by Brian | Jul 17, 2012 | Culture, Evangelism, Monday Study Notes
Last night we began several weeks of seeking answer these questions: How can Christians claim to really know God? How can they claim to have a true knowledge of God, especially one that is more accurate than other concepts of God? How can we really know anything? In...
by Brian | Jul 16, 2012 | Culture, Evangelism
Tonight we’ll begin several weeks of studying the scriptures to explore one of the central concerns of our age, and one of the central objections people have to the preaching of the Gospel. The concern is epistemology, and the objection is an epistemological...
by Brian | Jul 6, 2012 | Culture, Evangelism
I just finished God is Not One by Stephen Prothero. I highly recommend it as a great primer on seven of the world’s most important religions: Islam, Hinduism, Confucianism, Buddhism, Yoruba, (modern), Judaism, Daoism (Taoism) and even the new Atheism. He does a...
by Brian | Jun 20, 2012 | Book Recommendations, Culture, Evangelism
One of the most common things we hear when speaking to people about the gospel is the idea that all religions are the same. I posted the beginning of a Christian response a few weeks ago. Here’s another way to think about it. I’m halfway through an audio...
by Brian | Jun 14, 2012 | Academic, Audio Downloads, Culture, Evangelism
I recently listened to these lectures delivered by Francis Schaeffer at Wheaton College. (I think they were delivered in the early 1970’s). I can’t recommend these highly enough. Schaeffer walks you through the development of Western thought, starting in...
by Brian | Jun 11, 2012 | Culture
Here’s the quote Mike used in his teaching yesterday morning. I thought it was worth reposting for you to read and ponder… “If we know the characteristic sins of the age, we can guess its foolish and fashionable assumptions— that morality is simply a...
