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The Knowledge of God in the World and the Word: Audio Lectures
An Introduction to Classical Apologetics
by Douglas Groothuis
read by Douglas Groothuis, Andrew I. Shepardson
Part of the Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures series
These audio lectures are a unique learning experience. Unlike a traditional audiobook's direct narration of a book's text, “Knowledge of God in the World and the Word: Audio Lectures” includes high quality live-recordings of college-level lectures that cover the important points from each subject as well as relevant material from other sources.
Amid the crisis of authority in our modern and postmodern era, Christians need to be able to point to God's revelation in the natural world in addition to defending God's unique revelation in the Bible and in the person of Jesus Christ.
Classical apologetics takes a two-step approach to commending the Christian picture of reality. First, arguments for the existence of God, such as those of natural theology, are employed to create common ground with people outside the household of the Christian faith and to provide intellectual support for Christians. Second, classical apologetics defends key items of Christian revelation, including the reliability of the Bible, the identity of the historical Jesus, and the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.
In “Knowledge of God in the World and the Word: Audio Lectures”, professors Douglas Groothuis and Andrew Shepardson provide a simple introduction to classical apologetics that also addresses the most common objections to natural theology. Students will discover in the sessions an easy point of entry into understanding why Christian beliefs about Jesus are true and rational. Further, lessons apply the power of classical apologetics to Christian ministry.
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Ruth: Audio Lectures
5 Lessons on History, Meaning, and Application
by Marion Ann Taylor, Ph. D.
read by Marion Ann Taylor, Ph. D.
Part of the Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures series
Ruth Audio Lectures features scholar and professor Marion Taylor teaching through the book of Ruth in five engaging and challenging lessons. Based on her Ruth commentary in The Story of God Bible Commentary series, these video lessons explain and illuminate each passage of the book in light of the Bible's overarching grand story. Taylor offers an engaging and probing introduction to the entire book of Ruth, guiding viewers in creatively and faithfully living out its messages in today's context. Using a story-centric approach, this set of lessons is ideal for formal and informal students alike, and for everyone who wants to better understand the book of Ruth today.
Ruth Audio Lectures is part of the Beyond the Basics Series, which is dedicated to bringing expert teaching from world's best biblical scholars and theologians directly to interested learners. Ruth, A Video Study breathes life into each passage of the book, examined in its canonical and historical setting, in order to foster discernment in living God's story faithfully and creatively with and for the church in the 21st century.
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Cultural Christians in the Early Church: Audio Lectures
A Historical and Practical Introduction to Christians in the Greco-Roman World
by Nadya Williams
read by Nadya Williams
Part of the Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures series
These audio lectures are a unique learning experience. Unlike a traditional audiobook's direct narration of a book's text, Cultural Christians in the Early Church Audio Lectures includes high quality live-recordings of college-level lectures that cover the important points from each subject as well as relevant material from other sources.
In the middle of the third century CE, one North African bishop wrote a treatise for the women of his church, exhorting them to resist such culturally normalized yet immodest behaviors in their cosmopolitan Roman city as mixed public bathing in the nude, and wearing excessive amounts of jewelry and makeup. Stories like this one challenge the general assumption that the earliest Christians were zealous converts who were much more counterculturally devoted to their faith than typical churchgoers today. Too often Christians today think of cultural Christianity as a modern concept, and one most likely to occur in areas where Christianity is the majority culture, such as the American "Bible Belt."
Cultural Christians in the Early Church: Audio Lectures, which aims to be both historical and practical, argues that cultural Christians were the rule, rather than the exception, in the early church. Using different categories of sins as its organizing principle, lessons consider the challenge of culture to the earliest converts to Christianity as they struggled to live on mission in the Greco-Roman cultural milieu of the Roman Empire. Their stories provide a fresh perspective for considering the difficult timeless questions that stubbornly persist in our own world and churches: Are women inherently more sinful than men? Why is Christian nationalism a problem and, at times, a sin? Ultimately, recognizing that cultural sins were always a part of the story of the church and its people is a message that is both a source of comfort and a call to action in our pursuit of sanctification today.
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The Way of Worship: Audio Lectures
A Guide to Living and Leading Authentic Worship
by Michael Neale
read by Michael Neale, Vernon Whaley
Part of the Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures series
These audio lectures are a unique learning experience. Unlike a traditional audiobook's direct narration of a book's text, The Way of Worship: Audio Lectures includes high quality live-recordings of college-level lectures that cover the important points from each subject as well as relevant material from other sources. The Way of Worship: Audio Lectures is a practical, hands-on series for college or seminary students, pastors, youth pastors, and worship leaders seeking to better equip themselves as worshipers. Alongside The Way of Worship book, this series provides interpretation and clarification of biblical principles of worship in an ever-changing culture. Clearly presented and engaging, The Way of Worship: Audio Lectures provides a biblical theology of worship, as well as practical instruction for practicing private and public worship as a way of life. Pastors and professors Michael Neale and Vernon Whaley challenge viewers to immediately apply what they are learning, combining biblical teaching with pedagogical application of worship principles through a series of "guide skills." Lessons are uniquely designed to "lend a helping hand" to those realizing and answering the calling of God on their lives to lead worship.
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Subversive Witness Audio Lectures
Scripture's Call to Leverage Privilege
by Dominique Dubois Gilliard
read by Dominique Dubois Gilliard
Part of the Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures series
While preparing the way for the Lord, John the Baptist declares, "Produce fruit in keeping with repentance." Many have failed to do this, in part, because repentance has become diluted. Rather than truly turning away from sin-back to God-we often equate repentance with a mere oral confession. This domesticated, unbiblical understanding of repentance bears no fruit and lacks the power to transform broken people, relationships, systems, and structures. Our lack of repentance conforms us to the patterns of this world, keeping us content amid sinful inequities, complicit with systemic injustice, and apathetic in oppressive context.
Privilege is a social consequence of our unwillingness to recognize and turn from sin. Scripture affirms that privilege is real and declares that, rather than exploiting it for selfish gain or feeling immobilized by it, Christians have an opportunity to steward privilege and a responsibility to leverage it for the furtherance of the kingdom and the good of our neighbors.
In Subversive Witness, Dominique DuBois Gilliard highlights biblical examples of privileged people who understood this kingdom call. Their faithful witness serves as a practical model for our modern context. These audio lectures cast a new vision for faithful participation in the inbreaking kingdom as co-laborers with Christ. It leads the church to grapple with privilege, indifference, and systemic sin in new ways, through canonically elevating these issues. Dominique uses Scripture to elucidate how privilege emerges from sin, is sustained by our hardened hearts, and keeps us complicit with oppression. He demonstrates that Christians can wield privilege as an instrument to pursue justice and further the Kingdom, instead of denying its existence, or feeling incapacitated by it. Dominique illustrates how the faithful witness of biblical leaders continue to shape modern believers who have picked up the baton as drum majors for justice, embodying Scripture's subversive call to leverage, and at times forsake, privilege to sacrificially love our neighbors, enact systemic change, and advance the kingdom of God.
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Habakkuk: Audio Lectures
14 Lessons on Literary Context, Structure, Exegesis, and Interpretation
by Kenneth J. Turner
read by Kenneth J. Turner
Part of the Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures series
Designed for the pastor and Bible student, Habakkuk: Audio Lectures, together with the accompanying text on Habakkuk from the Zondervan Exegetical Commentary on the Old Testament, brings to light the universal scope of God's sovereignty and mercy. With careful analysis and interpretation of the Hebrew text, professor and scholar Kenneth Turner traces the flow of argument in the book of Habakkuk, showing that how a biblical author says something is just as important as what they say.
The book of Habakkuk is most known for its theological value as a prooftext for Paul's gospel--"the just shall live by faith:--and its devotional value of hope, trust, and triumph in its closing verses. Indeed, theology and devotion come together as we engage with the prophet'' personal faith journey. In the historical context of the looming Babylonian exile, Habakkuk struggles, as Abraham and Job did, with the apparent inconsistencies concerning God's character and plan. Ultimately, however, his questioning and challenging are both rooted and resolved in faith. As students, we are invited to enter in and behold God's glory, wonder, mystery, sovereignty, justice, and grace.
In Habakkuk: Audio Lectures, each lecture offers the main idea of the passage, its literary context and Hebrew structure, an explanation of the text, and its practical significance for both the original audience and for us today. Habakkuk: Audio Lectures, provides students of the Bible with a careful analysis and interpretation of the Hebrew text of the Old Testament book of Habakkuk, quickly allowing viewers to grasp the big idea of each passage and how it fits in the larger context.
