Martyr’s Manual: The Brilliant, Tragic, and Inspiring Message of Hebrews
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Overview
“Faith” gets its most powerful definition from the New Testament book of Hebrews. Yet this anonymous treatise tantalizes with both its lack of contemporary precision about faith’s definition and its shrouded original context. There are, however, sufficient clues in Hebrew’s text to guide astute investigators toward a strange and yet familiar world of religious challenge in which the deeply significant rituals of ancient Israel, the attractive moral character of first-century Jews in Rome, a crowd of disaffected righteous Romans, and a purported Palestinian messiah converge to produce one of the world’s most thoughtful, courageous, and brilliant calls to martyrdom. In this careful pilgrimage along the author’s meticulous development of a holy challenge to remain faithful to Jesus (precisely because there are no meaningful alternatives), Brouwer helps us find an inspiring and ever-relevant call to faith—we become the persons we are through the daily choices we make about Jesus and others.
- Examines the text, backstory, and message of Hebrews
- Highlights the interweaving of exposition and exhortation throughout Hebrews
- Focuses on the flow of the writer’s intentions and message
- A New Voice
- Better Than Angels
- This Is Important
- Getting into Our Skin
- Better Than Moses
- Back to School
- Sabbath Rest
- New Age Cosmology
- Coach’s Challenge
- Where the Story Begins
- Melchizedek
- Splitting the Day of the Lord
- Atonement Day Revisited
- A Tale of Two Covenants
- Let’s Keep Going
- The Grace of Reproof
- In Good Company
- Mountain Standard Time
- Becoming Our Best Selves
- Who Are These People?
- Title: Martyr’s Manual: The Brilliant, Tragic, and Inspiring Message of Hebrews
- Author: Wayne Brouwer
- Publisher: Wipf & Stock
- Publication Date: 2019
- Pages: 316
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Topic: Hebrews