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Product: WCS Ephesians: Alive in Christ (Welwyn Commentary Series Book 49)
Description: Ephesians is powerful spiritual fuel for every believer! Beginning with the great, heart-warming teaching of the opening chapters, Paul presents the riches the Christian has in the Lord Jesus Christ.Here are inexhaustible ‘heights of love and depths of peace.’ But in addition to rich doctrine this letter has an immensely practical dimension. If you want to know how to live in the twenty-first century world with all its confusing views of truth and reality, Ephesians is the place to go.

Stuart Olyott writes with his usual clarity, enabling both the new believer and the more mature Christian to find spiritual refreshment from this sparkling jewel of the New Testament.

After thirty-five years of pastoral experience in Great Britain and French- speaking Switzerland, Stuart Olyott is currently Pastoral Director for the Evangelical Movement of Wales, Bryntirion, Bridgend. He is the author of a number of books, including Jesus is both God and Man; The Three are One; You might have asked ... about the Christian faith; and four titles in the Welwyn Commentary Series, which include The Gospel as it really is (Romans) and Alive in Christ (Ephesians).
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Product: WCS Mark: A Ransom for Many (Welwyn Commentary Series Book 41)
Description: Dr Steve Wilmshurst is currently Director of Training at Kensington Baptist Church in Bristol and teaches on the New Testament in a variety of other places. He is the author of The Final Word - The book of Revelation simply explained, also published by EP in the Welwyn Commentary Series.

Based on sermons preached at Kensington Baptist Church, Bristol, the author has increasingly, and beyond his expectations, been drawn in by the sheer power of Mark's story-telling. The author comments that, 'Mark's gospel focuses on the Lord Jesus as the crucified Christ; as his followers we are called to take up our cross and follow him who gave his life as a ransom for many. If this book encourages you in this path of discipleship, it will have achieved its purpose'.

Grasping something of the skilled and beautiful construction of the gospel has frequently shed fresh light on familiar passages; recognising the half-concealed links to the Old Testament prophets has opened up new understanding of the mission of the Lord Jesus.

'Wilmshurst has written a commentary with real substance that is also great fun to read. Well-known moments in Mark's gospel are freshly lit up by contemporary illustrations, penetrating application and a keen sense of how each moment fits into Mark's overall shape and purpose. It's just the sort of book I would want to press into the hands of people at our church'.
Mike Cain, Senior Pastor, Emmanuel Church, Bristol, UK.

'This clear, lively, readable and accessible study is the fruit of sound scholarship. Steve Wilmshurst has worked carefully over the critical and sometimes controversial issues of interpretation and walks us through them in a wise and measured way. But it is also scholarship that has been turned into practical pastoral preaching. And because it is preached material, it is realistically earthed and applied to us today. It will encourage many Christians who are frightened by commentaries to get to grips with Mark's gospel, and I warmly commend it.'
Christopher Ash, Proclamation Trust, Director of the PT Cornhill Training Course.

Dr Steve Wilmshurst is currently Director of Training at Kensington Baptist Church in Bristol and teaches on the New Testament in a variety of other places. He is the author of The Final Word - The book of Revelation simply explained, also published by EP in the Welwyn Commentary Series.
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Product: WCS Leviticus: The beauty of holiness (Welwyn Commentary Series Book 3)
Description: Leviticus tells us what is true and of eternal benefit for our lives. Here is a book to make us wise about salvation. The things that happened to Israel in the Old Testament are symbolic pointers to the wonderful salvation we have begun to enjoy in Christ. Like Israel of old, we need to be constantly reminded of who God is, how he is to be approached and worshipped and how we should live our lives as God’s people in a hostile environment.

Leviticus indicates the kind of people God’s covenant community ought to be in the light of God’s grace.At the same time and in its own special way, Leviticus points us forward to the one who came to save his people from their sins and bring them to God. Without this book we cannot begin to understand the death of Christ and his priestly work on our behalf. Neither can we appreciate the many references to cleansing, purity, wholeness, separation and holiness that we find in the New Testament.

It is also from this book that Jesus quoted the second great commandment: ‘You shall love your neighbour as yourself ’

Philip Eveson studied the biblical languages and theology at the Universities
of Wales, Cambridge and London. He was a Welsh Presbyterian minister in
South Wales before moving to London where he was involved in establishing
the London Theological Seminary (LTS), lecturing in the biblical languages,
exegesis and theology and was principal from 1997-2009. He served as minister
of Kensit Evangelical Church for over twenty-five years. He continues to write as well as to preach and lecture at home and overseas and is an active member of Borras Park Church, Wrexham. He is the author of numerous books and articles including commentaries on Genesis and Psalms in the Welwyn series.
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Product: WCS Romans: The gospel as it really is (Welwyn Commentary Series Book 45)
Description: Perhaps no other part of Scripture has had as profound an influence on the story of the Christian church as Paul’s epistle to the Romans. Luther said of Romans, ‘It can never be read or considered too much or too well, and the more it is handled, the more delightful it becomes and the better it tastes.’

