Biblical Insights with David Gooding
Religion og åndelighetDavid W. Gooding (1925–2019) was Professor Emeritus of Old Testament Greek at Queen’s University, Belfast. As well as publishing several books of biblical exegesis and apologetics, he taught the Bible internationally and lectured on its relevance to philosophy and world religions. His expositions of Scripture are enhanced by what F. F. Bruce once called his ‘rare combination of gifts: spiritual insight, classical learning and literary appreciation’. Biblical Insights showcases David Gooding’s sermons in 15–25 minute episodes, and aim not only to teach us what Scripture says, but inspire us to read and understand God’s word for ourselves.
Siste episoder av Biblical Insights with David Gooding podcast
- S5 E23: Revelation – Book by Book: Bible Intros with David Gooding (00:57:36)
In this podcast series, David Gooding provides high level overviews that help us begin to understand what individual books are saying, and why they matter now. He gives the big picture inside a little frame, and shows us that the challenge of understanding the books in God’s library is meant to be as exciting as it is challenging. In this episode, David Gooding provides a survey of Revelation. He helps us to navigate its more daunting passages so that we can hear its intended message, showing how the text, rather than frustrating us with its imagery, can lead our hearts to worship.
- S5 E22: Hebrews – Book by Book: Bible Intros with David Gooding (00:47:27)
In this podcast series, David Gooding provides high level overviews that help us begin to understand what individual books are saying, and why they matter now. He gives the big picture inside a little frame, and shows us that the challenge of understanding the books in God’s library is meant to be as exciting as it is challenging. In this episode David Gooding surveys the exhortations and warning of the epistle to the Hebrews, showing how they apply to the lives of Christians today.
- S5 E21: 1 Timothy – Book by Book: Bible Intros with David Gooding (00:54:29)
In this podcast series, David Gooding provides high level overviews that help us begin to understand what individual books are saying, and why they matter now. He gives the big picture inside a little frame, and shows us that the challenge of understanding the books in God’s library is meant to be as exciting as it is challenging. In this episode, David Gooding gives an overview of 1 Timothy, explaining what lessons it has to teach about the triune God and why they matter for our service in the church.
- S5 E20: Ephesians – Book by Book: Bible Intros with David Gooding (00:45:17)
In this podcast series, David Gooding provides high level overviews that help us begin to understand what individual books are saying, and why they matter now. He gives the big picture inside a little frame, and shows us that the challenge of understanding the books in God’s library is meant to be as exciting as it is challenging. In this episode, David Gooding gives an overview of the three major movements of the Epistle to the Ephesians and what they teach about creation, Christ’s role in history and how we are to walk with the Lord.
- S5 E19: Colossians – Book by Book: Bible Intros with David Gooding (00:30:28)
In this podcast series, David Gooding provides high level overviews that help us begin to understand what individual books are saying, and why they matter now. He gives the big picture inside a little frame, and shows us that the challenge of understanding the books in God’s library is meant to be as exciting as it is challenging. In this episode, David Gooding gives an overview of Colossians and shows how Paul helps his readers to avoid spiritual pitfalls by taking them back to the glories of the gospel of Christ.
- S5 E18: Galatians – Book by Book: Bible Intros with David Gooding (01:00:31)
In this podcast series, David Gooding provides high level overviews that help us begin to understand what individual books are saying, and why they matter now. He gives the big picture inside a little frame, and shows us that the challenge of understanding the books in God’s library is meant to be as exciting as it is challenging. In this episode, David Gooding surveys the twelve arguments that Paul uses in his letter to the Galatians in order to defend the truth of the gospel and draw them back from legalism.
- S5 E17: 1 Corinthians – Book by Book: Bible Intros with David Gooding (00:41:25)
In this podcast series, David Gooding provides high level overviews that help us begin to understand what individual books are saying, and why they matter now. He gives the big picture inside a little frame, and shows us that the challenge of understanding the books in God’s library is meant to be as exciting as it is challenging. In this episode, David Gooding provides two surveys of the prominent features of 1 Corinthians. In the first, he focusses on Paul’s appeal to the believers in Corinth to go back to the message of the Christian gospel in order to deal with the problems in the church. In the second he considers Paul’s letter as the Christian philosophy of man.
- S5 E16: Romans – Book by Book: Bible Intros with David Gooding (00:53:04)
In this podcast series, David Gooding provides high level overviews that help us begin to understand what individual books are saying, and why they matter now. He gives the big picture inside a little frame, and shows us that the challenge of understanding the books in God’s library is meant to be as exciting as it is challenging. In this episode, David Gooding argues that tracing the thought flow of Romans through its major sections is key to helping us understand both its individual doctrines and its overall message.
