Theology Central Study Bible

0:02 Looking at our world from a theological perspective. This is the Theology Central podcast, making Theology Central. Good afternoon everyone. It is Saturday, December the twenty first, twenty twenty four. It is currently four fifty six pm Central Time, and I am coming to you live from the Theology Central Studio located right here in Abilene, Texas. In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. Now those are the opening words to the Book of Genesis. They are also the opening words to the Theology Central Study Bible.

1:00 Maybe what is the Theology Central Study Bible. Well, we're going to try to figure out together because I don't know for sure if I understand everything that it does. But I do know this as of right now, that the Theology Central Study Bible is available to you, it is available to me, and it is available for a very short time because we're doing kind of a trial run here. We're going to see how well this works. If people think it's a good idea, bad idea. It may be a great idea, it may not be worth the money that will be required to have our own Theology Central Study Bible. But I think it's a very interesting concept. And anyone who has ever listened to this podcast knows I'm always look if a new thing becomes available, if we can utilize it, I will, right. I mean, at one point we used to offer digital curriculum to everyone, right when we did our Bible study exercises. I thought it was a great idea. I think it was very easy for people to be able to gain access to it utilize it. It'll also costs a lot of money, right, so sometimes money gives you what you can or can't do.

2:07 But if I can't afford it and I can make it work, then well we use every tool that is available to us. That is why we are, you know we the podcast is available on every podcasting platform on Earth and any the second I find a new one, we do everything in our power to make it available. So we always use all the technology available to us. Every church should do that, right, Every Christian podcast should do that. Every ministry should do that right. If you're taking the time to preach, to teach, to discuss theology, whatever you're attempting to do, minish, whether you see yourself as a minister, whether you see yourself just as a podcaster talking about theology, you just want to use everything available to you, right, because if you're taking the time to put together a sermon, a lesson, a message, a discussion, and you spend that time you know, uploading it, recording it and all of that, then you wanted to make it available to as many people as possible. So what has happened is we have this a new opportunity to make available to well, depending on how much money we want to spend, right, we have the ability for one hundred dollars to make available to ninety nine people the Theology Central Study Bible. Now, if we want to make it available to more people than it goes up to, I think two hundred and fifty dollars, and then well, you know, I would have to look at the way the prising works. But as of right now, ninety nine people can access the Theology Central Study Bible. And I

3:41 will tell you how in a minute, tell you how this all came about. And the reason I know what you're saying, Well, if it's your study Bible, you should have a better idea of what's going on. I really don't right now, because this all kind of happened just within the last what four hours, five hours, six hours, I've sent out anyone using the church one app received a message about it. But I wanted to at least record this because there's a lot of people who don't use the church one platform. They're not using the Sermon's two point oh app platform. They're listening to us on one hundred other different platforms. So I want to let at least everyone know that this is available to you right now. And I would really ask you. I know it's the holiday weekend, and I know the holidays are coming up, and I know you're busy. Some of you this will be great, right because you may not have family and you're going to be spending a lot of time in an empty house or in an empty room by yourself. Well, then this is something you can, you know, you can look into and you can you can try out, and you can give me good feedback to you know what.

4:44 You liked it. Well, I don't really think it's worth it. I wouldn't use it that much. You can just be blunt and honest, all right. So here's the situation. If you go to sermon audio dot com right now, Sermon audio dot com, let me see if I can get here. If you go to sermon Audio and you click on the newstab sermonaudio dot Com. Click on the newstab, you will see the following headline Bible Arc. That's b I, B L E A r C. Bible Arc Study Bible integrates with sermon Audio. So Bible Arc didn't even know this thing existed. Whatever the Bible Arc Study Bible is again, I had I've never even heard of it. It now integrates with sermon audio. So I looked at that and like, oh, that looks interesting. Okay. I wonder how this works. I wonder what it can or cannot do. Okay, I'm interested.