This epistle is not a document intended only for the eyes of the seminary students or academics. It is not a treatise for theological experts. It is not a piece of specialized instruction for church officers, or a written lecture for preachers and pastors. It is a letter. And it is to ordinary people. Romans sets before us the gospel which the ordinary believer in the New Testament churches loved, and lived by. It is the gospel which was believed by the men and women, boys and girls who were saved by God’s grace there in Rome.

In this book the author aims to present a simple introduction to Romans for the ordinary reader today. His exposition goes straight to the heart of the passage, avoiding technicalities or obscure textural criticism.

Stuart Olyott, born in Pakistan in 1942, was brought up in Asia, Chester and West Wales. He has held pastorates in London, Liverpool and Lausanne, and is currently Pastoral Director of the Evangelical Movement of Wales. He travels widely as a conference speaker and is the author of several books, including four in the Welwyn Commentary Series.
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Product: WCS Revelation: The final word (Welwyn Commentary Series Book 66)
Description: The book of Revelation was written for a people under pressure – a people who knew all too clearly that the world was against them. Nearly all the church leaders had been martyred. What was needed was a survival manual, explaining how to survive when the world is against you; here it is! We, too, need to know how to survive in a hostile world. Revelation is for ordinary believers, not to fight over, but to enable us to keep fighting the real fight.

Although the gospel had spread throughout the Roman Empire, it had not taken it over. Persecution was looming and the law was against them. It is in that context of suffering and oppression that the Lord gives John the series of visions which he writes down in the form of this book. It is a survival manual, explaining how to survive when the world is against you.

Even though it is a little harder for us to see, this is what we need to know in our day as well. We in the West are not yet being openly persecuted, but at least in the UK that is the direction we are heading. In any case,the world is against us and we have to know how to survive as believers on increasingly hostile ground. This is why Revelation is so vitally relevant for our day. The basic message can be summed up simply and wonderfully: Jesus wins, and as Christians we are safe with him!

Steve Wilmshurst is Director of Training, Kensington Baptist Church, Bristol, and manager of a charitable trust involved in social action in the inner city.
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Product: WCS Joshua: Strong and Courageous (Welwyn Commentary Series Book 6)
Description: The central theme of the book of Joshua is that God keeps his promises. Joshua records how God was true to his word in helping Israel take possession of the promised land. What now for them? God does not leave them to carry on in their own strength. Christians, like Joshua, are to be strong and courageous, no matter what we may face - we can be because God is faithful to his promises.

The fulfillment of God’s promises of a land are central to the book. He begins the book with it and brings to closure Joshua’s final charge to Israel’s leaders with it. And the promises of God as fulfilled are found throughout the book.

The truth that God fulfills his promise of a land for Israel also has great implications for the believer today, and that is one of the great applications of the book of Joshua. Those who are truly God’s people shall inherit a land. However, that land is not the dry and dusty land in the Middle East today. Rather, the Apostle Peter tells us that God ‘has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you’. We as believers have God’s promise of an eternal inheritance and the possession of an eternal land that is real, earthy, and substantial. And, like Israel, we will indeed receive our inheritance because God is a promise-keeper!

Dr John D. Currid is Carl McMurray Professor of Old Testament at the Reformed Theological Seminary in Jackson, Mississippi. He received his Ph. D. degree in archaeology from the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago. He has several books in print, including the Study Commentaries on Genesis and Exodus in the same series.
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Product: WCS Judges and Ruth: Even in Darkness (Welwyn Commentary Series Book 7)
Description: The period of the Judges was an evil one, requiring hard words for hard times. The people of Israel had rejected their God for the desire of an earthly ruler, and had rebelled against his laws. Yet even in this time of unbelief and hypocrisy, God raised up men and women to call his people back to a personal faith in the living God. The author, in taking us through the book of Judges and Ruth, challenges Christians to live consistently with their profession of faith, and shows that ‘Even in Darkness’ God offers a message of hope and victory to those who will faithfully follow him.

Gordon J. Keddie trained at Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia USA, and is at present pastor of New Covenant Reformed Fellowship, State College, Pennsylvania. He has written several titles in the Welwyn Commentary Series
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Product: Mark: A Ransom for Many (Welwyn Commentary Series)
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Product: WCS 2 Corinthians: Strength in Weakness (Welwyn Commentary Series)
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Product: Zephaniah: Coming of The Warrior King (Welwyn Commentary Series)
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Product: Genesis: The Book of Origins (Welwyn Commentary Series)
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Product: Ezekiel (EP Study Commentary)
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Product: Isaiah: God Delivers (Welwyn Commentary Series)
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Product: 2 Samuel: The Triumph of the King (Welwyn Commentary Series) (Welwyn Commentaries)
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Product: Malachi: Losing Touch With The Living God (Welwyn Commentary Series)
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Product: WCS Daniel: Dare to Stand Alone (Welwyn Commentary)
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