Product Description

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Ideal for evangelical pastors, students, teachers, and laypeople, Michael Bird's engaging commentary is intended to help today's readers listen to, understand, and live out Paul's Letter to the Romans. Offering fresh expositions of each passage, it includes the complete NIV text, canonical and historical contextualization, and insights into contemporary applications that align with God's overarching story.

Product Information

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Format: Hardcover
Number of Pages: 640
Vendor: Zondervan
Publication Date: 2016

Dimensions: 9.00 X 6.00 (inches)
ISBN: 0310327180
ISBN-13: 9780310327189
Series: Story of God Bible Commentary

Publisher's Description

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A new commentary for today’s world, The Story of God Bible Commentary explains and illuminates each passage of Scripture in light of the Bible’s grand story. The first commentary series to do so, SGBC offers a clear and compelling exposition of biblical texts, guiding everyday readers in how to creatively and faithfully live out the Bible in their own contexts. Its story-centric approach is ideal for pastors, students, Sunday school teachers, and laypeople alike.

Three easy-to-use sections designed to help readers live out God’s story:

LISTEN to the Story: Includes complete NIV text with references to other texts at work in each passage, encouraging the reader to hear it within the Bible’s grand story
EXPLAIN the Story: Explores and illuminates each text as embedded in its canonical and historical setting
LIVE the Story: Reflects on how each text can be lived today and includes contemporary stories and illustrations to aid preachers, teachers, and students

Praise for SGBC:

"The easy-to-use format and practical guidance brings God’s grand story to modern-day life so anyone can understand how it applies today."—Andy Stanley

"Opens up the biblical story in ways that move us to act."—Darrell L. Bock

"It makes the text sing and helps us hear the story afresh."—John Ortberg

"This commentary breaks new ground."—Craig L. Blomberg

Author Bio

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Michael F. Bird (PhD, University of Queensland) is lecturer in theology at Ridley Melbourne College of Mission and Ministry in Melbourne, Australia. He is the author of Jesus and the Origins of the Gentile Mission; The Saving Righteousness of God: Studies on Paul, Justification, and the New Perspective; Evangelical Theology; Bourgeois Babes, Bossy Wives, and Bobby Haircuts: A moderate Case for Gender Equality in Ministry and editor of The Apostle Paul: Four Views. He is also a co-blogger of the New Testament blog "Euangelion."

Scot McKnight (PhD, Nottingham) is the Julius R. Mantey Professor of New Testament at Northern Seminary in Lombard, Illinois. He is the author of more than fifty books, including the award-winning The Jesus Creed as well as The King Jesus Gospel, A Fellowship of Differents, One.Life, The Blue Parakeet, and Kingdom Conspiracy.