God's Story in 66 Verses: Understand the Entire Bible by Focusing on Just One Verse in Each Book - Softcover

Grasp God's Word in sixty-six easy verses The Bible can seemlike a big, intimidating book-mysterious, archaic, and often hard to understand.Written over a span of fifteen hundred years, and completed nearly twomillennia ago, God's Word sometimes feels like a mishmash of stories andliterary styles. How can twenty-first-century readers-like you-make sense of it all? Author StanGuthrie's answer: begin by zooming in on onekey verse for each of the Bible's sixty-six books. Seeking to bring clarityand simplicity to the study of God's Word, Guthrie has written a concise,easy-to-digest collection of wisdom anchored by one verse for each book, fromGenesis to Revelation-a verse that summarizes or lays the foundation for that book,placing it in context with the rest of the Scriptures. Read this book, andyou'll feel as if you've read the entire Bible-but you'll also yearn tocontinue exploring its depths and mining its riches on your own.

Stan Guthrie is an editor at large for Christianity Today magazine and hosts a weekly podcast with John Wilson of Books & Culture. Stan writes for BreakPoint.org and ChristianHeadlines.com and is author of All That Jesus Asks, A Concise Guide to Bible Prophecy, and Missions in the Third Millennium. He is coauthor of The Sacrament of Evangelism. He lives near Chicago.