Does God Exist? Ravi Zacharias

Ravi Zacharias - The Existence Of God en Yahoo! Video

Excellent talk given by Dr. Zacharias.

Problem of Evil examined

William Lane Craig - Problem of Pain - Gracepoint Berkeley (2010) from Gracepoint Berkeley on Vimeo.

Gracepoint Berkeley had the privilege of hosting Dr. William Lane Craig, author of "Reasonable Faith" and "God is Great, God is Good." In this session, he presents the arguments against the problem of pain.

Ravi Zacharias on Fox News

Has Christianity Failed you?

Dr. Bill Dembski vs Dr. Robert Shapiro

Does Science Point to Intelligent Design? from The Veritas Forum on Vimeo.

Does Science Point to Intelligent Design?

William Dembski vs Robert Shapiro

Columbia University

8 February 2005

Veritas48 defends the Kalam

If you like this video be sure to checkout more of his videos at Veritas48 on youtube!



The Kalam Argument

Exhaustive Dilemmas:

1.The universe either had a beginning or no beginning.
2.If it had a beginning, the beginning was either caused or uncaused.
3.If it was caused, the cause was either personal or impersonal.

Argument Outline:

1.The Universe Had a Beginning.
a.Big Bang Theory
i.Red Shift
ii. Uniform Background Radiation
b. The Impossibility of Crossing Infinity

2.The Beginning of the Universe was Caused.
a.Whatever Comes into Existence Has a Cause
i.Empirical Principle
ii.Metaphysical Principle

3.The Cause of the Universe was Personal.
a.Event vs. Agent Causation
b.Efficient Causes vs. Final Causes

Sources:

1.Blackwell Companion to Natural Theology by J.P. Moreland and William Lane Craig
2.Scaling the Secular City by J.P. Moreland
3.Philosophical foundations for a Christian Worldview by J.P. Moreland and William Lane Craig
4.The Anthropic Cosmological Principle by John D. Barrow and Frank J. Tipler
6.http://www.reasonablefaith.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=5321
7.http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/quentin_smith/cosmology.html

Pray for Daisy and her family!

Struck Down But Not Destroyed from Reality on Vimeo.

This is Pastor Britt Merick who has a church in California, and here is his story.


A week ago, I felt overjoyed. Our family had suffered through 8 months of cancer. It seemed as though Daisy had beaten it. We had seen God do so much. We were celebrating – Daisy wanted to go to Hawaii, so we did, as a family. She wanted to swing on vines, and we did. She wanted to swim with turtles, and we did. It was the best time of our lives. While we were there, Daisy began to have stomach pains. We thought she had too much shave ice. My wife put a ban on shave ice – who goes to Hawaii and can’t eat shave ice? We thought it was constipation, so we were giving her laxatives and flax oil and she was pooping her little guts out.

Preaching Christ, our Treasure

We got home Friday at 1:30 in the morning and left for LA just over 24 hours later to fly to San Francisco, where I preached on Christ as our greatest treasure. I talked about my daughter’s previous battle with cancer and how Christ became more beautiful in our family because of suffering.

That night, we were heading out to dinner in San Francisco, and we received a call from the friend who was watching our kids. She told us that Daisy’s stomach was hurting her badly, and she didn’t know what to do. Kate and I immediately flew home to be with Daisy, and the next morning, we took her to her doctor. The pediatrician recommended we go to the ER, so we did, and they performed at CAT Scan.

“It’s Back”

When the results came back, the surgeon pulled us into a hallway, and pulled up the image of her CAT scan and there was the tumor. He looked at us and said: “It’s back. And it’s the size of a grapefruit.” The previous tumor she had since birth and it took 5 years to grow to the size of a Nerf football, but this one grew to the size of a grapefruit in weeks.

For some reason, it was so much harder to hear this time than last time. I think it was because we were so convinced this was finished. I had to go back into Daisy’s room and tell her. I had to look into her beautiful eyes and tell her, “Your tumor is back.”

We wept. Kate and I wept uncontrollably on the floor. When we were able to speak, to pray, the first prayer that I prayed was, “Jesus, we still trust You.”

