Bible Jesus Read

Bible Jesus Read
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An 8-Session Exploration of the Old Testament Hosted by author Philip Yancey--with video sessions based on his award-winning book In The Bible Jesus Read, award-winning author Philip Yancey combined scholarship and insight to bring new light to old material and stimulate new thought and further study. This eight-session ZondervanGroupware™ uses video and group discussion to explore the sometimes shocking and cryptic writings of the Old Testament to help readers know God better. Yancey serves as guide and interpretive leader of each session and, in a series of in-depth interviews and explanations, he covers five crucial segments of the Old Testament: * Job: Seeing in the Dark * Deuteronomy: A Taste of Bittersweet * Psalms: Spirituality in Every Key * Ecclesiastes: The End of Wisdom * The Prophets: God Talks Back Yancey approaches each of these major segments from a different point of view and adds additional interpretive material, extending the reach of his best-selling book. He teams with the Emmy Award-winning production team responsible for video production of the What’s So Amazing About Grace? ZondervanGroupware™. The complete kit includes: * 96-minute video in 8 12-minute sessions * Leader’s Guide * Participant’s Guide * Hardcover copy of The Bible Jesus Read Philip Yancey serves as editor-at-large for Christianity Today magazine. He has written 11 Gold Medallion Award-winning books, including Where Is God When It Hurts?, Disappointment with God, and The Gift of Pain. His books The Jesus I Never Knew and What’s So Amazing About Grace? were also awarded the Christian Book of the Year. He lives with his wife in Colorado.

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The Old Testament is God's biography, the story of his compassionate encounters with people and also a prequel to the story of Jesus. This Zondervan Groupware uses video and group discussion to explore the sometimes shocking and cryptic writings in an effort to know God better. Includes 1 leader's guide, 1 participant's guide, and 1 video.

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Philip Yancey has a way of confronting our most cherished but misguided notions about faith. In The Bible Jesus Read, he challenges the perception that the New Testament is all that matters and the Old Testament isn't worth taking the time to read and understand. Yancey admits that, like many Christians, he usually avoided the Old Testament. After all, why bother with writings that can be so baffling, boring, even offensive to the modern mind? But a surprising discovery awaited Yancey when he began to explore how the Old Testament related to his life today. Those seemingly irrelevant Hebrew Scriptures took on a startling immediacy, portraying a passionate relationship between God and people against the broad backdrop of human experience. Like nothing else, the Old Testament depicts the cries, the complaints, the deep, insistent questionings of the heart, the stuff of life we all must contend with. With his candid, signature style, Yancey interacts with the Old Testament from the perspective of his own deeply personal journey. From Moses, the amazing prince of Egypt, to the psalmists' turbulent emotions and the prophets' oddball rantings, Yancey paints a picture of Israel's God--and ours--that fills in the blanks of a solely New Testament vision of the Almighty. Probing some carefully selected Old Testament books--Job, Deuteronomy, Psalms, Ecclesiastes, and the Prophets--Yancey reveals how the Old Testament deals in astonishing depth and detail with the issues that trouble us most. The Old Testament in fact tackles what the New Testament often only skirts. But that shouldn't surprise us. It is, after all, the Bible Jesus Read. The Bible Jesus Read will give you abundant newinsights into the heart of God the Father. And as you read with a fresh eye the prayers, poems, songs, and bedtime stories that Jesus so revered, you will gain a profound new understanding of Christ. "The more we comprehend the Old Testament," Yancey writes, "the more we comprehend Jesus." Author Biography: Philip Yancey serves as editor-at-large for Christianity Today magazine. He has written twelve Gold Medallion Award-winning books, including Where is God when it Hurts, Disappointment with God, and The Gift of Pain. His books The Jesus I Never Knew and What's So Amazing About Grace? were also awarded the Christian Book of the Year. He is also the author of The Bible Jesus Read.

About Philip Yancey:

Philip Yancey serves as editor-at-large for Christianity Today magazine. He has written twelve Gold Medallion Award-winning books, including Where is God when it Hurts, Disappointment with God, and The Gift of Pain. His books The Jesus I Never Knew and What’s So Amazing About Grace? were also awarded the Christian Book of the Year. He is also the author of The Bible Jesus Read.

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Join award-winning author Philip Yancey for a grand tour of the Hebrew Scriptures! In eight thought-provoking sessions, he'll lead your group through Job, Deuteronomy, Psalms, Ecclesiastes, and the prophets. When you see how the entire "plot line" leads to Christ, reading the Old Testament will become a rewarding experience. Includes a leader's guide, hardcover book, participant's guide, and videocassette.