The Teach the Text Commentary Series utilizes the best of biblical scholarship to provide the information a pastor needs to communicate the text effectively. The carefully selected preaching units and focused commentary allow pastors to quickly grasp the big idea and key themes of each passage of Scripture. Each unit of the commentary includes the big idea and key themes of the passage and sections dedicated to understanding, teaching, and illustrating the text.

The Teach the Text Commentary Series utilizes the best of biblical scholarship to provide the information a pastor needs to communicate the text effectively. The carefully selected preaching units and focused commentary allow pastors to quickly grasp the big idea and key themes of each passage of Scripture. Each unit of the commentary includes the big idea and key themes of the passage and sections dedicated to understanding, teaching, and illustrating the text. In his commentary on 1 Corinthians, Preben Vang shows how Paul's experience with the church in Corinth is so remarkably applicable to the church in a postmodern Western context, expertly translating the issues of Paul's day into our contemporary situation.

The Teach the Text Commentary Series utilizes the best of biblical scholarship to provide the information a pastor needs to communicate the text effectively. The carefully selected preaching units and focused commentary allow pastors to quickly grasp the big idea and key themes of each passage of Scripture. Each unit of the commentary includes the big idea and key themes of the passage and sections dedicated to understanding, teaching, and illustrating the text. The newest release in this innovative commentary series is Jeannine K. Brown's treatment of the Gospel of Matthew.

Vice President Luke Harris is vacationing in Israel when he learns of the untimely death of President Max Alvarez. As Luke steps into the office of President, he becomes increasingly aware that he is literally empowered with the power and spirit of Luke the Apostle.President Harris' son Alex works at IBM Research and assists his father in the deployment of substantial technological advances - interactive television, micro-loan technology, speech recognition, machine-assisted language translation and natural language analyses. As President Harris accomplishes significant achievements, we are left to ask if his successes were due to his empowerment or to the use of technology. What is coincidence and what is the grace of God? Readers will repeatedly face this question as President Harris grows in faith, overcomes political obstacles, and works to create social reform on a grand scale. Luke2 is truly unique in terms of the frequent use of biblical references and the infusion of modern technological concept.

This concise, carefully organized commentary for pastors presents biblical scholarship to inform authoritative expository preaching and teaching. Each chapter includes the big idea, key themes, and sermon illustrations.

A highly acclaimed professor of literature offers a theological reading of Luke in this addition to the Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible.