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We can look at science and religion and see conflict; or we can separate them into different worlds. This book helps the reader understand both sides of this 'conflict' and how they throw light on each other's approach. Of particular interest is what we are learning about personality, mind and psychology,...

The 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....

Future Israel: Why Christian Anti-Judaism Must Be Challenged is volume three in the NEW AMERICAN COMMENTARY STUDIES IN BIBLE & THEOLOGY (NACSBT) series for pastors, advanced Bible students, and other deeply committed laypersons. Author Barry E. Horner writes to persuade readers concerning...

We resume the thread of the Gospel narrative at the mission of the twelve Apostles. Jesus must have had a heavy heart when He took His leave of Nazareth. It seemed as if rejection was to be His invariable lot. For His rejection at the hands of the dwellers in Decapolis had been swiftly followed by...

General editor Lloyd J. Ogilvie brings together a team of skilled and exceptional communicators to blend sound scholarship with life-related illustrations. The design for the Preacher's Commentary gives the reader an overall outline of each book of the Bible. Following the introduction, which...

There has never been anyone else like Him.  Jesus of Nazareth changed the world. Told with reverence, humor, and simplicity, here are thirteen glimpses of that miraculous life.  Wendell Kent is a retired pastor and a graduate of Wheaton College and Grace Theological Seminary. He lives in the Upper Arkansas River Valley, near Buena Vista, Colorado. 

The Saviour of the World Reading the Gospel of John chapter by chapter introduces us to the Lord Jesus Christ as the Saviour of the World. As the Apostle John tells the true story of the life, death and resurrection of Jesus, the believing heart cannot but warm to the theme. Here we find One...

Here is a gold mine for the preacher, the teacher and the father and mother in the home who have it in mind to inculcate sound teaching, based upon the Word of God, so that the boys and girls of the congregations, Sunday-Schools and households may be thoroughly rooted and grounded in the essentials...

Commentary on the second of two inspired letters from the Apostle Paul to his younger protégé, Timothy; the Apostle affectionately calls him "my own son in the faith."Written from Macedonia in 62-63 A.D. after his first imprisonment in Rome, Paul writes this first epistle to Timothy addressing certain...

There are seven different baptisms recorded in the Bible. Consequently, there are many questions concerning these baptisms. This small, but very instructive, book includes answers to some of the most frequently asked questions about water, Holy Spirit Baptism and Jesus only baptism. The basis for...

A literary commentary on the Book of Hebrews. It is the author's hope you can find inspiration and life challenges in the pages of this small booklet.

OF Amos, we have much more information than is customary concerning the minor prophets. He gives us, by the inspiration of God, several autobiographical notices of deep interest, which it will be well to look at briefly ere entering upon the study of his messages to Israel and the surrounding nations. His...

A literary commentary on Paul the Apostle’s letter to the Ephesians. This epistle, by the Apostle Paul, was written during his imprisonment in Rome, sometime around the years of 60-62 AD. His claim to authorship was expressly stated in chapter 1:1 “Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will...

"O Lord, I have heard Your speech, and was afraid: O Lord, revive Your work in the midstof the years! In the midst of the years make it known; in wrath remember mercy." Habakkuk 3:2. This is another volume in the series of Sermons by Charles Spurgeon. This Sermon on the biblical passage...