by Brian | Aug 13, 2012 | Evangelism, Spiritual Life
Tonight I plan on finishing our look at Christian Epistemology with a bible study looking at something we briefly touched on last week–how the Holy Spirit is essential in a Christian’s ability to know things. While studying, I was reminded of this post...
by Brian | Jul 30, 2012 | Culture, Evangelism
Tonight we’ll have Josh Nelson bringing the word for our meeting. Next week I hope to finish the series on epistemology. In the meantime, I saw this passage from John Frame’s The Doctrine of the Knowledge of God that summed up so much of what we’ve...
by Brian | Jul 20, 2012 | Culture, Evangelism
When we speak about knowing things as Christians, one thing to remember is that the way we use the word faith is very different than the way our culture typically uses the word. Most people use the word to describe something other than knowledge. If you have faith, it...
by Brian | Jul 18, 2012 | Book Recommendations, Culture, Evangelism, Science
As we continue to study the Christian’s justification for claiming to know things about God and the world, it might be helpful to think for a moment about how the Scientific Method relates to what we know as Christians. What do we say if someone says they...
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...