Life Application New Testament Commentary

by Bruce B. Barton; Philip W. Comfort; Grant R. Osborne; Linda K. Taylor

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Publisher:

Tyndale

, 2001

Overview

Based on the best-selling Life Application Commentary series, this single, handy volume holds practical, concise insight on every verse in the New Testament. Now readers can get all the useful background information they need, without a lot of obscure facts they don’t need. This is a key resource for every Bible teacher and anyone else who wants to understand the New Testament and how it applies to real life.

Key Features

• Practical insight on the New Testament
• Read any Gospel account and view it in relation to the entire life of Christ
• Includes a harmony of the Gospels feature

Contents

Top Highlights

“Despite personal hardships, Peter, like Paul, wrote to encourage others, to build them up in their faith, and to give them direction and guidance. In your struggles, do you look inward or outward? Do you tend to feel sorry for yourself or to encourage others?” (Page 1099)

“Rich or poor, believers must obey God and love him. This could be called the heart of James’s message. If we really love God, both our faith in him and our obedience to him will be right. We will not belittle anyone with whom we share a common inheritance.” (Page 1077)

“According to human standards, Jesus was merely a human being, an insignificant man who died like a criminal. But that changed at Paul’s encounter with the risen Christ on the Damascus road (Acts 9:1–15). In the same way, believers are changed when they meet Christ. Christians are new people. The Holy Spirit gives them new life, and they are not the same anymore. Christians are not reformed, rehabilitated, or reeducated—they are recreated. At conversion, believers are not merely turning over a new leaf; they are beginning a new life under a new Master. The old life of sin and death has gone; the selfish, sinful human nature has been dealt a death blow (see Galatians 5:16–21, 24). Old ways of thinking, old distinctions, have been abolished. In its place, a new life has begun.” (Page 728)

“This miracle and these leftovers reveal Jesus once again as the all-sufficient Lord. Our needs and problems are not obstacles to him, for his abundant power transcends any need or problem we place before him.” (Page 398)

Product Details

• Title: Life Application New Testament Commentary
• Authors: Bruce B. Barton, Philip W. Comfort, Grant R. Osborne, Linda K. Taylor, Dave Veerman
• Publisher: Tyndale
• Print Publication Date: 2001
• Logos Release Date: 2012
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Bible. N.T. › Commentaries
• ISBNs: 9780842370660, 0842370668
• Resource ID: LLS:LFAPPNTCOMM
• Resource Type: Bible Commentary
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T01:10:03Z

About the Editors

Philip Comfort is the senior editor of Bible reference at Tyndale and served as the New Testament editor for the New Living Translation. He has contributed a number of books to the Tyndale collection both as author and editor including, The New Greek-English Interlinear New Testament, The Origin of the Bible, The Tyndale Bible Dictionary, Essential Guide to Bible Versions, The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts (with D. Barrett), and Who’s Who in Christian History.

Grant Osborne is a theologian, professor, and editor of several renowned commentary series, including The IVP New Testament Commentary Series (18 vols.).

Linda K. Taylor is a freelance editor and writer for the Livingstone Corporation and for Tyndale House Publishers. She served on the editorial team for the Life Application Bible and the volume on the Gospel of John in the Life Application Bible Commentary series, both of which won Gold Medallion Awards. She has also written Does God Care if I Can’t Pay My Bills?

Dave Veerman, graduate of Wheaton College (BA) and Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (MDiv), has written 65 books, including Parenting Passages, How to Apply the Bible, Letting Them Go, One Year Through the Bible, and If I Knew Then What I Know Now. He also served as a senior editor of the Life Application Study Bible and Student’s Life Application Study Bible.