When the Israelites exclaimed, "Here are your gods!" at the sight of the golden calf, they were attempting to hold on to the God of their history while fashioning idols for their own purposes. In today's Western world, plenty of shiny false gods still hold power -- idols of prosperity, nationalism, and self-interest. Christians desperately need to name and expose these idols. We must retrieve the biblical emphasis on idolatry and apply it anew in...

Gritaban a gran voz: «¡La salvación viene de nuestro Dios, que está sentado en el trono, y del Cordero!» (Ap 7.10) Christopher Wright aprovecha este versículo como si fuera una lente por medio de la cual nos ofrece un panorama de las enseñanzas de la Biblia respecto a la salvación. Cada frase de este versículo resuena junto a temas importantes del Antiguo y Nuevo Testamento, que se combinan al unísono para mostrarnos que la Biblia nos...

Los cuatro escritores de los evangelios que escribieron sobre la cruz de Cristo y los eventos que la antecedieron, lo hicieron a su manera. Cada uno interpreta los eventos a través de la lente de diversas partes del Antiguo Testamento y cada uno enfatiza diferentes temas. Basado en sus propios sermones predicados durante varios años en la Iglesia All Souls en Londres, Christopher Wright explora la rica variedad del pensamiento de los evangelistas...

Understanding and Using the Bible is an engaging and exciting introduction to biblical methods and practices of study, edited by two trusted teachers in collaboration with a diverse array of contributors. Part one explores key Christian beliefs about the Bible and why it matters, guides effective use and application of the Bible in different cultural and social contexts, teaches on right and wrong use of the Bible, models different possible ways...

If you have ever been tempted to disregard Psalm 119 under an assumption that it is some dry and dusty psalm about Old Testament law, you are certainly not alone. However, in this in-depth study of the longest chapter in Scripture, Chris Wright reminds us that it is first and foremost a prayer overflowing from a deeply intimate relationship with God. It is an unfolding conversation between the psalmist's rawest emotions and God's word, his source...

Si alguna vez ha pensado en ignorar el salmo 119, suponiendo que se trata de un salmo reseco y polvoriento sobre la ley del Antiguo Testamento, no es la primera ni la última persona en hacerlo. Sin embargo, en este estudio en profundidad del capítulo más largo de las Escrituras, Chris Wright nos recuerda que es, en primer lugar, una oración que brota de una relación profunda e íntima con Dios. Es una conversación que se despliega entre las...

It's almost second nature for Christians to call God Father. Jesus taught his followers as much, although for them it was apparently a surprising practice. The worshiping community of the Old Testament used fatherly images for understanding God's character and actions, but "Father" was not a common way for believers to address God. In Knowing God the Father Through the Old Testament, Christopher Wright explores in depth the images that pervade the...

We cannot know Jesus without knowing his story. Today the debate over who Jesus is rages on. Has the Bible bound Christians to a narrow and mistaken notion of Jesus? Should we listen to other gospels, other sayings of Jesus, that enlarge and correct a mistaken story? Is the real Jesus entangled in a web of the church's Scripture, awaiting liberation from our childhood faith so he might speak to our contemporary pluralistic world? To answer these questions...

How should Christians live? On the one hand, some very legalistic Christians stress the importance of keeping all the rules-that you must do this and never do that if you want to prove you are really a Christian. On the other hand, there are those who reject the whole idea of rules or traditions in the church and see the point of the Christian faith as setting us free from the institutionalized religious burden. But Paul addresses these two competing...

"There is no easy answer to the meaning of life--even when you believe in God. The book of Ecclesiastes seeks to answer the question: "What do people gain from all their labors at which they toil under the sun?" The book's central character is Qoheleth, who wants to understand the meaning of life as far as he possibly can with the tools of his own empirical observation and reason. He struggles to reconcile the beautiful world that we love and enjoy...