Emergence Sessions

Existence of God: The Problem of Evil and Suffering

dbecker@emergence.church (Doug Becker) — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 04:00:00 +0000

Summer Sessions 2026

Existence of God: The Transcendental and Ontological Arguments

dbecker@emergence.church (Doug Becker) — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 10:11:12 +0000

Summer Sessions 2026

Existence of God: The Moral Argument

dbecker@emergence.church (Doug Becker) — Sun, 9 Aug 2026 23:05:52 +0000

Summer Sessions 2026

Existence of God: The Teleological Argument

dbecker@emergence.church (Walt Windish) — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 21:03:13 +0000

Summer Sessions 2026

Existence of God: The Cosmological Argument

dbecker@emergence.church (Walt Windish) — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 18:36:24 +0000

Summer Sessions 2026

Existence of God: Getting Our Thinking Right

dbecker@emergence.church (Doug Becker) — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 13:38:30 +0000

Summer Sessions 2026

Bonus Episode: Joshua's Wars of Conquest

dbecker@emergence.church (Doug Becker) — Fri, 8 May 2026 15:17:01 +0000

How can we, as Christians, make sense of the commands of God in the Old Testament to do violence against the Canaanites?

How We Got the Bible: Transmission

dbecker@emergence.church (Doug Becker) — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 12:46:32 +0000

Winter Sessions 2025–2026.

Corrected: How We Got the Bible: Translation

dbecker@emergence.church (Doug Becker) — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:09:34 +0000

Winter Sessions 2025–2026.

How We Got the Bible: The Canon of the Old and New Testaments

dbecker@emergence.church (Doug Becker) — Thu, 1 Jan 2026 20:22:22 +0000

Winter Sessions 2025–2026

How We Got the Bible: The Composition of the New Testament

dbecker@emergence.church (Doug Becker) — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 11:15:10 +0000

Winter Sessions 2025–26

How We Got the Bible: The Composition of the Old Testament

dbecker@emergence.church (Doug Becker) — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 01:53:26 +0000

Winter Sessions 2025–26

How We Got the Bible: Moses and the Composition of the Pentateuch

dbecker@emergence.church (Doug Becker) — Tue, 2 Dec 2025 22:05:42 +0000

Winter 2025–26.

Christianity and Religious Diversity: Concluding Thoughts and Application

dbecker@emergence.church (Lucas Martin) — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 12:42:18 +0000

Summer Sessions 2025.

Jude and James: James pt. 5

dbecker@emergence.church (Ric Gallipoli) — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 18:12:41 +0000

Summer Sessions 2025.

Christianity and Religious Diversity part 5: Restrictivism and Narrow Accessiblism, A Conversation

dbecker@emergence.church (Lucas Martin, Doug Becker) — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 14:59:10 +0000

Summer Sessions 2025.

Jude and James: James part 4

dbecker@emergence.church (Ric Gallipoli) — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 11:43:31 +0000

Summer Sessions 2025.

Christianity and Religious Diversity part 4: Inclusivism

dbecker@emergence.church (Lucas Martin) — Wed, 6 Aug 2025 16:13:30 +0000

Summer Sessions 2025.

Jude and James: James part 3

dbecker@emergence.church (Ric Gallipoli) — Tue, 5 Aug 2025 16:13:56 +0000

Summer Sessions 2025

Christianity and Religious Diversity part 3: Universalism

dbecker@emergence.church (Lucas Martin) — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 17:48:13 +0000

Summer Sessions 2025.

Jude and James: James part 2

dbecker@emergence.church (Ric Gallipoli) — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 21:17:37 +0000

Summer Sessions 2025.

Christianity and Religious Diversity part 2: Pluralism

dbecker@emergence.church (Lucas Martin) — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Summer Sessions 2025.

Jude and James: James pt. 1

dbecker@emergence.church (Ric Gallipoli) — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Summer Sessions 2025.

Christianity and Religious Diversity part 1: Christianity in a Religiously Diverse World

dbecker@emergence.church (Lucas Martin) — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 18:33:00 +0000

Summer Sessions 2025

Jude and James part 1 (Jude)

dbecker@emergence.church (Ric Gallipoli) — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 23:59:27 +0000

Summer Sessions 2025

Hot Topics in Theology: Hell and Judgment

dbecker@emergence.church (Doug Becker) — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 15:15:39 +0000

Winter Sessions 2024–25

Hot Topics in Theology: Same-Sex Relationships

dbecker@emergence.church (Doug Becker) — Wed, 8 Jan 2025 20:53:45 +0000

Winter Sessions 2024–25

Hot Topics in Theology: A Christian Perspective on Israel

dbecker@emergence.church (Doug Becker) — Tue, 31 Dec 2024 22:34:25 +0000

Winter Sessions 2024/25

Hot Topics in Theology: Gender Roles in Church Leadership

dbecker@emergence.church (Doug Becker) — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 16:18:46 +0000

