Here’s the updated program of lectures currently in production for the THEOLOGY ACCELERATOR course.
Transform your Bible comprehension in 7 weeks. THEOLOGY ACCELERATOR will teach you more than most people learn in a lifetime. And if you’re a teacher, instead of having to push your people to read and study the Bible, you will not be able to keep them away.
The course is a decade of research, thinking, and writing condensed into an intensive, high-octane program that is full of game-changing information, practical tools, and many surprises. You will never look at the Bible—or the world—in quite the same way again.
1 Hidden in Plain Sight
How to Read the Bible in 3D
Learn how to use skills that you already have to enjoy the Bible in all of its beauty. See how taking note of the details and repeated themes enables us to comprehend what the author actually means.
Discover how an informed familiarity with the earlier texts unlocks the mysteries in the later ones, and how much fun reading the Bible is when you recognize its frequent use of irony and humor.
101 The Key to Transformation
102 Get Your 3D Glasses On
103 The Divine Comedy
2 The Language of Light
Signs, Symbols and Sequences
The Bible was written in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek, but also in a “cinematic” language of images. You will learn about its “library” of symbols and how they “speak” in visual “sentences.”
The organic structure of the text is also found in the world around us, so an awareness of its form gives us a more mature understanding of the Bible and profound insights into the shape of our own lives.
201 Rainbow Lingo
202 Flying Information
203 Fractal Theology
3 Covenant and Creation
The Shape of the Word
We often look at what is happening in the world and wonder what on earth God is doing. It is said that He “moves in mysterious ways,” but the Bible reveals His ways to us as consistent cycles of planting and harvest.
Learn to recognize God’s ways not only in the Bible but also throughout history, and even in the modern world. This leads to a prophetic wisdom which enables us to bring about real change.
301 Above, Beside, Below
302 Harvest Secrets
303 Ethics or Magic
4 Orientation Day
The Shape of the World
All the world really is a stage. Just as the plays of Shakespeare were written for the Globe Theater, all the events, visions, and prophecies of the Bible take place within a cosmic “theater,” one that is based upon the “floorplan” of heaven.
Make yourself right at home in the Garden, Tabernacle, and Temple, and learn how these architectural spaces not only shape the events in the Bible but also make us better world builders.
401 Garden, Land, World
402 Tower, Tabernacle and Temple
403 Cosmic Language
5 Cooking in God’s Kitchen
The Shape of Worship
The Old Testament is a violent, bloody book, but the more we modern Christians neglect it, the more our faith loses its teeth, and the less we are able to understand the New Testament.
God gave us food to teach us about life and death. He then gave us sacrifice to teach us about death and resurrection. We prepare food for ourselves as God prepares us for Himself. The culinary art is close to the heart of the God who is a consuming fire.
501 The Consumable Man
502 Salvation by Fire
503 The Forbidden Feast
6 Wheels within Wheels
The Shape of the Past
Now that we are familiar with the visual language, architecture, and processes of the Bible, we can not only trace the pattern of God’s work throughout history, but also understand exactly why it is the way it is.
With these tools handy, we will follow His “chariot of fire” right through the Scriptures. When we are done mapping the Word, you will be able to jump into it at any place and understand immediately what is going on and why.
601 The Flood and the Fathers
602 The Camp and the City
603 The Two Witnesses
7 Mosaic Bookends
The Shape of the Future
While some become obsessed with “cracking the code’” of the book of Revelation, others throw it into the too-hard basket. Using the tools we now have, we can not only unlock God’s work in the past but also make sense of what He has revealed about the future.
You will learn how the Revelation, so often abused or neglected, is in fact one of the most practical, and surprisingly humorous, books in the Bible.
Finally, we will take some sample passages and “reverse-engineer” them step-by-step. This will show you how to use the Bible’s “key” for yourself.
701 Rescuing Revelation
702 The Last Days
703 The Highest of the Mountains
