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A MITCHELL CHASE TRILOGY
Thanks to my good friend David Dykstra (aka FLUFFY) I have learned of a gifted young writer named Mitchell Chase. I now have three of his titles I am packaging together to serve my faithful customers. They are:
SHORT OF GLORY: A Biblical and Theological Exploration of the Fall
HOPE FOR ALL THE EARTH: Understanding the Story of the Old Testament
RESSURECTION HOPE AND THE DEATH OF DEATH
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In this book, pastor and professor Mitchell Chase argues that in order to understand the fall and recognize its profound impact on later Scripture and the world today, Christians must first understand Genesis 3. Chase identifies themes found in Genesis 3—temptation, shame, messianic hope, and more—and shows how they reverberate throughout the rest of the storyline of Scripture. Understanding Adam and Eve’s fall is crucial to understanding the world as it currently is and the need for redemption through Jesus.
“Short of Glory is an exceptional introduction to the way the events of Genesis 3 are woven through the biblical witness. Mitchell Chase’s theological acumen and exegetical sophistication are front and center as he carefully elucidates the far-reaching implications of sin and the even farther-reaching implications of God’s grace to his people. Highly recommended as an example of theology and exegesis in service of the good news.” -Brandon D. Smith, Assistant Professor of Theology and New Testament, Cedarville University; Cofounder, Center for Baptist Renewal
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Mitchell L. Chase
TEN QUOTES FROM 'HOPE FOR ALL THE EARTH' that sum up the message:
1. We live in a universe made for the glory of Jesus Christ, and we read a Bible written for that same purpose. (Pg. 5)
2. We need restoration from the alienation of sin. We need atonement, but this is not a covering we can configure for ourselves. (Pg. 9)
3. External circumcision would not guarantee an inward devotion to God; a circumcision of the heart was vital. (Pg. 16)
4. Moses’ mission was impossible for him to complete, and that was the point. God would act by a mighty hand and outstretched arm. (Pg. 26)
5. God’s people needed a king who would lead them in righteousness and seek God’s heart. (Pg. 40)
6. As the resurrected son of David, Jesus possesses an unceasing reign because he has conquered death. (Pg. 42)
7. False worship and false priests coincided with a false kingship. (Pg. 51)
8. Through a new exodus, the new David would form a new covenant. (Pg. 67)
9. The rebuilt temple, though lacking glory, would one day give way to greater glory. (Pg. 73)
10. The end of the Old Testament is not the end of the Bible’s story, and the heavenly silence during the intertestamental period would not last. (Pg. 84)
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I received a call the other day from my good friend Dave Dykstra and he and he was excited about a book he just finished called HOPE FOR ALL THE EARTH. He had been given the book as a gift and when he picked it up to read he could not put it down. The subtitle says it all: Understanding the Story of the Old Testament. He ordered a number of copies to give away, and urged me to get my hands on it. I just did. It is a very small book with a huge mission. Perhaps the most attractive thing is the reasonable price... $5.95 EACH.
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Death is a powerful and sobering reality. While everyone must face death, it is not the end for those united with Christ. Followers of Jesus Christ have resurrection hope—the proclamation that Christ has defeated death and the promise that believers shall share in his victory. The resurrection is essential to the Christian faith and is rooted in the faithfulness of God.
With scholarly insight, Mitchell L. Chase traces the theme of resurrection hope throughout Scripture, walking through each section of the Bible from the Law to Revelation. Having a proper understanding of death and resurrection will not only stir up our soberness for the reality of sin and death, but it will also motivate our praise to God.
Founded on Scripture: Highlights the interconnectedness of the Bible
For Learners: Ideal for students or anyone looking to grow in their knowledge of God and the Scriptures
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Of the 66 Books that make up our Bible, there is none like THE BOOK OF PSALMS, and anything that can help us go deeper into that precious book is worth its weight in gold. We have gathered several such books. Please click and see what we are now offering!
