Doug Greenwold’s latest book, Becoming a Judean Shepherd, derives from Doug’s consuming passion for the historic and cultural context of scripture combined with his impressive ability to tell a story. Within these pages he reveals the relevance of all those sheep and shepherd references in both the Old and New Testaments. Now the difference between sheep and […]

Doug Greenwold, along with Jim and David, discusses his new book, just off the press, entitled Becoming a Judean Shepherd and offers comment on the New York Times best seller by Muslim author Reza Aslan, Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth …

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Doug brings us news of the inaugural week of the Institute for Biblical Context just concluded in Colorado Springs and discusses the prison ministry of Preserving Bible Times with Jim and David …

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Doug Greenwold from Preserving Bible Times, along with Jim and David, explains how a modern day disciple of Jesus Christ gets motivated, gets started and proceeds day-to-day in a personalized discipling discipline (funny how those two words relate, isn’t it?) …

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Doug and Jim discuss the meaning of the term “making disciples” in both first-century Israel and in today’s Greek thinking culture and go on to discuss how the Apostle Paul may have been engaged in doing exactly that …

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Doug Greenwold reveals some of the implications for the contemporary Western Church in his teachings on sheep and shepherding in first-century Israel and explains the intriguing ways a shepherd uses leader sheep and how a shepherd sometimes brings a wayward sheep back to the fold …

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Doug Greenwold continues with the theme of sheep and shepherding, explaining how shepherds in first century Israel also had to be warriors, fending off the enemies of the flock with sling, rod and staff in their role as caretakers …

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Doug Greenwold of Preserving Bible Times, along with Jim and David, and continuing with the theme of first-century sheep and shepherding, examines the procedure a shepherd must follow in making a sheep lie down in green pastures, revealing the depth of that line from Psalm 23 …

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Doug Greenwold talks about some of the ramifications of the emerging global nature of the Preserving Bible Times ministry and launches a look at the demands and responsibilities of shepherding in first-century Israel, including providing water to these nearly helpless animals in an arid and forbidding climate …

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Doug Greenwold gives us an overview of what makes sheep herding in ancient Israel a factor in our understanding of many of Jesus’ teachings and what made it so important to temple worship and to family subsistence in that place and time …

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