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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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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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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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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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Recovering from Biblical Manhood and Womanhood: Audio Lectures
How the Church Needs to Rediscover Her Purpose
by Aimee Byrd
read by Charity Spencer
Part of the Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures series
While evangelicalism dukes it out about who can be church leaders, the rest of the 98% of us need to be well-equipped to see where we fit in God's household and why that matters. The Recovering from Biblical Manhood and Womanhood Audio Lectures will help improve the culture of our churches and disciple men and women to read, understand, and apply Scripture together within them. Until both men and women grow in their understanding of their relationship to Scripture, there will continue to be tension between the sexes in the church. These lectures explore questions such as:
• Do men and women benefit equally from God's Word?
• Are they equally responsible in sharpening one another in the faith and passing it down to the next generation?
• Do we need men's Bibles and women's Bibles, or can the one, holy Bible guide us all?
• Is the Bible, God's Word, so male-centered and authored that women need to create their own resources to relate to it?
The Recovering from Biblical Manhood and Womanhood Audio Lectures, featuring author and speaker Aimee Byrd, explore the feminine voice in Scripture as synergistic with the dominant male voice. Lessons fortify believers in a biblical understanding of brotherhood and sisterhood in God's household and the necessity of learning from one another in studying God's Word. This series helps to correct biblicist trends in the church today, affirming that we do not read God's Word alone, but within our interpretive covenant communities--our churches. The responsibility of every believer, men and women together, is being active and equal participants in and witnesses to the faith.
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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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Nahum: Audio Lectures
6 Lessons on Literary Context, Structure, Exegesis, and Interpretation
by Daniel C. Timmer
read by Daniel C. Timmer
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, Nahum: 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.
Designed for the pastor and Bible student, Nahum: Audio Lectures, together with the accompanying text on Nahum 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 Timmer traces the flow of argument in the book of Nahum, showing that how a biblical author says something is just as important as what they say.
Through Nahum, Israel's divine warrior and deliverer announces a "day" when he will pour out his righteous vengeance on the evil powers that oppose him and deliver those who seek refuge in him. Nahum's message has rich significance for today, challenging its readers to adopt a radically theocentric view of themselves and their world that puts God and his work as King, Deliverer, and Judge at the center. In this video study, 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. Nahum: Audio Lectures provides students of the Bible with a careful analysis and interpretation of the Hebrew text of the Old Testament book of Nahum, quickly allowing viewers to grasp the big idea of each passage and how it fits in the larger context.
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, Nahum: 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.
Designed for the pastor and Bible student, Nahum: Audio Lectures, together with the accompanying text on Nahum 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 Timmer traces the flow of argument in the book of Nahum, showing that how a biblical author says something is just as important as what they say.
Through Nahum, Israel's divine warrior and deliverer announces a "day" when he will pour out his righteous vengeance on the evil powers that oppose him and deliver those who seek refuge in him. Nahum's message has rich significance for today, challenging its readers to adopt a radically theocentric view of themselves and their world that puts God and his work as King, Deliverer, and Judge at the center. In this video study, 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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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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Know the Theologians: Audio Lectures
by Jennifer Powell McNutt
read by Jennifer Powell McNutt, David W. McNutt
Part of the Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures series
In “Know the Theologians Audio Lectures,” with Jennifer Powell McNutt and David W. McNutt, profiles the most important thinkers throughout church history, from the first centuries to the twentieth, introducing learners to their life and thought, and demonstrating their ongoing relevance for believers today.
These audio lectures are a unique learning experience. Unlike a traditional audiobook's direct narration of a book's text, Know the Theologians: 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 Bible describes the church as a kind of family. Those who believe in Christ are sisters and brothers in the faith, whether they live at the same time or are separated by centuries. For that reason, believers today need to know our family members who have come before and shaped our beliefs and practices now. In Know the Theologians: Audio Lectures, professors and authors Jennifer Powell McNutt and David W. McNutt introduce the most significant thinkers in the church's history.
McNutt and McNutt survey 16 primary figures who represent the breadth and depth of the church's theology, explaining how they fit into their own time period and demonstrating their ongoing relevance today. In addition, it draws attention to the theological voices of women throughout the church's history. Intended to bring the past alive for the benefit of the present, lessons also highlight contemporary figures continuing theology's work.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Ruth: Audio Lectures
8 Lessons on Literary Context, Structure, Exegesis, and Interpretation
by Daniel I. Block
read by Daniel 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, Ruth: 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.
Ruth: Audio Lectures 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 Ruth, showing that how a biblical author says something is just as important as what they say.
Ruth is widely recognized as a superlative literary achievement of ancient Israel. With its sensitive portrayal of women in crisis, its admiration for a righteous man, and its profound theology of providence, it offers learners of every age a window into life in the ancient Near East, inspiration for good and godly living, and reason to wonder at the common roots of Israel's royal and messianic hope.
