Acts

ActsA balanced, accessible commentary for Spirit filled Christians The Spirit who inspired the authors of the New Testament is at work today around the globe, as evidenced by the explosive growth of pentecostal, charismatic, and renewalist movements; the number of adherents is now estimated at more than half a billion. The Word and Spirit Commentary on the New Testament meets the need for a balanced, affordable, and accessible commentary series aimed at

is available online through Baker Academic's Textbook eSources

grammatical interpretation

complements the successful Baker Commentary on the Old Testament: Wisdom and Psalms series

showing how the Old Testament functions as Christian Scripture

For many Christians

This textbook provides an introduction to the Second Temple period (520 BCE-70 CE)

Preachers often struggle with preaching Old Testament poetry

Greg Stier

and suicide

Rather than emphasizing the spiritual benefits of reading specific texts such as Dante's Divine Comedy or Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

comprehensive treatment on topics of perennial concern

Johns argues that we must rediscover the Bible as a sacred