How to Read the Bible (as If Your Life Depends on It)

As fewer Christians read the Bible daily, fewer understand what a marvelous revelation it is from God to man. How to Read the Bible (as If Your Life Depends on It) offers believers and nonbelievers alike a new appreciation for the Bible, helping them to read it for understanding, not just as the storybook they remember from childhood.There has never been any other book like the Bible.Comprising sixty-six books by at least forty human authors writing over a span of sixteen hundred years, the Bible is nevertheless a single book with a single Author. Its unity confounds human wisdom.God inspired kings, shepherds, fishermen, priests, prophets—even a tax collector—to address the people of their time and place and the people of all times and all places. He gave them a single theme: Jesus the Messiah, our Redeemer.From Genesis to Revelation, these sixty-six books tell one story: the story of man’s rebellion against God and God’s redemptive love for the human race. It’s the story of a Kingdom