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  • The Message of Ezekiel: A New Heart and a New Spirit, By Christopher J. H. Wright
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    The Message of Ezekiel

    A New Heart and a New Spirit

    The Bible Speaks Today Series

    by Christopher J. H. Wright

    Ezekiel comes to us as a stranger from a distant time and land. Who is this priest who, on his thirtieth birthday, has a dazzling vision of God on a wheeled throne? Who is this odd prophet who engages in outlandish street theater and speaks for God on international affairs? Who is this seer who paints murals of apocalyptic doom and then of a restored temple bursting with emblems of paradise? Are ...

  • The Message of Joel, Micah & Habakkuk, By David Prior
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    The Message of Joel, Micah & Habakkuk

    The Bible Speaks Today Series

    by David Prior

    Where is God in times of disaster? How can God allow suffering? What are God's people to do about moral decay in society? While people throughout the ages have long pondered these questions, three of the minor prophets--Joel, Micah and Habakkuk--provide insights to these perennial problems.

    The people of Joel's day were devastated by a locust plague, which Joel said warned of the coming Day ...

  • The Message of Zechariah: Your Kingdom Come, By Barry G. Webb
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    The Message of Zechariah

    Your Kingdom Come

    The Bible Speaks Today Series

    by Barry G. Webb

    The study of the book of Zechariah is bound to be enriching, for it is imbued from beginning to end with the same heart-cry that Jesus turned into a prayer for all of us: "Your kingdom come." Here Barry G. Webb explores the kingdom of God as the prophet Zechariah apprehended it. In oracles and visions Zechariah challenged his hearers

    • to return to the coming kingdom
    • to cleanse ...
  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...