The five wisdom books of the Old Testament are distinctly different from each other, but have as a unifying theme a contrast between “the righteous” and “the ungodly,” and not simply between “the wise” and “the fool.” Job is a dialogue that wrestles with why a righteous person suffers. Psalms, the most beloved book of the Old Testament, is a hymnbook. Proverbs contains practical, everyday philosophy. Ecclesiastes is a monologue about the apparent futility of life. And the Song of Solomon i...

Isaiah, Jeremiah (and his Lamentations), Ezekiel, and Daniel were the radicals of their generation who spoke from what they knew of God and his revealed will. Their message is one of hope amid dark times. They exposed the sinful practices of the people, they called the people back to the law of God, they warned of coming judgment, and they anticipated the coming Messiah. The Open Your Bible Commentary was written to encourage daily Bible study. Each reading is short, but the content is ric...

The historical books of the Old Testament (Joshua, Judges, Ruth, 1 & 2 Samuel, 1 & 2 Kings, 1 & 2 Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther) tell the story of the Jewish people from the time they entered Canaan; the united kingdom under Saul, David, and Solomon; the division of the kingdom; and the captivity of the northern kingdom by the Assyrians and, later, of the southern kingdom by the Babylonians. The historical books end with some of the Jews in Babylon returning to Jerusalem. Included are...

The Bible never tries to prove that there is a God, but in the Bible the living God speaks to us. He tells us of Himself and of how we may know Him and enjoy His presence with us and in us.Those who become Christians are almost always converted through hearing God speak to them through the message of the Bible, and then responding to Him.The intelligent Bible student rightly argues that one truth cannot contradict another. If we accept the Bible as true, and hold that God cre...

Who wrote the Books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy ‒ the first five books of the Bible known collectively as the Pentateuch? The Jewish and Christian tradition is that it was Moses, accepting that there are some later additions ‒ such as a mention of the death of Moses, and the names of some people who lived later. But is the belief that Moses wrote the Pentateuch credible today? J Stafford Wright, renowned evangelical theologian and principal of Tyndale Hall Theolo...

What is inside the fascinating house with the locked door and the shuttered windows? Satan wants an experiment. God allows it. John is caught up in the plan as Satan's human representative. The experiment? To demonstrate that there can be peace in the world if God allows Satan to run things in his own way. A group of people gather together in an idyllic village run by Satan, with no reference to God, and no belief in him.J Stafford Wright has written this startling and gripping acco...

The Bible Psalms. Do you see them as a source of comfort? A help in daily living? A challenge? Or perhaps something to study in depth? Psalms, a Guide Psalm by Psalm will meet all these requirements, and more. It is an individual study guide that can be used for daily reading in conjunction with your own Bible. It is also a resource for group study, with brief questions for study and discussion. And it's a Bible commentary, dealing with the text of each Psalm section by section.

In a fascinating look at real people, J Stafford Wright shows his love and scholarly knowledge of the Bible as he brings the characters from its pages to life in a memorable way.Read this book through from A to Z, like any other titleDip in and discover who was who in personal Bible studyCheck the names when preparing a talk or sermonThe good, the bad, the beautiful and the ugly – no one is spared. This is a book for everyone who wants to get to grips with the r...

"I believe in...Jesus Christ...born of the Virgin Mary." A beautiful stained glass image, or a medical reality? This is the choice facing Christians today. Can we truly believe that two thousand years ago a young woman, a virgin named Mary, gave birth to the Son of God? The answer is simple: we can. The author says, "In these days many Christians want some sensible assurance that their faith makes sense, and in this book I want to show that it does."In this uplifting book from a pre...

Miracles, seances, horoscopes, Tarot readings, healings, dreams, apparitions, poltergeists. What does the Bible have to say about the supernatural and the occult? Are there good and bad spirits? Is the supernatural always evil? Should we be worried?In this single volume of two of his previously published books, Understanding the Supernatural and Our Mysterious God, J Stafford Wright considers strange events in the Bible and in our own lives in the light of the great Christian truths...

When we start to think about God, we soon come to a point where we say, "I can discover nothing more about God by myself. I must see whether He has revealed anything about Himself, about His character, and about the way to find Him and to please Him." From the beginning, the Christian church has believed that certain writings were the Word of God in a unique sense. Before the New Testament was compiled, Christians accepted the Old Testament as their sacred Book. Here they were following th...

When death calls, no magic in the world can hold it at bay forever.As two very different men face it together, each struggles to accept the inevitable in his own way.