The 2023 YouVersion Bible App Verse of the Year is a three-peat. For the third year in a row, Isaiah 41:10 was the verse people shared the most, bookmarked and highlighted across the YouVersion family ...

EDMOND — Thousands of people around the world are celebrating a local church's milestone anniversary this month — every time they connect with God's word through a popular Bible app. Life.Church is ...

(RNS) — Bobby Gruenewald might know more about how Americans read the Bible than anyone else in the country. For the past 15 years, Gruenewald, an online entrepreneur turned pastor, has run the ...

Bobby Gruenewald, right, innovation leader for Life Church, founder of the YouVersion Bible app, works with his team in Edmond, Okla., on June 26, 2018. Celebrating ...

(RNS) — This month the free app surpassed 500 million downloads. That's equivalent to one-sixteenth of the world's population. (RNS) — I met Bobby Gruenewald not long after YouVersion had created a ...

When he launched the YouVersion Bible App in 2008, Bobby Gruenewald never imagined the reach and impact it would have. "There's been lots of challenges and ups and downs, but we never thought it would ...

YouVersion users look for comfort the third year in row, while Bible Gateway’s list includes John 3:16 and multiple psalms. For the third year in a row, YouVersion users clung to exhortations against ...

This past Sunday, more than 12 million people turned on their smartphones to open up the Good Book. It was the highest ever daily engagement in the nearly 15-year history of the YouVersion Bible app.

For the first time in recent years, YouVersion and Bible Gateway users searched for and shared verses from Old Testament prophets the most. Do not fear. It’s a charge that extends back to the earliest ...