Our collections of EWP Talks on Theology, New Testament and Old Testament will help your students draw more extensively on the Bible and the theological knowledge tradition to help people wrestle with today’s opportunities and difficulties. At the core of our work in the Oikonomia Network is drawing connections between God’s word and the knowledge of it stewarded in the church on the one hand, and the challenges of a changing world on the other. We are convinced this is an essential service for the discipleship of God’s people, and the life of God’s world.
This semester, consider assigning your students a talk from our growing library!
Because theology and biblical studies speak into all theological disciplines, talks from these lists are also useful in ethics, pastoral leadership, cultural studies and more classes. And, of course, in addition to our Theology, New Testament and Old Testament playlists, we also have collections of talks on Ethics, Culture, Spiritual Formation, Pastoral Leadership and History!
Here’s a closer look at some of the talks in our Theology, New Testament and Old Testament collections:
Theology
Fred Sanders | The Portable Trinity: Working within God’s Work
The Trinity isn’t about counting to three, Fred Sanders tells us, it’s about the God who sends his Son and his Spirit, and then sends his people. Far from a dry abstraction, the doctrine of the Trinity shows us that we do our daily work within the work of God himself.
Consider assigning in: Theology, New Testament
Michael Wittmer | The Same Call: Vocation Is Integral to the Gospel
Michael Wittmer shows us how to leave behind tired debates (evangelism v. justice) and false dualisms (“I left my job to go into full-time ministry”) by seeing that the call to receive forgiveness through faith in Christ and the call to serve Christ with good works in the world are the same call.
Consider assigning in: Theology, New Testament
And More:
Nathan Hitchcock | A Plan for All Things: The Economy of God in Ephesians
Michael Thigpen | The Work of Our Hands: Creation and Economics
Charlie Self | Faithful Churches Create Flourishing Communities: Righteousness, Peace and Joy
Chris Armstrong | God’s People, Christ’s Body, Spirit’s Temple: Being a Sacred Church
Tom Nelson | If We Would Be Faithful: Fruitfulness Matters
Anthony Bradley | Christian Personalism: How to Preach a Public Faith without Making Atheists
Deborah Gill | Discipleize! The Great Commission in All of Life
Bruce Fields | A Humble Dignity: Striving in His Image Is Flourishing
Constantine Campbell | Chosen Sojourners in 1st Peter: Living Between Two Worlds
New Testament
Darrell Bock | Luke and Money: Surrendering into Stewardship
Darrell Bock of Dallas Theological Seminary unfolds the ironies and reversals in Luke – from the rich fool and Lazarus’ wealthy neighbor to Zacchaeus and the widow’s mite – that call us to use all our money for good stewardship of God’s world.
Consider assigning in: New Testament, Ethics
Deborah Gill | Discipleize! The Great Commission in All of Life
Deborah Gill of Assemblies of God Theological Seminary carefully unpacks the Greek text and biblical/cultural context of the church’s original misison statement, the Great Commission, to show how the church’s task is to “discipleize” in every area of life.
Consider assigning in: New Testament, Spiritual Formation, Theology, Culture
And More:
Joshua Jipp | Jesus the Economic Teacher
Constantine Campbell | Chosen Sojourners in 1st Peter: Living Between Two Worlds
Nathan Hitchcock | A Plan for All Things: The Economy of God in Ephesians
Celeste Cranston | Two Sons: The Gospel and Work
Fred Sanders | The Portable Trinity: Working within God’s Work
Tom Nelson | If We Would Be Faithful: Fruitfulness Matters
Charlie Self | Faithful Churches Create Flourishing Communities: Righteousness, Peace and Joy
Chris Armstrong | God’s People, Christ’s Body, Spirit’s Temple: Being a Sacred Church
Michael Wittmer | The Same Call: Vocation Is Integral to the Gospel
W. Jay Moon | Economics and Mission: The Connected Complexity of Cultures
Old Testament
Michael Thigpen | The Work of Our Hands: Creation and Economics
Evangelical Theological Society Executive Director J. Michael Thigpen describes how the image of God in the Genesis creation account structures every area of human life, including our work and economic activity.
Consider assigning in: Theology, Old Testament
Keith Reeves | Family and Opportunity in the Law and the Prophets
Keith Reeves of Azusa-Pacific University describes the connection between the household, family structure, land ownership and economic opportunity in the Old Testament law and prophets, and how these connections apply today.
Consider assigning in: Old Testament, Ethics, History
And More:
Eric Tully | Proverbs and Money: You’re Not Playing Monopoly
Andy Crouch | A Pruned Life: Isaiah’s Posterity Gospel
