Doug Greenwold takes us down to “the 5,000-foot level” to view the several themes contained in the four Gospels, including the theme of Jesus’ authority interwoven into Luke’s writings …

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Today a sampling of music from the time of Jerusalem’s second temple as best we can recreate it …in this case, The Lord’s Prayer set to music of the time and recited in Aramaic (by the San Antonio Vocal Arts Ensemble). This may be very much like Jesus would have sounded giving us this model prayer […]

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Doug Greenwold, back after a brief vacation, picks up where we left off with a discussion of the Jewish mind of Jesus’ day and alerting us to some of the cultural differences we need to understand in order to get the most from our study of Scripture …

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Doug, Jim and David take a look at the Jewish culture, old and new, searching for changes and trends over the centuries. Also discussed, the different motivations people have for taking pilgrimmages to the Holy Land …

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Doug Greenwold continues our look at Scripture from 20,000 feet of altitude, considering the ancient Middle-Eastern mind set and attempting to fathom how they may have prioritized  and contrasted ideas, words and deeds …  

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The Cultural Norms Perspective: The View from 20,000 Feet — Despite some technical glitches in our communication, Doug Greenwold got through with some valuable assistance in the matter of Bible study, giving us some perspectives on the cultural differences between the first-century Hebrew and our western paradigms. Please have patience with the occasional audio drop-outs. […]

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Part II: The 5 Story Lines of Scripture — Doug Greenwold continues with his study method for getting the utmost from Scripture, viewing it from 30,000 feet, 5,00 feet and then ground level, gradually discovering the context that we typically miss in our Western mind set …

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Part I: Getting the Utmost from Scripture — Doug Greenwold of Preserving Bible Times outlines his 6-step method for studying scripture and gives us the “5 Story Lines” present in all of the Bible as an excellent starting point for returning context to what we read and study …

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Part V (conclusion): The Parable of The Good Samaritan — Due to technical glitches we were on a bit later than usual, but Doug Greenwold made it by in time to wrap up this in-depth examination of the Good Samaritan parable (which turns out to be a much more comprehensive lesson than you were ever taught) […]

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Part IV: The Parable of the Good Samaritan — Doug Greenwold provides still more insights into this well-known but superficially understood parable, revealing the class differences from priest to Levite to Samaritan and how Jesus’ audience would have been shocked by the outcome that seems to us today to be a bit obvious and de rigueur …

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