Tuesday Tome - Reading on a Rainy Day

I finally have a day with some good time for uninterrupted reading. When life is in balance and going well, every day has time for uninterrupted reading, but that hasn't been the case for me the last couple of months. I'm really trying to get back on track with my reading priorities, and today, I should be finishing or getting pretty close to completing N. T. Wright's Simply Jesus.

Simply Jesus is a good compliment to my current Sunday teaching series at Valley Christian Church – JESUS 3D. In fact, the subtitle of Wright's book is what inspired the three dimensional approach I'm taking in this series about Jesus.

Simply Jesus (N. T. Wright)

From Amazon's Book Description:
Bible scholar, Anglican bishop, and bestselling author N. T. Wright summarizes a lifetime of study of Jesus and the New Testament in order to present for a general audience who Jesus was and is. In Simply Jesus, we are invited to hear one of our leading scholars introduce the story of the carpenter’s son from Nazareth as if we were hearing it for the first time.

“Jesus—the Jesus we might discover if we really looked,” explains Wright, “is larger, more disturbing, more urgent than we had ever imagined. We have successfully managed to hide behind other questions and to avoid the huge, world-shaking challenge of Jesus’s central claim and achievement. It is we, the churches, who have been the real reductionists. We have reduced the kingdom of God to private piety; the victory of the cross to comfort for the conscience; Easter itself to a happy, escapist ending after a sad, dark tale. Piety, conscience, and ultimate happiness are important, but not nearly as important as Jesus himself.”

As the church faces the many challenges of the twenty-first century, Wright has presented a vision of Jesus that more than meets them.

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