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Session 2 Resources: Jesus
These websites and books explore the person of Jesus - his life, death, resurrection, and identity as Son of God, Messiah, and more.
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BibleProject: From page one to the final word, BibleProject believes the Bible is a unified story that leads to Jesus. This diverse collection of ancient books overflows with wisdom for our modern world. As we let the biblical story speak for itself, BP believes the message of Jesus will transform individuals and entire communities.
Gospel In Life: Online hub for the teachings and writings of Dr. Timothy Keller (1950-2023), founder of Redeemer Presbyterian Church. Keller’s winsome, measured, culturally-engaged, gospel-centred approach to teaching the Bible was deeply effective in reaching secular people in New York City. He is a very helpful and trustworthy mentor for a faith that is grounded in who Jesus is and what he has done. Before he passed away from cancer in Spring 2023, Keller produced a series of videos called “Discovering the Gospel in Every Book of the Bible” – 10 minute videos outlining how each book fits in the gospel story arc of the Bible, the gospel principles that can be seen there, and how the book points to Jesus as its ultimate fulfillment. The videos are being released weekly.
Books
Richard Bauckham, Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony (Eerdmans, 2017)
Challenges the prevailing assumption that the Jesus accounts circulated as "anonymous community traditions," asserting instead that they were transmitted in the names of the original eyewitnesses.
This book presents a portrait of Jesus that in some ways will affirm what traditional Christianity has always understood about him… and, in other ways, upend it altogether.
John Mark Comer, God Has a Name (Thomas Nelson, 2017).
Looking at Exodus 34:6-8, where God describes himself, this book helps alter how you relate to God, not as a doctrine, but as a relational being who responds to you in an elastic, back-and-forth way.
John Dickson, Life of Jesus: Who He Is and Why He Matters (Zondervan, 2010)
Presents the story of Jesus, and the full meaning of that story, in a way that is both deeply faithful to the biblical sources and refreshingly relevant to tomorrow's world and church.
Keller shows how the story of Jesus is at once cosmic, historical, and personal, calling each of us to look anew at our relationship with God.
We come to God as ragamuffins—dirty, bedraggled, and beat-up. And when we sit at His feet, He smiles upon us, the chosen objects of His “furious love.”
J.I. Packer, Knowing God (Hodder & Stoughton, 2013)
An exposition of many aspects of the doctrine of God, his character, his work, and how we should respond to him.
Judah Smith, Jesus is ________: Find a New Way to Be Human (Thomas Nelson, 2013)
Repeatedly filling in the blank, Smith reveals the character of Jesus as life, grace, a new and better way to be human, and more.
A.W. Tozer, Knowledge of the Holy (General Press, 2019).
This book teaches us how we can rejuvenate our prayer life, meditate more reverently, understand God more deeply and experience God’s presence in our daily lives.
N.T. Wright. Simply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense (HarperOne, 2021)
Using clear, simple language to convey a profound message, Wright walks you through the Christian faith step-by-step and question by question.
Let your roots grow down into him,
and let your lives be built on him.
Colossians 2:6
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