These podcasts from Preserving Bible Times are drawn from a large archive of conversations with Doug Greenwold on Broken Road Radio from 2011 to 2019 and new interviews with Pastor Robbie Pruitt, Executive Director of PBT. We’ve put this library at your fingertips to listen and learn free of charge. Our mission is to deliver reliable biblical context in a concise, conversational form. Simply click on your favorite podcast source below …
The Paralytic’s Amazing Friends was published by Doug Greenwold in 2016. Doug was inspired to write the book by his son David who, beginning early in life, suffered from mental retardation, learning disabilities, cerebral palsy and Autism. Needless to say, parenting such a child presents incredible challenges. Over the years, Doug and his wife Nancy sought out special people and organizations to help David and came to feel indebted to them for their amazing contributions to David’s growth and development. Doug dedicates this book to them.
While David furnished Doug with a unique perspective on what we would normally term “handicaps”, it was Pastor Louie Giglio who provided him a new perspective on Luke 5 and the four friends who’s view of those with disabilities varied so incredibly with the standard of the day.
Doug’s book, The Paralytic’s Amazing Friends, is also available on the Preserving Bible Times website in eBook form (included 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 eight 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 Paralytic’s Amazing Friends eBook.
The Paralytic’s Amazing Friends was written and published by Doug Greenwold in 2016. Doug’s complete introduction to the work is included in the eBook edition, available to you at no charge (below). We are pleased to bring you this audio edition, narrated by Jim Park, Creative Director for Preserving Bible Times.
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Becoming a Judean Shepherd by Doug Greenwold first appeared in print in 2013 and was published with children in mind. After a warm response from an international audience, Doug chose to share the same shepherding insights with adults. These insights are rich with servant leadership principals and provide meaningful Psalm 23 glimpses into the immensity and constancy of God’s care. We are pleased to offer the material now in audio form.
Two changes Doug made for adults were the addition of appropriate reflective questions at the end of each chapter and a Case for Context as an Appendix. These questions to ponder can serve as a guided discussion for small groups and Bible studies. In the rabbinic tradition, you will find no fill-in-the-blank questions nor any easy answers but, rather, thought provoking questions intended to hone your discernment regarding discipling and body life issues. For devotional purposes, they can also guide personal meditation and journaling. However this little book ends up being used, the prayed-for outcome is the same — transformation by the Holy Spirit!
$19.95 — Listen online or download all four 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 Becoming a Judean Shepherd eBook.
Becoming a Judean Shepherd by Doug Greenwold first appeared in print in 2013 and was published with children in mind. After a warm response from an international audience, Doug chose to share the same shepherding insights with adults. We are pleased to offer the material now in audio form.
Chapter One: The Lord is My Shepherd
Chapter Two: Living Waters
Chapter Three: Protecting the Sheep
Chapter Four: Guiding the Flock
Includes all 5 sessions …
Now fully edited as streaming video, this 5-session teaching series includes narrated aerial videos of Israel and updated still photography of both the Holyland and those historic portions of Italy that bore witness to the growth of Christianity from infancy to full flower. Doug Greenwold, founder and former Executive Director of Preserving Bible Times, delivers major doses of both geographical and historical context to illuminate what you have already read (and likely missed) in your personal Bible studies! Originally in DVD format, each streaming session runs to just under one hour. Individual sessions are also available for purchase (scroll down to view).
This purchase will provide you with all 5 sessions of The Bible: Its Land & Culture. Individual sessions are available as separate items (see below listings). This complete collection includes …
Session 1:
Session 2:
Session 3:
Session 4:
Session 5:
• Two Different Worlds
• Peter vs Paul
• Deciphering the Roman World
• Roman Exceptionalism
Your purchase also now includes the original 26-page Conference Booklet in PDF format!
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$39.95
The Bible: Its Land & Culture
Originally in DVD format, and now fully edited as streaming video, this 5-session teaching series includes narrated aerial videos of Israel and updated still photography of both the Holy Land and those historic portions of Italy that bore witness to the growth of Christianity from infancy to full flower. Doug Greenwold, founder and former Executive Director of Preserving Bible Times, delivers major doses of both geographical and historical context to illuminate what you have already read (and likely missed) in your personal Bible studies!
Click below to view and download your free 26-page Conference Booklet in PDF form:
A series of five seminar teachings, The Bible: Its Land & Culture was originally presented by Doug Greenwold on June 23rd and 24th, 2015 at the Eastminster Presbyterian Church in Wichita, Kansas. Included are narrated aerial videos of the Holy Land with revealing insights into the cultural context of biblical events at various locations in Israel. The visuals, interlaced with geographical and historical information, make this series invaluable for both individual Bible study and small group leadership.
Your purchase includes the original Conference Booklet in PDF format.
Session 5 includes …
$9.95
Please watch your email after purchase to receive your video stream. Upon occasion, that email may land in your spam file and go unnoticed, so please be aware.
A series of five seminar teachings, The Bible: Its Land & Culture was originally presented by Doug Greenwold on June 23rd and 24th, 2015 at the Eastminster Presbyterian Church in Wichita, Kansas. Included are narrated aerial videos of the Holy Land with revealing insights into the cultural context of biblical events at various locations in Israel. The visuals, interlaced with geographical and historical information, make this series invaluable for both individual Bible study and small group leadership.
Session 5 includes …
• Two Different Worlds
• Peter vs Paul
• Deciphering the Roman World
• Roman Exceptionalism
We’ve added a free bonus to your streaming purchase. Click below to view and download the original 26-page Conference Booklet in PDF form:
The Leper’s Protocol
By Doug Greenwold
Excerpted from “Encounters with Jesus”
Lepers not only were condemned sinners but were also required to loudly declare themselves “unclean, unclean” whenever non-lepers were nearby. This was to avoid any inadvertent contact since this disease was assumed to be communicable by contact. As part of this contamination concern, there was a six-foot prohibition, more if the wind was blowing toward you, which meant that if any non-leprous person got within six (plus) feet of a leper (depending on the winds), they were considered to be ritually impure. That would mandate the non-leprous person having to go to the purification baths to be “cleansed.” Obviously, no one in his or her right mind would ever deliberately touch a leper.
Lepers were also forbidden from going to the Temple. In this culture by not going to the Temple and participating in the required sacrifices and offerings there, one could not become “right with God.” Thus, a leper could never get right with God and, as a result, had no hope. What must it have been like for a leper to walk around every day feeling in his soul that God does not like him and, furthermore, being convinced there was nothing he could do about it? He was considered to be the “living dead” in the eyes of this merciless and condemning religious culture and thus was expected to exhibit the countenance of a mourner.
The humiliation of being a leper never ended. The religious system of Jesus’ day also mandated that a leper could never wash his or her face (another constant reminder that you are always unclean). Furthermore, a leper was required to always hold a cloth under his or her nose to cover the bottom part of the face. The painful reality was that lepers were abandoned, anonymous, faceless people condemned to live under perpetual rejection by a heartless religious culture. The tragedy of this religious reality was that it was being done to honor God! Another reason Jesus had to come!
©The Rev. Robbie Pruitt, October 14, 2021, Executive Director, Preserving Bible Times