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by Bruce Waltke & Fred Zaspel
SINCLAIR FERGUSON begins his excellent Foreword with these words:
"It is a privilege to serve as herald to Drs. Bruce Waltke and Fred Zaspel as they step forward to offer this outstanding volume to all lovers of the book of Psalms. Do not let its workmanlike title dampen either your interest or enthusiasm; you are in for a treat in the almost six hundred pages that follow. Although I am neither a prophet nor a prophet’s son, I think I can safely predict that How to Read and Understand the Psalms is a book you will return to frequently and treasure permanently."
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by Gordon Wenham
“We are grateful to Professor Wenham for gathering in one volume many of his special studies on the Psalms, for many the favorite book of the First Testament. The essays included here not only introduce readers to the history of scholarship on the Psalter, but also provide us with hermeneutical guidelines for interpreting the book. And best of all, they make accessible to us its inspiring and transforming message.” -Daniel I. Block
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The Book of Psalms is one of the greatest treasures the Lord has given to His people. Through these sacred poems, God has given us a rich songbook and a divinely inspired guide for our prayers. In this teaching series, Dr. W. Robert Godfrey provides an overview of the Psalms with the specific goal of learning to love them through a study of their themes, structure, and beauty.
Lesson 1- Introduction (Part One): Attractions and Difficulties
Lesson 2- Introduction (Part Two): Solving Difficulties
Lesson 3- Psalm 11: The Power of Poetry
Lesson 4- Psalms 26 & 39: Peculiar Psalms
Lesson 5- Psalms 49 & 50: All the World and All the People
Lesson 6- Psalm 52: The Psalms and History
Lesson 7- Psalm 77: Questions in Grief
Lesson 8- Psalm 81: The Word at the Center
Lesson 9- Psalms 91 & 93: God is Protector and King
Lesson 10- Psalm 94: Comfort from the Future
Lesson 11- Psalm 127: The Lord's Beloved
Lesson 12- Psalm 145: God is All
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An In-Depth Biography on the Life and Work of Missionary Elisabeth Elliot
Elisabeth Elliot (1926–2015) is one of the most widely known Christians of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. After the death of her husband, Jim, and four other missionaries at the hands of Waorani tribesmen in Ecuador, Elliot famously returned to live among the same people who had killed her husband. Her legacy, however, extends far beyond these events. In the years that followed, Elliot became a prolific writer and speaker, touching the lives of countless people around the world.
In this single-volume biography, Lucy S. R. Austen takes readers on an in-depth journey through the life of Elisabeth Elliot—her birth to missionary parents, her courtship and marriage to Jim Elliot, her missions work in Ecuador, and her private life and public work after she returned to the United States. Through Elliot’s example of love for God and obedience to his commands, readers will ponder what it means to follow Jesus.
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Mike McKinley
In John 15, Jesus says, “I have called you friends.” But what does it mean to be friends with Jesus? In the early 1650s, theologian John Owen attempted to answer this question through a series of sermons, eventually compiled as Communion with God. The book is full of truths about having fellowship with God, but Owen’s work is often a struggle for modern readers to understand.
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“Spectacular and exhilarating, but also inaccessible—John Owen can be like that. His view of the triune God is glorious, yet reading Owen is like climbing a mountain. But just as you can take a helicopter tour to see the marvels of a mountain range, so Mike McKinley lifts us up into Owen’s thoughts with easy-to-understand explanations to see the wonders of knowing the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. This book will greatly help many fellowship more fully with God whose friendship, in Christ, is more than a brother’s. Highly recommended for all believers yearning to have a closer and richer life with each of the persons of the Trinity!” -Joel R. Beeke
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Michael J. Kruger
“Of all the recent books and articles on the canon of Scripture, this is the one I recommend most. It deals with the critical literature thoroughly and effectively while presenting a cogent alternative grounded in the teaching of Scripture itself. Michael Kruger develops the historic Reformed model of Scripture as self-authenticating and integrates it with a balanced appreciation for the history of the canon and the role of the community in recognizing it. This is the definitive work on the subject for our time.” -John M. Frame, Professor of Systematic Theology and Philosophy Emeritus, Reformed Theological Seminary
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Bob Kauflin
Nothing is more essential than knowing how to worship the God who created us. This book focuses readers on the essentials of God-honoring worship, combining biblical foundations with practical application in a way that works in the real world. The author, a pastor and noted songwriter, skillfully instructs pastors, musicians, and church leaders so that they can root their congregational worship in unchanging scriptural principles, not divisive cultural trends. Bob Kauflin covers a variety of topics such as the devastating effects of worshiping the wrong things, how to base our worship on God's self-revelation rather than our assumptions, the fuel of worship, the community of worship, and the ways that eternity's worship should affect our earthly worship.
