Can These Bones Live?
How the Word and the Spirit Make Dead Things Live
11 Chapters • 2 Appendices
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God showed Ezekiel a valley of dry bones and asked the one question only God can answer: can these live?
The answer, then and now, is the same, and it comes by the same means. The word of God gives form. The Spirit of God gives life.
This book traces that single pattern through the whole Bible, from the dust of Eden to the rushing wind of Pentecost, from the valley of bones to the seven letters Christ dictated to His own church. At every scale (creation, restoration, new birth, conversion), the mechanism is the same. Where the word goes silent or the breath is withheld, the bones dry out. Where both are present, the dead rise.
Chapters
Chapter 1
The Valley
Chapter 2
Dust and Breath
Chapter 3
When the Word Goes Silent
Chapter 4
Destroyed for Lack of Knowledge
Chapter 5
The Book Lost in the Temple
Chapter 6
Prophesy to These Bones
Chapter 7
Breathe on These Slain
Chapter 8
A Rushing Mighty Wind
Chapter 9
The Israel of God
Chapter 10
Letters to the Dead
Chapter 11
Can These Bones Live?