Bob Hostetler is an award-winning writer, editor, and speaker from southwestern Ohio. His books, which include the award-winning Don’t Check Your Brains at the Door (co-authored with Josh McDowell) and the novel, The Bone Box, have sold over 3 million copies. He has won two Gold Medallion Awards, four Ohio Associated Press awards, and an Amy Foundation Award. He is the founding pastor of Cobblestone Community Church in Oxford, Ohio. He and his wife Robin have two grown children, Aubrey and Aaron, who have given them four beautiful grandchildren.
Our church studied this curriculum this summer in small groups spread out among the community over five weeks. I facilitated one of the groups, and we met at church in the afternoon. We had a group of about eight to ten women each week. We thought it was an excellent study, and we were continually amazed about how connected the Old and New Testament are and how Jesus was foreshadowed throughout the Old Testament. We had good discussions, we liked the themes each week, and the video clips made the Biblical stories come alive.
Stronger biblically than the movies, emphasis on discipleship and evangelism. Designed for small groups. Leans heavily on types/ typology. Also the frequent comparison between victorious and victim.