When I draw near to the end of a sermon series, I usually share resources I utilized in my study and preparation for sermons. I started doing this because people would ask me what sort of resources I leaned upon for a series or wanted to dig deeper into a specific topic. Here is the bibliography for our recent series, “Seeing Jesus for the First Time,” which is drawn from Luke 24. Books with asterisks (*) are those I found particularly helpful or leaned upon in this series. I hope some of these books are as helpful for you as you explore this rich twenty-fourth chapter of Luke’s Gospel.
Bibliography for “Seeing Jesus for the First Time”
*Darrell L. Bock. Luke. BECNT. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 1996.
John Calvin. Institutes of the Christian Religion. Edited by John T. McNeill. LCC. Philadelphia, PA: Westminster Press, 1960.
*Douglas Farrow. Ascension and Ecclesia. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1999.
K. Giles. “Ascension.” In Dictionary of the Jesus and the Gospels, edited by Joel B. Green, Scot McKnight, and I. Howard Marshall, 46-50. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1992.
Romano Guardini. The Lord. Chicago: Regnery, 1954.
Geoffrey R. King. The Forty Days. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1949.
Alister McGrath. Resurrection. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2008.
Henri J. M. Nouwen. Life of the Beloved: Spiritual Living in a Secular World. New York: Crossroad, 1992.
________. With Burning Hearts: A Meditation on the Eucharistic Life. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1994.
Nicholas Perrin. Luke: An Introduction and Commentary. TNTC. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2022.
John C. Polkinghorne. The Faith of a Physicist: Reflections of a Bottom-up Thinker. Princeton, NJ: Princeton U.P., 2014.
Patrick Schreiner. The Ascension of Christ: Recovering a Neglected Doctrine. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2020.
*N. T. Wright. The Resurrection of the Son of God. COQG, vol. 3. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2003.
________. Simply Jesus: A New Vision of Who He Was, What He Did, and Why He Matters. New York: Harper, 2011.
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