Mobile Ed: Sex and Marriage Bundle (3 courses)

by David Instone-Brewer; Stephen Arterburn

Publisher:

Lexham Press

, 2015–2016

Overview

Strengthen your marriage with the 3-course Sex and Marriage Bundle. In Do This Not That to Transform Your Marriage (PD151), Dr. Stephen Arterburn provides practical advice for strengthening your marriage. He lists seven things you should stop doing and seven things you should start doing to improve your marriage. In Understanding and Living with Sexual Integrity (PD161), Dr. Arterburn walks through sensitive issues of lust and sexual temptation. He looks at issues that might lie behind these problems and provides ways to fight against them. In Biblical Sexual Ethics (BI390), Dr. David Instone-Brewer explores how the Bible addresses important matters of sexual purity including marriage and divorce. You’ll see how ancient Near Eastern and Greco-Roman practices compared with Biblical teaching and be better equipped to apply these teachings to your own life.

Product Details

• Title: Mobile Ed: Sex and Marriage Bundle
• Publisher: Lexham Press
• Product Type: Logos Mobile Education
• Resource Type: Courseware, including transcripts, audio, and video resources
• Courses: 3
• Video Hours: 14

PD151 Do This Not That to Transform Your Marriage

• Instructor: Stephen Arterburn
• Publication Date: 2014
• Video Hours: 4

In this course, Stephen Arterburn considers biblical misinterpretations, common misconceptions about marriage, and the tragedy of divorce, before discussing tools you can begin using right now to strengthen your marriage. You’ll get practical tips on what to do and what not to do. Whether you’re struggling with issues in your marriage or looking for ways to improve it, you’ll appreciate these clear steps.

Contents:

Unit 1: The Christian Marriage

• Biblical Misinterpretations That Hurt Marriages
• More Biblical Misinterpretations That Hurt Marriages
• Defining a Christian Marriage
• The Impact of Divorce
• The Power of Godly Marriages
• Three Elements of a Great Marriage
• Willingness Ensures a Strong Foundation
• Performing a Sense Search for “Courage” and Using Visual Copy

Unit 2: Seven Things to Stop for a Better Marriage

• Stop Thinking Only about Yourself
• Stop Tolerating Compulsions, Addictions, and Dependency
• Stop Holding on to Anger and Resentment
  • Differentiating between Words for Anger in the Bible
• Stop Trying to Fix or Change Your Mate
• Stop Drowning in Suspicion and Jealousy
• Stop Clinging to Unrealistic Expectations
• Stop Obsessing over the Past and Past Mistakes
• Review of the Seven Things to Stop Doing

Unit 3: Seven Things to Do for a Better Marriage

• Start Showing Respect to Your Spouse
  • Discovering the Meaning of a Greek Word in Logos
  • What If Your Spouse Does Not Respect You?
• Start Practicing Lifetime Vows
  • Finding Practical Applications with Thematic Outlines
  • What If Your Spouse Does Not Honor the Lifetime Vow?
• Start Affirming Your Spouse’s Strengths
  • What If Your Spouse Does Not Affirm Your Strengths?
• Start Focusing on Celebrating and Having Fun
• Start Responding Romantically to Your Mate
  • Sexual Satisfaction and Competency
  • What If Your Spouse Does Not Respond Romantically?
• Start Expressing Grace and Forgiveness
  • What If Your Spouse Does Not Express Grace or Forgive You?
• Start Spending Money More Responsibly: Seven-Point Plan
  • Spending Plan: Points 1–3
  • Spending Plan: Points 4–7
  • Financial Responsibility: Vision and Action

Unit 4: Opportunities

• Opportunities for Couples and Churches
• Daily Devotions with Your Spouse

Stephen Arterburn is the founder and chairman of New Life Ministries, and host of the #1 nationally syndicated Christian counseling talk show New Life Live. He is also the founder of the Women of Faith conferences attended by over four million people, and he serves as a teaching pastor at Heartland Church in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Arterburn is the bestselling author of Every Man’s Battle, Lose It for Life,Healing Is a Choice, Is This the One?, and Walking Into Walls. He has over seven million books in print and three Gold Medallions for writing excellence.

