"Go and marry a prostitute." These are the first words God spoke to his prophet Hosea. Why would he ask this of one of his special spokesman? Because he wanted to teach Hosea, the nation of Israel and all of us today a lesson we will not forget, a lesson that is painful yet joyous.
Hosea's somber portrait of the human condition is our … Read more…
The book of Jonah is mostly remembered for its oddity--a runaway prophet swallowed by a whale!
But there must be more to the book than that. And indeed there is. For one thing, it is a book artfully constructed, with one chapter devoted to a psalm. It is a book that will reward careful reading and meditation.
But more th… Read more…
The book of Malachi fittingly sits in Christian Bibles as the last book of the Old Testament, which it assumes, summarizes and applies. Yet it also looks forward to the New Testament with its promises of the coming reign of God.
A striking feature of the book is the way in which every word of God is contradicted or questioned by his people… Read more…
Learning Greek can be a difficult task. It takes years of study and countless hours of practice before you reach the point of reading the Greek New Testament without the help of additional resources. Unless your aim is to be a New Testament scholar, most will not achieve that level of comfort with the Greek text. That doesn’t mean you can’t benefit from … Read more…
La Concordancia Analítica Olive Tree para la RVR 1960 es tanto una concordancia bíblica estándar como una concordancia analítica. Este poderoso recurso mejorará enormemente sus estudios sobre palabras y funciona en conjunto con la herramienta Búsqueda en diccionario de la aplicación Olive Tree. Es un método excelente para ubicar referencias cruzadas … Read more…
Rose Bible Basics: Jesus - Who is Jesus?How is Jesus different from all other religious leaders in the world? The full-color Rose Bible Basics: Jesus book provides you with a solid introduction to the life of Jesus, his teachings, and the significance of his death and resurrection. Each chapter of this book will help you discover the life-changing impact of … Read more…
Based on the thought that prayer is not a technique but friendship with God, this topical guide to all the prayers of the Bible answers such questions as:
Why pray?
What should I pray about?
What about prayers that aren’t answered?
This book is not only an insightful resource for t… Read more…
The Bible is a collection of writings that together tell a unified story. But exactly how do all the pieces fit together? In a single volume, The Promise and the Blessing connects the dots of the Old and New Testament books to reveal the big picture of salvation history. Organized chronologically rather than canonically, this book traces the flow of Israel… Read more…
Truth, love, division, fellowship, imitating others. Points such as these, and many more, are frequently controversial in the Christian life today. And the Bible is ever relevant to them! 2 and 3 John, the smallest books in the Bible, are often unjustly neglected. In this stimulating guide, which includes several points of application and questions to think … Read more…
Paul's first letter to the Corinthians, one of the earliest Christian writings, had enormous influence on the formation of Christian teaching. In this Church's Bible volume Judith L. Kovacs weaves comments from all the commentaries and sermon series written in Latin or Greek between the years 250 and 800, illustrating the historic Christian understan… Read more…