Designed for the pastor and Bible student, Habakkuk: Audio Lectures, together with the accompanying text on Habakkuk from the Zondervan Exegetical Commentary on the Old Testament, brings to light the universal scope of God's sovereignty and mercy. With careful analysis and interpretation of the Hebrew text, professor and scholar Kenneth Turner traces the flow of argument in the book of Habakkuk, showing that how a biblical author says something is just as important as what they say.
The book of Habakkuk is most known for its theological value as a prooftext for Paul's gospel--"the just shall live by faith:--and its devotional value of hope, trust, and triumph in its closing verses. Indeed, theology and devotion come together as we engage with the prophet'' personal faith journey. In the historical context of the looming Babylonian exile, Habakkuk struggles, as Abraham and Job did, with the apparent inconsistencies concerning God's character and plan. Ultimately, however, his questioning and challenging are both rooted and resolved in faith. As students, we are invited to enter in and behold God's glory, wonder, mystery, sovereignty, justice, and grace.
In Habakkuk: Audio Lectures, each lecture offers the main idea of the passage, its literary context and Hebrew structure, an explanation of the text, and its practical significance for both the original audience and for us today.
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Christ Alone
Audio Lectures: A Complete Course on the Doctrine of Christ
by Stephen Wellum
read by Stephen Wellum
Part of the Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures series
The Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures series provides a unique audio learning experience. Unlike a traditional audiobook's direct narration of a book's text, Christ Alone: Audio Lectures include high quality live-recordings of college-level lectures that cover the important points from each subject as well as relevant material from other sources.
Historians and theologians alike have long recognized that at the heart of the sixteenth-century Protestant Reformation were five declarations (or "solas") that distinguished the movement from other expressions of the Christian faith.
Five hundred years later, we live in a different time with fresh challenges to our faith. Yet these rallying cries of the Reformation continue to speak to us, addressing a wide range of contemporary issues. This audio lecture will help you understand the historical and biblical context of the five solas and how to live out the relevance of Reformation theology today.
In Christ Alone: Audio Lectures, Stephen Wellum considers Christ's singular uniqueness and significance biblically, historically, and today, in our pluralistic and postmodern age. Each lesson examines the historical roots of the doctrine, especially in the Reformation era, and shows how the uniqueness of Christ has come under specific attack today. Then, learners will walk through the storyline of Scripture, from Christ's unique identity and work as prophet, priest, and king, to the application of his work to believers and our covenantal union with him to show that apart from Christ there is no salvation. Wellum demonstrates that we must recover a robust biblical and theological doctrine of Christ's person and work in the face of today's challenges and explains why a fresh appraisal of the Reformation understanding of Christ alone is needed.
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Five Views on Biblical Inerrancy
Audio Lectures: 28 Lessons on the Spectrum of Evangelical Positions
by R. Albert Mohler Jr.
read by R. Albert Mohler Jr., Peter Enns
Part of the Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures series
The Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures series provides a unique audio learning experience. Unlike a traditional audiobook's direct narration of a book's text, Five Views on Biblical Inerrancy: Audio Lectures include high quality live-recordings of college-level lectures that cover the important points from each subject as well as relevant material from other sources.
There is little doubt that the inerrancy of the Bible is a current and often contentious topic among evangelicals. Five Views on Biblical Inerrancy: Audio Lectures showcases the spectrum of evangelical positions on inerrancy and facilitates understanding of these perspectives, particularly where and why they diverge.
Each main lesson in Five Views on Biblical Inerrancy: Audio Lectures considers:
the present context and the viability and relevance of inerrancy for contemporary Christian witness; whether and to what extent Scripture teaches its own inerrancy; the position's assumed/implied understandings of the nature of Scripture, God, and truth; and three difficult biblical texts: one that implies intra-canonical contradictions, one that raises questions of theological plurality, and one that concerns historicity.
Five Views on Biblical Inerrancy: Audio Lectures serves not only as a resource for surveying the current debate, but also as a catalyst both for understanding and advancing the conversation further. Featuring scholars Al Mohler, Kevin Vanhoozer, Michael Bird, Peter Enns, and John Franke, these lectures provide listeners with the tools they need to draw informed conclusions on this debated issue and is an ideal resource for traditional students, students in distance and online-learning courses, and self-learners wanting to better understand Christian theology.
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Faith Alone
Audio Lectures: A Complete Course on the Doctrine of Justification
by Thomas R. Schreiner
read by Thomas Schreiner
Part of the Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures series
The Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures series provides a unique audio learning experience. Unlike a traditional audiobook's direct narration of a book's text, Faith Alone: Audio Lectures include high quality live-recordings of college-level lectures that cover the important points from each subject as well as relevant material from other sources.
Historians and theologians have long recognized that at the heart of the sixteenth-century Protestant Reformation were five declarations, often referred to as the 'solas': sola scriptura, solus Christus, sola gratia, sola fide, and soli Deo gloria. These five statements summarize much of what the Reformation was about, and they distinguish Protestantism from other expressions of the Christian faith. Protestants place ultimate and final authority in the Scriptures, acknowledge the work of Christ alone as sufficient for redemption, recognize that salvation is by grace alone through faith alone, and seek to do all things for God's glory.
In Faith Alone: Audio Lectures, together with accompanying book Faith Alone, renowned biblical scholar Thomas Schreiner looks at the historical and biblical roots of the doctrine of justification by faith. He summarizes the history of the doctrine, looking at the early church and the writings of several of the Reformers. His sessions take learners through examination of key texts in the Old and New Testaments and introduce some of the contemporary challenges to the Reformation teaching of sola fide. Faith Alone: Audio Lectures is accessible to a variety of audiences--college and seminary students, pastors, lay learners, and anyone interested in learning about the key doctrines of Christianity.
Five hundred years after the Reformation, the doctrine of justification by faith alone still needs to be understood and proclaimed. In Faith Alone: Audio Lectures, you will learn how the rallying cry of "sola fide" is rooted in the Scriptures and how to apply this sola in a fresh way in light of today's contemporary challenges.
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Conformed to His Image: Audio Lectures
Biblical, Practical Approaches to Spiritual Formation
by Kenneth D. Boa
read by Kenneth D. Boa
Part of the Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures series
God look like? What does the biblical vision of true spiritual life look like? How do we grow in spiritual maturity? How we answer these questions influence the health, potency, and witness of Christians in an increasingly complex and hostile world.
The Conformed to His Image: Audio Lectures answers these questions with clarity and insight, offering a comprehensive, balanced, and applicable guide to spiritual growth. It offers corrective to our tendency to pick and compartmentalize spiritual growth by exploring twelve facets of authentic Christian spirituality including: Relational Spirituality: Loving God Completely, Ourselves Correctly, and Other Compassionately Paradigm Spirituality: Cultivating an Eternal versus a Temporal Perspective Disciplined Spirituality: Engaging in the Historical Disciplines Exchanged Life Spirituality: Grasping Our True Identity in Christ Motivated Spirituality: A Set of Biblical Incentives Devotional Spirituality: Falling in Love with God Holistic Spirituality: Every Component of Life under the Lordship of Christ Process Spirituality: Process versus Product, Being versus Doing Spirit-Filled Spirituality: Walking in the Power of the Spirit Warfare Spirituality: The World, the Flesh, and the Devil Nurturing Spirituality: A Lifestyle of Evangelism and Discipleship Corporate Spirituality: Encouragement, Accountability, and Worship Pointing the way to an integrative, whole-life approach, Dr. Ken Boa shows how each spiritual paradigm discussed is just one important facet in the gem of authentic and powerful New Testament living. Conformed to His Image: Audio Lectures is a defining series for anyone who desires to follow Christ more closely.
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Ephesians: Audio Lectures (The Story of God Bible Commentary)
18 Lessons on History, Meaning, and Application
by Mark D. Roberts
read by Mark D. Roberts
Part of the Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures series
The Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures series provides a unique audio learning experience. Unlike a traditional audiobook's direct narration of a book's text, Ephesians: Audio Lectures includes high quality live-recordings of college-level lectures that cover the important points from each subject as well as relevant material from other sources. Ephesians: Audio Lectures features author and professor Mark Roberts teaching through the book of Ephesians in eighteen engaging and challenging lessons. Based on Roberts' Ephesians commentary in The Story of God Bible Commentary series, lessons tackle the historical distance between the New Testament and contemporary culture. Roberts offers a clear and compelling introduction to the entire book of Ephesians, guiding viewers in creatively and faithfully living out the book's message in today's context. Using a story-centric approach, these lessons are ideal for formal and informal students alike, and for anyone who wants to better understand Ephesians today. Ephesians, Audio Lectures is part of the Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures series, which is dedicated to bringing expert teaching from world's best biblical scholars and theologians directly to interested learners.
