Books for Holy Week

I have two book recommendations for Holy Week. Both are by Timothy Keller, who I call the C. S. Lewis of our times. Keller is an incredible theologian, he delves deep into the truths we believe as Christians and dares to bring up passages often ignored in the mainstream churches.

The first book I recommend is Timothy Keller’s “Jesus the King: Understanding The Life and Death of The Son of God.” In this book Keller gets into fundamentals of our faith and explains The Holy Trinity in the best and easiest way to understand I have ever read! For that alone its worth a read.

Pastor Keller’s books are full of scripture, he never makes a point without substantiating it with Scripture, which makes him a man after my own heart.

The second book I recommend is his book “Hope in Times of Fear: The Resurrection and The Meaning of Easter.”

Pastor Keller goes deep into the Resurrection and what it means for us as Christians, even pointing out that it gets less coverage than Good Friday in sermons and that the Resurrection has implications for us in the spiritual that should change how we experience life as the saints of God.

I highly recommend both these books by the seminal theologian of our time. He is a man “awaited with grief” as he has and is battling cancer. Through his tribulations he has penned these two great books that help us really examine the core truths of Christianity and how they should be transforming us and equipping us to be more “than conquerors through Christ.” They two books are timely because they go into our Lord Jesus life, death, and Resurrection in great detail, giving us not just a great wealth of knowledge, a relevant teaching on Holy Week, but also how to apply these doctrines and revelations into our daily lives. Amen.

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