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The Rest of the Story: A Closer Look at Familiar Passages is unavailable, but you can change that!

When we ignore the context of Bible passages, many times we can miss the message God has in store for us. In The Rest of the Story, Doug Greenwold focuses on ten familiar passages—unfolding their historical, cultural, literary, and geographical contexts—and brings new insight and understanding to their significance and meaning. By teaching you how to study God's Word in its original context, this...

Christ became what we are so that He might make us like Him. —Athanasius Read: No room for them in the inn. That is how almost every contemporary Bible translates Luke 2:7. This widespread use of inn conjures up an image of Joseph and a very pregnant Mary arriving in Bethlehem so late on the eve of Jesus’ birth that a “no vacancy” sign greets them at the only “Motel 6” in town. Not only is this not true to Luke’s text, nor his context,
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