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Becoming a Judean Shepherd Audiobook

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Contains all 4 chapters plus associated Reflection Questions …

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!

Listen to this sample from the book …

$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: The Audiobook

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Four chapters plus associated Reflection Questions

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

The Bible: Its Land & Culture, The Set

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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:

  • Biblical Context Introduction
  • Pursuit of Original Meaning
  • Geography Themes
  • Physical Geography
  • The Land of Milk & Honey

Session 2:

  • Coastal Plain Aerial Video
  • Midnight Visitor Parable
  • Cultural Context Themes
  • Judean Wilderness Video

Session 3:

  • Why Context Matters
  • John 14:2 & John 15:2 Devotionals
  • Judean Wilderness Aerial Videos
  • Geography II

Session 4:

  • Galilee Aerial Videos
  • Contextual Vignettes
  • Biblical Culture

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!

Please watch your email after purchase to receive links to your video stream. Upon occasion, that email may land in your spam file and go unnoticed, so please be aware.

$39.95

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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!

Session 1 run time 58:29 Download this video
Session 2 run time 1:03:43 Download this video
Session 3 run time 52:53 Download this video

Session 4 run time 53:28 Download this video
Session 5 run time 55:02 Download this video

Click below to view and download your free 26-page Conference Booklet in PDF form:

The Bible:Its Land & Culture, Session 5

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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 …

  • Two Different Worlds
  • Peter vs Paul
  • Deciphering the Roman World
  • Roman Exceptionalism

$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.

The Bible:Its Land & Culture, Session 5

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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:

Leprosy: Effects and Requirements

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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

The Bible:Its Land & Culture, Session 4

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Session 4, runtime 53:28

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.

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:

Session 4 includes …

  • Galilee Aerial Videos
  • Contextual Vignettes
  • Biblical Culture

The Bible:Its Land & Culture, Session 4

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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 4 includes …

  • Galilee Aerial Videos
  • Cultural Vignettes
  • Biblical Culture

$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.

The Bible:Its Land & Culture, Session 3

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Session 3, run time 52:53

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 26-page Conference Booklet in PDF format.

Session 3 includes …

  • Why Context Matters
  • John 14:2 & 15:2 Devotionals
  • Judean Wilderness Aerials
  • Geography II

$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.

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