Timothy feels as though there is a wider audience beyond just Timothy, 2 Timothy reads much more as a personal letter and is the most intimate of the th...

Revelation is a call to Christians to remain faithful in the face of the disasters that they saw happening all around them. The underlying message is that in spite of the fact that it might seem evil is unconquerable, God is waging war in heaven and ...

The book of Lamentations is a collection of five poems lamenting the destruction of Judah and Jerusalem by the Babylonians at the time of the exile. They are written in a mix of third person (he/she/it/they) and first person (I/we) and recognise that...

The book begins with God commanding Hosea to marry an unfaithful wife. The first few chapters describe what happened when he did so. Chapter 4 onwards contains messages from God via Hosea, first to the people of Israel (4–11) and then to the people...

Ukraine has suffered immense disaster with the destruction of the dam in Russian-occupied Nova Kakhovka. Against a background of catastrophic floods from which thousands of people have been evacuated, Ukrainian Bible Society have shared this update.

Given that the Bible is, by definition, a library of books about God and his people, why does it stop at the Book of Revelation? Surely that story is a continuing one which in the present canon of Scripture already goes beyond Jesus’ time?

My Dad has just been diagnosed with a rare form of Parkinson's. It’s hereditary, so I don’t know what that means for my health. I'm going to get myself tested. It’s frightening. I was all over the shop when I found out. Galatians 6:9 ...

I’m a music therapist, and my work has basically stopped. I haven’t worked for four or five weeks. I also have a lung condition – cystic fibrosis – so I’m shielding at the moment. It’s kind of weird. It’s strange to be told that you are...

‘I work in investment banking. I took time off work for six months because I had a severely trapped nerve in my neck, which was diagnosed as wear and tear. The pain was so severe at times that I wasn’t sure I wanted to go back to work. I saw four...

‘My mother had drink problems and there was a lot of domestic violence. I had three brothers who were heroin addicts. One died. To me, it was normal. We were happy enough. I never believed in God. I thought the Bible was a book of made-up stories t...

‘I had a challenging upbringing. My father died when I was seven and my mother, though a believer, had a fierce temper. I did grow up with a faith of my own, but it wasn’t particularly getting deeper. Part of that was observing my mother's o...