Covenant People

A Study Guide and a Teacher’s Manual Gospel Principles was written both as a personal study guide and as a teacher’s manual. As you study it, seeking the Spirit of the Lord, you can grow in your understanding and testimony of God the Father, Jesus Christand His Atonement, and the Restoration of the gospel. You can find answers to life’s questions, gain an assurance of your purpose and self-worth, and face personal and family challenges with faith.

Sister Dianne Bergant invites readers to explore the First Testament through the lens of the people who populate it. Here we learn about the relationship between God and God's chosen people from Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Joshua, Deborah, David, Solomon, Moses, Isaiah, Aaron, Zadok, Woman Wisdom, Job, Ruth, and many more. In the process we learn the history and relevance of ancient Israel while learning about the ancestors, judges, kings, prophets, priests, wise ones, mysterious figures, rebels, lovers, and healers who bring the First Testament to life and speak to us today. Book jacket.

The twentieth century witnessed harsh anti-Semitism, vicious pogroms, and the unimaginable Holocaust. Over a third of the worlds Jews were killed. Yet, today the largest concentration of Jews resides in Israela modern miracle. Theologian and historian Dr. Jim Eckman presents a riveting history of Gods covenant people from the initial promises God made to Abraham to the establishment of the modern state of Israel in 1948. Through enslavement in ancient Egypt, the conquest under Joshua, the establishment of the monarchy under David, the brutal exiles under Assyria and Babylon to the tragedies of Diaspora Judaism, the Jewish people have survived. For almost 1,900 years, the Jews were dispersed and despised as Christ-killers. But, by the late ninteenth century, there was evidence of a change in the worlds perception of the Jews. How and why did they begin their historic trek back to their ancient homeland? Eckman identifies ten major historical events that reawakened the West to the necessity of a homeland for the Jewish people. As he weaves history together with the theological portrait of our covenant-making, covenant-keeping God, Eckman provides an indispensable handbook for understanding todays Middle East and the importance of the Jewish people to Gods eternal plan for this planet.

Akenson brings to light critical similarities among three politically troubled nations: South Africa, Israel, and Northern Ireland.

The Psalms of the First Covenant People of God is an outcome of the fruit of teaching the Psalms to Theologians for 22 years. The Second Vatican Council has insisted on all the members of the Second Covenant People of God to go back to the practice of the Early Church, that followed the practice of the First Covenant People of God, in order to nourish their spiritual life. The Early Church used to have daily Morning and Evening Prayers. They were the two hinges on which turned the whole day's life of every Christian. The Psalms of the First Covenant People of God has an Introduction to Praying the Psalms, a Classification of All the Psalms and an Exposition of Some Psalms. Each Psalm that appears in this issue is analyzed with an Introduction, Division, Interpretation and Christian Transposition. The book has Appendices with a Reading Plan for Psalms and a glossary of Terms. May all the readers of The Psalms of the First Covenant People of God find the book instructive, useful and fostering. May they all have the unsurpassable joy of enjoying the Psalms and praying them at home and church.

This is a careful examination of the doctrine of Jewish chosenness in the light of Gersonides's thought on providential suffering and on inherited providence. Gersonides is one of the most interesting and important philosophers of the later Jewish Middle Ages.

A Comprehensive Exploration of the Biblical Covenants This book forms an overview of the biblical teaching on covenant as well as the practical significance of covenant for the Christian life. A host of 26 scholars shows how covenant is not only clearly taught from Scripture, but also that it lays the foundation for other key doctrines of salvation. The contributors, who engage variously in biblical, systematic, and historical theology, present covenant theology not as a theological abstract imposed on the Bible but as a doctrine that is organically presented throughout the biblical narrative. As students, pastors, and church leaders come to see the centrality of covenant to the Christian faith, the more the church will be strengthened with faith in the covenant-keeping God and encouraged in their understanding of the joy of covenant life.