My good friend and mentor, Ed Hird, has authored an insightful call to holistic heath. Teaching from the tiny, but power-packed New Testament book of Titus, Ed prescribes an effective cure to North America’s “pirate” culture. Titus’s mandate to minister the Gospel on the pirate-ridden island of Crete in the 1st century is a God-ordained antidote to our overly-addicted, overfed, materialistic, and arrogant culture. Ed weave’s interesting stories of key individuals from Benjamin Franklin to Johnny Cash to illustrate key points in Titus.
The Bible is God’s epic story—
his holy, inspired and authoritative revelation of his plan to rescue a broken world.
| Alan Gilman believes that the Bible is God’s epic story—his holy, inspired and authoritative revelation of his plan to rescue a broken world. Understanding God’s Story requires gaining a grasp of its parts but also its overarching themes. These themes comprise the framework within which its details are to be understood. To neglect this framework opens the door to all sorts of misinterpretations. Alan is committed to the restoration of a truly biblical framework. | |
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| Alan has known Yeshua (Jesus) as his Messiah since 1976. He and his wife, Robin, also a Jewish believer, have been married for over 35 years and have 10 children. Through the years Alan has been active in Bible teaching, devotional writing, and worship leading. They attend Calvary Fellowship Ottawa. Alan delights in showing how God’s plan of salvation begins with Abraham and his descendants, is fulfilled in the Messiah Jesus, and is expressed through Jesus’ followers today. The only way to fully experience God’s blessings is to understand the essential Jewishness of the Gospel. Alan brings this understanding through such topics as:
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