Chronological Guide Review.

Have you ever wanted to rip out all the commentary from your NIV Study Bible, combine those pages with the Message prefaces and staple them together so you'd have them all in one place? This book is that Pocket Guide of Commentaries. A canon of context, timelines, charts and maps all neatly fit in 200 colorful pages. Particularly refreshing is the tone. The book passes information as if a conversation not a lecture.

I love it for personal study but probably more so for leading. It's just enough to illuminate without suffocating participants.

Is it an exhaustive guide? I'm not going to answer that.

Should you own one for yourself, your group, your kids...? Yes.