title: In Granite or Ingrained? What the Old and New Covenants Reveal about the Gospel, the Law, and the Sabbath
author:  Skip MacCarty 
description: Skip MacCarty has caught the spirit and the intent of the covenants and their relationship as well as anyone I know. The American evangelical church tends to build its theological structures on the basis of Paul s polemical statements about the law, sometimes without sufficient reference either to the polemical nature of those statements or the doubt those perspectives might cast on the integrity of Moses and the prophets, or perhaps even God Himself. In this volume MacCarty offers a brilliant defense of the fundamental unity of the Scriptures. Writing with passion and careful thought, he begins by demonstrating that the fundamental character of God s covenants with Adam, Noah, Abraham, and Israel was determined by the DNA of the new covenant (Jeremiah 31). After helpfully distinguishing between the historical and experiential old and new covenants, he invites his readers to celebrate with him the glorious fact that in the old covenant, as much as in the new covenant, God offers a grace-based, gospel-bearing, and mission-directed covenantal relationship with Himself. Until Christians grasp this message, the Old Testament will remain a dead book to the church. --Daniel I. Block, professor of Old Testament, Wheaton College<br /><br />This is one of the most important books available about the relationship between the gospel, the law, and the Sabbath. --Norman R. Gulley, research professor in systematic theology, Southern Adventist University<br /><br />I consider this to be one of the best treatments on the old and new covenants. The work is well-documented and yet straightforward. It is clear, forceful, biblical, cogent, lucid. And MacCarty s writing style meets a wide audience, from scholars to laity. --Richard Davidson, J. N. Andrews professor of Old Testament exegesis, Andrews University
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  THE CHRISTIAN
  and
  ROCK MUSIC
  A STUDY ON
  BIBLICAL PRINCIPLES
  OF MUSIC
  Editor
  Samuele Bacchiocchi
  CONTRIBUTORS
  Samuele Bacchiocchi, Calvin M. Johansson,
  Brian Neumann, Eurydice V. Osterman,
  Güenter Preuss, Tore Sognefest,
  Wolfgang H. M. Stefani
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  BOOKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR
  THE CHRISTIAN AND ROCK MUSIC is a timely symposium  that defines
  biblical principles to make good musical choices.
  THE SABBATH UNDER CROSSFIRE refutes  the common arguments used to
  negate the continuity and validity of the Sabbath.
  IMMORTALITY OR RESURRECTION? unmasks with compelling Biblical reason-
  ing the oldest and the greatest deception of all time, that human beings possess
  immortal souls that live on forever.
  THE MARRIAGE COVENANT is designed to strengthen your Christian home
  through a recovery of those biblical principles established by God to ensure
  happy, lasting, marital relationships.
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