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The Christ-Centered Exposition is a fantastic new series from Holman Reference. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR, Part 255: “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising.”

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Christians will certainly benefit from this commentary for a long time.ĭisclosure of Material Connection: I received this book free from Holman Reference, BH Publishing Group in exchange for an online review. I appreciate the work being done in this series and in this edition in particular.

The authors did a wonderful job making Philippians relevant and easy to understand. Overall Exalting Jesus in Philippians is a good well rounded commentary that upholds the doctrines of the Reformation while not overly focusing on the doctrine as the main point. I would have preferred the authors to simply use the illustration and not worry about which one was being credited for the life event. However, I believe that could have been accomplished while not becoming distracting. After all, it lends a sort of personal nature to the commentary. I understand that many will appreciate this approach. Again, this wasn’t terrible but I did find it distracting and after a while it began to be mildly annoying. I found that it distracted from the “Christ-Centered” nature of the commentary by making it personality centered. I’m sure this is simply a personal preference, but to be honest I’m not too concerned with which of the authors is telling the story. ” Last week, I (Tony) went into a store to grab a bottle of water. For example, in the opening sentences to the commentary on Philippians 2:5-11 the author writes, To be sure, the illustrations from their personal lives were valuable, but they had a distracting habit of parenthetically inserting the name of which author was telling the story. If I have any complaints at all about Exalting Jesus in Philippians, it is the distracting way that the authors intermingled their personal narratives into the applications. Their interpretation was clearly under-girded by a rich foundation in Biblical studies, but rather than touting their academic knowledge of language and context, they simply communicated their knowledge in a way that any believer will be able to grasp the fundamental message of Philippians. In fact, one of the things the authors did very well was to not allow their profound understanding of the textual nuances become the focus of the commentary. That is not to say that this commentary lacks an intellectual foundation. The downside to this of course is that Exalting Jesus in Philippians lacks the academic rigor that many pastors and academic-minded students will want.

In fact, I would argue that this is the most important style of commentary that a pastor or lay person could read. This is great for “boots on the ground” Christian living and application of scripture. One of the strengths of this commentary is that it is written in such a way that a pastor can use it to glean pastoral applications from Philippians while the average Christian can also use it in their personal study.

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Like the other commentaries in this series, Exalting Jesus in Philippians is easy to read and full of practical applications. It is one of the latest editions to the Christ-Centered Exposition series of commentaries edited by Merida, David Platt, and Daniel Akin. Exalting Jesus in Philippians is a new commentary on Philippians written by Tony Merida and Francis Chan.