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Faithlife Corporation Jesus and the Future
Book SynopsisJesus was a prophet who often spoke about future events. Some readers apply all of Jesus's teaching about the future to the distant future: his return, the future resurrection, and final judgment. Other readers contend that virtually everything Jesus taught about the future was fulfilled in the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70. The authors conclude that the truth lies somewhere in the middle. As a prophet, Jesus spoke both about the near future events of AD 70 and the distant future events surrounding his second coming. The challenge lies in determining when he was speaking about near instead of distant future events. In Jesus and the Future, the authors examine everything Jesus said about future events as recorded in the four canonical Gospels. This includes the famous Olivet Discourse along with many other parables and sayings. The authors situate Jesus's teaching in its original literary and 1st century Jewish and Greco-Roman context. Jesus and the Future is designed to discuss Jesus' teaching about the end times in a way that is accessible, biblical-theological, exegetical, and devotional and spiritually-nurturing. Written with a scholar's mind but a pastor's heart, the book is geared to a popular audience interested in making sense of end-time phenomena and conflicting teachings on the end times.
£15.29
Faithlife Corporation Crucial Events in the Life of Jesus and Why They
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Faithlife Corporation Biblical Portraits of Creation
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£15.29
Faithlife Corporation Getting the Most Out of Ephesians
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Faithlife Corporation Making Connections
Book SynopsisMaking Connections is a hands-on aid to learning the grand story of the Bible. It can be used as a standalone resource, but is best suited to be used alongside the textbook by the authors Telling God’s Story (Broadman & Holman) in addition to the Bible. It is designed to be used in the local church for Bible studies, pastor-led studies, and Sunday school.
£17.09
Faithlife Corporation Recommitting Ourselves to One Book
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Faithlife Corporation Building a Great Church Through Humility
Book SynopsisThese sample sermons show a combination of solid scholarly study, fidelity to the meaning and intent of the biblical author, oral clarity, contemporary relevance, humor, and creativity. Pastors who plan on preaching through any of these biblical books could be drawn to these sermons as models or as stimulating prompters for their own messages.
£13.29
Faithlife Corporation Invitation to James
Book SynopsisThese sample sermons show a combination of solid scholarly study, fidelity to the meaning and intent of the biblical author, oral clarity, contemporary relevance, humor, and creativity. Pastors who plan on preaching through any of these biblical books could be drawn to these sermons as models or as stimulating prompters for their own messages.
£999.99
Faithlife Corporation Luke Verse by Verse
Book SynopsisThe Gospel of Luke is an orderly historical account, but it is far from ordinary. In the longest Gospel, Luke places great stress on the unique lordship of Jesus and God's plan to bring salvation into this world. Throughout, Luke stresses that Jesus' message reaches the forgotten people groups of this world, particularly the poor and women, showing us that the gospel is truly intended for all peoples. In Luke Verse by Verse, Grant Osborne leads readers through this systematic account of Jesus' life. He shows us why Luke may be called "the theologian of prayer" and unpacks the far--reaching power of the gospel then and now. With Osborne as guide, readers will learn what this Gospel, which introduces the Suffering Servant who has become the Risen Lord of all and reigns by his Spirit, can teach us today. The Osborne New Testament Commentaries, by respected professor and author Grant R. Osborne, are for people seeking a straightforward explanation of the text in its context, avoiding either oversimplification or technical complexity. Osborne brings out the riches of the New Testament, making each book accessible for pastors and all who consider themselves students of Scripture.
£22.94
Faithlife Corporation Amos, Jonah, & Micah: Evangelical Exegetical
Book SynopsisThroughout the Old Testament, Yahweh drew his prophets from the most unlikely circumstances. The minor prophets Amos, Jonah, and Micah were each called out of their ordinary lives to deliver timely messages-both to their original audiences and for us, today. While they're each unique, these three biblical books can be connected by the theological themes of divine justice, mercy, judgment, and repentance. In this volume, JoAnna M. Hoyt examines these themes in depth, revealing the complexity of the relationship between God and his people. Throughout her commentary, Hoyt closely examines the text of these three prophetic books, giving us a scholarly and applicable exploration for the church.
£48.59
Faithlife Corporation Parables – Portraits of God`s Kingdom in Matthew,
Book SynopsisAlthough Jesus' parables may seem simple on the surface, they convey deep and complex truths about God's Kingdom. The parables Jesus uses in his teaching aren't merely illustrations or moral tales. They are intricate stories that reveal the mysteries central to the kingdom of God. In this volume of the Not Your Average Bible Study series, John D. Barry unravels the many layers of Jesus' parables, showing us the radical truths contained within. With an eye toward practical application and personal reflection, this Bible study is the perfect way to study the teachings of Jesus on your own or in a group.
