Doug Greenwold of Preserving Bible Times offers still more contextual insights into Jesus’ Parable of the Prodigal Sons and just what it was that may have brought the younger son home. Doug also relates Jesus’ admonition from Matthew 10:16 to the refugee crisis of our present day …

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Doug Greenwold of Preserving Bible Times continues his teaching on The Parable of the Prodigal Sons with the notion that the older brother may well have been the reason for the whole episode and serves as an example that carries an important message for today’s evangelical church …

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Doug Greenwold of Preserving Bible Times, along with Jim and David, brings us Part III of his series on those two Prodigal Sons, shining a light on some of our long learned assumptions about the “dissolute” life of that younger son and the blame shared by the elder …

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Doug Greenwold of Preserving Bible Times picks up where we left off last week with Jesus’ “Parable of the Prodigal (or Lost) Sons” from Luke 15, and helps us understand the enormous implications of the younger son’s demand and elaborates on what would have constituted a “distant country” in that first-century Hebrew time and place …

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Doug Greenwold of Preserving Bible Times discusses, along with Jim and David, the parable in Luke 15 as told by Jesus to a mix of tax collectors, sinners, Pharisees and teachers of the law who would have all been absolutely shocked at how Jesus began the story of The Prodigal Sons …

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Doug Greenwold of Preserving Bible Times, along with Jim and David, offers us a look at the first two parables of Jesus from Luke 15, , which comprise Jesus’ intentional prelude to the parable of the Prodigal Son …

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Doug Greenwold of Preserving Bible Times, along with Jim and David, offers observations on last week’s visit to the USA by Pope Francis, and reflects on contrasts between temporal kingdoms and the Kingdom of God made apparent by Jesus …

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Doug Greenwold of Preserving Bible Times continues his examination of village culture in first-century Israel, explaining “chai-isms”, the teaching technique used by both Jesus and the rabbis who, over the previous 150 years, had remade the culture of those northern villages into places where compassion and mercy were in short supply …

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Doug Greenwold of Preserving Bible Times, along with Jim and David,  examines first-century village life in Israel and how it played a central role in the ministry of Jesus, who spent the major portion of that three-and-one-half years teaching and healing in those small towns and villages …

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Doug Greenwold of Preserving Bible Times leads a discussion with Jim and David about the nature of first-century village life in Israel and it’s role in scriptural context …

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