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The Ascension of Christ: Recovering a Neglected Doctrine is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Ascension is essential to the gospel. The good news of Jesus includes his life, death, resurrection, and future return—but what about his ascension? Though often neglected or misunderstood, the ascension is integral to the gospel. In The Ascension of Christ, Patrick Schreiner argues that Jesus’ work would be incomplete without his ascent to God’s right hand. Not only a key moment in the...

First, kings were chosen by the Lord—they were his sons, his representatives. Deuteronomy 17:15 says Israel’s king was to be “whom the LORD your God will choose.” The king was to be an Israelite, but God would be the one to select their kings. This reality played itself out in the triad of kings who inaugurated the monarchial period. Saul was anointed (or chosen) by God’s prophet Samuel (1 Sam 9:17; 10:1). The same ritual occurred for both David (1 Sam 16:13) and Solomon (1 Kgs 1:39). Kings in Israel
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