Even Better than Eden: Nine Ways the Bible’s Story Changes Everything about Your Story
Overview
Experienced Bible teacher Nancy Guthrie traces 9 themes throughout the Bible, revealing how God’s plan for the new creation will be far more glorious than the original. But this new creation glory isn’t just reserved for the future. The hope of God’s plan for his people transforms everything about our lives today.
Written for individuals and small groups alike, this book will help you understand God’s plan for the future of his people—life in a garden even better than Eden—in order to experience the glory of this new creation break into your life even now.
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- Reveals how God’s plan for the new creation is more glorious than the original.
- Explains how hope transforms everything about our lives today.
- Helps you understand God’s plan for the future of his people.
- Introduction
- The Story of the Wilderness
- The Story of the Tree
- The Story of His Image
- The Story of Clothing
- The Story of the Bridegroom
- The Story of Sabbath
- The Story of Offspring
- The Story of a Dwelling Place
- The Story of the City
- Conclusion
- Discussion Guide
Nancy Guthrie is one of the best teachers of Scripture I’ve ever heard or read. Her style—even in writing—is conversational. It’s like you’re sharing a cup of coffee while tracing the central motifs of the biblical story from Genesis to Revelation. Eden was great, but the new creation will be greater than the first—not because this world will be no more, but because it will be so much more. It’s not only the end of sin and death, but the kind of righteousness and life that we just can’t wrap our brain around right now. But we do get glimpses—and no better ones than those that Guthrie brings out with such warmth, excitement, and skill.
--Michael Horton, J. Gresham Machen Professor of Systematic Theology and Apologetics, Westminster Seminary California
Even Better than Eden weaves a glorious tapestry of variegated scriptural threads. Nancy Guthrie traces nine magnificent threads from creation to consummation that provide an accessible primer on the biblical metanarrative. Each thread, when unraveled, reveals the beauty and splendor of Jesus. The pages of this book fill me with an eager anticipation of the day when we will get to our home that will be even better than Eden and the completed work of art will be unveiled in all its glory.
--Karen Hodge, Coordinator of Women’s Ministries, Presbyterian Church in America; coauthor, Transformed
As a pastor, I have discovered that Christians need help learning to tell their own story in ways that rightly connect it to what God has preserved for us in his Word. With Even Better than Eden, Nancy Guthrie does just that. Here is a book that will train you to speak more winsomely to others about why and how Jesus matters.
--David R. Helm, Chairman of the Board, Charles Simeon Trust; Pastor, Christ Church Chicago
- Title: Even Better than Eden: Nine Ways the Bible's Story Changes Everything about Your Story
- Author: Nancy Guthrie
- Publisher: Crossway
- Print Publication Date: 2018
- Logos Release Date: 2019
- Pages: 208
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- Subjects: Kingdom of God; Jesus Christ › Kingdom; Eschatology; Heaven › Christianity; Bible › Theology
- ISBNs: 9781433561283, 143356128X
- Resource ID: LLS:9781433561283
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-06T20:49:14Z
Nancy Guthrie teaches the Bible at her home church, Cornerstone Presbyterian Church in Franklin, Tennessee, as well as at conferences around the country and internationally, including her Biblical Theology Workshop for Women. She is the author of numerous books and the host of the Help Me Teach the Bible podcast with the Gospel Coalition. She and her husband founded Respite Retreats for couples who have faced the death of a child and are cohosts of the GriefShare video series.