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20 Psalms and Devotions to Help Children Learn More about Who God Is
The Psalms are full of “You Are” statements—like “You are my rock and fortress” found in Psalm 31. For generations, Christians have used these phrases to praise God for who he is and what he has done for his people. These short, simple statements provide wonderful opportunities for parents to teach their children about the character of God and reflect on who he is in powerful ways.
In this book, professor, pastor, and father William R. Osborne presents short devotionals around the 20 “You Are” statements found in the Psalms. Each devotional is followed by a short prayer that families can pray together as they read. Using a clear and warm style, Osborne provides a distinct connection between the gospel of Jesus Christ and God’s goodness, holiness, and mercy as they are illustrated in the Psalms.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
1: God, You Are Holy (Ps. 22:3)
2: God, You Are with Me (Ps. 23:4)
3: God, You Are My Salvation (Ps. 25:5)
4: God, You Are My Rock (Ps. 31:3)
5: God, You Are a Hiding Place (Ps. 32:7)
6: God, You Are My Help (Ps. 40:17)
7: God, You Are My King (Ps. 44:4)
8: God, You Are My Deliverer (Ps. 70:5)
9: God, You Are My Fortress (Ps. 71:3)
10: God, You Are My Refuge (Psalm 71:7)
11: God, You Are the God Who Works Wonders (Ps. 77:14)
12: God, You Are a Shepherd (Ps. 80:1)
13: God, You Are Forgiving (Ps. 86:5)
14: God, You Are Never-Changing (Ps. 102:27)
15: God, You Are Very Great (Ps. 104:1)
16: God, You Are Good (Ps. 119:68)
17: God, You Are My Shield (Ps. 110:114)
18: God, You Are Righteous (Ps. 119:137)
19: God, You Are Near (Ps. 119:151)
20: God, You Are My Everywhere (Ps. 139:8)
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“'God, You Are' offers an accessible and fun invitation to children and their families to know the God of the Psalms! Through the concise and imaginative explanations, poignant questions, and prayer points to help them put their learning into practice, families will love learning together and growing together in knowing the God the psalmists worship!” -Amy Gannett, Founder and Creator, Tiny Theologians; Writer and Bible Teacher, The Bible Study Schoolhouse; author, Fix Your Eyes
“Oh, how I love this book! With tender affection for the Lord and for children, Osborne guides kids through the book of Psalms by winsomely connecting childhood experiences to images and themes in the psalms and revealing how they point to Jesus. I can already tell this will become a beloved book for my family, and I suspect it will become a staple in many homes.” -Caroline Saunders, author, The Story of Home and The Story of Water
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We have gathered together a new trilogy of books by Vern S. Poythress fixed upon the theme of A God-Centered Approach to Reasoning, History and Science. All three titles will give you a fresh look at old subjects.
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by Vern S. Poythress
Humans use reasoning to understand and order the world around us. We apply this logic in a variety of contexts, from classifying simple objects to considering complex philosophies. But how should our identity as Christians—made in the image of God (Gen. 1:26–27) with minds renewed by the Holy Spirit (Rom. 12:1–2)—inform our reasoning?
Vern S. Poythress explains how all human reasoning reflects God’s nature. Providing a foundational understanding of God as the source of rationality, Poythress details the 3 fundamental laws of logic—identity, contradiction, and excluded middle—with a strong focus on analogical reasoning. This robust guide explains types of analogy, ethics applied to logic, the use of analogies in the doctrines of God, and more to give readers a renewed perspective on how to use reason as a follower of God.