Bridging the historical and theological gap, Ruth: Audio Lectures explains how David, the most important character in the Hebrew Bible, could emerge from the spiritual and ethical morass of the premonarchic period and accounts for the Moabite blood in this king's veins. Each lecture surveys the main idea of a passage, its literary context, an explanation of the text, and its canonical and practical significance for us today.
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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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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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Biblical Critical Theory Audio Lectures, Part 2
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
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, Part 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.
A bold vision for Christians engaging the world in a way that is biblically faithful and culturally sensitive.
In Biblical Critical Theory Audio Lectures, Part 2, 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, Part 2 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 Matthew to Revelation. Lessons illuminate 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, showing Christians 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. If Christians want to speak with a fresh, engaging, and dynamic voice in the marketplace of ideas today, we need to mine the unique treasures of the distinctive biblical storyline.
Session titles and Runtimes:
15 - Incarnation, Space, and Time (29 min)
16 - Incarnation, Materiality, and Personality (38 min)
17 - The Ministry of Jesus, Love of God, and Love of Neighbor (41 min)
18 - The Cross, Subversion, and Grace (38 min)
19 - The Cross, Asymmetry, and Paradox (36 min)
20 - The Resurrection, Transformation, and Power (40 min)
21 - The Last Days, Church, and Society (35 min)
22 - The Last Days and Parallax Living (44 min)
23 - The Last Days and Giving to Caesar What Is Caesar's (32 min)
24 - The Last Days and Modernity (40 min)
25 - Eschatology and Apocalyptic (33 min)
26 - Eschatology and Time (43 min)
27 - Eschatology and Identity (41 min)
28 - Eschatology and Culture (27 min)
29 - Conclusion (24 min) 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, Part 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.
A bold vision for Christians engaging the world in a way that is biblically faithful and culturally sensitive.
In Biblical Critical Theory Audio Lectures, Part 2, 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
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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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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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1 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, 1 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 1 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 1 John and provides verse-by-verse commentary and theology in application.
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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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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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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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Confronting Injustice Without Compromising Truth
12 Questions Christians Should Ask About Social Justice
by Thaddeus J. Williams
read by Thaddeus Williams
Part of the Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures series
God does not suggest, he commands that we do justice.
Social justice is not optional for the Christian. All injustice affects others, so talking about justice that isn't social is like talking about water that isn't wet or a square with no right angles. But the Bible's call to seek justice is not a call to superficial, kneejerk activism. We are not merely commanded to execute justice, but to "truly execute justice." The God who commands us to seek justice is the same God who commands us to "test everything" and "hold fast to what is good."
Drawing from a diverse range of theologians, sociologists, artists, and activists, Thaddeus Williams builds a case that we must be discerning if we are to "truly execute justice" as Scripture commands. Not everything called "social justice" today is compatible with a biblical vision of a better world. The Bible offers hopeful and distinctive answers to deep questions of worship, community, salvation, and knowledge that ought to mark a uniquely Christian pursuit of justice.
In the Confronting Injustice without Compromising Truth: Audio Lectures, Williams confronts our religious and political tribalism and challenges readers to discover what the Bible and the example of Jesus have to teach us about justice. He presents a compelling vision of justice for all God's image-bearers that offers hopeful answers to life's biggest questions.
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America's Religious History: Audio Lectures
Faith, Politics, and the Shaping of a Nation
by Thomas S. Kidd
read by Thomas Kidd
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, America's Religious History: 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 post-9/11 world, it is not difficult to see how important religion remains in America and around the globe. An older generation of scholars expected that America and the rest of the Western world was headed toward secularization and the end of religion. America is undoubtedly secular in many ways, and our constitutional order requires a clear distinction between faith communities and government. Yet from the colonial era to the present, American men and women have been, and have remained, a pervasively religious people.
In America's Religious History: Audio Lectures, leading historian Thomas S. Kidd traces the theological and ethnic diversity and enduring strength of American religion, with special attention to Christianity and evangelical faith. Interweaving religious history and key events from the larger narrative of American history, the audio lectures consider how faith commitments and categories have shaped the nation.
America's Religious History: Audio Lectures offers an up-to-date, narrative introduction to the religious background of American life.
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Deuteronomy: Audio Lectures Part 2
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 2 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 2 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 New Testament in Antiquity: Audio Lectures 1
A Survey of the New Testament within Its Cultural Contexts
by Gary M. Burge
read by Gene Green, Gary Burge
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 1 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 1 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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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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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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The Christian Life: Audio Lectures
9 Lessons
by Kelly M. Kapic
read by Kelly M. Kapic
Part of the Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures series
The Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures series provides a unique audio learning experience.
