Bücher von Christopher Ash

Christopher Ash zeigt uns in diesem Kommentar der Auslegungsreihe Die Bibel erklärt, wie wir das Buch der Psalmen lesen und anwenden können. Er nimmt uns mit durch sechzehn Psalmen-Paare, die unterschiedliche Arten von Psalmen repräsentieren. Dazu gehören einige sehr bekannte und einige, die häufig übergangen werden. Er hilft uns zu erkennen, wie sie durch Jesus erfüllt wurden und wie sie daher zuerst und vor allem auf Jesus hinweisen. So erhalten wir einen neuen Zugang, um die Psalmen zu lesen, uns an ihnen zu erfreuen und sie zu singen.Neben dem Kommentar liegt ein Arbeitsheft für Gruppen und Leiter vor, um das Buch in einer Kleingruppe zu studieren.

The ¿way of a man with a maiden¿ was too wonderful for the writer of Proverbs to understand. Preoccupying so many thoughts and dreams, the subject of countless songs, films and fairy tales, the love between a man and a woman has always been a profound and perplexing mystery. And yet we do not live happily ever after. Four out of ten marriages will end in divorce. Couples now choose to live together rather than marry, and those relationships are even less likely to last. People are having fewer children, later, and with a succession of partners. Ironically, just when so much is expected of love, Western societies are witnessing lower levels of public commitment in sexual relationships than ever before. The scale of this change amounts to a revolution, a major historical paradigm shift. The statistics mask a depth of pain that every pastor and counsellor knows only too well. We must face the inevitable questions: if faithfulness is no longer esteemed, why get married at all? What is marriage? What did God intend when he gave us marriage? Christopher Ash argues that our modern idolization of the sexual relationship contains within itself the seeds of its own destruction. To begin to rebuild a biblical confidence in marriage, we need to understand that the primary blessing and purpose of marriage is not sexual intimacy, but rather serving God in partnership. This in turn leads to the blessings of love, friendship, children, and order in society, and will help us to rediscover that faithfulness which is the heart of marriage.¿One of those precious rarities - a major piece of biblical scholarship which addresses an issue in today¿s headlines directly and warmly. One to own, not to borrow.¿ -- David Field¿Deeply scholarly, extraordinarily thorough and biblically faithful, as well as courageously fresh in rethinking the role of marriage in God¿s intention for human life.¿ -- David WrightChristopher Ash studied at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, and then joined the staff at St. Andrew the Great, Cambridge. From there he headed to a church plant and is now Rector of All Saints, Little Shelford. He is married to Carolyn and they have four children.