Bible Study

Forty readings and prayers for the Gospel of Mark, perfect for Year B of the lectionary cycle.

Every major teaching of the New Testament has roots deep in the Old Testament. Many Christians have been taught to interpret the Old Testament through the filter of the New. This book instead encourages us to return to our biblical roots, which means to interpret the New Testament through the filter of the Old just as the early apostles had done.

Helpful summary and introduction for everyone seeking to understand 1 Timothy. Designed to accompany the more extensive Teaching 1 Timothy volume.

This book teaches students how to make sense of the Christian bible as a unity, in the context of the story of Jesus.

Organized around the general theme of parables, this is a six-session short-term study series. Each chapter focuses on a particular parable, and features the author telling readers what Jesus was saying through the parable, both to listeners of his day and to us in our own lives.

The result of over thirty years of research and lecturing, Paul Through Mediterranean Eyes is a ground-breaking study of Paul's first epistle to the Corinthians. Bailey examines this canonical letter through the lenses of Paul's Jewish socio-cultural and rhetorical background and the Mediterranean context of the Corinthian recipients.

The Bible can be hazardous to ones health if it is read with faulty expectations. Writing with insight, compassion, and wit, Russell Pregeant shows that reading the Bible without interpretation is impossible; the right question is which assumptions are most appropriate to the Bible and our reasons for taking it up.