£10.54
Faithlife Corporation Acts Verse by Verse
Book SynopsisThe events in the book of Acts changed our world forever. Following his account of Jesus' life and ministry in his Gospel, Luke recounts the formation of the early church in Acts. And while the apostles appear to be at the center of this narrative, all of their work is done through the presence and guidance of the Holy Spirit. In every chapter in Acts, we see Spirit-empowered apostles sharing the gospel reality of the risen Christ to the ends of the earth. In Acts Verse by Verse, Grant Osborne guides readers through these crucial events in history. He shows us that by sending his Holy Spirit, the risen and exalted Lord was acting through the apostles--and through us today--to transform human history. Osborne skillfully explains the significance of these events and shows us how we can draw inspiration from them today.
£21.24
Faithlife Corporation Christ Above All
Book SynopsisLook to Christ, the ultimate revelation of God. The letter to the Hebrews asks questions aimed at the heart of what it looks like for Christians to walk in Christ's footsteps. How should Christians relate to the Old Testament? What are we to make of the New Testament's urgent pleas to persevere in the faith? Can we really lose our salvation? How does Jesus model both humility in his humanity and the glory of God through his earthly life? These questions continue to be fiercely debated by Christians. The ancient letter to the Hebrews answers all by focusing on Christ's magnificent love and greatness. In Christ Above All, Adrio König puts readers in the shoes of the original audience of Hebrews and shows how, in a world full of competing claims to power and authority, Christ--in all his glory and humanity--really does surpass all others. In the Transformative Word series, you'll read the Bible with a global cast of church leaders and scholars. In conversational tone, contributors from around the world explain the importance of a biblical book, showing how it can transform your life.
£14.24
Faithlife Corporation World Mission
Book SynopsisWorld mission needs a fully biblical ethos. This is the contention of the editors of and contributors to World Mission, a series of essays aimed at reforming popular approaches to missions. In the first set of essays, contributors develop a biblical theology of world mission from both the Old and New Testaments, arguing that the theology of each must stand in the foreground of missions, not recede into the background. In the second, they unfold the Great Commission in sequence, detailing how it determines the biblical strategy of all mission enterprises. Finally, they treat current issues in world mission from the perspective of the sufficiency of Scripture. Altogether, this book aims to reform missions to be thoroughly-not just foundationally-biblical, a needed correction even among the sincerest missionaries.
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Faithlife Corporation The Bedrock of Christianity
Book SynopsisCan we all agree on some things about Jesus, regardless of our belief--or unbelief? Perhaps surprisingly, there is a lot upon which all scholars can agree. When surveying historical scholarship, there are certain truths about Jesus that Christians, agnostics, and skeptics must affirm. In The Bedrock of Christianity, Justin Bass shows how--regardless of one's feelings about Christianity--there lies a bedrock of truths about Jesus's life and ministry that are held by virtually all scholars of religion. Through an examination of each of these key facts, readers will encounter the unalterable truths upon which everyone can agree. Useful for both Christians and non-Christians alike, this study demonstrates what we can really know about the historical truth of Jesus' death and resurrection.
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Faithlife Corporation The Unfolding Word
Book SynopsisIs the Bible one story, or many? The Bible is more than a collection of isolated stories; it is a transformative, unfolding Word that shapes and changes its readers. Too often the Bible can be misunderstood or hard to comprehend. How does the Bible, with its various authors, genres, and styles, all separated by hundreds of years, tell a single story? In The Unfolding Word, Zach Keele helps readers understand the narrative shape of the Bible and how each of its parts collectively tell one grand story.
£21.59
Faithlife Corporation When Did Eve Sin?
Book SynopsisDid Eve sin before Adam? When responding to the serpent's temptation to eat the forbidden fruit, Eve says that one "must not touch it" (Gen 3:2–3). In this, Eve appears to embellish upon God's clear command that one must not eat from the tree (Gen 2:17). Did Eve add to God's command, becoming the first legalist? Was this an innocent mistake? Or is the answer altogether different? Jeffrey J. Niehaus tackles this issue head-on in When Did Eve Sin? Though many commentators believe that Eve altered God's command, there are notable exceptions in the history of interpretation that suggest another answer. Using Scripture to interpret Scripture and analyzing biblical stories where characters retell the facts, Neihaus recognizes a common scriptural pattern that resolves the mystery of Eve's words. Niehaus examines his view's implications for biblical historiography, what it meant to eat from the tree of life, how a sinless being can fall into sin, and the nature of the mysterious serpent. Everyone engaging with these questions will be deftly guided by Niehaus' thorough study of this thorny issue.
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Faithlife Corporation Daniel: Evangelical Biblical Theology Commentary
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Faithlife Corporation Where Was the Biblical Red Sea?
