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Find Out MoreGod inspired the Bible for a reason. He wants you to read it and let it change your life. If you are willing to take this challenge seriously, then you will love Phil Moore's devotional commentaries. Their bite-sized chapters are punchy and relevant, yet crammed with fascinating scholarship too. Welcome to a new way of reading the Bible with fresh eyes. Welcome to the Straight to the Heart series.
Straight to the Heart of Genesis by Phil Moore was published by Lion Hudson in November 2010 and is our 5505th best seller. The ISBN for Straight to the Heart of Genesis is 9780857210012.
Commentaries on the Bible can, and often are, very dry and heavy going. Thankfully in the last few years we have had a series of devotional commentaries that go beyond dry academia to fill the gap between these and standard study notes. The most famous one is Tom Wright’s Bible For Every One series. Here though the comparison ends as rather than being a fresh translation the Straight to the Heart series is designed to use with the Bible on your bookshelf. Getting the balance between commentating on what those who wrote the Bible are trying to say and bringing out the relevance to today is not easy, and these types of commentaries can feel dated very quickly Genesis: 60 Bite-sized insights falls into the trap of not tackling some of the harder issues, such as what the sin of Ham actually was towards his father that led to the curse on the descendants of Canaan, or the issue of who the sons of gods were who slept with the human women. Even so if you are looking for something to help you move on from daily Bible reading notes to something fresh and more in depth this book is a very good place to start.
About the Straight to the Heart Series
Introduction: It All Begins with God
PART ONE: PRIMEVAL HISTORY (Creation to c.2100 bc)
Creator God (1:1-31)
Cat's Eyes (1:26-31)
God's Day Off (2:1-3)
Two Trees (2:8-17)
The Line (2:18-25)
The Fall and the Curse (3:1-24)
God's Bloodbath (4:1-16)
Sin is Not Your Friend (4:7)
What Moses Did and Didn't Say (5:1)
The Family of God (4:17-5:32)
The Flood (6:1-7:24)
Antediluvian Missionary Secrets (6:1-7:24)
First Things First (8:1-9:17)
Heroes and Zeroes (9:18-10:32)
The Disunited Nations (11:1-9)
PART TWO: PATRIARCHAL HISTORY (c.2100 bc to c.1805 bc)
Abraham: God's Nomad (11:27-12:9)
Name-Calling (12:8)
Pay Cheque (12:10-14:24)
Melchizedek (14:18-24)
What Happened with the Maid (15:1-16:16)
God's Past Tense (17:1-27)
Eight Thousand Square Miles (17:7-8)
While You Are Waiting (18:1-15)
Destined to Rule (18:16-33)
Judgment Day (18:16-19:29)
Lot's Big Mistake (19:1-37)
Achilles' Heel (20:1-18)
Listen Without Prejudice (20:11)
Isaac: God's Promised Heir (21:1-21)
The Test (22:1-19)
A Field and a Cave (23:1-20)
The Greatest Love Story Ever Told (24:1-67)
Instant Soup (25:19-34)
Warts and All (26:1-35)
Jacob: God's Wrestler (27:1-40)
Stairway to Heaven (28:10-22)
Flies Love Filth (29:1-30:43)
Superstition (30:27-43)
The Good Shepherd (30:29-30)
How to Backslide in Four Easy Steps (31:1-55)
The Curse (31:32)
Wrestling with God (32:22-32)
Jacob's New Start (33:1-20 & 35:1-29)
Rape and Retribution (34:1-31)
God of the Nations (36:1-43)
Joseph: God's Saviour (37:1-11)
Boomerang (37:12-36)
Accidentally Fruitful (38:1-30)
Missionary Lesson One: God's Walk (39:1-23)
Missionary Lesson Two: God's Perseverance (40:1-23)
Missionary Lesson Three: God's Perspective (41:1-40)
Missionary Lesson Four: God's Vindication (41:37-57)
Missionary Lesson Five: God's Message (42:1-45:28)
Better Than Freedom (46:1-34)
Disappointment and Regret (47:7-10&28-31)
Live Looking Forwards (48:1-49:33)
The Moral of the Story (50:15-21)
The Mummy (50:22-26)
Conclusion: It All Begins with God
Author / Artist | Phil Moore |
Book Format | Paperback - Bible Commentary |
Publisher | Lion Hudson (November 2010) |
Weight | 295g |
Number of Pages | 274 |
Thickness | 23 mm |
Height | 196 mm |
Width | 130 mm |
ISBN | 9780857210012 |
ISBN-10 | 0857210017 |
Product Code | 3196528 |
Page last updated | 2nd February 2019 |