{"product_id":"9781573831994","title":"The Enormous Exception","description":"Every age needs its comfortable assumptions challenged by Scripture's unsettling call to live Christ's way -- hence the need for a fresh examination of the famed sermon of Jesus, recorded in Matthew 5-7.\u003cp\u003e In The Enormous Exception Earl Palmer journeys through Jesus' most famous sermon, laying open fuller meanings all along the way. The result is the rediscovery of this vibrant oracle which grips the reader with conviction about life -- as it was originally heard when Jesus preached it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"The only way this sermon makes sense is if Jesus Christ himself, who spoke the words, is strong enough to make them really true,\" says the author. \"The good news in the profoundest sense in the Sermon on the Mount is to be found in the one who is preaching the sermon.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Enriching this concise commentary on the sermon are the author's observations on various Greek words in the text and his theological and psychological insights. \"I believe that the best way to read this remarkable sermon is to dialogue with the teacher at all the radical edges of his sermon,\" notes Palmer. The sermon is \"hardly mild; there is a good wildness in it... yet at the same time the Teacher is friendly toward those who are undone by the intensity of its demands.\"  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Regent College Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47048744435952,"sku":"9781573831994","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781573831994_p0.jpg?v=1763791830","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781573831994","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}