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2084: Audio Lectures
Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity
by John C. Lennox
read by Justin Brierley
Part of the Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures series
Where did we come from? Where we are going? How will the increased incorporation of AI into our lives affect our individual and corporate privacy, the security of our jobs, our political and personal freedoms, and the future of our species as a whole?
Popular answers to these questions wildly differ: from utopian vistas of super-humans working alongside super-intelligent AI to Orwellian outcomes where humans are controlled or outcompeted by super-intelligent machines or superior versions of ourselves.
In 2084: Audio Lectures, scientist and philosopher John C. Lennox addresses the questions of where humanity is going in terms of technological enhancement, bioengineering, and artificial intelligence. He provides a clear overview of the current capacity of AI, its advantages and disadvantages, as well as the potential future implications, clearly defining the terms associated with this field and delineating between the current scientific facts and more speculative claims. Lennox argues that the worldview, and therefore ethics, with which we approach this area will have serious implications for any future AI and how it interacts with humanity.
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How to Read Theology for All Its Worth: Audio Lectures
An Introduction for the Beginner
by Karin Spiecker Stetina
read by Karin Spiecker Stetina
Part of the Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures series
The Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures series provides a unique audio learning experience. Unlike a traditional audiobook's direct narration of a book's text, How to Read Theology for All Its Worth: Audio Lectures includes high quality live-recordings of college-level lectures that cover the important points from each subject as well as relevant material from other sources.
Too many Christians avoid reading theology for fear they won't understand it or out of a misconception that it's only meant for the academic elite. Similarly, students in introductory theology classes can feel overwhelmed by the concepts and terminology they encounter.
Yet theology can be read with enjoyment and discernment. In How to Read Theology for All Its Worth Video Lectures, professor and author Karin Stetina introduces students to the basic skills of intelligent reading, applied especially to theological works. Anyone who'd like to read theology well, whether a formal student or interested layperson, will benefit from the simple steps Stetina outlines in each lesson.
Steps include:
• Identifying genre
• Becoming acquainted with the author and the context out of which he or she wrote
• Determining a thesis and main arguments
• And more
How to Read Theology for All Its Worth: Audio Lectures, along with the accompanying book, How to Read Theology for All Its Worth, will equip learners not only to understand theology but also to insightfully engage authors' ideas. With the basic tools in hand, everyone can read with confidence and enjoy "conversations" with theological works.
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Four Views on the Apostle Paul
Audio Lectures: 18 Lessons on Reformed, Catholic, 'Post-New Perspective,' and Jewish Understandings
by Michael F. Bird
read by Michael Bird, Douglas A. Campbell
Part of the Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures series
The Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures series provides a unique audio learning experience. Unlike a traditional audiobook's direct narration of a book's text, Four Views on the Apostle Paul: Audio Lectures include high quality live-recordings of college-level lectures that cover the important points from each subject as well as relevant material from other sources.
The apostle Paul was a vital force in the development of Christianity. Paul's historical and religious context affects the theological interpretation of Paul's writings, no small issue in the whole of Christian theology.
Recent years have seen much controversy about the apostle Paul, his context, and its effect on his theology. In Four Views on the Apostle Paul: Audio Lectures, four leading scholars present their views on the best framework for describing Paul's theological perspective, including his view of salvation, the significance of Christ, and his vision for the churches.
Views include:
Reformed View: Thomas R. Schreiner
Catholic View: Luke Timothy Johnson
Post-New Perspective View: Douglas Campbell
Jewish View: Mark D. Nanos
Four Views on the Apostle Paul: Audio Lectures gives students the tools they need to draw informed conclusions on debates about Paul. New Testament scholar Michael F. Bird also covers foundational issues and provides helpful summaries in his introduction and conclusion.
New Testament scholars, pastors, and students of Christian history and biblical theology will find Four Views on the Apostle Paul, A Video Study, an indispensable introduction to ongoing debates on the apostle Paul's life and teaching.
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Know the Heretics
Audio Lectures: 14 Lessons
by Justin S. Holcomb
read by Justin Holcomb
Part of the Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures series
These audio lectures are a unique learning experience. Unlike a traditional audiobook's direct narration of a book's text, Know the Heretics Audio Lectures includes high quality live-recordings of college-level lectures that cover the important points from each subject as well as relevant material from other sources. The Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures series provides a unique audio learning experience. Unlike a traditional audiobook's direct narration of a book's text, Know the Heretics: Audio Lectures include high quality live-recordings of college-level lectures that cover the important points from each subject as well as relevant material from other sources.
There is a lot of talk about heresy these days. The frequency and volume of accusations suggest that some Christians have lost a sense of the gravity of the word. On the other hand, many believers have little to no familiarity with orthodox doctrine or the historic distortions of it. What's needed is a strong dose of humility and restraint, and also a clear and informed definition of orthodoxy and heresy. In Know the Heretics: Audio Lectures, scholar and author Justin Holcomb provides an accessible "travel guide" to the most significant heresies throughout Christian history.
Each lecture covers a simple explanation of the unorthodox teaching, the orthodox response and a key defender, and reflections of contemporary relevance for application in today's world.
Know the Heretics: Audio Lectures feature the author's expert teaching through every chapter in the textbook and is an ideal resource for traditional students, students in distance and online-learning courses, and self-learners, wanting to better understand Christian theology.
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The New Testament in Antiquity: Audio Lectures 2
A Survey of the New Testament within Its Cultural Contexts
by Gary M. Burge
read by Gary M. Burge, Gene L. Green
Part of the Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures series
These audio lectures are a unique learning experience. Unlike a traditional audiobook's direct narration of a book's text, The New Testament in Antiquity: Audio Lectures 2 includes high quality live-recordings of college-level lectures that cover the important points from each subject as well as relevant material from other sources. The New Testament in Antiquity: Audio Lectures 2 feature the author's expert teaching through every chapter in the textbook and are an ideal resource for traditional students, students in distance and online-learning courses, and self-learners, wanting to better understand Christian theology.
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Joshua: Audio Lectures
24 Lessons on History, Meaning, and Application
by Lissa Wray Beal
read by Lissa Wray Beal
Part of the Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures series
The Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures series provides a unique audio learning experience. Unlike a traditional audiobook's direct narration of a book's text, Joshua: Audio Lectures includes high quality live-recordings of college-level lectures that cover the important points from each subject as well as relevant material from other sources .Joshua: Audio Lectures features scholar and professor Lissa M. Wray Beal teaching through the book of Joshua in 24 engaging and challenging lessons. Based on her Joshua commentary in The Story of God Bible Commentary series, these lessons explain and illuminate each passage of the book in light of the Bible's overarching grand story. Wray Beal offers an engaging and probing introduction to the entire book of Joshua, guiding viewers in creatively and faithfully living out its messages in today's context. Using a story-centric approach, this set of lessons is ideal for formal and informal students alike, and for everyone who wants to better understand the book of Joshua today. Joshua: Audio Lectures is part of the Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures series, which is dedicated to bringing expert teaching from world's best biblical scholars and theologians directly to interested learners.
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Deuteronomy: Audio Lectures Part 1
by Daniel I. Block
read by Daniel I. Block
Part of the Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures series
The Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures series provides a unique audio learning experience. Unlike a traditional audiobook's direct narration of a book's text, Deuteronomy: Audio Lectures Part 1 include high quality live-recordings of college-level lectures that cover the important points from each subject as well as relevant material from other sources.
Arranged as a series of sermons given by Moses, the book of Deuteronomy represents the final major segment of the biography of Moses. These sermons review past events described in Genesis through Numbers and challenge Israel to faithful living as they look forward to life in the Promised Land. The theological significance of Deuteronomy cannot be overestimated. Few books in the Bible proclaim such a relevant word of grace and gospel to the church today. At its heart, Deuteronomy celebrates the covenantal relationship between God and his people. God has graciously chosen Israel as his covenant partner and has faithfully demonstrated his covenantal commitment to them. Moses challenges the Israelites to respond by declaring that Yahweh alone is their God and by demonstrating unwavering loyalty and total love for him through obedience.
