First Contact - Seeing Jesus through the eye-witnesses
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‘We were eye-witnesses of his Majesty.' 2 Peter 1:16
'We beheld his glory.' Meet the men and women who met the Messiah. Peter said, 'we were eye-witnesses of his majesty,' Many in Peter's day were changed forever by that close encounter, some for the good, most for bad. Racists, bigots, terrorists and traitors were transformed by Jesus. But the majority, like Pilate, Judas, the religious elites and feckless crowds, were not.
- What can we learn about Jesus from the people who followed him?
- What can we learn from those who rejected him?
- How can we apply this to ourselves, as we seek to follow Jesus?
- How do their times and culture resonate with our own?
There is plenty here for the head and heart. This book, which is the fruit of 15 years of prayerful study, straddles the devotional and apologetic genres, and aims to lead the thinking disciples deeper with Jesus at a critical moment of the church's history.
AUTHOR: The father of six switched careers midlife after surviving cancer. He is now a pastor, novelist, historian, filmmaker and recording artist living on a mountain ranch in Lake District, UK.
‘ Henry is a gentle man of God who has faced life’s great mountains.’ Bear Grylls