{"id":81811,"date":"2019-01-28T04:08:59","date_gmt":"2019-01-28T10:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/?p=81811"},"modified":"2019-01-28T11:06:13","modified_gmt":"2019-01-28T17:06:13","slug":"chris-wright-3-volumes-in-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/2019\/01\/28\/chris-wright-3-volumes-in-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Wright, 3 Volumes in 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/40\/2019\/01\/Screen-Shot-2019-01-26-at-10.15.20-AM.png\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-81817\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/40\/2019\/01\/Screen-Shot-2019-01-26-at-10.15.20-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"325\" height=\"502\"><\/a>I am a big fan of Christopher Wright\u2019s books because he knows how to teach the church about reading the Old Testament from a mission perspective.<\/p>\n<p>From teens to college students and into adult Bible studies there are very few books that work their way through the Bible without creating endless tedium or that somehow come off as just too superficial. Hence, I liked his <em>Knowing<\/em><em>\u00a0Jesus through the Old Testament<\/em>, then he did one on\u00a0<em>Knowing God the Father Through the Old Testament\u00a0<\/em>and then\u00a0<em>Knowing the Holy Spirit Through the Old Testament<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Now they are all bound into one volume,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2S7JssT\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><strong><em>Knowing God Through the Old Testament<\/em><\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0and that book is about to be shipped \u2014 so make your order today.<\/p>\n<p>Chris is an OT specialist but also a missionary specialist, and these two come together in all his books. This new one volume gets high praise from Craig Bartholomew, Lynn Cohick, Ajith Fernando, Kris Kandiah, and yours truly.<\/p>\n<p>Highly recommended!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a big fan of Christopher Wright\u2019s books because he knows how to teach the church about reading the Old Testament from a mission perspective. 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