PD161 Understanding and Living with Sexual Integrity

• Instructor: Stephen Arterburn
• Publication Date: 2014
• Video Hours: 4

Stephen Arterburn’s Every Man’s Battle and the Life Recovery Bible have helped countless people struggling with sexual integrity. In this course, he addresses not only basic issues of dealing with sexual temptation, but goes beyond to examine the challenging topic of sexual addiction and the problem of anger. You’ll better understand both the roots of lust and how to battle against it.

Contents:

Unit 1: The Challenge of Sexual Integrity

• The Realities of Life
• Handling Challenges and Difficulties
• Destroying Intimacy
• Spiritual Leadership
• Finding Major Themes in a Passage Using the Information Panel
• The Private Sex Life
• Satan’s Role in Sexual Temptation
• The Realities of Sexual Integrity
• Unit 1 Quiz

Unit 2: Defining Important Concepts

• Integration
• Bifurcation
• Objectification
• Sanctification
• Congruency
• Compulsive Masturbation
• Connection
• Unit 2 Quiz

Unit 3: Maintaining Sexual Integrity

• Living according to God’s Calling
• Using the Proverbs Explorer to Find Practical Wisdom on Addiction
• The Sexual Purity Battleground
• Fighting the Battle for Sexual Purity
• Desiring Sexual Purity
• Bouncing Your Eyes
• Using Speaker Data to Discover What Jesus Says about the Eye
• Guarding Your Mind
• Guarding Your Heart
• Dealing with Failure
• Unit 3 Quiz
• Midterm Exam

Unit 4: Dealing with Sexual Addiction

• The Prevalence of Sexual Addiction
• Types of Sexual Addiction
• Addiction or Sin?
• Signs of Addiction
• More Signs of Addiction
• Testing for Addiction
• First Half of the Addiction Cycle
• Second Half of the Addiction Cycle
• Our Sexually Saturated Society
• Values of a Sexually Saturated Society
• Healing and Hope
• Thoughts on Recovery
• Unit 4 Quiz

Unit 5: Anger and Sexual Addiction

• Anger in Men
• Using the Sermon Starter Guide to Create a Topical Study
• Anger in Society
• Roots of Anger
• Introduction to Myths
• Myths Men Believe
• More Myths Men Believe
• Building an Accountability Group Using Faithlife Groups
• A Final Myth
• Coping with Anger
• Helping Angry Men
• Searching for God
• Unit 5 Quiz
• Final Exam

Stephen Arterburn is the founder and chairman of New Life Ministries, and host of the #1 nationally syndicated Christian counseling talk show New Life Live. He is also the founder of the Women of Faith conferences attended by over four million people, and he serves as a teaching pastor at Heartland Church in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Arterburn is the bestselling author of Every Man’s Battle, Lose It for Life,Healing Is a Choice, Is This the One?, and Walking Into Walls. He has over seven million books in print and three Gold Medallions for writing excellence.

BI390 Biblical Sexual Ethics

• Instructor: David Instone-Brewer
• Publication Date: 2015
• Video Hours: 6

Dr. David Instone-Brewer examines how marriage, divorce, polygamy, homosexuality and other topics are addressed in the Bible by looking at both the text of Scripture and the context in which Scripture was written. “Translating from Hebrew or the Greek into English is only half of the job of translation,” he says. “You also have to translate the context that it came from.”

From ancient Near Eastern marriage laws that were literally written in stone to the sexual practices that were accepted and not accepted in Rome, Dr. Instone-Brewer paints a picture of how Old and New Testament Jewish culture compared to other cultures of the time. He shows how understanding this context illuminates the truth of Scripture and helps us discern what ethics God had for His people in the past and what He has for us today.

Contents:

Introduction

• Introducing the Speaker and the Course

Unit 1: Marriage

• Introduction to Marriage
• Marriage in the Bible
• Marriage in Genesis
• Searching Cultural Concepts for Ancient References to Sexual Regulations
• Marriage in the Ancient Near East
• Marriage Covenants/Contracts
• Using the Lexham Theological Wordbookto Find Related Terms
• Marriage in the Law
• Marriage Certificates
• Marriage in the New Testament
• Marriage Today
• Addition of Obedience
• Biblical Marriage Is Different
• Using a Proximity Search to Find Instances of God as Witness

