Are Christians Missing the Plot of the Old Testament?

Messiah Community Radio Talk Show

Discover the Heart of God Through the Old Testament.

Knowing God Through the Old Testament brings together three of Christopher J. H. Wright’s best loved books: Knowing God the Father Through the Old Testament, Knowing Jesus Through the Old Testament, and Knowing the Holy Spirit Through the Old Testament. Each volume focuses on one of the three persons of the Trinity. Here’s what you’ll find in each part:

Knowing God the Father Through the Old Testament

• Explores images found in biblical narratives, psalms, and prophetic texts of the Old Testament
• Depicts God as both tender and terrifying, challenging to nations yet deeply personal
• Highlights God’s loving care, provision, discipline, and forgiveness
• Describes the God Jesus knew, and the one we can know as Father

Knowing Jesus Through the Old Testament

• Explores Jesus’ self-understanding as both Son of Man and Son of God from his deep roots in the Hebrew Scriptures
• Reveals Jesus as the one who fulfilled Israel’s God-given mission
• Emphasizes that understanding the Old Testament brings us closer to the heart of Jesus

Knowing the Holy Spirit Through the Old Testament

• Explores the presence of the Holy Spirit in the decrees of prophets and psalmists, the actions of judges and craftspeople, the anointing of kings, and the promise of a new creation
• Shows how Holy Spirit empowered God’s people throughout the Bible
• Reveals the Holy Spirit sustaining and renewing the earth

Knowing God Through the Old Testament will strengthen and deepen your personal relationship with the triune God by enabling you to know him through deep immersion and engagement with his Word, especially in the less familiar voices of the Old Testament. This is a voyage of biblical discovery, crossing many horizons and exploring especially the sources of our knowledge of God the Holy Trinity—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

Christopher J. H. Wright (PhD, Cambridge) is international ministries ambassador of the Langham Partnership, providing literature, scholarships, and preaching training for pastors in Majority World churches and seminaries. He has written many books including commentaries on Deuteronomy, Jeremiah, Lamentations, and Ezekiel; The Mission of God; Cultivating the Fruit of the Spirit; Old Testament Ethics for the People of God; and the three volumes of Knowing God Through the Old Testament. An ordained priest in the Church of England, Chris spent five years teaching the Old Testament at Union Biblical Seminary in India and thirteen years as academic dean and then principal of All Nations Christian College, an international training center for crosscultural mission in England. He was chair of the Lausanne Theology Working Group from 2005 to 2011 and the chief architect of The Cape Town Commitment from the Third Lausanne Congress, 2010.