The NIV Application Commentary Ecclesiastes/Song of Songs. Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs have always presented particular challenges to their readers, especially if those readers are seeking to understand them as part of Christian Scripture. Ecclesiastes regularly challenges the reader as to grammar and syntax. The interpretation even of words which occur frequently in the book is often unclear and a matter of dispute, partly because there is frequent...

Recientemente varias disciplinas académicas (Historia de las religiones, Filosofía de la religión, Sociología de la religión, Antropología de la religión) han confluido en lo que los anglosajones denominan Religous Studies (literalmente Estudios religiosos). Y lo han hecho sobre el presupuesto común de que en las distintas sociedades humanas hay de facto diversas religiones que son algo así como especies distintas de un mismo género, La...

The Incredible Journey is a concise survey of God's Word, the Bible, that will help you navigate your way through the Christian Scriptures from cover to cover. Each book is summarized and explained so you can maximize your daily reading and reach your goal of living out the truths contained in each of the sixty-six books of the sacred text. This resource will serve to guide you all along the way.

"Teach them the difference between the holy and the profane, between the clean and unclean. Teach them all the word God has given" (Leviticus 10:10). Emeralds, sapphires, diamonds? What do precious gems have to do with God? Everything, if you study the high priest breastplate and decode the message. Proverbs 25:2 says, "It is the glory of God to conceal a thing, but the glory of kings is to search a thing out." There is much more buried deep in the...

As more and more Christians are involved in teaching in their churches, there is a need for an accessible, engaging commentary that can enhance their understanding of Scripture and aid their teaching. The Baker Illustrated Bible Commentary is that resource. This nontechnical, section-by-section commentary on the whole Bible provides reliable and readable interpretations of the Scriptures from forty-two leading evangelical scholars. The Baker Illustrated...

Our culture does not encourage thoughtful reflection on truth. Yet living the gospel in a postmodern culture demands that Christians understand and internalize the truth about God and his plan for the world. Paul's letter to the Romans remains one of the most important expressions of Christian truth ever written. Its message forces us to evaluate who we are, who God is, and what our place in this world ought to be. Going beyond the usual commentary,...

Vivir durante mucho tiempo, alejar las fronteras de la muerte lo más posible, es un antiguo sueño de la humanidad hecho realidad. Sin embargo, los ancianos no siempre encuentran hoy un lugar en nuestras sociedades. Para responder a las preguntas que plantea esta nueva realidad, los autores han recurrido a la Biblia (Noé, Abrahán, Noemí, Elí, Job, Tobit, Eleazar, Isabel, Zacarías, Simeón, Ana, Nicodemo...). ¿Quiénes son esos hombres y mujeres...

Faithful, Focused Commentary on the Whole Bible Serious students of Scripture can easily lose their focus among the many Bible commentaries available today, studying for hours yet discovering no meaningful application of God's eternal truth. This one-volume commentary on the entire Bible from one of America's foremost Bible expositors offers instead a minilibrary of understandable resources designed to convey the Bible's overarching message with...

The author of this book was interested in learning the four major religions of the world-Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism. As a result of five years of intensive study of all the holy books, he came up with three books with the following titles: 1000 Similarities and 100 Differences between the Holy Bible and Holy Quran This will reveal the major doctrinal sameness and differences between these two religions. 700 Amazing Similarities...

This book is, dealing with subjects that are seldom, discussed but are, needed for the church, to grow in number. Discipleship is important, but first we must lead the person to Christ with the right message. That message is, found in the book of Acts. The essence of the Gospel was and is today in three parts: One is the person of Christ found in the four Gospels. Two is, the death of Christ again found in the four Gospels. And thirdly, is the resurrection...