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Charles Spurgeon is one of the great preachers in the history of
Christianity. Spurgeon also communicates brilliantly through the written
word, and his giftedness to proclaim the doctrine of grace shines in
his little gem, All of Grace. Many Christians believe that this small
book presents better than any other non-canonical work the gospel of
salvation alone by grace through faith in Jesus Christ. This short book
is one of the bright jewels in post-apostolic writings on grace.
All of Grace is a perfect companion for Christians who wish to refresh
their confidence in the grace of God. This book also makes an excellent
introduction to those who are exploring the Christian gospel. Whether
you are new to Christianity or a long-time believer, All of Grace will
capture your attention and interest page after page.
The first followers of Jesus were not drawn from the
intellectual and social elite of their day, but rather from artisans,
tax collectors, and the more disreputable members of society. Yet out of
such seemingly insignificant beginnings, a seed was planted by his
teaching, his cross, and his resurrection which was destined to spread
its shade over the entire known world. What had begun as an essentially
Jewish movement founded on the preaching of the Messiah became, with
amazing speed, a religion that was accepted by pagans, Goths, Franks,
and more. This book traces the growth of the church and the development
of Christian philosophy through the first centuries.
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The Trinity, Practically Speaking
Three
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in the Bible, many people wonder whether the doctrine is anything more
than an intellectual puzzle created by theologians. This book takes
readers on a guided tour of the logic leading to understanding God as a
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A Proven Approach to Help You Interpret and Understand the Bible
Grasping God's Word
has proven itself in classrooms across the country as an invaluable
help to students who want to learn how to read, interpret, and apply the
Bible for themselves. This book will equip you with a five-step
Interpretive Journey that will help you make sense of any passage in the
Bible. It will also guide you through all the different genres found in
the Bible to help you learn the specifics of how to best approach each
one.
Filling the gap between approaches that are too simple and
others that are too technical, this book starts by equipping readers
with general principles of interpretation, then moves on to apply those
principles to specific genres and contexts.
Features include:
Proven in classrooms across the country
Hands-on exercises to guide students through the interpretation process
Emphasis on real-life application
Supplemented by a website for professors providing extensive teaching materials
Accompanying workbook, video lectures, laminated study guide (sold separately)
This
fourth edition includes revised chapters on word studies and Bible
translations, updated illustrations, cultural references, bibliography,
and assignments. This book is the ideal resource for anyone looking for a
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A guide to learn the skills you need to understand and apply God's Word. Now revised and updated!
Life
is a journey, and like any journey, it requires an accurate, reliable
roadmap to get us where we need to go. God has provided such a guide in
his Word. But just as a navigator needs to learn how to interpret all
the contours and symbols of a map, so also we need to be able to
understand how the Bible communicates its directions to us.
In Journey into God's Word, Second Edition reader's will:
Be introduced to the Interpretive Journey, a five-step framework for understanding how to read any Bible passage
Learn vital reading skills that aid in their comprehension of not just the Bible, but of any piece of literature
Discover the importance of understanding historical-cultural and literary contexts
Receive guidance on choosing a Bible translation for their study
Be given practical tips for reading specific genres in the Bible like, Gospels, letters, Law, prophecy, poetry, and more
Journey into God's Word, Second Edition
helps Bible readers acquire these skills and become better at reading,
interpreting, and applying the Bible to life. Based on the bestselling
college/seminary textbook Grasping God's Word it takes the
proven principles from that book and makes them accessible to people in
the church. It starts with general principles of interpretation, then
moves on to apply those principles to specific genres and contexts.
Hands-on exercises guide readers through the interpretation process,
with an emphasis on real-life application. This second edition has been
revised and updated to match the fourth edition of Grasping God’s Word
with a five-step Interpretive Journey.
How does your personal faith journey relate to the big picture of the Bible?