5:42 So if you go there and you and you find this article and you scroll down, there is a video that you can watch, and I would challenge you to go watch the video again. Go to sermon audio dot com, click on the newstab. The very first story this was published December the twentieth, twenty twenty. For the headline reads Bible Arc Study Bible integrates with sermon Audio. Now again, I could play the audio of the video for you, but it would have done. You need to see it, all right, So go watch the video. Here is the story. Attention, everyone. All right, that's you, that's me everyone, We need to pay attention. Sermon Audio is excited to announce our newest Bible software integration with Bible Arc and online tool designed to help users study the Bible deeply and systematically. Oh wow, No, that that is speaking my language. That is speaking my language.

6:42 I mean, if there's one thing we try to do on this podcast, is I constantly yell and scream about people about pastors literally leading people into deep Bible study and doing it systematically. Okay, great, great, So that's that's speaking my language. Next paragraph, arking, that's how they have it written. Here is an interesting, new and creative method of analyzing the logical flow of thought in Biblical text by visually breaking down and organizing propositions or clauses. You can learn more about this method of Bible study by clicking here. So there's this new method, new and creative method of analyzing the logical flow and thought and Biblical text, and it is called arking. Right, arking. I want to see this work. I want to see how we we we analyze the logical flow of thought in Biblical text.

7:45 And you visually break down and organize the propositions or clauses. I mean that sounds. That sounds fascinating to me, right, so I need to look more into it. There are videos when you click right there. Again, you have to go to sermonaudio dot com. You have to go to the newstap. You need to look into all of this because no matter what we do with the theology central Study Bible, right, it doesn't matter what we do, you still may be able to utilize the what does it referred to as the Bible arc study Bible and take advantage of this new creative method to help you analyze the logical flow of a text. I mean that sounds I mean you're speaking my language here now the next paragraph.

8:30 It's a win for any broadcaster on Sermonadio as it will now give them, that is me, a broadcaster, a powerful tool in which to equip their own church family in serious Bible study. Now, of course, sermon Audio always uses the terminology church, church, church church. I understand they're really kind of there to serve the church, but they also have kind of opened things up to be kind of a podcast hosting site as well. Now, so I'm a podcaster, so I'm going to read this again in podcast language. It is a win win for any podcast or on sermonaudio is it will give them a powerful tool in which to equip their own podcast listeners and serious Bible study. Now, if you've been listening for any length of time to the Theology Central podcast, you know I've done everything in my power to try to get people engaged in serious Bible study. That's why we did the Bible study exercises. That's why we were offering digital curriculum.

9:37 That's why depending again, that's always comes down to the availability of money. That's why we were buying people Bible dictionaries, we were buying people Bible handbooks. We were doing our very best to try to equip people in that very thing. Right, So this is right up. You know something I would want everyone to have access to. Here here's what happens. Okay, only, so if you have this Bible Art Study Bible, which when you follow the link I'm going to give you, it becomes the Theology Central Study Bible. Here's what happens. Only the sermons, only, the podcast episodes, only the philological discussions associated with this podcast, Theology Central, are integrated with their particular Bible study tool. So in other words, if you have the Theology Central Study Bible, then what you're going to have is you're going to have a Bible and anywhere. Now this is this is fascinating. You're looking at the text. Any podcast episode that addresses that particular text, it will be listed right there with the text. Let's say you're in Genesis right there, next to Genesis one to one, or Genesis one two or three or four, wherever there will be that's what are you ready? There will be the sermon right there in the Study Bible, and you click on it and it will play. Will

11:09 there will be the podcast episode integrated into the Study Bible. When a new sermon is uploaded, it will automatically appeal appeal, it will automatically appear in the Theology Central Study Bible. So let's say right now, I'm going to label this as Genesis one one because we started with in the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth, right, and that's the first verse obviously in the Bible, in the Theology Central Study Bible. So at some point it may take up to twenty four to forty eight hours, this episode will appear. When you look at in your in the theology central study Bible, and you see Genesis one to one.

11:50 Guess what's going to be over there to the far right this episode. Now, if I want to remove it, I think I can just go in and change the scripture reference. But I want it to be right there because this will be the introduction to the entire study Bible itself. All right, So what happened? So what they did is if you read this news article the Stephen Lee from Sermonadio, he sat down with the lead developer of Bible Arc recently and enjoyed seeing demonstration of the elegant integration this tool has with sermons found on Sermonadio. It's much easier to understand the concept when you see it in action. So you really need to go watch the video. You need to go go to sermon audio dot com, click on the newstab and go watch the video.

