Böcker av Mark L. Strauss

Many find it difficult to take words that were written thousands of years ago and apply them to twenty-first-century life in the Western world. How do we read God's unchanging Word in a world that is increasingly defined by change?How to Read the Bible in Changing Times shows everyday Christians how to interpret and apply the Scriptures regardless of time and culture. Rather than seeing the Bible as a magic answer book, a list of commands to obey, or a series of promises to claim, this insightful book allows the Bible to retain its identity as a complex, inspired document while showing that the truth it contains is relevant and life-changing. It shows the reader how todetermine the meaning of the text in its original contextidentify culturally relative featuresunderstand what the text teaches about God, his will, and his purposesapply the truths discovered to contemporary life situationsIt even shows readers how to discern God's will on the many modern issues that the Bible does not directly address.

This workbook accompanies Mark L. Strauss's Four Portraits, One Jesus. It follows the textbook's structure with readings from the Gospels, activities, and exercises designed to support the students' learning experience, and enhance their comprehension of what the Gospels teach about the central defining subject of Christianity, Jesus of Nazareth.

An abridged edition of the bestselling textbook Four Portraits, One Jesus by Mark Strauss, this simple, easy-to-understand guide introduces the four biblical Gospels and their subject, the life and person of Jesus.

Everybody likes Jesus. Don't they?We overlook that Jesus wasJudgmental-preaching hellfire far more than the apostle PaulUncompromising-telling people to hate their familiesChauvinistic-excluding women from leadershipRacist-insulting people from other ethnic groupsAnti-environmental-cursing a fig tree and affirming animal sacrificeAngry-overturning tables and chasing moneychangers in the templeHe demanded moral perfection, told people to cut off body parts, made prophecies that haven't come true, and defied religious and political authorities. While we tend to ignore this troubling behavior, the people around Jesus didn't. Some believed him so dangerous that they found a way to have him killed. The Jesus everybody likes, says Mark Strauss, is not the Jesus found in the Gospels. He's a figure we've created in our own minds. Strauss believes that when we unpack the puzzling paradoxes of the man from Galilee, we find greater insight into his countercultural message and mission than we could ever have imagined.

The Biblical Greek Companion for Bible Software Users by Mark Strauss is a resource book intended for users of Bible software to help them understand the exegetical significance of Greek grammatical terminology identified by the program.

This is a softcover title that helps readers understand the historical and cultural background of the books of the New Testament. Brimming with photos and graphics, each book will walk you verse by verse through the books of the New Testament.