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FREE Resources: Passion Week

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This weekend marks the celebration of two days that are extremely monumental to the Christian faith: Good Friday and Resurrection Sunday. If you’re looking for a few great study resources on either of these Christian holidays, you’ll want to check these out this week:

Passover and Resurrection Celebration page at Blue Letter Bible

In honor of the Passover, we have created this special page that deals with how our Lord fulfilled the Law and the prophets by his suffering, death, and resurrection!

There is a special Passion Week video that will take you on a short tour of the Holy Land sites that are part of the Passion Week recount.

There are audio and written texts including the compelling essay on “The Medical Aspects of the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ” by David Terasaka, M.D.

Fifty Reasons Why Jesus Came to Die

Our staff just received copies of this classic work by Dr. John Piper. Here’s a description:

The death of Jesus is of foremost importance for the world. In this book, revised and updated from the previously published The Passion of Jesus Christ, John Piper gathers from the New Testament fifty reasons behind the crucifixion of the Christ.

Not fifty causes, but fifty purposes—in answer to the most important question facing us: Why did Jesus suffer and die?

Piper’s ministry, Desiring God, has been kind enough to bless the church by providing all of his book’s online—FREE—including this title. Download the PDF and meditate on the goodness of our great God and Savior!

Comments

    • Chris,

      I can’t seem to find the Piper PDF.
      Has it been moved?

      Is there a site map for BBL we can use or a search of the BBL site. (not the search for scriptures).

      • Chris I found it here off BBL Site

        [PDF] JESUS CHRIST
        Adobe PDF – View as html
        The PASSION OF JESUS CHRIST Fifty Reasons Why He Came to Die JOHN PIPER CROSSWAY BOOKS A DIVISION OF GOOD NEWS … one of the reasons Jesus loved to call himself “the …
        http://www.ballyloughanchurch.org.uk/fiftyreasons.pdf

        I really love this Blog and am learning so very much.

        Thank you for all your hard work!

  2. Whats with the John Piper stuff?

    Did you know that Piper’s theology is Calvinist and Baptist. He also believes in double predestination, which includes “unconditional reprobation” as a corollary to the Calvinistic doctrine of unconditional election, and he subscribes to the Leibnizian view that God runs the universe in such a way that it will be the best of all possible universes. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Piper_%28theologian%29#Theological_views)

    • Tim,

      Journalistically-speaking, Wikipedia is not the most reliable website for research since anyone can change its article content. I’ve found that this applies, especially, to theology-related articles; we find a lot of biased quips and statements. His ministry’s website will represent his personal views better than any other website. Furthermore, his classic Let the Nations Be Glad has been one of the most influential books on modern missions today. I hope that is helpful. God bless!