12:36 It's Bible Arc and Saintegration demo. You need to see it. If you see it, it will make more sense. Some of you are more tech savvy, so you'll you'll have no problem. Others of you won't have a clue what's going on, and that's perfectly okay. How much time you use technology, age A lot of it has some things to do with it. But how do you get to the theology Central Study Bible. Here's what you need to do right the theology Central Study Bible. Are you ready type in this address in your browser Bible Arc. That's b I, B L E A R C. Bible Arc dot com forward slash Church, forward slash theology Central, Bible Arc dot Com forward slash Church, forward slash theology Central, no spaces in anything, Bible Arc dot com forward slash Church, forward slash theology Central. And what should happen when you do that? I'm going to copy the link here and go open it way over here. I'm gonna go put paste it. You're going to see the Theology Central Study Bible.

13:57 And you guess what you're going to see In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. Now you'll notice when you see this over to the far left, you're gonna see the number one for the first verse. If you tap on that, guess what you're gonna get. You're gonna get Bible versions. You're gonna get a Hebrew chart, and you're gonna get the Hebrew. Is that the antilinear. Well, it's kind of like the antilinear right, So you're gonna have a Hebrew chart. You go through like there is created, there is created, and click on it all right, bara to shape, to create, Strong's definition, definition to create, and it will give you the definition everything right there now so there and then after in the there's a little dot.

14:45 You click on the little dot. Oh, and it's cross references. There's cross references Joe thirty eight all the cross references. So you have a cross referencing tool. Also, look over podcast from Theology Central Origins of Water on Earth. There it is and it's right there, and it says view four more all from Genesis one to one, and you can do and when it says install the app, it's not an actual app found in the Apple App Store the Google Play Store, it will. What you'll do is you'll you'll hit the little arrow, the thing that points up, and you'll say add to your home screen, and you'll have an app on your home screen for the Theology Central Study Bible. But it's not downloaded from the app stores.

15:32 Why is that important? Because if the app stores get ticked off and don't like the Christian message or something you preach and they decide to delete you from the app store. This circumvents that, and so there's no gatekeeper in that particular sense. So please go check it out The Theology Central Study Bible. Now here's the situation. We have a I think like a thirteen day free trial, and I'm very grateful they're giving us I think thirteen days. Between seven and thirteen days. Now, I need everyone to use it as much as possible. Look around, see all that's available. You need you. I need to spend time with it. Do you like it? Do you not like it?

16:17 You may hate You may hate it, you may not even you may think it's a waste of time. And that's perfectly okay. If you're like, well, the reality is I'm not going to use it, let me know that. Because here's the situation. If we want it to be available four people, in fact, I may be able to go here if I go to pay, Yes, here's how it works. You ready. So if I want if I want this to be available up to a ninety nine people, it will cost me one hundred dollars. If I want to make this available for one hundred people to three hundred and ninety nine people, it will cost me two hundred and fifty dollars. If I want to make this available for four hundred to four hundred and ninety nine people, from four hundred to nine hundred ninety nine people, it will cost me four hundred dollars. And if I want to make it available for one thousand plus people, it will cost me seven hundred and fifty dollars. So now I don't think we would ever have seven hundred or one thousand plus people who would want to use it.

17:31 I don't know. Now, Here's what this is what typically happens. We saw this also. We saw this when we made a digital curriculum available. A lot of people came in and asked for access to the digital curriculum. All kinds of people did. But I had the analytics and how many of those people who wanted it actually were using it. And what you would find is more people signed up for it because it was free to them. They just signed up. They didn't not realizing that if fifty people use the curriculum, it costs me this much money, if one hundred people used it, it costs me. And so people would sign up and they would barely use it. They wouldn't come back and say, hey, remove my name. No, they took that spot. So then if someone else came, well then in many cases I had to pay more money and it wasn't being used. Same thing will probably happen here. You let everyone know what's available. People will be like, yeah, great, they may look at it three times, never use it again. Well, unless there's a way to remove them. I don't know if there's even a possibility to remove them. You see what happens, all right, But for now, it's a free trial, so it doesn't matter.

