"The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.""Thy word is a lamp to my feet.""Search me, O God, and know my heart!"Such phrases leap to mind whenever Christians lift their hearts to God. For many,in fact, the Psalms are the richest part of the Old Testament. Derek Kidner provides a fresh and penetrating guide to Psalms 73 through 150. He analyzes each psalm in depth, comments on interpretative questions and brings out the universal relevanc...

"The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.""Thy word is a lamp to my feet.""Search me, O God, and know my heart!"Such phrases leap to mind whenever Christians lift their hearts to God. For many,in fact, the Psalms are the richest part of the Old Testament. Derek Kidner provides a fresh and penetrating guide to Psalms 1 through 72. He analyzes each psalm in depth, comments on interpretative questions and brings out the universal relevance ...

The Pentateuch (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy) tells the story of the creation of the world and the history the Jewish people -- from their slavery in Egypt, to their escape, to their preparation to enter the Promised Land after wandering in the wilderness for forty years. The Pentateuch lays the foundation for the great themes in the Bible including the nature of God, the effect of sin, the importance of family and community, sacrifice, and the concept of covenant. The ...

'Vanity of vanities', says the Preacher, 'Vanity of vanities! All is vanity'.Is that what life is? A wisp of vapour, a puff of wind, a mere breath - nothing you can get your hands on - the nearest thing to zero? So says the Preacher in the book of Ecclesiastes. But is this the whole message of Ecclesiastes?With imagination and clarity Derek Kidner introduces this Old Testament book which speaks so powerfully to our generation. His love of Hebrew poetry and ...

"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 spokesmen? 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 sombre portrait of the human condition is our lesson in pain. All of us have played the harlot by forsaking God and his ways. The picture is not pretty but it's true. Yet Hosea's...

Over 1 Million Copies Sold!Experience J. I. Packer's Classic Resource for Deepening Your Christian WalkFor over fifty years, Knowing God by J.I. Packer has helped Christians around the world discover the wonder, the glory, and the joy of knowing God. This timeless work invites readers to explore the profound joy of both knowing about God and knowing Him personally through a close relationship with Jesus Christ.

From one of our most celebrated writers on religion comes this fresh, bold, and unsettling new translation of the New TestamentDavid Bentley Hart undertook this new translation of the New Testament in the spirit of “etsi doctrina non daretur,” “as if doctrine is not given.” Reproducing the texts’ often fragmentary formulations without augmentation or correction, he has produced a pitilessly literal translation, one that captures the texts’ impenetrability and unfin...

For over 40 years, J. I. Packer's classic has been an important tool to help Christians around the world discover the wonder, the glory and the joy of knowing God. Explaining both who God is and how we can relate to him, this thought-provoking work seeks to transform and enrich the Christian understanding of God.

This Self-Study Guide offers you insight into one of the most practical books in the Bible--Proverbs. In it you'll learn how to live a godly life in the present with the assurance of eternal reward. This book is much more than popular sayings. Its theme is wisdom for those who know and obey the law of God. Written in beautiful contrasts, Proverbs not only gives godly advice but also shows by graphic example the conseqences of a lifestyle that leaves God out.The books in the Jensen ...

A thorough verse-by-verse exposition of Paul’s letter to the Ephesians. “Nowhere,” says Bruce, is God’s “glorious purpose unfolded so fully and clearly as in the Epistle to the Ephesians. . . . The message of Ephesians is that only through Christ, in the fellowship of his body, can iron curtains, color-bars, class-warfare and all other divisions of this kind be brought to an end. . . . Only Christ can bring together the people on either side of these barricades, by first bringing them to h...

The second edition of David Bentley Hart’s critically acclaimed New Testament translationDavid Bentley Hart’s translation of the New Testament, first published in 2017, was hailed as a “remarkable feat” and as a “strange, disconcerting, radical version of a strange, disconcerting manifesto of profoundly radical values.” In this second edition, which includes a powerful new preface and more than a thousand changes to the text, Hart’s purpose remains the same: to ren...

Are you called to serve, but wondering if you “fit the mold”? Watchman Nee presents an encouraging word: God calls leaders from diverse backgrounds and equips them in a variety of ways for distinctive tasks. Though each of us is called to a unique place of service, our ministries are not in conflict, but complementary. These studies, compiled from Nee’s speaking ministry, draw from the lives of the apostles Peter, Paul and John to illustrate three essential elements of Christian ministry: ...