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  • Matthew, By Craig S. Keener
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    Matthew

    The IVP New Testament Commentary Series

    by Craig S. Keener

    Matthew was the most popular Gospel in the early church, widely read for its clear emphasis on Jesus' teaching. Drawing on its use as a teaching or discipleship manual, Craig Keener expounds Matthew as a discipleship manual for believers today. In his skilled hands, this first-century text becomes as relevant and contemporary as information downloaded from the Internet, while it challenges us with ...

  • Matthew: An Introduction and Commentary, By R. T. France
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    Matthew

    An Introduction and Commentary

    Tyndale New Testament Commentaries

    by R. T. France

    The visit of the Magi, the Sermon on the Mount, the Great Commission: these are only a few of the well-known passages in Matthew's Gospel. Yet it begins with a list of unknown names and apparently irrelevant 'begettings'. The early church may have placed Matthew first in the New Testament because it provides a Christian perspective on the relation between the church and the Jews, an issue that is ...

  • Mark, By Ronald J. Kernaghan
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    Mark

    The IVP New Testament Commentary Series

    by Ronald J. Kernaghan

    The Gospel of Mark is widely regarded today as the first Gospel to be written. Until recent decades, its fast-paced, seemingly straightforward presentation led most readers to overlook its subtle theological sophistication. Probing its depths, Ronald Kernaghan invites readers into a fascinating exploration of Mark's Gospel as a parable, an open-ended story that invites us on a lifelong journey ...

  • Luke: Historian & Theologian, By I. Howard Marshall
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    Luke: Historian & Theologian

    by I. Howard Marshall

    Apart from the apostle Paul, Luke is arguably the most influential force in the canon of the New Testament. His Gospel and Acts occupy almost a third of the New Testament, and together their narrative voice carries us over a span of more than sixty years, from the birth of Jesus to the imprisonment of Paul in Rome. It is difficult to imagine our understanding of the New Testament period without ...

  • The Cross & the Prodigal: Luke 15 Through the Eyes of Middle Eastern Peasants, By Kenneth E. Bailey
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    The Cross & the Prodigal

    Luke 15 Through the Eyes of Middle Eastern Peasants

    by Kenneth E. Bailey

    Preaching Magazine Year's Best Book for Preachers

    Where is the cross in the parable of the prodigal son?

    For centuries, Muslims have called attention to the father's forgiveness in this parable in order to question the need for a Mediator between humanity and God. In The Cross and the Prodigal, Kenneth E. Bailey--New Testament scholar ...

  • John, By Rodney A. Whitacre
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    John

    The IVP New Testament Commentary Series

    by Rodney A. Whitacre

    The Gospel of John declares its purpose clearly--"these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name." Thus it fulfills a dual function, encouraging believers and providing them with evidences for proclaiming that Jesus is God's Messiah, the divine, incarnate Son of God. Christians today, as in the first century, ...

  • Romans, By Grant R. Osborne
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    Romans

    The IVP New Testament Commentary Series

    by Grant R. Osborne

    Few individual books of the Bible have changed the course of church history the way Paul's letter to the Romans has. Whether one thinks of Augustine's conversion in the fourth century, Luther's recovery of justification by faith in the sixteenth or Barth's challenge to recover theological exegesis of the Bible in the twentieth, Romans has been the catalyst to personal spiritual renewal and the ...

  • 1 Corinthians, By Alan F. Johnson
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    1 Corinthians

    The IVP New Testament Commentary Series

    by Alan F. Johnson

    First-century Corinth and its challenges were not so different from our own. Upwardly mobile Christians facing radically diverse ethnic, religious, economic and social conditions. The church divided over issues of leadership and authority, sexual morality, gender and worship, marriage and divorce. Sound familiar? Yet as Alan Johnson highlights in this excellent commentary, in the midst of this ...

  • 2 Corinthians, By Linda L. Belleville
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    2 Corinthians

    The IVP New Testament Commentary Series

    by Linda L. Belleville

    Though few church squabbles today come close to matching the intensity and seriousness of what Paul faced in the commercial and hedonistic hotbed of Corinth, his strategies and pastoral wisdom in confronting the problems there can still serve as a helpful model for us in responding to a culture marked by individualism and materialism. In Linda Belleville's careful study of 2 Corinthians, readers ...

  • Galatians, By G. Walter Hansen
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    Galatians

    The IVP New Testament Commentary Series

    by G. Walter Hansen

    "Wherever ethnic rivalries are destroying societies, the book of Galatians calls Christians to express the truth of the gospel in communities where there are no ethnic or social or gender divisions." With this strong admonition, Walter Hansen introduces his IVP New Testament Commentary on Galatians. Unlike many other commentaries, Hansen's volume highlights not only the individual dimensions of ...