Christians
often encounter various Bible passages through unrelated readings,
studies, and sermons, making it difficult to grasp the progression of
Scripture as a whole. Living God's Word surveys the entire
Bible through broad themes that trace the progression of God's
redemptive plan, focusing on how each portion of Scripture fits into the
overarching narrative. Once you see the Bible as a Great Story, you'll
begin to see how your own life fits into what God has done and is doing
in the world.
Each section of Living God's Word deals with a section of Scripture and includes:
Reading and listening preparation
An explanation
A summary
Observations about theological significance
Connections to the Great Story
Written assignments for further study
Living God's Word
is ideal for introductory college courses, adult Sunday school classes,
small groups, or anyone who wants to understand how their life fits
into the story of the Bible, enabling them to live faithfully in deep
and important ways.
Learn to develop and deliver a biblical sermon that connects with today's audiences.
Preaching God's Word
is a user-friendly and practical homiletics textbook that integrates
hermeneutical principles and stresses the importance of a strong
exegetical foundation. It teaches you how to understand your audience,
develop powerful applications, use illustrations well, and communicate
effectively.
Preaching God's Word addresses:
How to develop and preach a biblical sermon
Common issues with biblical preaching and how to avoid them
Unique challenges and opportunities of preaching from specific biblical genres
New Testament preaching
Old Testament preaching
Whether
you are a student who is new to preaching or a veteran looking to brush
up on your skills, you will benefit from this hands-on approach to
preparing, developing, and delivering the sermon.
In The Universal Story, Dru Johnson shows how
Genesis 1–11 is written in a way that informs the rest of biblical
history—including the exodus, the kings of Israel, the exile, the
Gospels, and early church. Genesis 1–11 presents a story of humanity
that seeks to explain the background of every human endeavor.
Merton’s Thoughts in Solitude shares the author’s
reflections on a solitary life, as well as the importance of quiet
reflection. Merton writes that inner solitude is closely tied to
personal integrity, and thus implies responsibility and freedom.
“In what is perhaps his most important book so far, John Piper
demonstrates with great cogency and exegetical skill that God’s
providence ‘is his purposeful sovereignty in which he will be completely
successful in the achievement of his ultimate goal for the universe.’
This book will enlarge your vision of God and thereby strengthen your
faith.” ―D. A. Carson
Encompassing the body of Pauline theology,
Ephesians has been called “the crown of St. Paul’s writings,” yet both
its authorship and addressees are the subject of continuing dispute.
Through line-by-line examination of its vocabulary, its difficult style,
its Qumran and Gnostic affinities, its parallels with and distinctions
from the undisputed Pauline corpus, its use of the Old Testament, and
its dialogue with orthodox and heretical Judaism, Markus Barth
demonstrates that Paul was almost certainly the author. And, after
exploring previous explications of this hymnic and admonitory epistle in
detail, he concludes that it was intended for gentile Christians
converted after Paul’s visits to Ephesus.
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Echoes of Scripture in the Letters of Paul
Paul’s letters, the earliest writings in
the New Testament, are filled with allusions, images, and quotations
from the Old Testament, or, as Paul called it, Scripture. In this book,
Richard B. Hays investigates Paul’s appropriation of Scripture from a
perspective based on recent literary-critical studies of
intertextuality. His uncovering of scriptural echoes in Paul’s language
enriches our appreciation of the complex literary texture of Paul’s
letters and offers new insights into his message.
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The Letter of James (The Anchor Yale Bible | AYBC)
The letter of James is one of the most
significant, yet generally overlooked, New Testament books. Because
Martin Luther, leader of the Protestant Reformation, disliked this
letter for its emphasis on good deeds, the book has come to be viewed as
being in opposition to Paul’s letters, which emphasize faith in God. To
correct these and other misconceptions about James, Luke Timothy
Johnson embarks on an unprecedented history of the interpretation of
this pivotal letter, highlighting the vast appreciation for James over
the centuries.