In The Christian Life: Audio Lectures, scholar and author Kelly Kapic presents a dogmatic account of the Christian life. Each lesson is a serious study of practices of the Christian life that consistently apply biblical, creedal, and confessional reflection for contemporary church thought and life. In The Christian Life: Audio Lectures, scholar and author Kelly Kapic presents a dogmatic account of the Christian life.
The Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures series provides a unique audio learning experience.
In The Christian Life: Audio Lectures, scholar and author Kelly Kapic presents a dogmatic account of the Christian life. Each lesson is a serious study of practices of the Christian life that consistently apply biblical, creedal, and confessional reflection for contemporary church thought and life.
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Hebrews: Audio Lectures
25 Lessons on History, Meaning, and Application
by George H. Guthrie
read by George H. Guthrie
Part of the Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures series
Hebrews speaks of a new and better covenant. It links old priesthoods to the priesthood of Christ. It looks at the nature and heroes of faith. In short, Hebrews roams a broad theological landscape, but its unifying premise remains: God speaks, and if we listen, his message to us revealed through Jesus will change and shape the lives we live. This was true for the original audience of Hebrews, it remains true for us today. In thought and deed, the Word of God is the Word we live by as believers.
Hebrews: Audio Lectures features scholar George H. Guthrie teaching through the book of Hebrews in 25 engaging and challenging lessons. A companion to Guthrie's Hebrews commentary in the NIV Application Commentary series, these lessons explore links between the Bible and our own times that reveal Hebrews' enduring relevance for our twenty-first-century lives.
Hebrews: Audio Lectures is part of the Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures, which is dedicated to bringing expert teaching from world's best biblical scholars and theologians directly to interested learners.
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Hosea: Audio Lectures
11 Lessons on Literary Context, Structure, Exegesis, and Interpretation
by Jerry Hwang
read by Jerry Hwang
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, Hosea: 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, Hosea: Audio Lectures, together with the accompanying text on Hosea 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 Jerry Hwang traces the flow of argument in the book of Hosea, showing that how a biblical author says something is just as important as what they say.
More than any other Old Testament prophet, Hosea speaks of YHWH's covenant with his people as a family affair rather than a legal proceeding. Hosea's personal experiences become living proof of YHWH's commitment to his people as well as the rest of creation. In the process, the book of Hosea testifies to how the dealings of YHWH with the tiny kingdoms of Samaria and Judah are nothing less than the fulcrum of history. In this video study, 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. Hosea: Audio Lectures, provides students of the Bible with a careful analysis and interpretation of the Hebrew text of the Old Testament book of Hosea, quickly allowing viewers to grasp the big idea of each passage and how it fits in the larger context.
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, Hosea: 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, Hosea: Audio Lectures, together with the accompanying text on Hosea 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 Jerry Hwang traces the flow of argument in the book of Hosea, showing that how a biblical author says something is just as important as what they say.
More than any other Old Testament prophet, Hosea speaks of YHWH's covenant with his people as a family affair rather than a legal proceeding. Hosea's personal experiences become living proof of YHWH's commitment to his people as well as the rest of creation. In the process, the book of Hosea testifies to how the dealings of YHWH with the tiny kingdoms of Samaria and Judah are nothing less than the fulcrum of history. In this video study, 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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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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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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Proverbs: Audio Lectures
37 Lessons on History, Meaning, and Application
by Ryan O'Dowd
read by Ryan O'Dowd
Part of the Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures series
Proverbs: Audio Lectures features scholar and professor Ryan P. O'Dowd teaching through the book of Proverbs in 37 engaging and challenging lessons. Based on his Proverbs 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. O'Dowd offers an engaging and probing introduction to the entire book of Proverbs, 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 Proverbs today.
Proverbs: 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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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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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 Story of Reality: Audio Lectures
How the World Began, How it Ends, and Everything Important that Happens in Between
by Gregory Koukl
read by Greg Koukl
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, Story of Reality: 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.
Biblical Christianity is more than just another private religious view. It's more than just a personal relationship with God or a source of moral teaching.
Christianity is a picture of reality. It explains why the world is the way it is. When the pieces of this puzzle are properly assembled, we see the big picture clearly. Christianity is a true story of how the world began, why the world is the way it is, what role humans play in the drama, and how all the plotlines of the story are resolved in the end.
In The Story of Reality: Audio Lectures, bestselling author and host of Stand to Reason Gregory Koukl explains the words that form the narrative backbone of the Christian story. Each lecture identifies the most important things that happen in the story in the order they take place, beginning with an examination of reality, and God, and moving though man, Jesus, the cross, and resurrection.
If you are already a Christian, do you know and understand the biblical story? For those still seeking answers to the questions of life, this is an invitation to join a story that explains the world in a way nothing else will. Be a part of the story that can change your life forever.
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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.