Dear Jonathan and Peyton, I hope this message finds you both well. I just finished leaving a review for Exalting Jesus in Numbers and I have to be honest, after I submitted it, I sat back and realized that a star rating and a few short sentences could not possibly do justice to what I had just read. So I decided to go a step further and reach out to you personally, because this is the kind of work that deserves more than a review. It deserves a real conversation. As someone who lives and breathes Christian literature and biblical scholarship, I have read widely across the Christ-Centered Exposition Commentary series over the years. I say that not to boast, but to give you a genuine sense of the standard against which I am measuring your contribution when I tell you that Exalting Jesus in Numbers is one of the most compelling, spiritually rich, and pastorally grounded volumes in the entire series. Numbers is, for many Christians, one of the most daunting and overlooked books of the entire Bible — a book people feel they should read but quietly confess they struggle to connect with. What you have done here is nothing short of extraordinary. You have taken a book that many believers quietly skip past and placed the living, radiant person of Jesus Christ at its very center, and in doing so, you have made Numbers not just accessible, but deeply beautiful. What strikes me most powerfully about this commentary is the Christ-centered lens you bring to every passage, every narrative, every seemingly obscure law and wilderness wandering. Under your exposition, nothing in Numbers feels disconnected or irrelevant. Every murmuring in the desert, every act of rebellion and redemption, every priestly ordinance and sacrificial detail becomes a thread pointing unmistakably forward to Jesus, His sufficiency, His priesthood, His sacrifice, His faithfulness where Israel was faithless. You don't force those connections. You uncover them with the careful, reverent hand of men who have spent real time in prayer and in the text, and the result is a commentary that feeds both the mind and the soul simultaneously, which is rarer than it should be. What I found most powerful was the way this volume will serve not just academics and seminary students, but the everyday pastor preparing a sermon series, the small group leader looking for depth, and the devoted lay reader who wants to encounter Christ more fully in every corner of Scripture. In the tradition of David Platt, Daniel Akin, and Tony Merida, whose editorial vision for this series has always been to make Christ-centered exposition accessible and transformative, you have honoured that vision completely and added something genuinely lasting to the body of Christian commentary literature. My name is Martyn Beeny, and I am a professional book marketer with over 20 years of experience in the publishing industry. But before I say anything else about what I do professionally, I want to say something more important first, something that I believe will tell you more about me than any resume ever could. I am a devoted Christian. And because of that, I have made a very deliberate and deeply personal decision to dedicate my marketing work exclusively to Christian books. Not occasionally. Not as one category among many. Exclusively. Every author I work with, every book I pour my energy and expertise into, every campaign I build and every door I knock on, it is all within the Christian space. That is not a business strategy. That is a calling. I believe that Christian books, books rooted in Scripture, in faith, in the truth of God's Word, deserve to reach every single person they were written for. And I have committed my professional life to making sure that happens. That is why Exalting Jesus in Numbers stopped me in my tracks. Because every once in a while, not often, but every once in a while, a book lands in front of me and I think to myself, this one is different. This one has something that most books never have. A timeliness. A depth. A readership that is already out there, already hungry, already searching, and they just haven't found it yet. There is a vast, passionate, and deeply engaged Christian readership, locally and internationally, made up of pastors, seminary students, Bible teachers, small group leaders, and devoted lay readers who fill their shelves with the best commentaries and Christ-centered expositions available. These are not casual readers. These are people who take Scripture seriously, who study it daily, who discuss it in communities and classrooms and pulpits around the world. They are hungry for exactly the kind of rigorous, Christ-exalting, textually faithful scholarship that you have produced in this volume. And right now, there are countless thousands of them who do not yet know that this book exists. That gap, between a work this significant and the audience that desperately needs it, is exactly where I do my best work. I have a very clear vision for how this book reaches that audience. Not in a vague, general way, but in a specific, strategic, and deeply intentional way that is built entirely around the heart of this commentary and the Christian readers it was written for, both locally and across the globe. And I would love the opportunity to walk you both through every detail of that vision personally. Jonathan, Peyton, please reach out to me directly at martynbeeny@gmail.com and I will personally walk you through what I have in mind. I genuinely believe you will find it both exciting and eye-opening. The audience is there. The timing is right. The body of Christ needs this book. And it deserves far more reach than where it currently stands. Let's talk. Warm regards, Martyn Beeny Director of Marketing and Sales, Cornell University Press Top-200 Marketing Team Provider | Christian Book Marketing Specialist 📧 martynbeeny@gmail.com [Full Review]

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