Winter Sessions 2024/25

Hot Topics in Theology: Can Christians Lose Their Salvation?

dbecker@emergence.church (Doug Becker) — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 20:56:19 +0000

Winter Sessions 2024/25

Hot Topics in Theology: Free Will and God's Sovereignty in Salvation

dbecker@emergence.church (Doug Becker) — Tue, 3 Dec 2024 15:58:20 +0000

Winter Sessions 2024/25

Gospel Backgrounds: A Historical Case for the Resurrection of Jesus

dbecker@emergence.church (Doug Becker) — Wed, 4 Sep 2024 09:43:40 +0000

Summer Sessions 2024

Gospel Backgrounds: Jesus' "Trial" and Crucifixion

dbecker@emergence.church (Doug Becker) — Mon, 2 Sep 2024 14:15:39 +0000

Summer Sessions 2024

Sexuality: Blue Jeans Theology

dbecker@emergence.church (Isaiah Martin) — Sat, 31 Aug 2024 14:01:21 +0000

Summer Sessions 2024

Gospel Backgrounds: Baptism, Messiah, and the Son of Man

dbecker@emergence.church (Doug Becker) — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 14:42:06 +0000

Summer Sessions 2024

Sexuality: Boundaries

dbecker@emergence.church (Isaiah Martin) — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 18:41:57 +0000

Click here for the video from the beginning of the talk.

Gospel Backgrounds: Jesus the Galilean

dbecker@emergence.church (Doug Becker) — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 11:54:28 +0000

Summer Sessions 2024

Sexuality: Sexuality Song

dbecker@emergence.church (Isaiah Martin) — Fri, 16 Aug 2024 16:18:27 +0000

Summer Sessions 2024

Sexuality: Shame No More

dbecker@emergence.church (Isaiah Martin) — Wed, 7 Aug 2024 14:01:48 +0000

Summer Sessions 2024

Gospel Backgrounds: The Birth of Jesus

dbecker@emergence.church (Doug Becker) — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 14:00:10 +0000

Summer Sessions 2024

Sexuality: Cultural Context

dbecker@emergence.church (Isaiah Martin) — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 17:24:35 +0000

Summer Sessions 2024

Gospel Backgrounds: Between the Testaments

dbecker@emergence.church (Doug Becker) — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 15:03:56 +0000

Summer Sessions 2024

Sexuality: The Genesis of Sexuality

dbecker@emergence.church (Isaiah Martin) — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 15:51:37 +0000

Summer Sessions 2024

Job 3b

dbecker@emergence.church (Ric Gallipoli) — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 16:21:40 +0000

Summer Sessions 2023

Biblical Themes: King

dbecker@emergence.church (Doug Becker) — Wed, 7 Feb 2024 13:59:59 +0000

How the idea of Jesus as king comes into focus in the Old and New Testaments.

Biblical Themes: Rest

dbecker@emergence.church (Jordan Marotti) — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 15:17:33 +0000

You won't snooze during this talk on rest!

Biblical Themes: People of God

dbecker@emergence.church (Doug Becker) — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 13:37:59 +0000

God sets apart a people to be his treasured possession.

Biblical Themes: Spiritual Growth

dbecker@emergence.church (Walt Windish) — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 17:19:59 +0000

How does God shape us into the people he wants us to be?

Biblical Themes: Grace

dbecker@emergence.church (Jordan Marotti) — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 22:50:40 +0000

Exploring the theme of God's amazing grace as it unfolds through Scripture.

Biblical Themes: The Temple

dbecker@emergence.church (Doug Becker) — Tue, 12 Dec 2023 15:19:39 +0000

The story of God dwelling among his people.

Job Part 6

dbecker@emergence.church (Ric Gallipoli) — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 18:29:30 +0000

Summer Sessions 2023

Roman Catholicism: The Canon of Scripture

dbecker@emergence.church (Emergence Church) — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 15:45:43 +0000

Summer Sessions 2023

Job Part 5

dbecker@emergence.church (Ric Gallipoli) — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 18:18:23 +0000

Summer Sessions 2023

Roman Catholicism: Mary

dbecker@emergence.church (Doug Becker) — Tue, 15 Aug 2023 17:31:50 +0000

Summer Sessions 2023

Job Part 4

dbecker@emergence.church (Doug Becker) — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 14:01:42 +0000

