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Whether we realize it or not, many of us who attempt to follow Jesus perceive him as distant and uninterested. We tune out the Gospel stories we've heard so many times because we think we know them already and understand the message they teach: God is friendly, and he likes us okay. We may confess our belief in God the Son, but we've taken our eyes off Jesus.
Meg Hunter-Kilmer helps you see Jesus anew by taking you through his life as told in the gospels, breaking open the familiar and shedding light on the foreign so that you can see the face of Jesus in the pages of Scripture and learn to love him more in his word. Eyes Fixed on Jesus provides biblical context that makes sense of Jesus' actions, cultural tidbits that shed new light on old stories, and connections between the New Testament's miracles and parables and the centuries of revelation found in the Old Testament.
This first volume in a three-part series begins with the Incarnation and runs through Jesus sending out his disciples on mission. This book also includes a study guide to be used for individual or group Bible study.
“Get to know Jesus like never before with Eyes Fixed on Jesus: A Journey into the Gospels! Meg Hunter-Kilmer writes about Jesus with the clarity and insight of a scholar and the passion of a lover. Eyes Fixed on Jesus takes us into the Gospels to meet Jesus and see him with new eyes: not just as a heavenly savior or a mere object of belief, but as a man we can walk with and love and follow. Drawing wisdom from biblical scholarship, the Church Fathers, and Catholic tradition, as well as years of personal reading and prayer, she skillfully weaves the four gospel accounts into a unified, 3-dimensional portrait of Jesus that invites readers to enter Scripture and meet the Lord. Each page breathes new life into well-known stories as it explains ancient customs, illuminates connections with the Old Testament, and clarifies the Lord’s words and actions. This book is both a valuable resource for study and an inducement to prayerful reading. I recommend it to anyone who wants to know Jesus more … so as to love him more.” — Sarah Christmyer, author, Bible teacher, and speaker
“Meg Hunter-Kilmer speaks of the Gospels with a passion, immediacy, and recency that remind me of Ignatius of Antioch and other early Church Fathers. She doesn’t merely know about Jesus. She knows Jesus. And she leads us to know him too. Hers is the kind of witness that changed the world long ago and can change it again.” — Mike Aquilina, author, The Fathers of the Church
“There is nothing more adventurous than following the Lord Jesus. There is nothing more exciting than to learn about his life and teachings. And so, thanks be to God for Eyes Fixed on Jesus! It captures the adventure and encompasses the excitement of walking with the Lord Jesus and learning about him. Although I know the Gospels, Meg Hunter-Kilmer had me on the edge of my seat waiting to see what she would do with the next event, encounter, or teaching of the Lord Jesus. Eyes Fixed on Jesus is a breath of fresh air. It’s a re-telling of the Gospel that’s greatly needed in our world today. I encourage everyone — wherever they might be in their life or in their understanding of the Gospel — to pick up, read, and share Meg’s book!” — Fr. Jeffrey Kirby, STD, author of Understanding the Bible
“In an age in which so much of what we experience is filtered and curated to present to us what the other wants us to see of life and reality, Meg has pulled the gloss off so many layers of voices about who Jesus is and allows each reader to encounter the Man who is no mere man. I have known Meg for nearly twenty-five years, and her same passion for the truth in all its jarring and comforting reality is felt burning in her heart through these pages. She wants, and invites each of us, to see Jesus in the full beauty of his glory, a glory that shines through a real human nature that cries out to each of our own human hearts. Anyone who would lift their eyes and fix them upon the Lord will not go away the same. I deeply encourage you to pray with this book and the Gospels, not because this is the greatest book ever written about Jesus, but rather because this book has only one true aim: that you would come and see the One who loves and longs for you to know him — Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of the Living God!” — Fr. Malachy Joseph Napier, CFR
“Make clear a space on the shelves for this new life of the Lord! Next to your Sheed and Sheen there now belongs Meg Hunter-Kilmer’s Eyes Fixed on Jesus. In this book she does what C. S. Lewis did with Aslan, shaking us out of kitsch pastiche versions of Jesus which are not just the preserve of bad art, but also so much saccharine preaching. Artfully weaving the events together from all four gospels, she presents Jesus to us in all His magnificent mercy and mystery. Helpfully referenced, this book will invigorate priests to better preaching and be even more invaluable to those who have to put up with bad preaching. Few writers have such a command of all the Scriptures as Meg, and if you want to understand just how ‘the New Testament lies hidden in the Old, and the Old is revealed in the New’ (Saint Augustine) then I cannot recommend this first volume highly enough.” — Fr. Toby Lees, OP, Priest Director, Radio Maria England