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Israel neglected the needy, gained riches through exploitation, and indulged in inauthentic religious practices. With searing clarity and daring hope, Amos calls God's people to repent. This revised BST volume exposes and explains Amos's prophetic call for Israel's repentance showing the message's astonishing relevance for today.

Christopher J. H. Wright masterfully opens our eyes to see and understand the message of Ezekiel. Ezekiel's vision of the glory of God--its departure and return--is first set within Israel's history and then in the culmination of God's promises in Christ. Embedded in the pattern of the strange, the bizarre and the wonderful is a word that still speaks to God's people today.

The book of Malachi assumes, summarizes, and applies the Old Testament, yet also looks forward to the New Testament with its promises of the coming reign of God. In this revised edition of a classic BST volume, Peter Adam explores God's unfailing love against the backdrop of Israel's inconsistent faithfulness.

Zechariah is imbued with the same heart cry that Jesus turned into a prayer for the world: "Your kingdom come." This BSTP volumes explores the kingdom of God through the oracles and visions of Zechariah, bringing to light the promises that are meant to fuel the faithfulness of God's people and prepare the way for the promised Messiah.

The book of Jonah is likely the best known of the minor prophets and is often remembered for its oddity. In this BST volume, Rosemary Nixon moves beyond the amusing irony to show that this book reaches out an touches us where we are today, exploring the depths of the book and helping us make connections with our view of God and his world.

At the heart of the rarely read or preached books of Obadiah, Nahum, and Zephaniah are important themes like God's character; facing up to sin and judgment; responding in repentance; and hoping for future salvation and restoration. In this BST volume, you'll find prophets that spoke to the real world and continue to speak to us today.

Why would God ask one of his prophets to marry a prostitute? Because he wanted to teach Hosea and Israel a painful yet joyous lesson. Derek Kidner takes us through the unfolding story of Hosea and Gomer, explaining the basic message, pointing out its subtleties, and encouraging us to live lives worthy of the God who loves the loveless.

Where is God in times of disaster? What are God's people to do about moral decay in society? The books of Joel, Micah, and Habakkuk offer special insight on these perennial problems. David Prior's exposition provides careful study and measured application for today's church, and points to a transcendent God who gives hope in uncertainty.

In this Bible Speaks Today volume, former pastor and professor Dale Ralph Davis explains the background of Daniel, analyzes the stories and visions within it and sfits through interpretative issues. While acknowledging the challenges of the book, Davis reveals how it offers "a realistic manual for the saints" in the present day.

In this BST volume, Christopher Wright shows that Jeremiah is a book about the victory of God's love and grace. Jeremiah's portrait of the future is one that is fulfilled in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus the Messiah, and ultimately in God's dwelling with his with his redeemed people forever in the new creation.

In this BST volume, Barry Webb showcases the outstanding brilliance of style, poetic power, and foretaste of the gospel that the book of Isaiah offers. With accessible insight, he shows how the threads of the Old Testament come together in Isaiah, training our ears and hearts to resonate with its great biblical-theological themes.

With imagination and clarity, Derek Kidner introduces the book of Ecclesiastes, an unusual book that nevertheless speaks powerfully to each generation. In this BST volume, Kidner reveals how the Preacher faces the fear that God is distant and nothing has meaning, and leads us to finally encounter the God who was present all along.

In this BST volume, Tom Gledhill explores the unique biblical interlude of Song of Songs. He incorporates themes raised by the Song, such as human nature, mortality, and social and cultural conditioning, while staying focused on the text as an extended love poem, both beautiful and mysterious.

Proverbs' instruction in the art of living has been long tried and long proven. This BST commentary wonderfully illuminates the ancient cultural and religious background and brings the wisdom of Proverbs in conversation with the wisdom of God now more fully displayed in Christ, clarifying the place of Proverbs in the pattern of God's word.

Michael Wilcock has written a travel guide to the Psalms. In this second volume of the BST commentaries on the Psalms, Wilcock explores the complexities of faith-the conflicts, burdens, mysteries, and suffierings of life. In these laments and praises, hymns and liturgies, the Bible continues to speak clearly today.

In this first BST volume on the Psalms, Michael Wilcock has written a travel guide to the Psalms. He invites us through the gateway of Psalms 1 and 2 into all the complexities of faith--the conflicts, burdens, mysteries, and sufferings of life. In these laments and praises, hymns and liturgies, the Bible continues to speak clearly today.

Genesis sets the scene for the whole of the Bible, and indeed the entire human drama. In this BST commentary, Joyce G. Baldwin shows how the vivid narratives of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph in Genesis 12-50 still speak to us today, highlighting God's ways of dealing with ordinary, imperfect people in fulfilling his great plan for the whole of humanity.

In a society that scorned the gospel and sneered at godly living, John encouraged Christians with a message forged from two words: truth and love. In this revised BST volume, David Jackman considers 1, 2, and 3 John by providing historical background, identifying key themes, and offering applications for today.

The message of Peter's first letter turned the world upside-down for his readers. He saw the people of the young church of the first century as strangers, aliens who were only temporary residents, travelers heading for their native land.

Second Peter and Jude are among the most neglected books of the New Testament. But alert readers have long noted an unmistakable family resemblance between these two letters. Like orphans reunited, in this commentary 2 Peter and Jude show themselves to be robust theological siblings, charged with a keen, no-nonsense desire to warm young believers of the false spiritual guides that are out to beguile them. This commentary is a skillful exposition of these two letters within their original setting. More than that, it narrows the gap between our day and that day, between our cultural and spiritual setting and that setting, and allows the Spirit-driven message to arc between then and now. Wherever Christians face or anticipate the destabilizing and destructive influence of misled teachers and subverters of truth, these letters will speak today.

Paul's letter to the Ephesians clearly sets forth God's eternal purpose to create the church--God's new society. In this revised BST volume, John Stott expounds Paul's theme of uniting all things in Christ by uniting his church. Guiding readers passage by passage through Ephesians, he provides helpful background, highlights key themes, and offers applications for Christians today.

In this revised BST volume, John Stott clearly expounds Paul's words, themes, and arguments in Romans and offers applications for today's readers. Deeply acquainted with the text and context of Romans and Pauline scholarship, Stott also explores the epistle's rich harmonies and broad vision, highlighting the power of the gospel.

Paul wrote his letter to the Philippians while he was in prison, but it radiates joy in fellowship and in Jesus himself. In this revised BST volume, J. A. Motyer identifies three of the book's major themes: the unity of the church, the person of Jesus and what he has achieved, and the call to live a life worthy of the gospel.