The Symphony of Scripture: Making Sense of the Bible's Many Themes

If you want a great overview of the whole of scripture and how it all fits together as one story then get this book. It is awesome. What helps the most is at the end of each chapter you are challenged to prepare a Bible study on a certain texts and ideas conveyed in the chapter. Mark gives a big overview of all the groups of books - sometimes he doesnt go into each book in great detail but just how it fits into the overall story. (minor prophets etc) But this has forced me to read a lot more of the Bible to understand the conclusions he talks about. I thought I knew the bible well but this has helped me to understand things a lot better. Its up there with the likes of Graeme Goldsworthy's "According to the plan" and Gordon Fee & Douglas Stuarts "How to read the Bible for all its worth."