
Harbor, Pepperdine Bible Lectures
Christian scholars and church leaders at Harbor, Pepperdine University’s annual Bible Lectures, inspire listeners with this collection of topics on Christian living, relationships, ministry, and biblical insight.
Latest episodes

May 3, 2024 • 57min
The Next Generation Speaks - Jeff Walling, NextGen Ambassadors
Teachers:
Jeff Walling, NextGen Ambassadors
Worship Leader:
Won by One

May 3, 2024 • 49min
Knowing What You Are Getting Into: An Effective Pre-Membership Class - Buddy Bell
Come explore the benefits of having a required class before membership and how to conduct it.
Teacher:
Buddy Bell

May 3, 2024 • 45min
Love Your Enemies: Christian Faith and Political Violence (Part 2) - Victor McCracken
Is it possible for followers of Jesus to reconcile faith with the violence of war? In this class, Dr. Vic McCracken will lead attendees through an exploration of the Christian tradition, exploring the church's nonviolent witness as well as the development of the Christian just war tradition.
Teacher:
Victor McCracken

May 3, 2024 • 39min
Don’t Give Up: How COVID, a Flood, and a Family Trauma Nearly Took Me Out and how the Lord Held Me Together - Summer Morris
If you feel you have been put through the wringer and nearly given up and you would like to know you are not alone, join me as I share my story of falling and getting back up again.
Teacher:
Summer Morris

May 3, 2024 • 43min
Perspective for Those Who Wonder if They’ve Wasted Their Life - Jason Pagel
In a letter addressed to Robert Hooker in 1675, Isaac Newton wrote what became one of his most famous statements, “If I have seen further than others, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” Whether we care to admit it or not, we are who we are due in large part to those who have come before us. Some of them we can picture. Others we can name, though having never seen their faces, even in a photograph. Then there are the rest, the majority, whose names and faces we never knew. Their impact endures in us even when we can’t remember them. It's humbling to think that one day we will be just like them…forgotten. But there is a name that will never be lost to the turning pages of history. It is the name that is above every other name.
Teacher:
Jason Pagel

May 3, 2024 • 48min
Carrying Weariness - Ben Fike
Have the past few years left you not just tired, but weary? Me too! Let’s talk about it.
Teacher:
Ben Fike

May 3, 2024 • 44min
Suffer Well... Hebrews 5:7-10 - Alvin Edington
"We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade; our life, like the harmony of the world, is composed of contrary things, and one part is no less necessary than the other." ~Michel de Montaigne
In a world filled with suffering, one may feel it unfair or unnecessary to go through life's turmoils. Maybe it's a terminally ill loved one. Perhaps you feel that systemic conditions have unfairly burdened your life. Why did your marriage dissolve? How is it that your beautiful kids have turned to substance abuse? When will this grief stop? Is there a purpose in our pain? As believers, we must allow the Word to inform our worldview when the world around us makes no sense. In this session, we will look at what it means to Suffer Well.
Teacher:
Alvin Edington

May 3, 2024 • 48min
Spiritual Blind Spots - Brad Cox
How to be a leader in a valley of dry bones.
Teacher:
Brad Cox

May 3, 2024 • 17min
A Word About Disgrace: Heb. 13:9-13 - Jenn Gash
Teacher:
Jenn Gash

May 3, 2024 • 48min
Fundamentos de Cuidado Pastoral | Foundations of Pastoral Care - Alejandro Ezquerra
En esta presentación, Alejandro Ezquerra explorará los elementos y habilidades que deben desarrollar aquellos interesados en proveer cuidado pastoral en la iglesia, en el hospital o en cualquier circunstancia. In this talk, Alejandro Ezquerra will introduce some Clinical Pastoral Education elements and practices to ministers and people interested in developing better skills to minister in times of crisis.
Teacher:
Alejandro Ezquerra