Ideal for small groups, home fellowship and Adult Education classes! In listening to this narration by Rachel Capuano, you will experience a sense of discovery and excitement and be motivated to dig still more deeply into God’s Word through the use of historical, cultural, literary and geographical context. Each chapter challenges the reader with open-ended, probing, soul care type questions to draw out appropriate heart and mind issues for transformational reflection and journaling. Reflection notes are included in the eBook edition available free with your purchase.

In John 4, Jesus encounters a Samaritan woman at Jacob’s well in a remarkable,redemptive encounter. As that rendezvous unfolds, we come to suspect that this woman — whose name we do not know — has a checkered past. Nevertheless, Jesus approaches and interacts with her both righteously and gently as He brings her into the Kingdom. Placed into its original context, this remarkable event has much to teach us about how to effectively communicate with those “black sheep,” those prodigals, and other marginalized people that God places in our path and in our networks. Jesus’ own righteousness shows us how to establish redemptive relationships in our family, our workplace, and in our neighborhoods.

$19.95 — Listen online or download all 12 chapters. The link to the audio chapters will be emailed to you upon purchase. With your purchase, you will also receive a link for a free download of the Jesus Engages a Samaritan Woman eBook.

First published by Doug Greenwold in 2007 and then revised in 2011, The Rest of the Story, a Closer Look at “Familiar” Passages is a veritable contextual buffet. Choose any or all of ten chapters, each rich in the kind of contextual analysis that allows you to experience the authentic cuisine of the first-century Middle Eastern agrarian villagers who witnessed and were often stunned by the teachings of Rabbi Jesus.

Any Archaeologist will tell you it takes the time and effort of many people to excavate an ancient site so as to uncover its many clues to the past. Many people are needed to carefully dig, brush, sift, measure and categorize before a reconstruction of the past starts to come into view. Even when it comes to the individual pieces of broken pottery scattered around a site, many potsherds (pottery pieces) need to be discovered and organized before they can be placed back together to recreate the nature and shape of the original vessel.

This work is no exception. It comes with great appreciation and thankfulness for the work of digging, sifting and categorizing that many have previously done to discover the pieces (sherds) that have allowed for the contextual development of the passages in this effort.

$19.95 — Listen online or download all ten chapters. The link to the audio chapters will be emailed to you upon purchase. With your purchase, you will also receive a link for a free download of the The Rest of the Story eBook.

You can approach Encounters with Jesus as either a “compendium” or as a sort of audio “slideshow” but, either way, this book offers contextual analyses of twelve different events in Jesus’ ministry, each contributing mightily to a greater appreciation of how central is the role of biblical context to a proper appreciation of what Scripture holds for us generally. Originally published by Doug Greenwold in 2008, the book resembles a forensics text book in that it reveals the DNA, the fingerprints and the cross-cultural toxicology of our Western misinterpretation of those events from that other time and that other place. It both clarifies and enlarges the scope of what Jesus was in the midst of accomplishing not only for His disciples, but for both the Jewish and Gentile worlds.

Encounters with Jesus is also available here on the Preserving Bible Times website in eBook form (included here with your order) and contains Doug’s full introduction. We are pleased here to offer the book in audio form …

$19.95 — Listen online or download all twelve chapters. The link to the audio chapters will be emailed to you upon purchase. With your purchase, you will also receive a link for a free download of the Encounters with Jesus eBook.