Apologetics

Michael was challenged with the true Truth while on a college campus and he soon came to realize that his philosophy and atheism could not stand against the power of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. This is a great video to pass on to young people and especially college kids as Michael discusses how he delved deep into philosophy scrambling to find anything that even remotely seemed like “truth” to him, personally. Instead of finding answers it sunk him down low and he found no value in it. Then he took a class on the varieties of religion and he started to value people with faith. He then started reading Richard Dawkins and considering God through Dawkin’s writing. Then came the Kirksville  Evangelical outreach. Michael was sitting and mocking an Ill be honest card about how you will know the truth and the truth will set you free. He was mocking it with 2 of his friends. Then a girl from Columbia went up to them and engaged them in a conversation. This led to Michael thinking more and more and after about an hour his friends left and tried to pull him away. His discussion with the girl lasted 3 hours.

Michael was trying to get at her any sort of argument he could come up with. No matter how hard  the questions he threw at her, what struck Michael was that every single response she gave was essentially the gospel of Jesus Christ, and the good news of His coming, His dying and the reality of sin. There was discussion of what he was bringing up but there was no argumentation. She would say, this doesn’t really matter. What matters is Jesus Christ and Him crucified. By the time they split, there was a real drive for Michael to want to read the Bible. To see what she was talking about. To see if any of it was true….(these notes are just from the first 8 minutes. There’s much more insight in the following 14 minutes)

Watch the video, it is a tremendous learning experience for me as to how to talk to a non believer. The student who talked to Michael did not argue, did not delve into philosophy, she answered all of Michael’s questions with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. I think our biggest impediment in engaging non believers is the fear that we won’t know how to answer their hard questions, we feel we are lacking in rhetorical skills. But we do know the Gospel, and that is enough to get us to start conversations and let the Holy Spirit do the rest.

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Christian Apologetics

RAVI  ZACHARIAS

• Listen to current Ravi Zacharias radio podcasts here.
• Ravi Zacharias at Moody’s Founders Week February 2012
  Ravi Zacharias at Lee College October 2011
• Ravi Zacharias and Friends at TIU
• Why I Am Not an Atheist
• Life’s Toughest Questions 
• Legitimate pleasures and pornography
• The lostness of man
• Need God? What if I don’t? Ravi Zacharias at Calvary Chapel
• Does this generation really want the truth? Part 1
• Does this generation really want the truth? Part 2
• Can man live without God?
• Jesus among other Gods (1 1/2 hr video – from Ravi’s book)(5 stars)
• Unity in Diversity in the Trinity
• Our disappointments matter to God
• What does it mean to be human? Ravi’s lecture at Hong Kong University
• Has Christianity failed you?
• Ravi Zacharias – Four Gardens (thoughts on the Resurrection) from India

Dr. Timothy McGrew: Who wrote the Gospels?

PAUL COPAN

• Is God a moral monster? April 9,2011 Paul Copan vs. Norman Bacrac

WILLIAM LANE CRAIG

• —>Essential Sermon – Jesus’ Triumphal Entry, William Lane Craig
• William Lane Craig on Rob Bell and Hell (July 5, 2011)
• Does God exist? Biola University hosts Christopher Hitchens and William Lane Craig
• William Lane Craig: Richard Dawkins Made The Worst Argument Against God In The History of Western Thought
• Sam Harris debate at Notre Dame on April 7,2011‘Does good come from God?
• March 30, 2011 – NCSU – Dr. William Lane Craig debated Lawrence Krauss on the evidence for God’s existence.

• The DaVinci Code forum William Lane Craig & Mike Licona (on the gnostic, extra biblical writings)
• A critique of Islam William Lane Craig

NORMAN L GEISLER

• The New atheists  and Richard Dawkins (2007) (Creation)

DAVID ROBERTSON

• The Dawkins Letters A response to Richard Dawkins 
• Legalizing Euthanasia Debate – David Robertson (author of the Dawkins letters & Pastor of the Free Church of Scotland vs. Paul Badham, Prof. of University of Wales

TIM KELLER

• Timothy Keller – Who Is This Jesus?
• Tim Keller – Generous Justice 
• Tim Keller – The Gospel and Idolatry – Acts 19:23-41
• Belief in an age of skepticismTim Keller at University of California at Berkeley
• Tim Keller answers many difficult questions on Christianity (Martin Bashir) and UPENN students

