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PaperbackThe Message of Colossians & Philemon
The Bible Speaks Today Series
by R. C. Lucas
Even healthy churches are never completely immune to the intellectual and spiritual pressures of their time. The church in Colossae was no exception. False teaching shaped by the spirit of the age was rising within the community,suggesting that a fuller knowledge and freedom was available beyond what ordinary Christians had experienced. Paul’s response was adamant: all God's fullness ...
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PaperbackHebrews
An Introduction and Commentary
Tyndale New Testament Commentaries
by David G. Peterson
Series edited by Eckhard J. Schnabel
Consulting Editor Nicholas PerrinThe letter to the Hebrews provides an amazing combination of warnings and assurances to encourage Christians to persevere in faith, hope, and love. The basis for this is a profound reflection on the person and work of Christ, viewed as the fulfilment of Old Testament Scripture. In this Tyndale commentary, David G. Peterson shows how the author expounds the implications of the gospel ...
PaperbackMatthew
A Commentary on the New Testament
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. Inhis skilled hands, this first-century text becomes as relevant and contemporary as information downloaded from the Internet, while it challenges us with ...
PaperbackLuke
A Commentary on the New Testament
The IVP New Testament Commentary Series
by Darrell L. Bock
In Luke's vivid narrative, Jesus comes into Galilee proclaiming "good news to the poor . . . freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind." More than any other Gospel, the Gospel of Luke shows Jesus' great concern for the downtrodden, the oppressed and the marginalized--including women and children and even those outside the house of Israel.Darrell Bock's IVP New Testament Commentary ...
PaperbackActs
A Commentary on the New Testament
The IVP New Testament Commentary Series
by William J. Larkin
If ever there was a hostile environment for the gospel, it was the strife-torn, ethnically diverse backwater of the Roman Empire known as Palestine following the ascension of Jesus. But the gospel thrived--beginning from Jerusalem and spreading throughout Judea, Samaria and the rest of the known world.In Acts, the sequel to his Gospel, Luke tells how the Holy Spirit transformed a ragtag band of ...
PaperbackJohn
A Commentary on the New Testament
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 thay 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, can ...
PaperbackRomans
A Commentary on the New Testament
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 coversion in the fourth century, Luther's recovery of justification by faith in the sixteenth orBarth's challenge to recover theological exegesis of the Bible in the twentieth, Romans has been the catalyst to personal spiritual renewal and the recapturing ...
PaperbackPhilippians
A Commentary on the New Testament
The IVP New Testament Commentary Series
by Gordon D. Fee
Nothing cripples a church's effectiveness like internal strife. In Philippi, Paul addressed a congregation whose private struggles were compounded by opposition and suffering from without. Paul's strategy was to write them a letter of friendship and moral exhortation, reminding them of their "partnership in the gospel," their mutual suffering for the cause of Christ, and their need to "stand firm ...
PaperbackEphesians
A Commentary on the New Testament
The IVP New Testament Commentary Series
by Walter L. Liefeld
"More than any other book of the Bible, Ephesians displays the great purpose and plan of God for the church," Walter Liefeld writes. "It provides a perspective that is unique: God's--and the believer's--view from the 'heavenly realms.'"For those who long to delve into the mind and purposes of God, few books are more helpful than Paul's letter to the Ephesians. Here the apostle paints in broad strokes ...