- S5 E15: Acts – Book by Book: Bible Intros with David Gooding (00:56:24)
In this podcast series, David Gooding provides high level overviews that help us begin to understand what individual books are saying, and why they matter now. He gives the big picture inside a little frame, and shows us that the challenge of understanding the books in God’s library is meant to be as exciting as it is challenging. In this episode, David Gooding explains three methods of studying the Acts of the Apostles, explaining how his preferred, literary approach to the text makes the best sense of the way that Luke has divided his book in order to communicate God’s inspired message.
- S5 E14: John – Book by Book: Bible Intros with David Gooding (00:36:23)
In this podcast series, David Gooding provides high level overviews that help us begin to understand what individual books are saying, and why they matter now. He gives the big picture inside a little frame, and shows us that the challenge of understanding the books in God’s library is meant to be as exciting as it is challenging. In this episode, David Gooding traces the four journeys that structure the gospel of John, explaining how the author’s arrangement of his material serves to communicate the Holy Spirit’s message.
- S5 E13: Matthew – Book by Book: Bible Intros with David Gooding (02:15:35)
In this podcast series, David Gooding provides high level overviews that help us begin to understand what individual books are saying, and why they matter now. He gives the big picture inside a little frame, and shows us that the challenge of understanding the books in God’s library is meant to be as exciting as it is challenging. In this episode, David Gooding surveys the gospel of Matthew and the way the author has organized his material to communicate the themes of his book.
- S5 E12: Zechariah – Book by Book: Bible Intros with David Gooding (00:52:27)
In this podcast series, David Gooding provides high level overviews that help us begin to understand what individual books are saying, and why they matter now. He gives the big picture inside a little frame, and shows us that the challenge of understanding the books in God’s library is meant to be as exciting as it is challenging. In this episode, David Gooding gives an overview of the book of Zechariah. He runs through the three major divisions of Israel’s history, and explains why the prophet’s gospel of restoration is relevant for us today.
- S5 E11: Ezekiel, Jeremiah, Isaiah – Book by Book: Bible Intros with David Gooding (00:50:21)
In this podcast series, David Gooding provides high level overviews that help us begin to understand what individual books are saying, and why they matter now. He gives the big picture inside a little frame, and shows us that the challenge of understanding the books in God’s library is meant to be as exciting as it is challenging. In this episode, David Gooding looks at three Old Testament prophets—Ezekiel, Jeremiah and Isaiah—and explains what the gospel message of each of these books is, what it says about the problem of human sin, and God’s plan for addressing it.
- S5 E10: Daniel – Book by Book: Bible Intros with David Gooding (00:51:43)
In this podcast, David Gooding provides high level overviews that help us begin to understand what individual books are saying, and why they matter now. He gives the big picture inside a little frame, and shows us that the challenge of understanding the books in God’s library is meant to be as exciting as it is challenging. In this episode, David Gooding gives an overview of the book of Daniel. He shows that while this book deals with future events and the coming messianic kingdom, much of it is also concerned with providing encouragement for the Christian life in the here and now.
- S5 E9: 1 Chronicles – Book by Book: Bible Intros with David Gooding (00:57:21)
In this podcast, David Gooding provides high level overviews that help us begin to understand what individual books are saying, and why they matter now. He gives the big picture inside a little frame, and shows us that the challenge of understanding the books in God’s library is meant to be as exciting as it is challenging. In this episode, David Gooding gives an overview of First Chronicles, explaining what lessons this book of Old Testament history has to teach us about God’s plan of redemption.
- S5 E8: Kings (Part 2) – Book by Book: Bible Intros with David Gooding (00:45:18)
In this podcast, David Gooding provides high level overviews that help us begin to understand what individual books are saying, and why they matter now. He gives the big picture inside a little frame, and shows us that the challenge of understanding the books in God’s library is meant to be as exciting as it is challenging. In this episode, David Gooding continues his survey of Kings, focussing on the symbolism of the structure and furnishings of the house of the Lord, and the history of the division of the nation of Israel.