JOSEPHUS

• Jesus and first century historian – Titus Flavius Josephus

DARRELL BOCK, DAN WALLACE, BEN WITHERINGTON

• What is the Gospel – A theological debate with Darrell Bock and Bob Wilkin
• Jesus, Canon and Theology, Lecture 1 
• What’s news about Jesus, Lecture 2

Lee Strobel

• Ignatius -Bishop of Antioch and one of the first post New Testament martyrs (Canon)
• Case for Faith Documentary LionsGate Movie
• Case for a Creator Documentary Illustra Media
• Case for Christ Documentary 
• How Easter killed my faith in atheism – Wall Street Journal-Lee Strobel (Case for Faith documentary)eist,Charles Templeton

Peter Kreeft

• Jesus’ Shocking Life – Peter Kreeft at Saddleback Church – Essential Apologetics

GREG  KOUKL (Stand for Reason) Sean McDowell (ConversantLife)  JOHN LENNOX  and others

• Is God Dead? Atheism vs Christianity. Debate (2 hours) at Wheaton College
• What Darwin didn’t know
• Michael Strauss Univ. of California at Santa Cruz 2004 – On the Origin and Design of the Universe
• Is Faith Delusional ? John Lennox at the Atlanta Civic Center
• Faith and Reason – Pastor John Piper
• Moral Relativism (Koukl)
• Is God the best explanation for moral values? Sean McDowell
• The Goodness of God and the Reality of Evil by Dr. Albert Mohler
• Did Jesus Rise from the Dead? Debate by Accomplished Historians – Mike Licona vs Richard Carrier
• Defending the Ressurection (via) Justin Holcomb, the Resurgence
• Love God with All Your Mind (JP Moreland)
• Why God Won’t Go Away (Alister E. McGrath)
• Was life begun by chance? Not a chance! via Beliefnet
• Marvin Olasky moderates Creation/Evolution panel at Biola University Oct.2010
• The evolution debate is shifting- Search for the historical Adam via Christianity Today Cover Story

DR. R.C. SPROUL

• Dr. R.C.Sproul – Lecture 1, Monotheism from The Mystery of the Trinity Teaching Series from Ligonier Ministries
• Dr. R.C.Sproul – Lecture 2, The Biblical Witness from The Mystery of the Trinity Teaching Series from Ligonier Ministries
• Dr. R.C. Sproul – Lecture 3, Early Controversies from The Mystery of the Trinity Teaching Series from Ligonier Ministries
• Dr.R.C.Sproul – Lecture 4, Fifth-Century Heresies from The Mystery of the Trinity Teaching Series from Ligonier Ministries
• Dr. R.C.Sproul – Lecture 5, Contradiction vs. Mystery from The Mystery of the Trinity Teaching Series from Ligonier Ministries
• Dr. R.C.Sproul – Lecture 6, One in Essence, Three in Person from The Mystery of the Trinity Teaching Series from Ligonier Ministries
• R C Sproul – Nietzsche “The Consequences of Ideas”
• R.C.Sproul – The Virgin Birth – How important is it?
• R C Sproul – Thinking Deeply in the Ocean of Revelation: The Bible and the Life of the Mind Desiring God 2010 National Conference

CHUCK  MISSLER

• Chuck Missler – Understanding the Trinity

• How We Got our Bible
• Genesis – The 12 tribes of Israel – Prophetically
• Israel and the Last Days
• Europa Rising (Biblical History Studies)
• Return Of The Nephilim.(Are UFO’s real? A Christian study)

Learn the Bible in 24 hours – Chuck Missler series

1. Hour 1 – Introduction to the Bible
2. Hour 2 – Creation and Fall of Man
3. Hour 3 – Prehistory, Genesis 4-11
4. Hour 4 – The Patriarchs
5. Hour 5 – The Birth of a Nation
6. Hour 6 – In the Land, Joshua, Judges, Ruth
7. Hour 7 - Monarchy, Samuel, Kings
8. Hour 8 – The Poetical Books
9. Hour 9 – The Book of Daniel
10. Hour 10 – Post Exile History
11. Hour 11 – The Major Prophets
12. Hour 12 – The Minor Prophets
13. Hour 13 – How sure can we be? Between Old and New Testament.
14. Hour 14 – The New Testament Introduction
15. Hour 15 – The Gospels
16. Hour 16 – The Gospels Part 2
17. Hour 17 – The Book of Acts
18. Hour 18 -The Book of Romans
19. Hour 19 – The Church Epistles
20. Hour 20 -The Hebrew Epistles
21. Hour 21 – Eschatological Summary
22. Hour 22 – Revelation Chapters 1-3
23. Hour 23 – Revelation Chapters 4-22
24. Hour 24 – Conclusion / Recap

JAMES N ANDERSON

ALVIN  PLANTINGA

• Divine Action in the World (i.e. miracles) Alvin Plantinga Lecture, May 12, 2011 at Western Washington University
• Reasons for God
• 2 short lectures – 1)Does God have a nature?  2) What is a properly basic belief?

