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Who Is This King of Glory: Experiencing the Fullness of Christ's Work in Our Lives
Do you want to be challenged to deepen your understanding of the characteristics and requirements of Almighty God? The Understanding God Series contains the bulk of Pastor Tony Evans' compelling and hard-hitting resources on the essentials about God, Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit, Spiritual Warfare, and prophecy. Now available in paperback, readers will not want to be without a single book in the series by this popular and powerful speaker and author.Jesus' parables and teaching come alive in this sweeping study of the four gospels. Tony Evans shines fresh light on the words of Jesus, giving readers a more personal understanding of Christ's personality and His work on earth.
400 pages, Hardcover
First published May 1, 1999
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Tony Evans
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Anthony Tyrone "Tony" Evans Sr. is an American evangelical pastor, speaker, author, and widely syndicated radio and television broadcaster in the United States. Between 1976 and 2024, Evans served as senior pastor at the over-9,500-member Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship in Dallas, Texas.
Anthony Tyrone "Tony" Evans Sr. is an American evangelical pastor, speaker, author, and widely syndicated radio and television broadcaster in the United States. Between 1976 and 2024, Evans served as senior pastor at the over-9,500-member Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship in Dallas, Texas.
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August 26, 2023I don't want to throw this book's average off with an unfair review.
I only read, maybe, 20 pages. It was so simple and basic, I wasn't sure what I was supposed to be getting out of this. It was incredibly surface level. I guess, if that is where you are and what you need, then this book would be fantastic. I prefer Warren Wiersbe, who is not only super practical, but is also super readable, super insightful, and makes God's word come alive in ways that I can't adequately describe here. Wiersbe reaches down to the surface level, but then elevates the learner to better understand the Word, or themselves, or Jesus Christ.
Tony Evans was so soft, I was wasting my time.
The final nail in the coffin was right at the very beginning where Dr. Evans is discussing the full divinity and full humanity of Christ. He ends a section by discussing Christ's sinless nature.
Instead of debating IF Christ could have sinned (which I've seen in MacArthur), or providing Biblical evidence for Christ's sinlessness (e.g. Wiersbe's book on Matthew), Dr. Evans instead argues that we need Christ to be sinless.
That is true . . . Christ is only an acceptable sacrifice because He is the spotless Lamb. However, that is not an argument proving anything. Our need for Christ to be sinless does not make Him sinless, or prove that He is sinless. I found it to be incredibly man focused, my thinking it, or needing it, does not make it so.
Christs' sinless nature is part of His divinity, and our need is only relevant in the context of His fulfillment of our need. To argue that He is sinless because we need Him to be sinless is circular reasoning at best.
I found the entire section to be similarly inadequate and too detached from the Bible. I didn't see adequate exposition, but Dr. Evan's thoughts and ideas being held up by Biblical truths.
As far as I can tell, I think this is one of his earlier works, and I've heard he is a really solid expositor; I didn't immediately see it, probably wasn't patient enough, but I don't see myself coming back to this. I might try to find some of his later work.
I only read, maybe, 20 pages. It was so simple and basic, I wasn't sure what I was supposed to be getting out of this. It was incredibly surface level. I guess, if that is where you are and what you need, then this book would be fantastic. I prefer Warren Wiersbe, who is not only super practical, but is also super readable, super insightful, and makes God's word come alive in ways that I can't adequately describe here. Wiersbe reaches down to the surface level, but then elevates the learner to better understand the Word, or themselves, or Jesus Christ.
Tony Evans was so soft, I was wasting my time.
The final nail in the coffin was right at the very beginning where Dr. Evans is discussing the full divinity and full humanity of Christ. He ends a section by discussing Christ's sinless nature.
Instead of debating IF Christ could have sinned (which I've seen in MacArthur), or providing Biblical evidence for Christ's sinlessness (e.g. Wiersbe's book on Matthew), Dr. Evans instead argues that we need Christ to be sinless.
That is true . . . Christ is only an acceptable sacrifice because He is the spotless Lamb. However, that is not an argument proving anything. Our need for Christ to be sinless does not make Him sinless, or prove that He is sinless. I found it to be incredibly man focused, my thinking it, or needing it, does not make it so.
Christs' sinless nature is part of His divinity, and our need is only relevant in the context of His fulfillment of our need. To argue that He is sinless because we need Him to be sinless is circular reasoning at best.
I found the entire section to be similarly inadequate and too detached from the Bible. I didn't see adequate exposition, but Dr. Evan's thoughts and ideas being held up by Biblical truths.
As far as I can tell, I think this is one of his earlier works, and I've heard he is a really solid expositor; I didn't immediately see it, probably wasn't patient enough, but I don't see myself coming back to this. I might try to find some of his later work.
December 10, 2017
Dr. Evans illustrates through each chapter the person of Jesus Christ. I enjoyed the detailed information as Dr. Evan painted in words what the Bible has repeated through all the ages.
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May 4, 2024Excellent book. Christian encouragement. Keeping this one on my shelf for a future re-read.
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