Doug Greenwold of Preserving Bible Times discusses, along with Jim and David, why Jesus had to be and, in fact, was aware of, sensitive to and intentional about the political ramifications of nearly every event in His ministry …

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Doug Greenwold of Preserving Bible Times, along with Jim and David, discusses preparations for the important Pastor’s Seminar coming up in Phoenix this October and addresses some of the resistance he has encountered to the teaching of the historic and cultural context of scripture …

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Doug Greenwold of Preserving Bible Times, along with Jim and David, delivers some of his favorite classic quotes on biblical context, gives us some history regarding the Pharisees and compares the social strata of first-century Israel and first-century Rome …

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Doug Greenwold of Preserving Bible Times, along with Jim and David, discusses his ministry’s upcoming video and the fall Reading Between the Lines seminar for pastors to be held in Phoenix during October, and continues to detail still more of the cultural context of first-century Rome and how the Apostle Paul chose to deal with it …

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Doug Greenwold of Preserving Bible Times, along with David and Jim, investigates how it was that Paul’s father, a tent maker, might have earned himself Roman citizenship …

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Doug Greenwold of Preserving Bible Times answers David’s question regarding that ominous voyage to The Decapolis by Jesus and his disciples, and then elaborates on the social stratification of first-century Rome and the challenges it presented to Paul’s ministry there …

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Doug Greenwold of Preserving Bible Times is just back from the third trip to Italy, returning with some fresh perspectives on what the Apostle Paul had to deal with in nurturing a fledgling faith in first-century Rome …

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Doug Greenwold of Preserving Bible Times, along with Jim, describes some of the earthier conditions of tenement life in first-century Roman society with which Paul had to deal in nurturing his home churches there …

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Doug Greenwold of Preserving Bible Times describes, along with Jim and David, the chaos in daily life encountered by the common man in first-century Rome that so challenged the Apostle Paul to conceive fitting allegories and metaphors with which to present this new faith they called “The Way” …

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