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Come join one of Now You Know Media's most beloved presenters on this sublime retreat. The psalms are "the masterwork of prayer in the Old Testament" and they "remain essential to the prayer of the Church… They are suitable for people of every condition and time" (Catechism of the Catholic Church #2585-86, 2597). From the very beginning of the Church's history, the psalms have played a central role for believers. Now, you can discover the Book of...
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Fr. Michael Guinan’s award-winning audio lectures are enjoyed by listeners in over 30 countries.
This program includes five short audio courses on each of the vital books that make up the Pentateuch and a short course on the Book of Job.The first five books of the Old Testament are among the most foundational texts ever written. Forming the Torah of Moses, Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy was central to the development...
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Fr. Michael Guinan’s award-winning audio lectures are enjoyed by listeners in over 30 countries. Now, you are invited to take the greatest prayer book ever compiled as a guide to your life.
With one of the world’s best Old Testament professors as your teacher, you will explore the many paths of prayer created for us by the Book of Psalms’ divinely inspired brilliance.
Now you can explore and learn about these treasures with one of our most...
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The messianic prophecies of Jesus are one of the most discussed, yet often misunderstood, topics of the Bible. Join one of the world's leading scripture scholars in exploring this fascinating subject.
This 9-lecture audio series takes you on a gripping journey from the Age of the Prophets to the Babylonian Exile (587 BC) to the writing of the Dead Sea Scrolls during Jesus’s time. Along the way, you will explore essential passages in both the...
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God declared creation good. But the debate raging about creation in recent decades has been anything but. If you have ever gotten lost in the storm of controversy surrounding the creationism debate, then Fr. Michael Guinan's grounding instruction is your key to understanding. Do you believe in evolution or creation? Is man created in the image of God or the image of an ape? Should "creation science" be taught in public school science classes? These...
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Fr. Guinan’s award-winning Old Testament lectures are enjoyed by listeners in over 30 countries.
No other book of the Bible has captured the hearts, minds, and imaginations of people through three millennia as vividly as Exodus. With stories of a prophet rescued from a basket on the river, the parting of a sea, and an entire nation wandering in the desert, this book seems made for the movies.
Appropriately, some theologians have called the book...
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Through these 12 lively talks, you'll gain a solid grounding of the fundamentals of the greatest book ever written. What is meant when we say the word "Bible" or "testaments"? And what is "new" or "old" about them? Beginning with the basics, this program starts by exploring the origins and organization of the Bible. How did we get the Bible? When did chapter and verse numbering begin? What is the King James Bible? Why do we have so many new translations...
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Did you realize that such enduring expressions as "the patience of Job" and "nothing new under the sun" derive from the Wisdom literature of the Bible? Now you can explore the wisdom of such extraordinary books of the Bible as Proverbs, Job, Song of Songs, Psalms, Ecclesiastes, Sirach, and Wisdom of Solomon with top Scripture scholar and master teacher Fr. Michael Guinan,, O.F.M., as your guide. You will learn the biblical meaning of "wisdom" as Fr....
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This is one of those remarkable courses thoughtful Catholics like you have clamored for. An insightful and enjoyable survey of the entire Old Testament in 36 lively lectures you can experience while driving or at home.
Throughout the ages, the Old Testament has shaped both culture and belief, while calling forth astounding creativity, fostering deeply held religious convictions and inspiring breathtaking masterworks of art, music, and literatur—from...
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