Jesus, the Gospels & Acts

Rediscover the crucial roles held by women within the heart of Christianity. Favourite disciple, influential woman, true believer and follower of Jesus: how do we see Mary Magdalene today? Witness to Jesus' crucifixion and his burial, the first to...

If asked how Matthew's Gospel differs from Luke's, or what aspects of Jesus' personhood and ministry the Gospel of Mark focuses on compared with those of John, how would you answer? In Discovering Jesus, T. Desmond Alexander helps readers understand...

Christianity Today 2024 Book Award (Biblical Studies) The third quest for the historical Jesus has reached an impasse. But a fourth quest is underway--one that draws from a heretofore largely neglected source: John's Gospel. In this book, renowned...

Popular writer and teacher Jeannine Brown shows how a narrative approach illuminates each of the Gospels, helping readers see the overarching stories. This book offers a corrective to tendencies to read the Gospels piecemeal, one story at a time. It is...

This in-depth discussion of New Testament scholarship and the challenges of history as a whole proposes Bayes's Theorem, which deals with probabilities under conditions of uncertainty, as a solution to the problem of establishing reliable historical...

In the final nine chapters of the Gospel of Mark, Jesus increasingly struggles with his disciples' incomprehension of his unique concept of suffering messiahship and with the opposition of the religious leaders of his day. The Gospel recounts the events...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802868862Author Eugene H. PetersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 287Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908393654Author John AndrewsFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint River Publishing & Media LtdPublisher River Publishing & Media Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Gold Book Award - ECPA 1992.Book InformationISBN 9780310253990Author Matthew HenryFormat HardbackPage Count 2288Imprint ZondervanPublisher ZondervanWeight(grams)...

When Quietism was condemned in 1687 it resulted in an antipathy, if not an open hostility to authentic mystical theology. This situation has lasted down to the present day and has been aggravated by many forms of counterfeit mysticism that are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830827275Author Kenneth E. BaileyFormat PaperbackPage Count 225Imprint Inter-Varsity Press,USPublisher InterVarsity PressWeight(grams) 363g

Nearly 2,000 years ago, a doctor named Luke wrote a letter in which he prioritized two things: a love for Christ and a love for the facts. He didn't want legends; he wanted truth. And so, Dr. Luke began to sort the truth and report the facts. The result...

Millions of people across the world have heard of Jesus Christ, but how many are truly familiar with the key locations he frequented? Following the chronology of Jesus' life and ministry, and drawing especially on the Gospel of Luke, Peter Walker...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802825056Author Frederick Fyvie BruceFormat HardbackPage Count 564Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing...

A highly qualified British judge examines the evidence for the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Assessing secular evidence, historical sources, and the testimony of those involved Graeme Smith carefully and critically analyses the various resurrection...

A highly qualified British judge examines the evidence for the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Assessing secular evidence, historical sources, and the testimony of those involved Graeme Smith carefully and critically analyses the various resurrection...

Writing in the tradition of biblical exegetes, such as St John Chrysostom and Blessed Theophylact of Bulgaria, the work of Archbishop Averky (Taushev) provides a commentary that is firmly grounded in the teaching of the Church, manifested in its...

This useful and practical book provides the college student, seminarian, church study group, and interested lay person with a much-needed introductory guide on the "how" (method) and the "what" (message) of Jesus' teachings. In this revised edition,...

Peter's story of Jesus-that's what the Gospel of Mark truly is. Now in a new translation, a brilliant scholar brings to life St. Peter's eye witness experience of the life of Christ and the miracle that transformed the world."A fresh, vigorous new...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802438409Author John F. MacarthurFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Moody PublishersPublisher Moody Publishers

The volumes in Belief: A Theological Commentary on the Bible from Westminster John Knox Press offer a fresh and invigorating approach to all the books of the Bible. Building on a wide range of sources from biblical studies, the history of theology, the...

This book offers an original interpretation of the origin and early reception of the most fundamental claim of Christianity: Jesus' resurrection. Richard Miller contends that the earliest Christians would not have considered the New Testament accounts of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385132206Author Fulton J. SheenFormat PaperbackPage Count 688Imprint Bantam Doubleday DellPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group...

Intimate Jesus is the first book to open up key questions about Jesus' experience of human sexuality and His attitude towards it in himself and others for a general audience. Andrew Angel examines all the relevant sayings and actions of Jesus and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501884351Author Amy-Jill LevineFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Abingdon PressPublisher Abingdon Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606084014Author Robert R BeckFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949586671Author Gary R HabermasFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Christian Publishing HousePublisher Christian Publishing HouseWeight(grams)...

A renowned Bible scholar traces the theme of divine sonship through both the Old and New Testaments, highlighting Jesus's identity as the ultimate "Son of God" and his role in launching the new creation."The widespread tendency to treat the Bible as if...

The truth behind the Gospel accounts of the Nativity, updated to include the latest research--a classic by a renowned scholar, hailed as "masterly" and "definitive" in the original edition.About the AuthorOver his illustrious career, Raymond E...

Uncover the core of goodness within.Love, compassion, meaning, hope, and freedom from fear are not qualities we need to acquire. We simply need to uncover what we already have.Original goodness is Eknath Easwaran's phrase for this spark of divinity...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062659538Author Diana Butler BassFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint HarperOnePublisher HarperOneWeight(grams) 295g

The 'Christmas Story' as we know it, is derived from a mixture of carols and carol services, nativity plays, children's Bibles and paintings. The Bible itself offers two stories, each quite different from the other, not just in detail, but in tone...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830824663Author Mark L. StraussFormat PaperbackPage Count 223Imprint Inter-Varsity Press,USPublisher InterVarsity PressWeight(grams) 271gDimensions(mm)...

A Doubter's Guide to Jesus is an introduction to the major portraits of Jesus found in the earliest historical sources. Portraits because our best information points not to a tidy, monolithic Jesus, but to a complex, multi-layered and, at times,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639380497Author Publications International LtdPage Count 160Imprint Publications International, Ltd.Publisher Publications International, Ltd...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400341979Author Charles MartinFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Thomas Nelson PublishersPublisher Thomas Nelson PublishersWeight(grams)...

The contributors to this book pursue three important lines of inquiry into parable study, in order to compare how these lessons have been received throughout the millennia. By considering not only the historical and material world of the parables'...

A major new book on the historical Jesus by one of the world's leading authorities on the Gospels. It presents a compelling argument for accepting the broad outline of the Gospels, and the major sayings and actions of Jesus, as historically reliable.Book...

The NIV Application Commentary helps you communicate and apply biblical text effectively in today's context.Faith and action: that inseparable link is a golden thread running through Acts. In 2,000 years, one thing hasn't changed: God's heart for lost...

Most Christians truly want to understand what Jesus would do, and we want to follow His example in any given situation: we want to love and honor our heavenly Father as Jesus did, we want to obey the Ten Commandments as He did, and we want to learn how...