JUSTIN TAYLOR

• Getting the Creator-creature order right

BIBLICA – A Social and historical journey through the lands of the Bible

1. *THE BEST SELLING BOOK OF ALL TIMES Part 1
2. *THE BEST SELLING BOOK OF ALL TIMES Part 2
3. *DOES ARCHAEOLOGY SUPPORT THE SYNOPTIC GOSPELS (Matthew, Mark, luke) PART 1
4. *DOES ARCHAEOLOGY SUPPORT THE SYNOPTIC GOSPELS PART 2
5. *MODERN ASTRONOMICAL EVIDENCE FOR THE STAR OF BETHLEHEM

THEOLOGY  BASED  APOLOGETICS

What is Apologetics? by Justin Holcomb (Resurgence)

JOHN PIPER -

• Why We Believe The Bible part 1 Pastor John Piper
• Why We Believe The Bible part 2 Pastor John Piper
• Why We Believe The Bible part 3 Pastor John Piper
• Why We Believe The Bible part 4 Pastor John Piper
• Why We Believe The Bible- Part 5 Pastor John Piper

CHUCK MISSLER -

• How we got our Bible

ATHANASIUS -

• Defending Orthodoxy

C.S.LEWIS -

• C.S Lewis – Mere Christianity Audiobook and a biographer’s lecture
• God in the dock - The apologetics of C.S.Lewis
• Lessons from an Inconsolable Soul Learning from the Mind and Heart of C. S. Lewis – Desiring God

Wintery Knight Blog

• Is the Bible’s definition of faith opposed to logic and evidence?

RC SPROUL

• The virgin birth. How important is it?

CHRIST

John Wesley

• On working out our own Salvation Sermon #85

(Tyndale)

• THE DOCTRINE OF THE SON OF GOD – The preexistence of Christ

(A.W.Tozer)

• In the beginning was the word

(John Piper)

• The word was God and became flesh

JUSTIN TAYLOR

• Union with Christ – a crash course
• How the Gospel (of Jesus Christ) can transform a marriage

CREATION

The evolution debate is shifting- Search for the historical Adam via Christianity Today Cover Story

MARVIN OLASKY at BIOLA UNIV.Panel – God and evolution

ALBERT MOHLER

• On the creation / evolution debate
• Creation vs. Evolution – The new shape of the debate
• The New Atheism and the dogma of Darwinism

JOHN  PIPER

• Displays of God in creation remove the excuse for our failure to worship him

NASA  PHOTOS

• Photos of the earth
• The size and scale of our world

HELL

• (‘Radical’ author) David Platt on Rob Bell and the church – “Intellectual universalism is dangerous” but “functional universalism is worse.”
• Martin Bashir -Interviewed about “Love Wins” (Part 1-4, 40 minutes)
• “When you adopt universalism and erase the distinction between the church and the world,then you don’t need the church, and you don’t need Christ, and you don’t need the cross “, Al Mohler
• Air-conditioning hell – How liberalism happens by Al Mohler (essential reading)
• Panel Discussion of Rob Bell’s book ‘Love wins’ at Gospel Coalition 2011
• Love Wins: A ‘Theological’ Conversation on Rob Bell’s New Book at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
• Hell: a difficult doctrine we dare not ignore by Christopher Townsend, the Cambridge Papers (essential reading!!!)
• Pastor Mark Driscoll- “I’m going to bury a lot of people. So for me, this (hell) is not just heartless academic speculation,
• University Indoctrination- ‘Christianity plagiarizes Mithraism’
• Mithra? Attis? Really, Rob Bell? by Dr. Oakley (Review of troubling Nooma video)
• Hell Yes, Hell No: A Response to Rob Bell & Love Wins, Bobby Conway
• Tim Keller answers many difficult questions on Christianity from journalist Martin Bashir (Veritas) (essential lecture)
• Universalism and the reality of  eternal punishment by Sinclair Ferguson at the Desiring God Conference 1990
• A better hell? By Craig Blomberg of Denver Seminary
• William Lane Craig on Rob Bell and Hell July 5,2011 (30 min)