Deuteronomy: Audio Lectures Part 1 features scholar Daniel I. Block teaching through the book of Deuteronomy in 60 short and engaging lessons. A companion to Block's Deuteronomy commentary in the NIV Application Commentary series, these lessons explore the links between the Bible and our own times that reveal the enduring relevance of Deuteronomy for our twenty-first century lives.
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The Holy Spirit: Audio Lectures
by Christopher R. J. Holmes
read by Christopher Holmes
Part of the Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures series
The Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures series provides a unique audio learning experience. Unlike a traditional audiobook's direct narration of a book's text, The Holy Spirit: Audio Lectures includes high quality live-recordings of college-level lectures that cover the important points from each subject as well as relevant material from other sources.
Who is the Holy Spirit and how does the Spirit come to be in relation to the Father and the Son? What is the mission of the Spirit and where does it come from? Scholar and author Chris Holmes takes up the questions surrounding the Spirit's procession and mission with the help of three of the church's greatest teachers-Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, and Karl Barth.
Drawing on their engagements with the Fourth Gospel, Holmes presents an account of the Spirit's identity, origin, and acts to show how the acts of the Spirit derive from the Spirit's life in relation to Father and Son-and the extent to which the Spirit's mission testifies to the Spirit's origin.
Alongside The Holy Spirit book, The Holy Spirit: Audio Lectures presents a way forward for pneumatology. Housed within the doctrine of the Trinity, pneumatology's joyful task is to describe the Spirit's acts among us in light of their source in the Spirit's acts in God. The end of this inquiry is our beatitude-knowledge of the Trinity that yields to love of the Trinity.
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The New Testament in Its World: Audio Lectures, Part 2 of 2
An Introduction to the History, Literature, and Theology of the First Christians
by N. T. Wright
read by N. Wright, Michael F. Bird
Part of the Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures series
The Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures series provides a unique audio learning experience. Unlike a traditional audiobook's direct narration of a book's text, The New Testament in Its World: Audio Lectures includes high quality live-recordings of college-level lectures that cover the important points from each subject as well as relevant material from other sources.
Enter the world of the New Testament. A companion to The New Testament in Its World by N. T. Wright and Michael F. Bird, these lectures serve as your passageway from the twenty-first century to the era of Jesus and the first Christians. In part 2, professors Wright and Bird detail the apostle Paul's life, ministry, and theology; every book of the New Testament, with particularly close analysis to the Pauline epistles, the Gospels, and Acts; how the New Testament came to be; and how to live the New Testament story today.
Part 2 includes lectures on:
• Galatians
• 1 and 2 Thessalonians
• Philippians
• Colossians, Philemon, and Ephesians
• 1 and 2 Corinthians
• Romans
• The Pastoral Epistles
• The Gospel According to Mark
• The Gospel According to Matthew
• The Gospel According to Luke and Acts of the Apostles
• The Gospel According to John
• The Making of the Gospels
• Introduction to Early Christian Letters
• The Letter to the Hebrews
• Letters by Jesus' Brothers: James and Jude
• Petrine Letters: 1 and 2 Peter
• Johannine Letters: 1, 2, and 3 John
• Revelation
• Introduction to Textual Criticism of the New Testament
• The Canonization of the New Testament
• Bringing It All Together-Living the Story of the New Testament
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Ezra-Nehemiah: Audio Lectures
by Donna Petter
read by Donna Petter, Thomas Petter
Part of the Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures series
The Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures series provides a unique audio learning experience. Unlike a traditional audiobook's direct narration of a book's text, Ezra-Nehemiah: Audio Lectures includes high-quality live recordings of college-level lectures that cover the important points from each subject as well as relevant material from other sources.
Ezra-Nehemiah chronicles the return of the exiles to Jerusalem during the Persian Period. Empowered by the Persian authorities, Ezra and Nehemiah came on the scene in Jerusalem to restore the worship of the "God of heaven" and the sanctity of Zion and his people. God's sovereignty over temporal powers, confession of sin and repentance, and worship according to Yahweh's holiness undergird the account. In the face of tremendous odds, opposition and betrayal, both Ezra and Nehemiah displayed selflessness and devotion by following their calling and trusting God's plan.
Ezra-Nehemiah: Audio Lectures features scholars and professors Donna Petter and Thomas Petter teaching through the book of Ezra in 14 engaging and challenging lessons. A companion to Petter and Petter's Ezra-Nehemiah commentary in the NIV Application Commentary series, these lessons of restoration help us discover how to apply Scripture to our lives today.
Ezra-Nehemiah: Audio Lectures is part of the Zondervan Beyond the Basics Video Series, which is dedicated to bringing expert teaching from world's best biblical scholars and theologians directly to interested learners.
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Understanding Spiritual Gifts: Audio Lectures
by Sam Storms
read by Sam Storms
Part of the Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures series
The Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures series provides a unique audio learning experience. Unlike a traditional audiobook's direct narration of a book's text, Spiritual Gifts: Audio Lectures includes high quality live-recordings of college-level lectures that cover the important points from each subject as well as relevant material from other sources.
What are spiritual gifts?
Author and pastor Sam Storms has spent several decades teaching on the topic of the spiritual gifts and equipping believers in the faithful practice of God's gifts. Yet there remains a great deal of confusion about the nature of the gifts and how they best function in the body of Christ.
In these audio lectures on the spiritual gifts, Storms addresses the many bizarre and misleading interpretations that abound and confronts the tendency to downplay the urgency of spiritual gifts for Christian living and ministry. He explains how spiritual gifts, both the more miraculous and the somewhat mundane, are given to build up the body of Christ. God has graciously provided these "manifestations of the Spirit" so that believers might encourage, edify, strengthen, instruct, and console one another, all with a view to an ever-increasing, incremental transformation into the image of Jesus Christ.
Storms unpacks the glorious truth that there is a supernatural and divine energy or power that fills and indwells the body and soul of every born-again believer. God does not call upon us to speculate about the nature of this power or to embrace it as a mere idea. His desire is that we avail ourselves of it to partner with him in his purposes on the earth. His desire is that we cry out to him that he might intensify, expand, increase, and deepen the manifestation of this power through us in ever more demonstrative and tangible ways in our lives.
Understanding Spiritual Gifts addresses common questions about the gifts and provides practical training for using and exercising the gifts in ministry. It is perfect for any individual or group who wants to grow in their understanding of the gifts for today.
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Esther: Audio Lectures
11 Lessons on History, Meaning, and Application
by Marion Ann Taylor, Ph. D.
read by Marion Ann Taylor, Ph. D.
Part of the Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures series
Esther: Audio Lectures features scholar and professor Marion Taylor teaching through the book of Esther in 11 engaging and challenging lessons. Based on her Esther commentary in The Story of God Bible Commentary series, these lessons explain and illuminate each passage of the book in light of the Bible's overarching grand story. Taylor offers an engaging and probing introduction to the entire book of Esther, guiding viewers in creatively and faithfully living out its messages in today's context. Using a story-centric approach, this set of lessons is ideal for formal and informal students alike, and for everyone who wants to better understand the book of Esther today.
Esther: Audio Lectures breathes life into each passage of the book, examined in its canonical and historical setting, in order to foster discernment in living God's story faithfully and creatively with and for the church in the 21st century.
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1 Corinthians: Audio Lectures Part 1
by Paul D. Gardner
read by Paul Gardner
Part of the Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures series
These audio lectures are a unique learning experience. Unlike a traditional audiobook's direct narration of a book's text, 1 Corinthians, Part 1: Audio Lectures includes high quality live-recordings of college-level lectures that cover the important points from each subject as well as relevant material from other sources.
1 Corinthians, Part 1: Audio Lectures feature the author's expert teaching through chapters 1-9 of 1 Corinthians and are an ideal resource for traditional students, students in distance and online-learning courses, and self-learners, wanting to better understand Christian theology.
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Grace Alone: Audio Lectures
A Complete Course on Salvation as a Gift of God
by Carl R. Trueman
read by Carl R. Trueman
Part of the Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures series
The Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures series provides a unique audio learning experience. Unlike a traditional audiobook's direct narration of a book's text, Grace Alone: Audio Lectures includes high quality live-recordings of college-level lectures that cover the important points from each subject as well as relevant material from other sources.
