Craig L. Blomberg

Christian Living

“Does God promise to call you if he wants you in ministry? Does one receive a calling to a secular job? What if I have a great opportunity that sounds like something I would enjoy and am good at and that would help the Lord’s work, but I have never had the slightest feeling of a calling? Are any of these questions even legitimate when judged by the Bible’s usage of the concept of calling? Klein and Steiner draw on years of study and ministry to set the record straight. Their answers should encourage many, many Christians, while challenging some who have spoken wrongly on these matters. This is must-reading for anyone who cares about God’s will for their life.”

What Was Jesus Hoping to Achieve?

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Historical-Jesus scholars have long suspected that there were at least two discrete stages to Jesus’ ministry, though they have not agreed on what they were. Roger Amos suspects Jesus began hoping to reform institutional Judaism but ended by establishing a countercultural community that welcomed the most outcast of repentant sinners. Many details remain speculative, but the connections Amos draws between John the Baptist and Jesus prove largely persuasive. Succinct and very readable.”

When Will These Things Happen?

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Was the historical Jesus a preacher of imminent apocalyptic judgment or altogether a 'non-eschatological' teacher? Despite the popularity of both of these extreme portraits in contemporary scholarship, Wilson demonstrates a via media, in which Jesus, viewed especially through the window of Matthew 21-25, is both prophet and sage, but preeminently a judge during his ministry, in his invisible coming against Jerusalem in AD70, and at God's final assize. An important contribution.”

Where Is the Promise of His Coming?

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“One of the common charges these days by the more outspoken critics of biblical Christianity is that it is absurd still to talk about Christ coming back soon, as the Bible does, nearly two thousand years after his death . . . The point of NT eschatology is consistently to encourage holy living, not to satisfy date-setters’ curiosity. Rarely can one call so slim a volume comprehensive, but Mathewson really does cover all the necessary bases. Highly to be recommended.”

Why I Trust the Bible

Apologetics

“Bill Mounce tackles a wide range of some of the most challenging questions about the origins and reliability of the Bible and boils them down to digestible size. Fully abreast of recent research, Mounce wears it lightly, even while giving important and practical answers to many thorny questions.”

Words of Life

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“One of the few evangelicals who has written with expertise and clarity on the interpretation of the Bible as literature, Ryken now offers a volume that is valuable for introductory courses in New Testament and hermeneutics. Especially significant is his treatment of the parables as allegories.”

You Mean I Don’t Have to Tithe?

Theology

“"Argumentation is extremely thorough and persuasive . . . the amount of material surveyed especially in recent American church history is exemplary. . . . The positions articulated are eminently defensible and indeed superbly defended. An important contribution in the current American and SBC [Southern Baptist Convention] conversation and milieu.”