| Do you love God with "all
your heart and all your soul and all your mind", but find it
hard sometimes to practice the "mind" part? Would you
like to be better prepared to fulfill Colossians 4:6 and 1 Peter
3:15, having a rational defense for your faith? Would you like to
have answers for the difficult questions regarding science and the
Bible, ethics, and theology? This is the place to be!
Current Activities
- Past Activities
- Resources
Current Activities
The Reasonable Faith study group meets at
6 pm on Sunday afternoons in the Disciples classroom. All are
welcome.
Starting 17 Sept 2006:
We will be doing a book study on Nancy
Pearcey's Total
Truth. Please contact Pat McNamara if you'd like
a book, or you may get your own.
We are tackling about one chapter
per week.
Past activites
Book studies on Francis Schaeffer's "Escape
From Reason", JP Moreland's "Love Your God With All Your Mind",
and on Ken Samples "Without
a Doubt - Answering the 20 Toughest Faith Questions".
Video curriculum - Making
Abortion Unthinkable - The Art of ProLife Persuasion from Greg
Koukl's Stand To Reason organization.
After doing it several years ago, we've recently
repeated the "Good
Science, Good Faith" video series from Reasons
to Believe. As a followup, we looked at the issue of death before
the fall; the presentation given, based on RTB's Death Before the
Fall audio set, can be downloaded here:
Eariler this year, we've completed the video
curriculum "Jesus Among Other Gods", where renowned apologetics
scholar Ravi Zacharias simply yet incisively contrasts the truth
of Christ against founders of Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism; shows
doubters how "other gods" don't measure up; and equips
you to share the "blueprint for life" with others.
Previously, we viewed the video "Unlocking
the Mystery of Life", a superbly made video that looks at the
latest biochemical evidences for Intelligent Design.
We've also recently completed the following
materials from Norm Geiler's
Impact Apologetics and John
Ankerberg:
From Reasons to Believe, we've viewed the
multi-week Young
Earth vs Old Earth debate that had been broadcast on the John
Ankerberg show.
We've also covered Lee Strobel's The
Case for Christ, as well as Micheal Behe's Darwin's
Black Box.
We've done a 13-week video series from Ravi
Zacharias based on his book "Deliver us From Evil".
From the same ministry we listened to an address to Ohio State University.
We've covered much material from Stand
to Reason, on topics such as Tactics
in Defending the Faith, abortion (The
Art of ProLife Persuasion), stem cell research, a Christian
response to homosexuality, and Responding
to Relativism: A Conversation with Dr. Francis Beckwith and Gregory
Koukl.
We've viewed and discussed various debates
from the John Ankerberg
show featuring Norm Geisler and Rabbi Harold Kushner, on the Problem
of Evil, and Why Do Bad Things Happen to Good People? We've also
covered a debate from that show between Hugh Ross and Kent Hovind
on the Young
Earth / Old Earth debate.And we've looked at some differences
between evangelical Protestantism and Roman Catholicism in the John
Ankerberg Video Debate: Do Roman Catholics and Protestants Agree
on Justification and Papal Infallibility?
Resources
Apologetics |
| Christian Apologetics and Research Ministry - Equipping Christians with good information on doctrine, various religious groups (Mormonism, Jehovah's Witnesses, etc.), cults, Evolution, New Age, and related subjects 03/18/2002 |
| Center For Reformed Theology and Apologetics - Dedicated to providing biblically sound online resources for the edification of God's people. 03/18/2002 |
| Christian Research Institute - Providing Christians worldwide with carefully researched information and well-reasoned answers to encourage and equip. 03/18/2002 |
| Guide To Logical Fallacies - Learn to recognize errors in arguments made by others, and avoid committing them yourself! 03/18/2002 |
| ChristianLogic - Logic raises your standard of thinking. 03/18/2002 |
| Islam and Muslims - Research Resources - Gospelcom.net's information on Islam 09/24/2001 |
| Christian Apologetics and Research Ministry - A nonprofit Christian apologetics organization specializing on other religious groups and cults. 09/24/2001 |
| Alpha and Omega Ministries - None 08/15/2001 |
| Sword and Spirit Ministries - Christian Apologetics with an edge! 08/15/2001 |
| Leadership University - The purpose of Leadership U. is to help accelerate the worldwide spread of the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ through higher education. 08/15/2001 |
| Stand to Reason - Building Christian Thinkers for the Public Defense of the Faith (excellent free newsletter available!) 08/15/2001 |
| Impact Apologetics - Vast source of apologetics resources from Norm Geisler, Gary Habermas, William Lane Craig, Phillip Johnson, Ron Rhodes, Ron Carlson 08/14/2001 |
| Reasons to Believe - Reasons To Believe is an international, interdenominational ministry established to communicate the uniquely factual basis for belief in the Bible as the wholly true Word of God and for personal faith in Jesus Christ. 01/05/2000 |
| Answering Islan - Muslim-Christian Dialog 01/05/2000 |
| Unravelling Wittgensteins Net - Things to read, things to do, places to go. 01/05/2000 |
| Christian Research Institute - CRI is a parachurch organization committed to defending historic Christianity against theological heresy. 01/05/2000 |
| Ravi Zacharias International Ministries - To reach and challenge those who shape the ideas of a culture with the credibility of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. 01/05/2000 |
| Faith Quest - To provide some help and an occasional sanctuary for those whose credo is 'Lord, I do believe; help me in my unbelief.' (Mark 9:24). 09/15/1999 |
| Probe Ministries - Our mission is to present balanced, biblically-based perspectives on a multitude of issues while training Christian students and adults to develop a Christian world view. 09/15/1999 |
| Does God Exist? - To provide thinking, seeking people with scientific evidence that God does exist and that the Bible is His Word. It is our conviction that all men can logically, intelligently, and rationally believe in God. 09/15/1999 |
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