Doug Greenwold of Preserving Bible Times recounts last week’s experience teaching within the Kansas prison system and highlights what he calls his “epiphany” with respect to how the Gospel is typically presented ignoring or minimizing the honor-shame aspects of Scripture …

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Doug Greenwold, Senior Teaching Fellow at Preserving Bible Times, discusses with  Jim and David the idea that, within the Western Evangelical Church, discipleship is either dying a long, slow death or may have met its demise already …

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Doug Greenwold, Senior Teaching Fellow at Preserving Bible Times, offers us a look back at the year past as well as a look ahead to what the future may hold for his Columbia, Maryland-based ministry …

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Doug Greenwold of Preserving Bible Times, along with Jim and David, relates the historic and cultural context of that visit by the magi to Bethlehem, including the why’s and wherefore’s of those three gifts of gold, frankincense and myrhh …

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Doug Greenwold of Preserving Bible Times reflects, along with Jim and David, on the nature, character and social standing of those shepherds who were to be found out in the fields that night so long ago on the Judean hillsides around Bethlehem …

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Doug Greenwold of Preserving Bible Times examines the nature of travel in first-century Israel and describes how and in what season Mary and Joseph would have made that trek to Bethlehem …

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Doug Greenwold of Preserving Bible Times, along with Jim and David, reconstitutes the historic and cultural context of that time in the first century when Caesar Augustus declared another census and the people of Nazareth were getting antsy at the prospect of the Messiah’s arrival …

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Doug Greenwold of Preserving Bible Times discusses with Jim and David how God prepared the Roman Empire to receive the Advent message …the view from 30,000 feet.

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Doug Greenwold, Senior Teaching Fellow at Preserving Bible Times, discusses with Jim, among other things, how persistently held paradigms can perpetrate and produce paralysis when it comes to enlarged understandings of both cultural and scriptural revelations …

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Doug Greenwold reviews the mission and purpose of Preserving Bible Times and, along with Jim and David, begins to reveal the huge differential between the first-century Israeli and Roman cultures …

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