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My brother, who attended a Bible College during a smart phase in his life, enjoyed shocking groups of believers by sharing his "life verse".
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Philip Yancey has a way of confronting our most cherished but misguided notions about faith. In The Bible Jesus Read, he challenges the perception that the New Testament is all that matters and the Old Testament isn't worth taking the time to read and understand. Yancey admits that, like many Christians, he usually avoided the Old Testament. After all, why bother with writings that can be so baffling, boring, even offensive to the modern mind? But a surprising discovery awaited Yancey when he began to explore how the Old Testament related to his life today. Those seemingly irrelevant Hebrew Scriptures took on a startling immediacy, portraying a passionate relationship between God and people against the broad backdrop of human experience. Like nothing else, the Old Testament depicts the cries, the complaints, the deep, insistent questionings of the heart, the stuff of life we all must contend with. With his candid, signature style, Yancey interacts with the Old Testament from the perspective of his own deeply personal journey. From Moses, the amazing prince of Egypt, to the psalmists' turbulent emotions and the prophets' oddball rantings, Yancey paints a picture of Israel's God--and ours--that fills in the blanks of a solely New Testament vision of the Almighty. Probing some carefully selected Old Testament books--Job, Deuteronomy, Psalms, Ecclesiastes, and the Prophets--Yancey reveals how the Old Testament deals in astonishing depth and detail with the issues that trouble us most. The Old Testament in fact tackles what the New Testament often only skirts. But that shouldn't surprise us. It is, after all, the Bible Jesus read. The Bible Jesus Read will give you abundant new insights into the heart of God the Father. And as you read with a fresh eye the prayers, poems, songs, and bedtime stories that Jesus so revered, you will gain a profound new understanding of Christ. 'The more we comprehend the Old Testament, ' Yancey writes, 'the more we comprehend Jesus.'
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- Title The Bible Jesus Read
- Author Philip Yancey
- Binding Paperback
- Edition BOOKSTORE BOOK
- Pages 240
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Zondervan, Grand Rapids, Michigan, U.S.A.
- Date 2001-12-17
- ISBN 9780310245667 / 0310245664
- Weight 0.63 lbs (0.29 kg)
- Dimensions 8.44 x 5.52 x 0.66 in (21.44 x 14.02 x 1.68 cm)
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- Religious Orientation: Christian
- Theometrics: Evangelical
- Theometrics: Mainline
- Topical: Christian Interest
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 99030791
- Dewey Decimal Code 221.6
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