The 52 Greatest Stories of the Bible

by Kenneth Boa; John Alan Turner

Publisher:

Regal

, 2008

Overview

In today's world, the basic building blocks of a Christian world view are often missing in people's lives. To help fill in this missing information, The 52 Greatest Stories of the Bible presents a foundational, clear synthesis of the most significant narratives of the Bible along with the implications and applications of these interrelated stories. It presents the big story in such a way that it will do the following: connect the dots for readers of the Bible, demonstrating how each individual story is really one chapter in the larger story; show how Jesus is the point of the story, especially his death and resurrection; and build a biblical world view by showing the reader how the Bible answers the ultimate questions of life.

Contents

Top Highlights

“He moved easily among the people and had the same message for all of them: This is it! This is what you’ve been waiting for! The Kingdom is at last so close that you can reach out your hand and grab hold of it! And, oh, the people wanted to hear it, wanted to believe it! But they had no way of understanding what He meant, so He was constantly misunderstood.” (Page 237)

“Creativity. Order and design. Diversity. Rest. People. Community. These are the priorities of God’s heart as it is revealed in the first two chapters of the Bible. Are they ours as well?” (Page 21)

“Knowing that we might struggle with His timing, God calls us to live with hope and trust in that which He has promised—in spite of the fact that we don’t see it yet. He calls us to look back at His track record. He calls us to look forward to the coming fulfillment of His promises.” (Page 201)

“Your circumstances do not reveal God’s character. In fact, the challenge of living Christianly in our world is to view our circumstances in light of God’s unchanging character.” (Page 201)

“Each leaf is unique, individual, different. Each flower, each snowflake, each person appears to be handcrafted by God.” (Pages 20–21)

Product Details

• Title: The 52 Greatest Stories of the Bible
• Authors: Kenneth Boa and John Alan Turner
• Publisher: Regal Books
• Publication Date: 2008
• Pages: 393

About the Authors

Kenneth Boa is engaged in a ministry of relational evangelism and discipleship, teaching, writing, and speaking. He holds a B.S. from Case Institute of Technology, a Th.M. From Dallas Theological Seminary, a Ph.D. from New York University, and a D.Phil. from the University of Oxford in England. Dr. Boa is the President of Reflections Ministries, an organization that seeks to provide safe places for people to consider the claims of Christ and to help them mature and bear fruit in their relationship with Him. He is also President of Trinity House Publishers, a publishing company that is dedicated to the creation of tools that will help people manifest eternal values in a temporal arena by drawing them to intimacy with God and a better understanding of the culture in which they live.

Recent publications by Dr. Boa include Faith Has its Reasons, Conformed to His Image, An Unchanging Faith in a Changing World; Face to Face; Pursuing Wisdom; The Art of Living Well; Wisdom at Work, Living what You Believe, and Sacred Readings. He is a contributing editor to The Open Bible, the Promise Keeper's Men's Study Bible, The Leadership Bible, the consulting editor of the Zondervan NASB Study Bible, and the Editor-in-Chief of The Life Promises Bible.

John Alan Turner is a writer, speaker, and consultant for Reflections Ministries and churches around the country. He lives with his wife and daughters in Atlanta, Georgia.