18:41 It's a free for all. Let's get a thousand people trying it right now because it's a free for all. That that's good and we'll see. But what people see sometimes people will just when they see It's the same thing with a podcast, the same thing with sermons online. It's with anything. People just see content. They don't ever consider the money involved to get you that content. Right, Like, if you open up the sermon's two point oh app right, you download the church one app, Well, guess what it's costing sixty dollars a month for you to get this content. Nobody thinks about it. It's just another sermon to click on. They don't realize that broadcast is paid. Broadcaster is paying sixty dollars a month for you to have that. And of course, if you hear me on any of the podcasting apps, it's costing me per month. I think it's twenty dollars right now per month for you to have access to me on the other podcasting apps. It takes money.

19:35 People does that. Don't realize that. But that's neither here nor there. The thing is you want to make it available to as many people as possible. So if everyone loves this idea, well then we're gonna need it. And I don't know if that's a one hundred if that's a one time fee. It just says one hundred dollars. It doesn't say one hundred dollars per month. If it's one hundred dollars per month, the ladies and gentlemen, it wouldn't even matter. Okay, it says, so it looks like it's per year. Hang on, okay, no, no, okay, Maybe it's permanent. Maybe it's permanent, So I think it's I think it's a permanent thing. So we would pay Let's say we paid two fifty if we paid two fifty, then we could have up to three hundred and ninety nine people using it. So if we paid four hundred, we could have almost up to one thousand people. So again, it's it's money. It's money. It's money, money, I know.

20:40 So we will cross that bridge later on. But I wanted to just let everyone know that the Theology Central Study Bible is currently live. It is available, and you can access it right now. Now how do you access it? Let me go back to the information here right here we go, you ready. Currently there's two thousand and forty nine sermons right there are six active users. Right now, there's fifty. It's the Study Bible has already been viewed fifty eight times. It's been viewed fifty eight times since we started this. There are six active people using it right now as we speak. All right, nobody's bookmarked any sermons, and nobody has left any comments. All right, us, that's what I see right now, all right, So how do you access it? If you're tuning in Bible Arc, that's Bible Arc, Bible Arc dot com forward slash Church forward slash Theology Central, all right, so please check it out.

21:55 I'm going to do a refresh here. Yeah, okay, still six active users. So there you have it all right, there, you have it. Now. What I wanted to do is do kind of an overview of the Book of Genesis, but we will save that for a later time, because I wanted to go ahead and get something right there for Genesis one one, like an overview of the entire Book of Genesis. I already have all my notes and everything ready to go. I have it already, I have it all ready to go right here. The Book of Genesis is the first book of the Bible and lays the foundational framework to understand God's relationship with humanity, his plan of redemption, and the origin of key biblical themes. Here's a detailed overview, summary and the major lessons from the book. Overview of Genesis, Authorship and purpose. Traditionally it's attributed to Moses. It provides the purpose. The purpose is to provide the history of creation, humanity's beginning, and God's covenant with well his people or with the beginning of Israel. Yeah, a lot of different ways I could phrase it. I wanted to break it all down. I wanted to break it all down. But yeah, that would that would that would distract from what I'm attempting to do here. So the Theology Central Study Bible is currently available, and then will we go back to the screen. Let me go back here, all right? And yeah, I'm just looking. So if you're using it, I don't know if you can

23:26 how you bookmark a sermon, but you can bookmark one. I don't know exactly how that works. And I don't know where you leave a comment. But if you leave a comment, you could just put test, right, just put test. And I don't know if I get a notification, I don't know what happens. And if you turn on your notifications, it will be interesting to see. Will you get a notification when a new sermon is uploaded? Now I hear it, there's like a forty eight hour delay, which would be that would be uh, from a modern technological standpoint, I don't I'm not a fan of that. I think it should be pretty instantaneous. But of course, you know, and a philological and a phil logical and a technological age, we've come accustomed to things being instantaneous, right, But there we go. So there you have it. Yes, we have thirteen days left on the trial. Thirteen days left I know this is the I kind of kicked myself right because I was like, man, I probably should wait till like January, January, the fifth, January, the sixth, January, the seventh, I should really wait instead of trying this now. But I was. I was here in the studio, just a little over to my right. I was sitting in a chair.