Historians and theologians have long recognized that at the heart of the sixteenth-century Protestant Reformation were five declarations, often referred to as the "solas": sola scriptura, solus Christus, sola gratia, sola fide, and soli Deo gloria. These five statements summarize much of what the Reformation was about, and they distinguish Protestantism from other expressions of the Christian faith. Protestants place ultimate and final authority in the Scriptures, acknowledge the work of Christ alone as sufficient for redemption, recognize that salvation is by grace alone through faith alone, and seek to do all things for God's glory.
In Grace Alone Audio Lectures, together with accompanying book, Grace Alone, scholar Carl Trueman looks at the historical and biblical roots of the doctrine that salvation is by grace alone, a free gift unmerited by human effort or works. Lessons examine the development of this theme in the early church through the Reformation to the Protestant confessions that still shape the church in the present day. Trueman also explores the biblical means of receiving God's grace through the fellowship of believers, the sacraments, and through the Word of God, and considers how we need to recover this doctrine in the face of today's challenges.
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A Theology of Paul and His Letters: Audio Lectures
25 Lessons on Major Theological Themes
by Douglas J. Moo
read by Douglas J. Moo
Part of the Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures series
These lectures give pastors, scholars, and all serious students of the New Testament exactly what they need for in-depth study and engagement with one of Christian history's most formative thinkers and writers. A Theology of Paul and His Letters: Audio Lectures is a landmark study of the apostle's writings by one of the world's leading Pauline scholars, Douglas J. Moo. Fifteen years in the making, this groundbreaking work is organized into three major sections:
• Part 1 provides an overview of the issues involved in doing biblical theology in general and a Pauline theology in particular. Here Moo also sets out the methodological issues, formative influences, and conceptual categories of Paul's thought.
•Part 2 moves on to Paul's New Testament writings, where Moo describes each Pauline letter with particular relevance to its theology.
•Part 3 offers a masterful synthesis of Paul's theology under the overarching theme of the gift of the new realm in Christ.
Engaging, insightful, and wise, this substantive, evangelical treatment of Paul's theology offers extensive engagement with the latest Pauline scholarship without sacrificing its readability. These lectures bring insights from over thirty years of experience studying, teaching, and writing about Paul into one comprehensive guide.
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How to Lead in a World of Distraction: Audio Lectures
Four Simple Habits for Turning Down the Noise
by Clay Scroggins
read by Clay Scroggins
Part of the Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures series
These audio lectures are a unique learning experience. Unlike a traditional audiobook's direct narration of a book's text, How to Lead in a World of Distraction: Audio Lectures includes high quality live-recordings of college-level lectures that cover the important points from each subject as well as relevant material from other sources.
The How to Lead in a World of Distraction: Audio Lectures feature the author's expert teaching through every chapter in the book and are an ideal resource to help listen to yourself, to recognize what your emotions, your body, and your spirit are saying to you by turning down the kudzu of white noise threatening to control your life.
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Encountering the Holy Land
by Carl G. Rasmussen
read by Carl G. Rasmussen
Part of the Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures series
The Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures series provides a unique audio learning experience. Unlike a traditional audiobook's direct narration of a book's text, Encountering the Holy Land: Audio Lectures include high quality live-recordings of college-level lectures that cover the important points from each subject as well as relevant material from other sources.
The first lesson introduces the "playing board" of biblical history, followed by lessons arranged historically that begin with Eden and trace the historical progression of the Old and New Testaments. The audio lecture provides an engaging, accurate, and faithful companion to God's Word.
Throughout Encountering the Holy Land, scholar Carl Rasmussen illuminates the geographical and historical context of biblical events. Destined to become a favorite guide to biblical geography for students of the Bible, this accessible set of audio lectures will invite you into the world of the Bible as never before. Encountering the Holy Land: Audio Lectures feature the author's expert teaching and are an ideal resource for traditional students, students in distance and online-learning courses, and self-learners, wanting to better understand Christian theology.
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Searching for God
Audio Lectures: Is There Any Reason to Believe in God Today?
by Brandon McGuire
read by Brandon McGuire
Part of the Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures series
The average person today may hold to a wide variety of beliefs about religion and Christianity, including:
Good people go to heaven; bad people end up in hell.
All religions are basically the same.
It's about rules.
It's about controlling people.
No religion can be the only way to God or spirituality.
In short, religion is an area of much confusion. Searching for God: Audio Lectures, narrated by filmmaker Brandon McGuire and featuring top Christian thinkers and apologists, explores questions such as: What is Christianity? What are some of the ideas that have influenced the way people think about it? And is there any evidence for God?
Most significantly, Searching for God: Audio Lectures examines the central event in the Christian story, the resurrection of Jesus Christ. The resurrection is a historical claim, testable by evidence. So how credible is it? McGuire interviews everyday people alongside seasoned Christian scholars in making a case for Christianity. Featured scholars include Lee Strobel, William Lane Craig, Gary Habermas, J. Warner Wallace, Nabeel Qureshi, Paul Copan, and many more.
Searching for God: Audio Lectures feature the author's expert teaching and is an ideal resource for traditional students, students in distance and online-learning courses, and self-learners, wanting to better understand Christian theology.
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Jesus, Contradicted Audio Lectures
Why the Gospels Tell the Same Story Differently
by Michael R. Licona
read by Michael Licona
Part of the Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures series
New Testament scholar Michael Licona offers a fresh approach to the question of differences, discrepancies, and apparent contradictions found in the Gospels.?
The differences and discrepancies in the Gospels constitute the foremost objections to their reliability and the credibility of their message. Some have tried to resolve Gospels contradictions with strained harmonization efforts. Many others conclude that the Gospels are hopelessly contradictory and, therefore, historically unreliable accounts of Jesus.?
In “Jesus, Contradicted Audio Lectures”, New Testament scholar Michael Licona shows how the genre of ancient biography, to which the Gospels belong, actually allows biographers to be flexible in how they report events, construct a narrative, and make an argument. Licona demonstrates that the intentional changes to the Jesus tradition by the Evangelists reveal that the differences in how the Gospels report events are not grounds for their rejection. Instead, they are a result of the Gospel writers employing standard literary conventions common in their time for writing ancient biography.??
Licona introduces readers to the genre of ancient biography through Plutarch, who wrote 48 of the 90 extent biographies written within 150 years of Jesus, giving numerous examples of compositional devices employed by Plutarch, and comparing them with instances in the Gospels where the Evangelists appear to use similar techniques. Licona also examines Theon's Progymnasmata, a first-century textbook that provides six techniques for paraphrasing one's sources when writing a narrative. In doing so, he helps readers understand why the Gospels report many events differently. Finally, Licona concludes by addressing the thorny question of whether the editorial moves commonplace in ancient biography are compatible with the doctrines of the divine inspiration and the inerrancy of Scripture.?
Rather than trying to resolve discrepancies by bending the Gospel narrative, which risks making them say things they aren't saying,?Jesus, Contradicted?
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Matthew 1-10: Audio Lectures
by Michael J. Wilkins
read by Michael J. Wilkins
Part of the Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures series
The Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures series provides a unique audio learning experience. Unlike a traditional audiobook's direct narration of a book's text, Matthew 1-10: Audio Lectures includes high quality live-recordings of college-level lectures that cover the important points from each subject as well as relevant material from other sources.
The importance of the Gospel of Matthew in church history cannot be overstated. For Jewish readers, it affirmed the Messiahship of Jesus, referring consistently to the Scriptures to establish his credentials. For Gentile disciples, it provided powerful and dramatic support of their inclusion in God's kingdom. The cross of Christ had removed the division between Jew and non-Jew, and through Matthew's writings, we see Israel's God drawing the entire world to himself through Jesus.
In Matthew 1-10: Audio Lectures, professor Michael Wilkins explains Matthew's broad appeal not only to his ancient readers, but also to us today. Exploring the links between the Bible and our own times, Wilkins shares perspectives on Matthew's Gospel that reveal its enduring relevance for our twenty-first century lives.
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Sanctification: Audio Lectures
20 Lessons on the Biblical and Doctrinal Significance of Sanctification
by Michael Allen
read by Michael Allen
Part of the Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures series
The Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures series provides a unique audio learning experience. Unlike a traditional audiobook's direct narration of a book's text, Sanctification: Audio Lectures include high quality live-recordings of college-level lectures that cover the important points from each subject as well as relevant material from other sources.