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Faithlife Corporation Joshua: Evangelical Biblical Theology Commentary
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£32.79
Faithlife Corporation Self–Giving Love
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£11.39
Faithlife Corporation Signs of the Messiah
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Faithlife Corporation Hebrews Verse by Verse
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Faithlife Corporation Commentary on the New Testament from the Talmud
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Faithlife Corporation All Thy Lights Combine
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Faithlife Corporation Ruth
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Faithlife Corporation Mark 10:45 as a Key to the Gospel
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Faithlife Corporation Commentary on the New Testament from the Talmud
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Faithlife Corporation Discovering the New Testament
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Faithlife Corporation The Word from the Beginning – The Person and Work
Book Synopsis "And the Word became flesh"John's Gospel famously opens with a poetic prologue about the Word. However, after these initial verses, the theme of God's Word incarnate seems to fade.The silence is only apparent. In The Word from the Beginning, Bruce G. Schuchard reunites John's prologue with the rest of his Gospel. What Jesus does in the Gospel embodies who Jesus is in the prologue. Jesus's words and actions reveal and unfold his unique identity as the Word. Jesus is indeed God's Word enfleshed.This theological reading of John's Gospel unifies Jesus's identity, words, and work, opening up implications for Johannine Christology.
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Faithlife Corporation Paul and Supersessionism
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Faithlife Corporation The Quest to Save the Old Testament –
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Faithlife Corporation A Historiographic Study of the Military Campaigns
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Faithlife Corporation Reading the Psalms Theologically
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Faithlife Corporation Reading the Book of the Twelve Minor Prophets
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£22.09
Faithlife Corporation Reading the Bible for the End of the World
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£21.24
Faithlife Corporation Paul`s Thorn in the Flesh – New Clues for an Old
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Faithlife Corporation Preparing Sermons from the Page to the Pulpit:
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Faithlife Corporation Encountering the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit in
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Faithlife Corporation The Apocalypse of John Among its Critics –
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Faithlife Corporation In This Way We Came to Rome: With Paul on the
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Brand Sunday El Estudio Biblico – Sumergete en la Biblia como
Book SynopsisLeer la Biblia puede ser abrumador. La Biblia de estudio le ayuda en su jornada, a través de la Palabra, de manera que ¡relacione y memorice las Escrituras como nunca antes! UN ESTUDIO DE UN AÑO: Este estudio simplifica la Palabra y permite que descubra lo que significa para usted. Además, ofrece un enfoque interesante y motivador que le hará sumergirse en la Palabra de Dios de una manera directa, útil e impactante. Ha ayudado a más de 300.000 personas a acercarse al mensaje de Dios y a comprender lo que significa para ellas. CON DOS LIBROS HERMOSOS: Estos libros cubren el Antiguo y el Nuevo Testamento. Cada uno de ellos le brinda un mapa en cuanto a qué leer y cómo desglosar Su Palabra con poderosas preguntas que le llevarán a una relación más profunda con Dios. ¡Estas coloridas páginas están llenas de citas inspiradoras que le mantendrán motivado y animado a lo largo del trayecto! ORIENTACIÓN DIARIA Y SEMANAL: Ambos libros, incluidos en el estudio, le ofrecen un marco claro para estudiar la Palabra de Dios cada semana, así como una guía diaria para ayudarle a simplificarla, crecer como cristiano y transformar su corazón y su mente en el proceso. PREGUNTAS QUE INSTAN A LA REFLEXIÓN: A medida que se sumerja en la Biblia, también tendrá preguntas que le ayudarán a aprender lo que significa para usted, de modo que pueda aplicarlo en su vida diaria, fortaleciendo así su relación con Dios, con los demás y consigo mismo. COLORIDAS Y ATRACTIVAS PÁGINAS: Para atraerle, entusiasmarle e impulsarle a avanzar en la jornada de un año de estudio de la Biblia y tener una conexión más profunda con Dios.
