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NEW RELEASE — God’s Mysterious Ways by Jane Roach

God’s Mysterious Ways: Embracing God’s Providence in Esther, A Ten-Lesson Bible Study by Jane Roach 256 pages | List Price: $12.99 | Paperback Summary God sustains and reigns over all his created order. Everything that happens occurs because God wills it according to his purposes, plan, way, and time, and he sometimes calls ordinary people to …

BOOK HIGHLIGHT – 1 Kings (REC) by Philip Graham Ryken

1 Kings by Philip Graham Ryken 636 pages | Direct Price: $34.99 $26.00 | Series: Reformed Expository Commentary Summary Dynasties, fractured kingdoms, prophecies of coming hardships—the book of 1 Kings is a grand, sweeping narrative of the beginning of the downfall of God’s people. Its size and scope may seem intimidating, but Phil Ryken shows …

Did Matthew Use Hosea out of Context?

    By Dennis E. Johnson The Holy Spirit has provided several signals to mark the route from ancient individuals, events, institutions, and offices to their fulfillment in Jesus, his work, and his people. Among the most obvious are Old Testament passages that New Testament writers explicitly quote and apply to Christ. Case study: Hosea …

The Son of Man and the Serpent

By Dennis E. Johnson In conversation with Nicodemus, a representative of the council of Judaism’s leaders (John 3:1; 7:50), Jesus suddenly turned the topic from Nicodemus’s need of birth from above, by God’s Spirit, to his own coming death as fitting the pattern of an incident in Israel’s past: “And as Moses lifted up the …