The holy has been defined existentially and sociologically, and churches too often allow their expectations regarding holiness to be prompted by existential aspirations or the social mores of the Christian community.
In Sanctification: Audio Lectures, theologian Michael Allen offers thoughtful, concise, and understandable lessons that explore the doctrine of sanctification.
Perhaps it is not surprising that many view holiness as accidental or expendable, even as a legalistic and conformist posture opposed to the freedom of the gospel. But sanctification is one of the gifts of the gospel of Jesus Christ, so we must think about the way in which he makes his redeemed holy as a grace.
In these audio lectures, Michael Allen defines holiness in theological terms by connecting it to core Christian doctrines such as the character of God, the nature of creation, and the covenantal shape of life with God. He then considers the ways in which the gospel of Jesus not only prompts us to holy action but provides holiness as one of its blessings. Finally, he attends to the ways in which the gift of sanctification relates to various human instruments and means, so that we can appreciate its connection to human nature, creaturely responsibility, and the pedagogy of exemplars and of law.
Sanctification: Audio Lectures feature the author's expert teaching and are an ideal resource for traditional students, students in distance and online-learning courses, and self-learners wanting to better understand Christian theology.
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The Kingdom of God: Audio Lectures
A Biblical Theology
by Nicholas Perrin
read by Nicholas Perrin
Part of the Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures series
The Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures series provides a unique audio learning experience. Unlike a traditional audiobook's direct narration of a book's text, Kingdom of God: Audio Lectures includes high quality live-recordings of college-level lectures that cover the important points from each subject as well as relevant material from other sources.
What does the Bible say about God's Kingdom and what Kingdom living looks like?
In the last hundred and fifty years the concept of the kingdom of God has emerged as one of the most important topics in theology, New Testament studies, and the life of the church.
In The Kingdom of God, Nicholas Perrin explores this dominant biblical metaphor, one that is paradoxically the meta-center and the mystery in Jesus' proclamation. After survey interpretations by figures from Ritschl to N. T. Wright, Perrin examines questions such as:
• What exactly is the kingdom of God?
• What do different Christian traditions mean when they talk about "the Kingdom"?
• How should we interpret Jesus' teachings about the Kingdom?
• What does it mean for the people of God and what does it mean for how they live in the world?
Perrin contends that the kingdom is inaugurated in Jesus' earthly ministry, but its final development awaits later events in history. In between the times, however, the people of God are called to participate in the reign of God by living out the distinctly kingdom-ethic through hope, forgiveness, love, and prayer.
Part of the Biblical Theology for Life series, this practical and robust audiobook will help you ground your understanding of the Kingdom of God on the solid foundation of biblical exegesis and reflection.
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Matthew 11-28: Audio Lectures
by Michael J. Wilkins
read by Michael J. Wilkins
Part of the Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures series
The Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures series provides a unique audio learning experience. Unlike a traditional audiobook's direct narration of a book's text, Matthew 11-28: Audio Lectures includes high quality live-recordings of college-level lectures that cover the important points from each subject as well as relevant material from other sources.
The importance of the Gospel of Matthew in church history cannot be overstated. For Jewish readers, it affirmed the Messiahship of Jesus, referring consistently to the Scriptures to establish his credentials. For Gentile disciples, it provided powerful and dramatic support of their inclusion in God's kingdom. The cross of Christ had removed the division between Jew and non-Jew, and through Matthew's writings, we see Israel's God drawing the entire world to himself through Jesus.
In Matthew 11-28: Audio Lectures, professor Michael Wilkins explains Matthew's broad appeal not only to his ancient readers, but also to us today. Exploring the links between the Bible and our own times, Wilkins shares perspectives on Matthew's Gospel that reveal its enduring relevance for our twenty-first century lives.
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How to Make Big Decisions Wisely: Audio Lectures
by Alan Ehler
read by Alan Ehler
Part of the Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures series
The Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures series provides a unique audio learning experience. Unlike a traditional audiobook's direct narration of a book's text, How to Make Big Decisions Wisely: Audio Lectures includes high quality live-recordings of college-level lectures that cover the important points from each subject as well as relevant material from other sources. Our decisions determine our lives. Invest in a company that goes bankrupt and you lose your life savings. Say the wrong thing in an interview and you miss the job of the lifetime. Make no decisions and you miss every opportunity. In today's rapidly changing world, the cost of poor decisions (or no decision at all) is higher than ever. In the How to Make Big Decisions Wisely: Audio Lectures, in conjunction with the book How to Make Big Decisions Wisely, author and scholar Alan Ehler lays out a clear approach to making big decisions based on the Bible and recent discoveries in neuroscience and decision science. He presents a simple, four-step process that can be followed to make any kind of decision, whether personal, professional, or relational. Making big decisions can rewrite lives, careers, families, churches, and businesses. A lot is at stake. Learn how to choose well.
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Engaging Theology: Audio Lectures
A Biblical, Historical, and Practical Introduction
by Ben C. Blackwell
read by Ben C. Blackwell, R. L. Hatchett
Part of the Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures series
Theology today is faced with increasing amounts of religious and theological pluralism. What is distinctive about Christian theology? Why do these ideas matter? And the biggest question of all: Who cares? Key aspects of orthodox theology are seen as speculative and irrelevant to "authentic" Christianity and to personal spirituality. These lectures show that key elements of Christian theology ground an integrated worldview and are essential for spiritual formation.
Engaging Theology Audio Lectures is an introductory theology series that grounds a treatment of standard systematic topics in the wider context of life and practice and shows the relevance of each doctrine to the church. Lectures treat the essential doctrines of Christian orthodoxy by beginning with a brief and engaging account of the historical situation out of which the doctrine arose or where it played an essential role in the development of the church, showing students that orthodox theology matters and introducing them to most of the key theologians in the history of the church. The heart of each lecture is exposition of key elements of the core Christian doctrines. Ben Blackwell and R. L. Hatchett explore relevance to the modern setting and concerns, including interaction with heterodox and non-Christian faiths. Lectures also point to other problems the church is facing and practical discussions about how each doctrine can be integrated in personal and corporate life.
Engaging Theology Audio Lectures is ideal for students and everyday people living in a post Christian era to help them seriously engage with the Christian faith.
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2 Corinthians: Audio Lectures
19 Lessons on History, Meaning, and Application
by Scott J. Hafemann
read by Scott Hafemann
Part of the Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures series
The Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures series provides a unique audio learning experience. Unlike a traditional audiobook's direct narration of a book's text, 2 Corinthians: Audio Lectures includes high quality live-recordings of college-level lectures that cover the important points from each subject as well as relevant material from other sources.
If anyone deserved the respect of Corinthian believers, it was the apostle Paul. Yet in his second letter to the church at Corinth, we find Paul defending his character and credibility against the malicious attacks of false apostles. Rather than highlighting his personal strengths, amazingly, Paul points to his weaknesses! Paul's approach reveals one of the paradoxes of God's kingdom: God's strength was made perfect through the apostle's weakness. So it remains today. God's sufficiency shines in the face of our insufficiency, and his most powerful work is accomplished through us when we acknowledge our weakness and complete dependence on him.
2 Corinthians: Audio Lectures features scholar Scott Hafemann teaching through the book of 2 Corinthians in 19 engaging and challenging lessons. Based on Hafemann's 2 Corinthians commentary in the NIV Application Commentary series, these lessons explore the links between the Bible and our own times that reveal 2 Corinthians' enduring relevance for our twenty-first-century lives.
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2 and 3 John
by Karen H. Jobes
read by Karen H. Jobes
Part of the Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures series
The Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures series provides a unique audio learning experience. Unlike a traditional audiobook's direct narration of a book's text, 2 and 3 John: Audio Lectures include high quality live-recordings of college-level lectures that cover the important points from each subject as well as relevant material from other sources.
In 2 and 3 John: Audio Lectures author and New Testament scholar Karen Jobes seeks to bridge the distance between academic biblical studies and pastors, students, and laypeople who are looking for an in-depth treatment of the issues raised by these New Testament books. She approaches the three letters of John as part of the corpus that includes John's gospel, while rejecting an elaborate redactional history of that gospel that implicates the letters. Jobes treats the major themes of the letters under the larger rubric of who has the authority to interpret the true significance of Jesus, an issue that is pressing in our religiously pluralistic society today with its many voices claiming truth about God.
These audio lectures examine the literary context and structure of each passage in 2 and 3 John and provides verse-by-verse commentary and theology in application.
