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The God of Promise and the Life of Faith: Understanding the Heart of the Bible is unavailable, but you can change that!

This theological primer lets the Bible tell its own message, providing a basic framework for Scripture that will encourage readers to take up the Bible for themselves and grow in faith, hope, and love. Based on the seasoned scholarship and incisive exegesis of Scott Hafemann, The God of Promise and the Life of Faith helps Christians better understand the power of the Bible’s message and readily...

at that same cross. The cross of Christ in the midst of history was the centerpiece of God’s plan before the foundation of the world (1 Pet. 1:20). As such, Christ’s death is the ground of God’s forgiveness both retroactively and proactively. “Christ … died for sins once for all” (1 Pet. 3:18). Nobody, from Adam and Eve to the person sitting in church next to you, was ever forgiven apart from the mercy of God made possible by the death of Christ. This is why the Bible teaches that we are saved by
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