Read the Bible for Life Podcast

Craig Blomberg and I continue our conversation on reading the parables, looking at details of the parable of the prodigal son. We also begin discussing themes in the teaching of Jesus, including a look at the nature of discipleship.

We continue our discussion on Jesus' teaching, probing how Jesus' teaching was like and unlike the teaching of others in the first century. We also address the teaching methods of Jesus, including a discussion of the parables.

An introduction to our series on Reading the Teaching of Jesus. In this episode Craig Blomberg introduces us to his ministry and discusses speaking about Jesus' ministry in the church and in the world.

In this episode we consider how our own context affects our reading of the Bible and discuss tools that can help us setting into a text's original context more deeply.

Today we continue our look at Reading the Bible in context by considering literary and theological contexts of a passage. Literary context has to do with how a passage fits and functions in a section of a book, a book as a whole, or even the whole Bible. Theological context has to do with how a passage relates to the theological development of a theme in the Bible.

The second episode in our series on the importance of context in reading the Bible, we discuss what cultural context is and consider examples from the story of the Prodigal Son in Luke 15 and a moment in Jesus' walk to the cross in Luke 23.

An introduction to the importance of reading the Bible in context, followed by a brief introduction to historical context.

This is the panel discussion at the Read the Bible for Life Conference at Union University on April 15-16, 2011. David Platt, Michael Card, and George Guthrie made up the panel, and Ray Van Neste moderated.

This is David Platt's third message at the Read the Bible for Life Conference at Union University, April 15-16, 2011.

David Platt's second session at the Read the Bible for Life conference at Union University, April 15-16, 2011.

In this second session at the Read the Bible for Life Conference, David Platt gives an overview of the Story of Scripture.

On the weekend of April 15, 2011, the Ryan Center for Biblical Studies at Union University hosted the READ THE BIBLE FOR LIFE conference. Almost 700 people, from a wide variety of churches and 13 different states were in attendance. It was a wonderful, powerful time together. In this first plenary session of the conference I share a vision for a "biblical," biblical literacy in the church, why we are struggling with this issue, and what we might do about it. In the three other plenary sessions at the conference, we hear from David Platt, pastor of The Church at Brook Hills and author of the book Radical. We also will listen in on a panel discussion between Me, Platt, and Michael Card.

This is the third episode in our conversation with singer and author Michael Card. We wrap up our discussion of the laments of the Bible by discussing God's covenant faithfulness as a foundation for lament and by reading together Lamentations 3.

In this episode I continue my conversation with Michael Card on reading the Bible in times of sorrow and suffering.

In this first episode of our new series I sit down with my dear friend, Michael Card, to talk about reading the Bible during times of sorrow and suffering. We discuss how as a college student Michael was drawn into Bible study, the lament literature in the Bible, and why the church has lost the voice of lament in our lamentable world.