Summer Sessions 2023

Roman Catholicism: The Eucharist and Baptism

dbecker@emergence.church (Doug Becker) — Wed, 9 Aug 2023 10:46:11 +0000

Summer Sessions 2023

Roman Catholicism: Salvation

dbecker@emergence.church (Doug Becker) — Thu, 3 Aug 2023 14:56:45 +0000

Summer Sessions 2023

Job Part 3

dbecker@emergence.church (Ric Gallipoli) — Tue, 1 Aug 2023 13:29:15 +0000

Summer Sessions 2023

Roman Catholicism: The Papacy

dbecker@emergence.church (Doug Becker) — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 12:41:51 +0000

Summer Sessions 2023

Job: Part 2

dbecker@emergence.church (Ric Gallipoli) — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 12:21:17 +0000

Summer Sessions 2023

Job: Part 1

dbecker@emergence.church (Ric Gallipoli) — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 14:16:23 +0000

Summer Sessions 2023

Roman Catholicism: Sola Scriptura, Tradition, and Authority

dbecker@emergence.church (Doug Becker) — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 18:10:02 +0000

Emergence Summer Sessions 2023

Old Testament History & Archaeology: The Final Years of Judah

dbecker@emergence.church (Doug Becker) — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 16:45:33 +0000

The events leading up to, and after, the invasion of Judah by the Babylonians.

Old Testament History & Archaeology: The Fall of Samaria and Its Aftermath

dbecker@emergence.church (Doug Becker) — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 16:22:56 +0000

Old Testament History & Archaeology: The Divided Monarchy

dbecker@emergence.church (Emergence Church) — Tue, 3 Jan 2023 12:14:51 +0000

Today we talk about Israel and Judah for the first hundred years (or so) after they split.

Old Testament History & Archaeology 3: The United Monarchy

dbecker@emergence.church (Doug Becker) — Tue, 20 Dec 2022 18:46:46 +0000

The reigns of Saul, David, and Solomon.

Old Testament History & Archaeology 2: Conquest and Settlement

dbecker@emergence.church (Emergence Church) — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 11:28:48 +0000

https://files.snappages.site/CN87T8/assets/files/Session-2-Conquest-and-Settlement.pdf

Old Testament History & Archaeology 1: Joseph and the Exodus

dbecker@emergence.church (Doug Becker) — Tue, 6 Dec 2022 15:15:32 +0000

We opened with the background and evidence for the narratives about Joseph and the Exodus. The accompanying slides are available here.

Big Questions 6: Is Christianity Bigoted?

dbecker@emergence.church (Emergence Church) — Mon, 8 Aug 2022 14:49:11 +0000

Inclusive? Exclusive? Tolerant? Intolerant? Bigoted? Find out!!

Ruth, part 5

dbecker@emergence.church (Emergence Church) — Thu, 4 Aug 2022 12:54:26 +0000

Ruth finds her redeemer and is brought into the family of God.

Big Questions 5: What About Evolution?

dbecker@emergence.church (Doug Becker) — Mon, 1 Aug 2022 17:03:12 +0000

How does the Bible relate to biological evolution?

Big Questions 4: Did Jesus Rise from the Dead?

dbecker@emergence.church (Doug Becker) — Mon, 25 Jul 2022 14:04:39 +0000

Walt makes the case based on historical evidence for Jesus' resurrection.

Ruth, part 4

dbecker@emergence.church (Donna Aust) — Sat, 23 Jul 2022 11:01:33 +0000

Naomi launches a bold plan.

Big Questions 3: Are the Gospels Reliable?

dbecker@emergence.church (Doug Becker) — Mon, 18 Jul 2022 14:41:53 +0000

Do Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John give us accurate accounts of Jesus' words and deeds?

Ruth, part 3

dbecker@emergence.church (Donna Aust) — Fri, 15 Jul 2022 12:08:16 +0000

Naomi and Ruth return to the land of Israel.

Big Questions 2: Does God Exist?

dbecker@emergence.church (Walt Windish) — Mon, 11 Jul 2022 11:31:53 +0000

Walt discusses the cosmological and fine tuning arguments for God's existence.

Ruth, part 2

dbecker@emergence.church (Donna Aust) — Fri, 8 Jul 2022 10:38:03 +0000

Donna discusses the plight of Ruth and Naomi, as they return to the land of Israel.

Ruth, part 1: Intro

dbecker@emergence.church (Emergence Church) — Mon, 4 Jul 2022 09:32:15 +0000

Donna introduces us to the book of Ruth.

Big Questions 1: Do I Need Evidence to Believe?

dbecker@emergence.church (Doug Becker) — Fri, 1 Jul 2022 15:13:39 +0000

To kick off this year's Summer Sessions, Doug begins by examining whether or not we need evidence in order for Christian belief to be rational.

Summer Sessions 2022 Intro

dbecker@emergence.church (Doug Becker) — Thu, 30 Jun 2022 20:01:32 +0000