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Collective Ink Prosperity Teachings of the Bible Made Easy
Book SynopsisAt first glance the Old and New Testaments of the Bible could not appear to be more different on the subject of prosperity. The Hebrew teachings encourage the accumulation of wealth and state that God will prosper us if we trust in Him while the Gospels and letters of the New Testament recommend discarding wealth and living a simple life. 'Thou shalt remember the Lord thy God for it is He that giveth thee the power to get wealth.' Deuteronomy 8:18. 'I tell you it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of heaven.' Gospel of Matthew 19:24 But is there more to it than that? Is there an underlying, unifying theme of what prosperity actually is and how to attract it throughout the whole of the Bible? This book reveals that there is - and that this ancient text, interpreted carefully and comprehensibly, is a prosperity workbook for the modern age.Trade ReviewMaggy brings together prosperity and spirituality in inspirational, practical and liberating ways. (Nick Williams, author of The Work We Were Born to Do.) We can experience prosperity, health and joy whatever the external circumstances and Maggy can show you how.(Dr David Hamilton, author of It's the Thought that Counts (Hay House))
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Collective Ink Patterns of Creation – Logos and the Tree of Life
Book SynopsisThis book is a radical exploration of the mystical teachings in the Gospel of John. It helps the reader to experience these spiritual truths for themselves, and go beyond the everyday mind which is dominated by the ego and realize their eternal Being, which Johns Gospel calls Logos. By approaching the teachings in a meditative state, the symbolism contained within the Greek text opens out and comes alive in the present moment. The Gospel is not a historical document; it speaks directly to each person now and the states of consciousness represented in the stories are accessible now. The book contains guided meditations to help bring this to life for the reader. This awakening concerns our relationship with the whole of life. Spiritual consciousness means that we are aware of the sacredness of our connections to each other as fellow human beings, and to the creatures of the natural world. Christ and the Logos contain both masculine and feminine in balance; at this critical time, our well-being and that of our fellow creatures is dependent on this realization.Trade ReviewPatterns of Creation brings the reader into the creative power of the present. Written with great clarity and considerable scholarship, this book achieves its aim, that of awakening the reader to a greater awareness of the spiritual consciousness that exists in each of us, enfolding us within the greater circle of life of which so many people are largely unaware. (Natasha Hoffman, Author, with Hamilton Hill, of Let the Standing Stones Speak (O Books), and with Carolyn North, of Voices Out of Stone (Findhorn Press)) Steve Pope is a marvelous Teacher, Scholar and Mystic. This book provides a modern way of approaching ancient Biblical texts and a practical roadmap to spiritual awakening. Through clear and penetrating insights, Steve helps the reader discover the deeper meaning hidden in the western mystical teachings. (Rev. Dr. Megan Wagner, PhD, Author of The Sapphire Staff, Provost and Director of Spiritual Psychology at The Chaplaincy Institute in California, USA.)
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Collective Ink Bible as Politics, The – The Rape of Dinah and
Book SynopsisIf you suspect the Biblical writers were onto something, but aren't convinced by the sentimental religion-of-love talk you hear so much nowadays, then maybe you will find hope reading this book. Did you know that the Creation Myths in the Bible were copied from earlier Mesopotamian myths? Or that the Moses story was based on a bloke called Sargon? Or that the story of Job is all to do with politics? Or that the two loaves, five fishes and the number 153 have symbolic meanings? These are just a few of the issues addressed in this controversial book which is not for people who like their God as Indefinable Mystery.Trade ReviewKathy Galloway - Andrew Parker s readings of familiar biblical texts as presenting a marginal, political, ideological Hebrew worldview, profoundly in opposition to the status quo (then and now both) is contentious, illuminating and genuinely challenging. He stimulates in his readers; dialogue and questioning, sometimes agreement and often fury, but always passionate engagement. This in itself makes this book worth reading. But it is, equally, a valuable discipline in struggling to SEE from a very different perspective than the one we usually allow ourselves when reading the Bible.
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Collective Ink Year of the Lord`s Favor, The – Proclaiming Grace
Book SynopsisThe Year of the Lord's Favor is commentary on the texts of the Revised Common Lectionary that is contextualized, politically engaged and unflinchingly honest. Comfort is cruel if it is based on an illusion. These reflections connect honestly and realistically with the ordinary circumstances of experience. They encourage the twenty-first century Christian to live in a way that transcends sentimentality and fear and live a faith that makes things happen.
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Collective Ink Sing Out for Justice: The Poetry and Passion of
Book SynopsisThe Old Testament prophets were not just predictors of things that would happen long after their time. Nor were they purveyors of religious platitudes. They were people with an urgent message for their own generation and a passion to declare it whatever the risk. They were singers, poets, demonstrators and protesters, radical critics of their own society and dreamers of a world that could be different.
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Inter-Varsity Press For Their Rock is not as Our Rock': An
Book SynopsisThe reality of our post-Christendom, post-colonial, post-Holocaust, post-9/11, multi-ethnic and multicultural context has meant that, more than ever, Christians are acutely aware of the questions posed not simply by the existence of other religions, but also by their apparent flourishing. If secularization is still alive and well, then, seemingly, so too is society's sacralization. Hence, the theology of religions is arguably the issue for mission in the twenty-first century. However, there has been little evangelical theology that offers a detailed, comprehensive and biblically faithful analysis that deals with not only the question of salvation but also questions of truth, the nature and history of human religiosity, and a host of practical issues pertaining to apologetics and contextualization. In this ambitious interdisciplinary study, which synthesizes close exegesis, biblical theology, systematics and insights from the social sciences, Daniel Strange examines the origins, development and idolatry of the 'religious Other', and explores how the gospel of Jesus Christ is its 'subversive fulfilment'. He concludes with a missiological postscript and some pastoral perspectives on the purpose of other religions in God's providence.
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