The Christ Key by Chad Bird
Reading the Old Testament can seem like exploring an old, mysterious mansion, packed with of all sorts of strange rooms.
- The creation room, vast and sublime.
- The exodus room, with hardhearted pharaohs and dried-up seas.
- The war room, with bloody swords and crumbling walls.
- The tabernacle room, with smoking altars and dark inner sanctums.
What does this odd and ancient world have to do with us, who are modern followers of Jesus? As it turns out, everything! Every chapter in the Old Testament, in a variety of ways, tells the story that culminates in Jesus the Messiah.
What Christians today call the Old Testament is what Jesus and the earliest believers simply called the Scriptures. That was their Bible. From its pages, they taught about the Messiah's divine nature, his priestly work, his ministry of salvation. The Christ Key will reintroduce readers to these old books as ever-fresh, ever-new testimonies of Jesus. By the end, you will see even Leviticus as a book of grace and mercy, and you will hear in the Psalms the resounding voice of Christ.
Chad Bird has served as a pastor in the Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod, as assistant professor of Hebrew and exegetical theology at Concordia Theological Seminary in Ft. Wayne, Indiana, and as a guest lecturer at Lutheran Theological Seminary in Novosibirsk, Siberia. He has contributed articles to the Lutheran Witness, Gottesdienst, Concordia Journal, Concordia Theological Quarterly, Modern Reformation, Concordia Pulpit Resources, Logia, Higher Things, and The Federalist. He is the author of The Infant Priest, Christ Alone, and Night Driving. In addition to hosting chadbird.com, he is a regular contributor to christholdfast.org and 1517legacy.com. He lives in Texas.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781948969529 |
| ISBN 10 | 1948969521 |
| Title | The Christ Key |
| Author | Chad Bird |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | 1517 Publishing |
| Year published | 2021-07-20 |
| Number of pages | 202 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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