Doug Greenwold of Preserving Bible Times describes to us how the role of women in the Roman Empire helped determine the growth of the church and how the practice of female infanticide may have stimulated it …

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Doug Greenwold of Preserving Bible Times discusses with Jim the Apostle Paul’s challenge to promulgate the Christian faith in a thoroughly urbanized, stratified, and polytheistic Roman Empire …

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Doug Greenwold tells Jim and David the origin of the Prison Chaplains’ Fund at Preserving Bible Times, relating his experiences at penal institutions in Kansas …

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Doug Greenwold of Preserving Bible Times, just returned from Italy, reviews his second Pauline Studies tour and connects for us the Roman context with the Hebrew context of the Bible using an account of the poet Virgil, Emperor Augustus and the “Prince of Peace” …

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Doug Greenwold of Preserving Bible Times continues with last week’s demonstration of how to reconstitute the context of Scripture with an in-depth look at the Birth Narrative contained in the Book of Luke …

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Doug Greenwold of Preserving Bible Times demonstrates, along with Jim and David, how to invoke the historic context of a Bible passage using the birth narrative of Christ from the book of Luke …

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Doug Greenwold of Preserving Bible Times discusses, along with Jim and David, his 25 years of endeavoring to reconstitute the study of historical and cultural context to Bible teaching within America’s evangelical church …

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Doug Greenwold of Preserving Bible Times explains his simile of the “Grace-Truth Teeter Totter” and it’s application during the conversation between Jesus and the woman at the well in John, Chapter 4. Doug also elaborates on the difference between “Grace Givers” and “Truth Tellers” as applied to the discipling process …

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Doug Greenwold of Preserving Bible Times details, along with Jim and David, the nature of slavery in the Roman Empire as a means to a more accurate understanding of Paul’s slavery metaphors in his New Testament writings …

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Doug Greenwold of Preserving Bible Times discusses, along with Jim, the nature and character of slavery in Roman times compared to 17th and 18th century America and offers commentary on the decline of discipleship in the American church …

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