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A Theology of Matthew's Gospel: Audio Lectures
18 Lessons on Major Theological Themes
by Michael J. Wilkins
read by Michael J. Wilkins
Part of the Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures series
A Theology of Matthew: Audio Lectures develops the perspective that Matthew wrote his Gospel to identify, defend, and proclaim Jesus Immanuel, "God with us," as the Davidic Messiah who fulfilled Old Testament expectations of humanity's redemption. Matthew's Gospel establishes Jesus's identity as the heir to the promises of Israel's throne through king David, and heir to the promises of blessing to all the nations through the patriarch Abraham (1:1). So, this first Gospel offers evangelistic hope in Jesus's message of the gospel to Jews, contending that they should turn to Jesus as their long-awaited Messiah (Matt 11:2-6). But, strikingly, Matthew's Gospel also offers evangelistic hope to Gentiles, emphasizing that salvation through Jesus Messiah is available to all the nations (28:19).
This video series emphasizes the three horizons that comprise Matthew's Gospel: history, theology, and literature. The first horizon focuses on Jesus's historical ministry. The second horizon develops Matthew's theological perspective for his audience(s). The third horizon emphasizes today's students engaging with Matthew's Gospel as literature.
In this video series, professor and author Michael Wilkins views Matthew's perspective of God's activities in Jesus's unfolding earthly ministry. The alternating sections of narrative and discourse provide a manual on discipleship to Jesus Messiah in the kingdom of heaven. Combined, the narratives of Jesus's life provide Jesus's example to follow, and the discourses give Jesus's instructions to obey, and are the basis of our ongoing transformation to become like Jesus. These lectures focus on Matthew's recollection of Jesus Messiah's historical ministry as Immanuel, "God with us," and how that is the fulfillment of Israel's hopes and the foundation for the Church's theology and discipleship to Jesus and its practices.
A Theology of Matthew: Audio Lectures develops the perspective that Matthew wrote his Gospel to identify, defend, and proclaim Jesus Immanuel, "God with us," as the Davidic Messiah who fulfilled Old Testament expectations of humanity's redemption. Matthew's Gospel establishes Jesus's identity as the heir to the promises of Israel's throne through king David, and heir to the promises of blessing to all the nations through the patriarch Abraham (1:1). So, this first Gospel offers evangelistic hope in Jesus's message of the gospel to Jews, contending that they should turn to Jesus as their long-awaited Messiah (Matt 11:2-6). But, strikingly, Matthew's Gospel also offers evangelistic hope to Gentiles, emphasizing that salvation through Jesus Messiah is available to all the nations (28:19).
This video series emphasizes the three horizons that comprise Matthew's Gospel: history, theology, and literature. The first horizon focuses on Jesus's historical ministry. The second horizon develops Matthew's theological perspective for his audience(s). The third horizon emphasizes today's students engaging with Matthew's Gospel as literature.
In this video series, professor and author Michael Wilkins views Matthew's perspective of God's activities in Jesus's unfolding earthly ministry. The alternating sections of narrative and discourse provide a manual on discipleship to Jesus Messiah in the kingdom of heaven. Combined, the narratives of Jesus's life provide Jesus's example to follow, and the discourses give Jesus's instructions to obey, and are the basis of our ongoing transformation to become like Jesus.
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Blessed Are the Peacemakers Audio Lectures
A Biblical Theology of Human Violence
by Helen Paynter
read by Helen Paynter
Part of the Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures series
Old Testament scholar Helen Paynter explores what the Bible says about human violence and what Christians ought to do about it today in Blessed Are the Peacemakers Audio Lectures.
“The Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures” series provides a unique audio learning experience. Unlike a traditional audiobook's direct narration of a book's text, Blessed Are the Peacemakers Audio Lectures include high quality live-recordings of college-level lectures that cover the important points from each subject as well as relevant material from other sources.
This audio series dives deeply into the topic of human violence. Old Testament scholar Helen Paynter sets out the contours by addressing the various definitions of violence and the theories of its origins, prevalence, and purpose. What is violence? Is violence a human or social construct, or can we describe natural phenomena as violent? How does the concept of violence relate to the concept of evil? How do we resist violence?
Starting with the creation narratives in Genesis, ancient Near Eastern myths, and the conquest of Canaan, Blessed Are the Peacemakers Audio Lectures investigates the origins of human violence and its consequences. Through the voices of the prophets and in the teaching of Jesus, the Bible reveals that the seeds of violence exist within every human heart. Even though we see evidence of resistance movements in the Bible, it is only on the cross that an absorption of violence by God takes place through self-sacrifice. Lessons also consider how the first Christians responded to the structural violence of slavery and patriarchy and how they began to apply Jesus's redemptive, non-vengeful theology to their own day.
In addition to providing a comprehensive biblical theology of violence, Paynter probes behind the headlines and politicized rhetoric to provide a careful analysis of violence in our world. She concludes by setting forth a bold framework and practical suggestions for an effective and faithful Christian response to the scriptural teaching.
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Zondervan Essential Companion to Christian History: Audio Lectures
by Stephen Backhouse
read by Stephen Backhouse
Part of the Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures series
The Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures series provides a unique audio learning experience. Unlike a traditional audiobook's direct narration of a book's text, Zondervan Essential Companion to Christian History: Audio Lectures include high quality live-recordings of college-level lectures that cover the important points from each subject as well as relevant material from other sources.
The Zondervan Essential Companion to Christian History: Audio Lectures gives you what it promises: the essentials. This highly informative, broad-ranging study provides vital facts on the growth and impact of Christianity from the apostles to the present day not only in the Western world but also globally, including the development of Eastern Orthodox and Armenian Christianity, as well as Christianity in Latin America, Southeast Asia, the Baltic and Slavic states, and India. The study is organized by century, going through the major events, ideas, and personalities that have shaped Christian history around the world.
These audio lectures by author and scholar Stephen Backhouse cover:
The main threads and issues running through each century of Christian history
Explanations of key historical developments
Thematic connections between centuries
Focused looks at key persons, ideas, and events
The final session, devoted to the present century, identifies key themes that the Christian church is presently dealing with and suggests future issues. Useful for students and lay learners alike, Zondervan Essential Companion to Christian History: Audio Lectures will help viewers to grasp the global, multifaceted story of Christians.
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Philemon: Audio Lectures
4 Lessons on History, Meaning, and Application
by David E. Garland
read by David E. Garland
Part of the Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures series
The Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures series provides a unique audio learning experience. Unlike a traditional audiobook's direct narration of a book's text, Philemon: Audio Lectures include high quality live-recordings of college-level lectures that cover the important points from each subject as well as relevant material from other sources.
The letter to Philemon brings a bold call for forgiveness and unity as the brotherhood of all believers. This letter, the shortest book in the Bible, speaks powerfully to us today toward issues like equality, unity, and what conversion to Christ does for us all. Christ forgave us everything and welcomed us as brothers and sisters in the Lord, now the choice of action is ours.
Philemon: Audio Lectures features scholar David E. Garland teaching through the book of Philemon in 4 engaging and challenging lessons. Together with Garland's Colossians, Philemon in the NIV Application Commentary series, these lessons bring the meaning of this short letter into the twenty-first century. Garland comments on the text itself and explores issues in Paul's culture and ours that help us understand the meaning and significance of each passage.
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An Introduction to Christian Philosophical Theology: Audio Lectures
Faith Seeking Understanding
by Stephen T. Davis
read by Stephen T. Davis, Eric T. Yang
Part of the Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures series
An accessible introduction to Christian philosophical theology
Philosophical or analytic theology seeks to employ philosophical tools while studying topics in Christian theology and examining the logical consistency or intelligibility of some of the key doctrines of the Christian faith. In this accessible introduction, An Introduction to Christian Philosophical Theology: Audio Lectures, Stephen T. Davis and Eric T. Yang first explain the scope, relevance, and value of philosophical theology and then applies its conceptual tools to examine each of the core Christian doctrines:
• Revelation and Scripture
• The Trinity
• The Incarnation
• Redemption and the atonement,
• Resurrection and life after death
The final session briefly addresses some additional theological issues including petitionary prayer, eschatology, and original sin.
Designed for beginning students and non-specialists this guide provides the ideal entry point for not only understanding what philosophical theology is but also for how it can provide valuable insights for how we think about the core doctrines of the Christian faith.
