Finding Jesus in the Bible…So We Can Follow Him in Life
Bible Reading Plans
- Plan One: New Testament Only
- Plan Two: New Testament + Psalms
- Plan Three: New Testament + History
- Plan Four: The Entire Bible – Year 1 of 3, Year 2 of 3, Year 3 of 3
Don’t know which plan? Go to A Christ-Centered Bible Reading Plan: Quick Start.
Extras
Verse of the Day, Audio Capsule, and Video Minute
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In Between Books
Yesterday, we read the last installment of the book Christ Is God. Tomorrow, I’ll grade my writing. And the day after, we’ll read the first installment of the book The One True Church. These two books are related, and I want to use today to explain how.
In April, I began writing a book with the title The Implications of the Second Coming as Accomplished Fact. By June, I came to realize that this book was going to be too big. That is, in the process of writing the book, I saw that I was needing more chapters than I originally envisioned to convey the points that needed to be made. Therefore, I decided at that time to break the big book down into three smaller books.
I also want to maintain continuity and clarity in the books’ titles. Specifically, when I write a new book, I want the title to communicate not just the content of the book, but also how it fits with the other books I have written. For if it’s not apparent how the books fit together, then I will have fallen short of presenting a single coherent gospel of Jesus Christ in my writings.
None of my books is a tangent. They all contribute to a single unified message. That message is that 1) eternal life is found only in Jesus Christ, and that 2) Jesus Christ is found first and foremost in the Bible.
This message is for everyone – that is, the entire human race. Social labels like “Christian,” “Jew,” “Muslim,” “atheist,” “agnostic,” and others are irrelevant to the purposes of our Creator. We are all His children…no matter how we divide ourselves. And Jesus Christ is Lord of all no matter how many of us say otherwise.
For these reasons, I have decided to change the title of the book we just finished – Christ Is God – to The One True God. This allows me not only to show the continuity between this book and the next (The One True Church), it also allows me to preserve the framing that the Lord gave me when I began writing on this subject in April.
What do I mean? Let me show you.
Recall that I completed two related books many years ago:
- The Biblical Case for Everyone Going to Heaven
- The Implications of Everyone Going to Heaven
The second book logically followed the first. Around that same time, I also wrote a book now titled The Biblical Case for the Second Coming as Accomplished Fact…but never followed it with a book titled The Implications of the Second Coming as Accomplished Fact…until this year.
This is the book I started in April and then decided to break into several books in June. I now see clearly how all this comes together. I’ll group the three books and title them as a trilogy.
- “The Implications of the Second Coming as Accomplished Fact Trilogy”
- The One True God
- The One True Church
- The Kingdom of God Has Come
In other words, each book will stand on its own, but will also be related to the other books in the trilogy. And the series title – “The Implications of the Second Coming as Accomplished Fact Trilogy” – not only conveys how the three books fit with each other, but also how they relate to all the other books I have written.
If you haven’t seen it already, here’s how they now appear in my list of books.
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