Thorough Study of Reasoning: Explores the 3 fundamental laws of logic along with various kinds of analogy, including syllogistic reasoning, formal deductive reasoning, inductive reasoning, and scientific models.
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Why Is It Critical for Christians to Study the Past?
How does knowledge of the past shape Christians’ views of God, Christ’s redemption, and humanity as a whole? In his new book, Vern S. Poythress teaches Christians how to study and write about the past by emphasizing God’s own command to remember his works and share them with the next generation. Readers will explore concepts such as providentialism, Christian historiography, divine purpose, and the 4 basic phases of biblical history: creation, fall, redemption, and consummation. By learning how to appropriately study history, believers will begin to recognize God’s lordship over all events and how even minor incidents fit into his overarching plan.
“Redeeming Our Thinking about History continues Vern Poythress’s penetrating analysis of various fields of human intellectual endeavor. In continuity with his previous volumes, Poythress writes on why history is important and how best to read history—whether biblical or secular—in a God-honoring fashion. While capable of stratospheric thinking and communication, the author in this delightful volume simply takes the reader by the hand and leads him or her to the innumerable problems and issues of historical analysis, then resolves those vast and complicated topics. This approach taps into Poythress’s decades of examining and interpreting the Bible and presents very clear paths for readers to follow. Those insights are combined with practical principles to help us understand events in our own lives. Highly recommended.” -Richard C. Gamble, Professor of Systematic Theology, Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary
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We are also delighted to be able to offer our faithful customers two NEW series entitled:
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The ancient Greek thinker Heraclitus reputedly said that the thinker has to listen to the essence of things. A series of theological studies dealing with the traditional topics that make up systematic theology needs to do just that. Accordingly, in these studies, theologians address the essence of a doctrine. This series thus aims to present short studies in theology that are attuned to both the Christian tradition and contemporary theology in order to equip the church to faithfully understand, love, teach, and apply what God has revealed in Scripture about a variety of topics. What may be lost in comprehensiveness can be gained through what Calvin, in the dedicatory epistle of his commentary on Romans, called “lucid brevity.”
Of course, a thorough study of any doctrine will be longer rather than shorter, as there are two millennia of confession, discussion, and debate with which to interact. As a result, a short study needs to be more selective, but deftly so. Thankfully, the contributors to this series have the ability to be brief yet accurate. The key aim is that the simpler is not to morph into the simplistic. The test is whether the topic of a short study, when further studied in depth, requires some unlearning to take place. The simple can be amplified. The simplistic needs to be corrected. As editors, we believe that the volumes in this series pass that test.
While the specific focus will vary, each volume will (1) introduce the doctrine, (2) set it in context, (3) develop it from Scripture, (4) draw the various threads together, and (5) bring it to bear on the Christian life. It is our prayer, then, that this series will assist the church to delight in her triune God by thinking his thoughts—which he has graciously revealed in his written word, which testifies to his living Word, Jesus Christ—after him in the powerful working of his Spirit.
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Most of us tend to approach the Bible early on in our Christian lives as a vast, cavernous, and largely impenetrable book. We read the text piecemeal, finding golden nuggets of inspiration here and there, but remain unable to plug any given text meaningfully into the overarching storyline. Yet one of the great advances in evangelical biblical scholarship over the past few generations has been the recovery of biblical theology—that is, a renewed appreciation for the Bible as a theologically unified, historically rooted, progressively unfolding, and ultimately Christ-centered narrative of God’s covenantal work in our world to redeem sinful humanity.
This renaissance of biblical theology is a blessing, yet little of it has been made available to the general Christian population. The purpose of Short Studies in Biblical Theology is to connect the resurgence of biblical theology at the academic level with everyday believers.
Each volume is written by a capable scholar or churchman who is consciously writing in a way that requires no prerequisite theological training of the reader. Instead, any thoughtful Christian disciple can track with and benefit from these books. Each volume in this series takes a whole-Bible theme and traces it through Scripture. In this way readers not only learn about a given theme but also are given a model for how to read the Bible as a coherent whole.