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Mark: Audio Lectures
66 Lessons on Literary Context, Structure, Exegesis, and Interpretation
by Mark L. Strauss
read by Mark Strauss
Part of the Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures series
The Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures series provides a unique audio learning experience. Unlike a traditional audiobook's direct narration of a book's text, Mark: Audio Lectures includes high quality live-recordings of college-level lectures that cover the important points from each subject as well as relevant material from other sources.
Mark's fast-paced, powerful, and dramatic Gospel takes the reader on a breath-taking tour through the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus the Messiah. Mark: Audio Lectures, taught by Mark Strauss, uses a narrative and theological approach to provide insight into the Evangelist's story-telling craft, theological purpose, and narrative themes.
Mark: Audio Lectures, along with accompanying book Mark from the Zondervan Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament series, stresses both the message of Jesus as he proclaims the kingdom of God and the mission of Jesus as he suffers and dies as a ransom for human sin. Lectures examine the biblical text in its original environment, with an emphasis on practical messages and passages of great theological depth. Strauss provides interpretive insights into the background and meaning of the text, and discusses how the message of the text fits within the book itself and its broader biblical-theological context. Learners will discover Jesus's call to be his disciples and to live in obedience to his kingdom calling in their lives today.
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Obadiah: Audio Lectures
7 Lessons on History, Meaning, and Application
by Daniel I. Block
read by Daniel I. Block
Part of the Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures series
The Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures series provides a unique audio learning experience. Unlike a traditional audiobook's direct narration of a book's text, Obadiah: Audio Lectures include high-quality live recordings of college-level lectures that cover the important points from each subject as well as relevant material from other sources.
Designed for the pastor and Bible student, Obadiah: Audio Lectures, together with the accompany text on Obadiah from the Zondervan Exegetical Commentary on the Old Testament, brings to light the universal scope of God's sovereignty and mercy. With careful analysis and interpretation of the Hebrew text, professor and scholar Daniel Block traces the flow of argument in the book of Obadiah, showing that how a biblical author says something is just as important as what they say.
Obadiah is the shortest book in the Old Testament and full of warnings against pride and the Day of the Lord. This short book contains important themes that connect to both the Old and New Testaments. Each lecture offers the main idea of the passage, its literary context, the author's original translation and exegetical outline with Hebrew layout, its structure and literary form, an explanation of the text, and its canonical and practical significance for us today.
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An Introduction to 1 and 2 Thessalonians: Audio Lectures
16 Lessons on Text, Background, Themes, and Interpretation
by Nijay K. Gupta
read by Nijay K. Gupta
Part of the Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures series
The Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures series provides a unique audio learning experience. Unlike a traditional audiobook's direct narration of a book's text, An Introduction to 1 and 2 Thessalonians: Audio Lectures include high quality live-recordings of college-level lectures that cover the important points from each subject as well as relevant material from other sources.
The study of Paul's Thessalonian letters is enjoying fresh interest today. These texts are considered by many to be amongst the earliest extant Christian documents. They are included in conversations about early Jewish and Christian apocalypticism. New insights are coming from examination of the religious, socio-cultural, and political contexts of Roman Thessalonica. And, looking back, these letters have played an important role in the development of Christian eschatology. An Introduction to 1 and 2 Thessalonians: Audio Lectures, taught by Nijay Gupta, serves as an up-to-date guide to these discussions and much more.
An Introduction to 1 and 2 Thessalonians: Audio Lectures parallels 1 and 2 Thessalonians in the Zondervan Critical Introductions to the New Testament series, addresses:
• Authorship
• Date
• Audience
• Socio-Historical Context
• Genre
• Purpose
• Integrity
• Textual History
• Greek Style
• Structure
• Argument
• Main Interpretive Issues
• Reception into the Canon
• Selected History of Interpretation
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Lord Jesus Christ: Audio Lectures
11 Lessons On Biblical Revelation And Its Doctrinal Implications
by Daniel Treier
read by Daniel Treier
Part of the Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures series
The Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures series provides a unique audio learning experience. Unlike a traditional audiobook's direct narration of a book's text, Lord Jesus Christ: Audio Lectures include high quality live-recordings of college-level lectures that cover the important points from each subject as well as relevant material from other sources.
In Lord Jesus Christ: Audio Lectures, scholar and author Daniel Treier takes up the study of the doctrine of Christ in a way that is biblical and historical, evangelical and ecumenical, conceptually clear and contextually relevant.
Lord Jesus Christ: Audio Lectures explores the doctrine of Christ by focusing upon theological interpretation of Scripture regarding Jesus's identity. Lessons trace a Christological arc from the eternal communion of the Triune God through creation, covenants, Incarnation, passion, and exaltation all the way to the consummation of redemptive history. This arc identifies Jesus as the divine Lord who assumed human flesh for our salvation. This series expounds and defends a classically Reformed Christology in relation to contemporary contexts and challenges, engaging both philosophical and global concerns.
The Zondervan Beyond the Basics Video Series offers expert teaching from the world's leading biblical scholars and theologians. In Lord Jesus Christ: Audio Lectures, scholar and author Daniel Treier explores the doctrine of Christ by focusing upon theological interpretation of Scripture regarding Jesus's identity in a classically biblical manner engaging with contemporary contexts and challenges.
The Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures series provides a unique audio learning experience. Unlike a traditional audiobook's direct narration of a book's text, Lord Jesus Christ: Audio Lectures include high quality live-recordings of college-level lectures that cover the important points from each subject as well as relevant material from other sources.
In Lord Jesus Christ: Audio Lectures, scholar and author Daniel Treier takes up the study of the doctrine of Christ in a way that is biblical and historical, evangelical and ecumenical, conceptually clear and contextually relevant.
Lord Jesus Christ: Audio Lectures explores the doctrine of Christ by focusing upon theological interpretation of Scripture regarding Jesus's identity. Lessons trace a Christological arc from the eternal communion of the Triune God through creation, covenants, Incarnation, passion, and exaltation all the way to the consummation of redemptive history. This arc identifies Jesus as the divine Lord who assumed human flesh for our salvation. This series expounds and defends a classically Reformed Christology in relation to contemporary contexts and challenges, engaging both philosophical and global concerns.
The Zondervan Beyond the Basics Video Series offers expert teaching from the world's leading biblical scholars and theologians.
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Biblical Critical Theory Audio Lectures, Part 1
How the Bible's Unfolding Story Makes Sense of Modern Life and Culture
by Christopher Watkin
read by Christopher Watkin
Part of the Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures series
In “Biblical Critical Theory Audio Lectures”, Watkin draws a winsome vision for biblical cultural engagement in which faithfulness to Scripture and sensitivity to culture walk hand in hand. If Christians want to speak with a fresh, engaging and constructive voice within our culture, we need to press deeper into the core truths of the Bible.
The Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures series provides a unique audio learning experience. Unlike a traditional audiobook's direct narration of a book's text, Biblical Critical Theory Audio Lectures includes high-quality live recordings of college-level lectures that cover the important points from each subject as well as relevant material from other sources.
A bold vision for Christians who want to engage the world in a way that is biblically faithful and culturally sensitive.
In “Biblical Critical Theory Audio Lectures”, Christopher Watkin shows how the Bible and its unfolding story help us make sense of modern life and culture.
Critical theories exist to critique what we think we know about reality and the social, political, and cultural structures in which we live. In doing so, they make visible the values and beliefs of a culture in order to scrutinize and change them.
“Biblical Critical Theory Audio Lectures” exposes and evaluates the often-hidden assumptions and concepts that shape late-modern society, examining them through the lens of the biblical story running from Genesis to Revelation, and asking urgent questions like:
• How does the Bible's storyline help us understand our society, our culture, and ourselves?
• How do specific doctrines help us engage thoughtfully in the philosophical, political, and social questions of our day?
• How can we analyze and critique culture and its alternative critical theories through Scripture?
Informed by the biblical-theological structure of Saint Augustine's magisterial work The City of God (and with extensive diagrams and practical tools), Biblical Critical Theory Audio Lectures shows how the patterns of the Bible's storyline can provide incisive, fresh, and nuanced ways of intervening in today's debates on everything from science, the arts, and politics to dignity, multiculturalism, and equality. You'll learn the moves to make and the tools to use in analyzing and engaging with all sorts of cultural artifacts and events in a way that is both biblically faithful and culturally relevant.
It is not enough for Christians to explain the Bible to the culture or cultures in which we live. We must also explain the culture in which we live within the framework and categories of the Bible, revealing how the whole of the Bible sheds light on the whole of life.