Bible Commentaries

Picture a world where people live according to their own personal standards, where believers can't seem to agree, and where people are trapped in...

John Goldingay is not short of qualifications or experience - he has studied at Oxford and Nottingham; lecturing at the latter before moving to the...

Written about AD 56 or 57, the book of Romans reveals all about Gods righteousness and how he freely offers salvation to all people through faith. ...

The NIV Application Commentary helps readers with the vital task of bringing the ancient message of the Bible into a contemporary context. It gives...

Most Bible commentaries take us on a one-way trip from the twentieth century to the first century. But they leave us there, assuming that we can so...

Keith Ferdinando's valuable exposition of the theme of 'spiritual warfare is in four sections.The first is concerned with the nature of Satan and h...

"Like a child eating cotton-candy at the circus, many people who expect to bite into something real end up with a mouthful of nothing. They waste p...

The Second Letter of Peter and the Letter of Jude both address false teaching - teaching that affects behaviour. The recipients had within their mi...

We live in difficult times to be people who obey God and worship him alone. How can we be confident under pressure and faithful in the fire?In this...

Paul's first letter to the Corinthians was addressed originally to a fledgling mission church in Corinth. Paul's absence from the church had allowe...

With over 4 million volumes in print and used worldwide, these timeless books have provided invaluable insight into the history, meaning, and conte...

The Chronicler addressed an Israel separated from its former days of blessing by a season of judgment. The books of 1 and 2 Chronicles bring a divi...

Christianity is not a passive faith. It is a dynamic, proactive way of life where God's love motivates us to ministry, to help those in need, and t...

In his clear and readable, style Walter Brueggemann presents Genesis as a single book set within the context of the whole of biblical revelation. H...

Ephesians is a letter to a church very like yours. Paul is obviously commended that this young church gets its foundations right. It is intriguing...

What is the difference between genuine faith and counterfeit faith? How do we know for sure that our faith is real? How can we know joy even in t...

We live in an age when everyone is trying to live richer, fuller lives. We're told to buy this, try that, eat those, and say no to the rest, as if ...

The Psalms, the longest book in the Bible, has been described as the national hymn-book of the people of Israel in the Old Testament. Full of emoti...

1 Timothy is an urgent letter to a Christian in the thick of a crisis and a call to the local church to get on with the job God has called it to do...

These prophets were writing in the time period 7th to 8th Century BC. Nahum, Habakkuk and Zephaniah were all writing towards the end of the 7th Cen...

A Psalm is basically a poem set to music and sung. This sets the book of Psalms apart from other Scripture. You will find other Psalms and songs sc...

Questions about the nature of Christian leadership and authority, attitudes toward wealth and materialism, proper responses to cults, the role of w...

The Song of Songs is redolent with poetic imagery, featuring as it does the love songs of a man and a woman as they explore their relationship. Dow...