Unit 2: Divorce in the Old Testament

• Breaking a Contract
• Grounds for Divorce
• Examples of Divorce
• God’s Divorce Certificate
• Grounds for God’s Divorce
• God Forgives Judah’s Adultery

Unit 3: Divorce in Jesus’ Teaching

• Divorce Should Never Happen
• Grounds for Divorce in the Old Testament
• Divorce for Infertility
• Infertility in the New Testament
• Comparing Jesus’ View on Divorce with First-Century Jewish Views
• Divorce for Unfaithfulness
• Jesus on Divorce for Adultery
• Rabbinic Divorce for Any Cause, Part 1
• Rabbinic Divorce for Any Cause, Part 2
• Different Versions in Mark and Luke
• Jesus’ Silence on Divorce for Neglect
• Other Interpretations of Jesus’ Teaching

Unit 4: Divorce in Paul’s Teaching

• Putting Jesus and Paul Together
• Divorce for Material Neglect
• Material Neglect in the New Testament
• Divorce for Sexual Neglect
• Sexual Neglect in the New Testament
• How Men and Women Divorced for Neglect
• Divorce for Neglect in the New Testament
• Roman Divorce by Separation in Paul
• Jesus and Paul’s Perspectives on Divorce

Unit 5: Remarriage

• Remarriage in the Ancient Near East
• Remarriage in the Old Testament
• Remarriage for Priests
• The Divorce Certificate Allows Remarriage
• Paul Quotes the Remarriage Formula
• Paul Allows Divorcées to Remarry
• Studying 1 Corinthians 7:15 with a Custom Guide and Proximity Search
• Does Jesus Forbid Remarriage?
• Does Paul Forbid Remarriage?
• Married till Death?
• Remarriage in the New Testament World
• Conclusions from Relative Silence

Unit 6: Intermarriage

• Marriages of the Patriarchs
• The Mixed Population of the Exodus
• Moses’ Wives
• Using the Guides to Preach a Topically Based Sermon on Racism
• Continuing Foreign Marriages
• The Seven Nations
• After the Exile
• Divorcing Foreign Wives
• The Jewish and Roman World
• Paul’s Warnings
• Intermarriage: How Does This Apply Today?

Unit 7: Polygamy

• Polygamy in the Old Testament
• Understanding Polygamy in the Bible with Biblical People Diagrams
• Marrying Prostitutes
• Samson: A Possible Example
• Polygamy in New Testament Times
• Old Testament Monogamy According to Qumranic Judaism
• Old Testament Monogamy According to Diaspora Judaism
• Polygamy Criticized by Jesus
• Problems with Widows in the New Testament
• Polygamy: How Does This Apply Today?

Unit 8: Abortion and Child Abuse

• A Personal Note
• Roman Child Abuse
• Researching Child Prostitution in the First-Century Roman World
• The Warren Cup
• Jesus on Child Abuse
• Researching Millstones with Power Lookup and Media Searching
• The Crime of Skandalizō
• Jewish Safeguards
• Roman Abortion and Infanticide
• Jews and Christians on Infanticide
• New Testament Summary on Ethics for Gentiles
• Blood and Bloodshed?
• The Meaning of Pniktos: Snuffing Out
• A Note on Bible Translations
• Applying Ancient Rules to Modern Life

Unit 9: Homosexuality

• Introduction to Homosexuality
• Sodom and Gibeah
• Ancient Near East Background
• Levitical Laws
• Greek and Roman Background
• Jewish Condemnation of Homosexuality
• Paul on What Is Natural
• Discovering Influences on Paul’s Theology of Sexuality in Romans
• Paul’s Vice List
• What Is “Lying with a Male” (Arsenokoitēs)?
• Modern Application

Conclusion

• Course Summary

Dr. David Instone-Brewer graduated from South Wales Baptist College with the highest marks in that college’s history, and later earned his PhD from Cambridge University, where he studied early rabbinic exegesis. Dr. Instone-Brewer ministered at the Llanishen Baptist Church in Cardiff for five years, and is now research fellow and technical officer for Tyndale House, which is, arguably, among the three best libraries in the world for biblical studies.

Specializing in rabbinic studies, Dr. Instone-Brewer has been a regular contributor to Christianity magazine, and has written several books, including Traditions of the Rabbis from the Era of the New Testament (2 vols.).