MAGNALIA DEIWhen one delves into the things of God you plunge headlong into a pool of superlatives only to discover there are no words adequate to describe the Living Almighty God and His ways. Magnalia Dei is an old Latin phrase that speaks of the mighty acts, the wonders, the miraculous works of God. God confirms, validates, and authenticates His Word through miracles. Men are able to observe the miracles, the supernatural acts of God. The miracles of Jesus were to confirm that He is the Messiah, the Christ, that His message is from God the Father. His miracles proved He also had the power to forgive sins. Miracles were the seals of His divine mission. Think of the great miracles God performs for us and in us. The greatest miracle is that he does. Selah! The new birth is one of His greatest miracles.Jesus said, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God."How?REPENTBELIEVERECEIVE CONCEIVEThe collective miracles of God in nations begin with individual miracles, one man, or one woman, at a time. I'm an evangelist. What is the difference between an evangelist and a pastor? A pastor comforts the afflicted. An evangelist afflicts the comfortable, those comfortable in their sin on their journey to the pit of hell. The gospel makes them uncomfortable. I am concerned with the salvation of one man, one woman, at a time. Collectively, these redeemed of the Lord will change nations led by ordinary people doing extraordinary things.

This collection of articles dedicated to Michael E. Stone contains cutting-edge studies on apocrypha and pseudepigrapha, the Dead Sea Scrolls, early Judaism, and early Christianity.

This book examines the problem of theodicy arising from the fall of Jerusalem (587 B.C.E.) in the book of Jeremiah. It explores the ways in which the authors of the book of Jeremiah tried to explain away their God's responsibility while clinging to the idea of divine mastery over human affairs. In order to trace the development of a particular book's understanding of God's role in meting out punishments, this book analyzes all the passages containing the word pivotal, הכעיס (“to provoke to anger”) in Deuteronomistic History and the book of Jeremiah.

The Reading and Preaching of the Scriptures in the Worship of the Christian Church is a multivolume study by Hughes Oliphant Old that canvasses the history of preaching from the words of Moses at Mount Sinai through modern times. In Volume 1, The Biblical Period, Old begins his survey by discussing the roots of the Christian ministry of the Word in the worship of Israel. He then examines the preaching of Christ and the Apostles. Finally, Old looks at the development and practice of Christian preaching in the second and third centuries, concluding with the ministry of Origen.

Wilf Hildebrandt carefully explores the meaning of "the Spirit" in the Old Testament. He examines the role of God's Spirit in creation, in the establishment and preservation of God's people, in prophecy, and in Israel's leadership. He unveils the central role that the Spirit plays in creatively bringing about the directives of God. Through the Spirit, God brings order out of chaos, ushers the invisible into reality, makes a separation between the sacred and the profane, enables specific people to meet particular needs, and supersedes natural laws. This work sheds light on the Spirit of God in both the Old Testament and the New Testament.

This collection of studies is in honor of Professor James A. Sanders, a leading scholar in the fields of canon of Scripture, textual criticism, and intertextuality. Contributors include leading scholars in these and related fields of study.

God calls his people to be holy. What does this mean? Holiness means belonging to God and being stamped with his character. This belonging is expressed for ancient Israel in the story of the foundational events on Mount Sinai. The idea is then developed, refined and transformed through the establishment of the priesthood, the gift of the Law, the challenge of the prophets and, in the New Testament, through the life of Christ. This book sets out these perspectives alongside each other, and considers their interplay within the canon of scripture as a whole. The result is both a biblical theology of holiness and a promising model for reinterpreting one text in the light on another.