- S5 E7: 1 Kings – Book by Book: Bible Intros with David Gooding (00:47:20)
In this podcast, David Gooding provides high level overviews that help us begin to understand what individual books are saying, and why they matter now. He gives the big picture inside a little frame, and shows us that the challenge of understanding the books in God’s library is meant to be as exciting as it is challenging. In this episode, David Gooding gives an overview of 1 Kings to show that, rather than being a mere list of historical events, the inspired text is arranged in such a way as to communicate God’s living message.
- S5 E6: Joshua – Book by Book: Bible Intros with David Gooding (00:24:20)
In this podcast, David Gooding provides high level overviews that help us begin to understand what individual books are saying, and why they matter now. He gives the big picture inside a little frame, and shows us that the challenge of understanding the books in God’s library is meant to be as exciting as it is challenging. In this episode, David Gooding surveys the book of Joshua, focussing on the judgments of God and what Christians today are meant to learn from the Israelite’s conquest and inheritance of the land.
- S5 E5: Deuteronomy – Book by Book: Bible Intros with David Gooding (00:45:50)
In this podcast series, David Gooding provides high level overviews that help us begin to understand what individual books are saying, and why they matter now. He gives the big picture inside a little frame, and shows us that the challenge of understanding the books in God’s library is meant to be as exciting as it is challenging. In this episode, David Gooding gives an outline of Deuteronomy, explaining its relevance for today and the ways we can apply its message to ourselves in light of the new covenant’s superiority to the old covenant.
- S5 E4: Leviticus – Book by Book: Bible Intros with David Gooding (00:49:13)
In this podcast series, David Gooding provides high level overviews that help us begin to understand what individual books are saying, and why they matter now. He gives the big picture inside a little frame, and shows us that the challenge of understanding the books in God’s library is meant to be as exciting as it is challenging. In this episode, David Gooding surveys Leviticus, explaining its practical implications for Christians by showing us how its depictions of sacrifices and offerings teach us about sin, holiness and the character of God.
- S5 E3: Exodus – Book by Book: Bible Intros with David Gooding (00:49:47)
In this podcast series, David Gooding provides high level overviews that help us begin to understand what individual books are saying, and why they matter now. He gives the big picture inside a little frame, and shows us that the challenge of understanding the books in God’s library is meant to be as exciting as it is challenging. In this episode, David Gooding overviews Exodus and explains how its true story of redemption is relevant for Christians today as it comes to fulfilment in the events of the New Testament.
- S5 E2: Genesis [Part 2 of 2] – Book by Book: Bible Intros with David Gooding (00:40:57)
In this podcast series, David Gooding provides high level overviews that help us begin to understand what individual books are saying, and why they matter now. He gives the big picture inside a little frame, and shows us that the challenge of understanding the books in God’s library is meant to be as exciting as it is challenging. In this episode, David Gooding gives an overview of Genesis, focussing on the life of Abraham and how the New Testament appeals to the authority of the Old as it explains the doctrines of the Christian gospel.
- S5 E1: Genesis [Part 1 of 2] – Book by Book: Bible Intros with David Gooding (00:44:59)
In this podcast series, David Gooding provides high level overviews that help us begin to understand what individual books are saying, and why they matter now. He gives the big picture inside a little frame, and shows us that the challenge of understanding the books in God’s library is meant to be as exciting as it is challenging. In this episode, David Gooding gives an overview of the first half of the book of Genesis and its three creation stories, showing what lessons each story teaches us about humanity’s original purpose, tragic fall and ultimate redemption.
- S4 E12: How Dead is the Old Self? – Christ is All (Major Themes in Colossians) (00:21:10)
Paul’s epistle to the Colossians reminds us that ultimately Christ is all we need: he is our initial salvation, our growth in sanctification and our final glorification. Studying Colossians reminds us of our status as God’s children, showing us how to walk with Christ while avoiding the enemy’s pitfalls. In this episode, David Gooding explains the believer’s relationship to the law. He also clarifies what Paul means when he says we have put off the old self—and why, given this truth, sin is still a problem in the daily lives of believers.
- S4 E11: Life Under the Lordship of Christ – Christ is All (Major Themes in Colossians) (00:17:09)
Paul’s epistle to the Colossians reminds us that ultimately Christ is all we need: he is our initial salvation, our growth in sanctification and our final glorification. Studying Colossians reminds us of our status as God’s children, showing us how to walk with Christ while avoiding the enemy’s pitfalls. In this episode, David Gooding looks at what Paul says about the lordship of Christ and the effect that is to have on marital, parental, and even slave–master relationships. Addressing the objections made against these verses in Colossians, he reminds us of the vital importance of obedience in the grand scheme of God’s plans for us.