This new Pillar volume offers exceptional commentary on Mark that clearly shows the second Gospel — though it was a product of the earliest Christian community — to be both relevant and sorely needed in today's church.Written by a biblical scholar who has devoted thirty years to the study of the second Gospel, this commentary aims primarily to interpret the Gosepl of Mark according to its theological intentions and purposes, especially as they relate to the life and ministry of Jesu...

Christianity Today Book Award—Biblical StudiesForeword INDIES Book of the Year Award Honorable MentionSOLA Network's Asian American Book Awards Honorable MentionIn a first-of-its-kind volume, The New Testament in Color offers biblical commentary that is:MultiethnicDiverseContextual

Sophia Rosaline Edwards thought annual camp would be two weeks of drill, first aid lessons, and trying to survive the chaos of the Army Cadets. Instead, it becomes the beginning of a war she was never meant to remember.When a mysterious boy named Matt Gregory claims to be a fallen angel, Sophia dismisses it as madness. But after a brutal attack by creatures known as the Outcasts, impossible truths begin to unravel. Angels walk among humans, demons wear familiar faces, and Sophia is...

From the sweeping vistas of Jamaica's shores to Georgian England's gilded halls...If only there had been a white boy named Brixton and a black boy named Dexter who had grown up as brothers, nursing at the same mother's breast, celebrating their shared heritage and the dream of racial harmony. If only ancient spells could give power to the helpless and stem the brutality of oppressors.Jamaica in the late 1700s and early 1800s was at a crossroads. The abolition of slavery was...

Abuse presents itself in many forms: physical, emotional, sexual, mental, neglect, and verbal - just to name a few. It affects women, men, children, and even animals on unimaginable levels daily.In "God Says I am Battle-Scar Free", the authors ever-so-transparently share their testimonies of how, with the grace and protection of God, they SURVIVED the abuse.There is a healing of the heart, soul, and mind for both you AND them written on the pages of this book. The true stor...

In the middle of the night, Papa Bear awakens with a slight hunger pain. He heads to the kitchen to eat his papaya, only to find it is not there! Feeling shocked, Papa Bear questions his entire family, but they all deny eating his papaya. Will Papa Bear ever discover the mystery about what happened to his papaya?About the AuthorHeather R. Edwards is an educator with the New York City Department of Education. She is also the author of Snowy Imprints. Her hobbies include croch...

Reading the Bible is one thing. Understanding how the Bible came to be and how it can guide our faith and life? That's quite another.Dennis R. Edwards offers a succinct and profound investigation of Scripture. By holding up Jesus as the interpretive key and inviting us to read the Bible with the marginalized, Edwards challenges us to a Christ-centered approach to hermeneutics. What does it mean to read the Bible with Jesus at the center? How does Scripture illumina...

An innovative commentary on Genesis that illuminates the book's relationship to the rest of the biblical canonIn the Beginning provides historical and critical exposition of the Hebrew text of Genesis while also explaining the book's theological significance within the biblical canon as a whole. The result is a beautifully nuanced perspective—not only of the memorable events and colorful characters within the first book of the Bible, but also of the book's...

Christians generally know that God created " the heavens and the earth" and made human beings in his image. They know that " the earth is the Lord' s and the fullness thereof" — he owns his creations. They know that skilled people create and own marvelous works. But a disconnect often occurs when it comes to God' s communicable attributes of creativity and ownership and that combination' s role in human innovation, technological progress, and practical benefits from human creativity and ow...

How To... The Tale So Far is the first book in an epic urban fantasy series that blends magic, mythology, romance, political intrigue, and found family into one unforgettable adventure.Amelia "Amy" has always believed she was ordinary. She lives a normal life, worries about school, argues with her best friend, and tries to ignore the strange things that keep happening around her.Then everything changes.After a terrifying attack in the woods, Amy dis...

The modern church is immersed in a competitive, polarized, and status-driven society. It's hard to have conversations about important issues when so many are defensive and unwilling to learn. Too often, Christians fall into thesesame traps. The health and witness of the church urgently depend on recovering an essential biblical virtue: humility.New Testament scholar Dennis R. Edwards illuminates humility as a, if not the, distinctive identity marker of fol...

Providing comprehensive, well-illustrated coverage of both the scientific underpinnings of pain and up-to-date clinical management, Bonica’s Management of Pain, Sixth Edition, has been the gold standard resource in the field for more than 70 years. Edited by Drs. James P. Rathmell, Robert R. Edwards, and Christopher J. Gilligan, along with an expert team of section editors, this fully revised reference addresses the full range of pain conditions—including neuropathic pain, pain due to canc...