We have launched this series because we love the Bible, we love the church, and we long for the renewal of biblical theology in the academy to enliven the hearts and minds of Christ’s disciples all around the world. As editors, we have found few discoveries more thrilling in life than that of seeing the whole Bible as a unified story of God’s gracious acts of redemption, and indeed of seeing the whole Bible as ultimately about Jesus, as he himself testified (Luke 24:27; John 5:39).
The ultimate goal of Short Studies in Biblical Theology is to magnify the Savior and to build up his church—magnifying the Savior through showing how the whole Bible points to him and his gracious rescue of helpless sinners; and building up the church by strengthening believers in their grasp of these life-giving truths.
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THE NEW TESTAMENT THEOLOGY SERIES CURRENTLY CONSISTS OF THE FOLLOWING SIX VOLUMES WITH MORE TO FOLLOW:
THE BEGINNING OF THE GOSPEL: A Theology of Mark by Peter Orr
FROM THE MANGER TO THE THRONE: A Theology of Luke by Benjamin L. Gladd
THE MISSION OF THE TRIUNE GOD: A Theology of Acts by Patrick Schreiner
UNITED TO CHRIST, WALKING IN THE SPIRIT: A Theology of Ephesians by Benjamin Merkle
THE GOD WHO JUDGES AND SAVES: A Theology of 2 Peter & Jude by Matthew Harmon
THE JOY OF HEARING: A Theology of the Book of Revelation by Thomas Schreiner
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“This is maybe the best short theology of Mark I’ve read. Unique to Orr’s book is how he places Mark in conversation with both Peter and Paul. When Mark composed his work, Peter and Paul were already preaching aspects of Mark’s Gospel. Mark more fully narrates the story of this great hero who is more than the Jewish Messiah. He is the divine Son.” -Patrick Schreiner
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“Open up Luke anew with the help of this fresh and faithful tour from a knowledgeable guide. Adam, the exodus, the wilderness, angels and demons, the Son of Man—it’s all there in the Gospel of Luke. Gladd considers these, and more, to help us see the rich Old Testament contours of our great Savior and his great work on our behalf.” -Brandon D. Crowe
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“Given the size and complexity of the book of Acts, scholars have proposed various candidates for the main theological themes and offered analysis for how they all fit together. In this engaging work, Patrick Schreiner shows that the idea of God as Trinity is foundational to the entire book of Acts and that Luke’s other emphases develop and cohere in light of this central truth. This study would be an excellent resource for anyone wishing to delve more deeply into the message and intention of Acts.” -David Peterson
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A Theology of Ephesians by Benjamin Merkle
“Few books of the Bible lay out the height, depth, and breadth of the gospel like Ephesians. Benjamin Merkle puts the riches of this beloved Pauline epistle on full display, offering fresh insights into God’s plan, union with Christ, life in the Spirit, the unity of the church, and spiritual warfare. Whether you are a pastor, teacher, small-group leader, or simply someone who wants to better understand Ephesians, this accessible book will deepen your love for Christ and show you how to live out the gospel more faithfully.” -Matthew S. Harmon
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A Theology of 2 Peter & Jude by Matthew Harmon
“The epistles of 2 Peter and Jude are unjustly and unwisely neglected. This book shines a floodlight on their richness and importance. It features clear organization, careful exegesis, interaction with scholarship, and theological focus. Harmon offers explanations that are often profound but not complicated or obscure. Whether in church or classroom, this book is an excellent summary of the harrowing yet hope-filled message of these short epistles written by firsthand observers of their main subject: Jesus.” -Robert W. Yarbrough
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A Theology of the Book of Revelation by Thomas Schreiner
“Tom Schreiner has provided a lucid and well-balanced overview of the book of Revelation—no small feat! He draws on the best contemporary scholarship treating the book but does not burden the reader with excessive scholarly debate. He is clear in his own convictions but charitable to those with whom he disagrees, and he is honest enough to admit when a given text remains perplexing. Anyone looking to understand the Apocalypse will greatly benefit from Schreiner’s discussion.” -Sean M. McDonough
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