24:47 I was listening to music, and I was trying to focus on the music, focus on the music, and I kept thinking, well, there's this new thing right there to my left. All I have to do is just open it up and figure out how to get this set up. I mean, okay, listen to music, listen. Oh, no, I want to try this. Oh, listen to music. Listen to me. No, I want to try And then I realized, you know what, I'm not gonna be listening to music. I'm not. Okay, let's go do this. So here we are. We've done it. Try it out. Bible arc dot com. That's Bible Arc, Bible Art dot com. Forward slash Church forward slash Theology Central. I don't know how many churches already integrated. I think there's a number that are already that have their own Bible Art bibles already set up. Some of them. I think obviously did this relatively quick. I'm very impressed with how many did so. I'm mad that I'm, like, you know, twenty four hours late here, but that happens. I'm gonna blame all of you because all of you should have been checking out the Sermon Audio dot Com website on a daily basis, saw the news article and should immediately send it to me. Right, Okay, I'm gonna do a refresh here. Yeah, it's hard to know. Yeah, I don't really know how quickly those stats update. But that's okay.

26:09 We will do more at a later time. But there it is, ladies and gentlemen. The Theology Central Study Bible is live. Utilize it. There's a lot of tools that you can integrate with all of this. There's different things available to you. Please, and don't even worry about the Theology Study Bible. Just look at the Bible Arc Study Bible itself, right because even if the Theology Central One, even if we decide not to keep it, the Bible Arc Study Bible still may be very much worth your time as a Bible app that is available to you. Because it looks like it has some very good tools that could be very valuable to you. All right, So please explore it, look at all the videos about it, and draw your own conclusions about whether you think it's worth it or not. Like, here's the thing. You've got a million things available to you. You have so many resources, you have so many tools. Some of them work for you, some of them don't work for you. Some of them are very valuable, but you don't. You just because you've got so much, you don't really take advantage of what's available to That's why we spent all of twenty twenty four trying to get people to use the sermon's two point.

27:27 Oh app it's right there, it's free for you. Millions of sermons utilize that thing, right, So that's one of the things we attempt to do well here, forget theology Central, just the Bible. Arc study Bible. It looks like God's and this whole idea of arcing this new kind of method to logically see how a text flows that that sounds fascinating. So maybe we need to learn how to do that and become, you know, very knowledgeable of that entire method and how we can better utilize that method. Whether you're using the app, or we're not using the app. So I'm going to definitely make it a priority to try to learn that method and see how I can find a way to make it. You know, I can integrate it into things we do here. So there you have it. Hopefully that's beneficial. Hopefully that's helpful. I'm going to go here, look really quick, I'm looking at a couple of I've got so many things open here and go here, all right, So make use of it and you can let me know your thoughts. All right, Thanks for listening, everyone, Have a great day, have a great rest of your holiday weekend. And listen, listen, listen, listen.

28:51 I've been saying this in every podcast. Look you get the Christmas holiday, right, I mean, it's right around the corner, it's right around the and it's going to be over. It's going to be gone. It's going to be here, it's going to be gone. If you have a good situation in your life, family, friends, I mean, you drink in all that you have, every bit of it. Don't waste one second of it, all right, because there's plenty of people who don't have anything. For those who may not have much or alone or depressed, discouraged, trauma, whatever the case may be. Let grab on to whatever you do have, and don't worry about what everyone else has.

29:36 Don't compare your situation. If you compare yourself a situation to anybody else, you become bitter. It's miserable. You can't worry about it. Do something for you, all right, and find a way to distract you from everything else. All right, Thanks for listening. Everyone, Have a great holiday weekend, a great Christmas, Christmas Eve great, just a great week right, God bless m