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Romans (The Anchor Yale Bible Commentary | AYBC)
Outside of the Gospels themselves, there is
no single Christian document whose influence has been greater than
Paul’s epistle to the Romans. Its explosive character has changed
lives—Augustine’s, Martin Luther’s, Karl Barth’s, to name a few—and
precipitated revolutions. This full-scale commentary deals with the most
important issues of the early Christian church. And it is through the
eyes of the apostle Paul, the major figure of this period, that we see
dominant motifs and themes, the theological essentials of the Christian
faith. Who better than the once pious Jew, converted to the Christian
cause, to tell the reader about the early struggles with Judaism, the
reluctant yet nurturing mother of this new community of faith?
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Revelation (Anchor Yale Bible Commentary | AYBC)
In this landmark commentary, Craig R.
Koester offers a comprehensive look at a powerful and controversial
early Christian text, the book of Revelation. The author provides richly
textured descriptions of the book’s setting and language, making
extensive use of Greek and Latin inscriptions, classical texts, and
ancient Jewish writings, including the Dead Sea Scrolls. Rather than
viewing Revelation as world-negating, Koester focuses on its deep
engagement with social, religious, and economic issues while addressing
the book’s volatile history of interpretation. The result is a
groundbreaking study that provides bold new insights and sets new
directions for the continued appreciation of this text.
2 Peter, Jude (The Anchor Yale Bible Commentary | AYBC)
Jerome H. Neyrey gives us a thoroughly up-to-date and
comprehensive study of two of the most obscure books of the New
Testament. Written after the death of Jesus and his Apostles, the
Epistles of 2 Peter and Jude offer a glimpse into the turbulent life of
the early Christian communities. Neyrey’s fascinating study not only
provides an entirely new translation of the two texts, but also stirring
commentary that takes the reader inside groups located at the very
edges of Christianity, in contact with the wider Roman world and Greek
culture of the day.
Tempted and Tried
will remind Christians that temptation must be understood in terms of
warfare, encouraging them with the truth that victory has already been
secured through the triumph of Christ. Your price: $0.00
Even though the letter of 1 Peter has
sometimes been overshadowed by Paul's many New Testament letters, it is
nonetheless distinctive for the clarity with which it presents the
Christian message. In this volume Joel Green offers a clear
paragraph-by-paragraph analysis of 1 Peter and, even more, unpacks the
letter’s theology in ways that go beyond the typical modern commentary.
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Psalms (The Two Horizons Old Testament Commentary | THOTC)
Geoffrey Grogan tackles the growing field of
Psalms research and presents an accessible theological treatment of the
Psalter. He begins by surveying and evaluating the main scholarly
approaches to Psalms and then provides exegesis of all the psalms,
emphasizing their distinctive messages.
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The Letters to Timothy and Titus (Pillar New Testament Commentary | PNTC)
The Pastoral Letters—1 Timothy, 2 Timothy,
and Titus—have made an enduring contribution to understanding the role
of pastors in the church. With a spirited devotion to the text, Robert
Yarbrough helps unlock the meaning of these short but rich letters in
this commentary.
Many scholars take on the monumental task of
interpreting the Bible in a way that deals with the cultural contexts of
its original authors and audience. Others forget that studying the
Bible is a type of cross-cultural encounter and instead read their own
cultural assumptions into biblical texts.
In A Cultural Handbook to the Bible, John Pilch bridges this cultural
divide by translating important social concepts and applying them to
biblical texts. In accessible chapters Pilch discusses 63 topics related
to the cosmos, the earth, persons, family, language, human
consciousness, God and the spirit world, and entertainment. Pilch’s
fresh interpretations of the Bible challenge traditional views and
explore topics often overlooked in commentaries. Each chapter concludes
with a list of useful references from cultural anthropology or biblical
studies, making this book an excellent resource for students of the
Bible.
=Johannes
P. Louw and Eugene A. Nida ed., Greek-English
Lexicon of the New Testament ---Based on Semantic
Domains, 2nd ed. (New York: UBS, 1988-89).《希英新約大詞典──以語義域為基礎》