Surgery and Statistics

They took her into surgery on Wednesday morning, and removed one-third of the tumor. The rest is considered inoperable. It’s connected to her stomach and other major organs, and her aorta. They performed the tests and her tumor has favorable histology (responsive to chemotherapy) and is not anaplastic. Her proposed rate of cure is 30-50%. So there is a 50-70% chance that she won’t make it. The chances are she won’t make it.

From brittmerick.com

Way Of The Master

Ray Comfort from Way of The Master shares the gospel with Jeff

Jeff is in a wheelchair due to a surfing accident and he seems somewhat open to the dialogue.

Simply Amazing!

Mark 8:38 If anyone is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him when he comes in his Father's glory with the holy angels.


Luke 9:26 If anyone is ashamed of me and my words, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him when he comes in his glory and in the glory of the Father and of the holy angels.

Johnny Mac

Christ-less Christianity

The Guys from White Horse Inn talk about Joel Osteens message and the "American Gospel"

Lead Me to the Cross

The Valley of Vision

A Puritan Prayer


Lord, high and holy, meek and lowly,

Thou has brought me to the valley of vision,

where I live in the depths but see thee in the heights;

hemmed in by mountains of sin I behold

thy glory.

Let me learn by paradox

that the way down is the way up,

that to be low is to be high,

that the broken heart is the healed heart,

that the contrite spirit is the rejoicing spirit,

that the repenting soul is the victorious soul,

that to have nothing is to possess all,

that to bear the cross is to wear the crown,

that to give is to receive,

that the valley is the place of vision.



Lord, in the daytime stars can be seen from deepest wells,

deepest wells,

and the deeper the wells the brighter

thy stars shine;

Let me find thy light in my darkness,

Thy life in my death,

that every good work or thought found in me

thy joy in my sorrow,

thy grace in my sin,

thy riches in my poverty

thy glory in my valley.

Albert Mohler vs John Shelby Spong

Must Christianity change or Die?

Part 2

Mohler vs Spong

Praying In The Closet

Pastor John Piper www.desiringgod.org

Your Best Life Now?

http://www.ligonier.org/learn/conferences/christless-christianity-2010-west-coast/becoming-a-better-you/

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Some of the most popular preaching in America presents a message of positive thinking. The alternative Gospel of Joel Osteen and the prosperity preachers forgoes the cross and advises us to merely “do our best.” At its heart, this is pure legalism of the worst variety. In this message, Dr. John MacArthur examines the alternative gospel of the prosperity preachers and explains why legalism-lite is still legalism

Is God the Best Explanation for Moral Values? Part 1

Is God the Best Explanation for Moral Values? Part 1 from ConversantLife on Vimeo.

Here is the debate between Sean McDowell and James Corbett on the question, "Is God the Best Explanation for Moral Values?"

Is God the Best Explanation for Moral Values? Part 2

Is God the Best Explanation for Moral Values? Part 2 from ConversantLife on Vimeo.

Here is Part 2 of the debate between Sean McDowell and James Corbett, which took place on February 26, 2010 at Saddleback College in Mission Viejo, California.

What Does it Mean to be Human?

What Does it Mean to be Human? An evening with Ravi Zacharias (Wycliffe Hall, Oxford University) from JMSC HKU on Vimeo.

An Evening with Ravi Zacharias (Wycliffe Hall, Oxford University)

Moderated by Prof Daniel KL Chua (School of Humanities, HKU)

Date: Thursday, March 18, 2010
Time: 7:00pm-9:00pm
Venue: Loke Yew Hall, The University of Hong Kong

Ravi Zacharias is presently Visiting Lecturer at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford University in Oxford. He has spoken in numerous universities, notably Harvard, Princeton, and Oxford University, and has given talks at the White House, the Pentagon, and the British Parliament. He has addressed writers of the peace accord in South Africa, the president's cabinet and parliament in Peru, and military officers at the Lenin Military Academy and the Center for Geopolitical Strategy in Moscow. He has authored or edited twenty books, including Walking from East to West:(Zondervan, 2006), The Grand Weaver (Zondervan, 2007), and Beyond Opinion (Thomas Nelson, 2008); his Can Man Live without God (Word, 1994), was awarded the Gold Medallion for best book in the category of doctrine and theology.

Dr. William Lane Craig Responds to Dr. Bart Ehrman

Gracepoint Berkeley had the privilege of hosting Dr. William Lane Craig, author of "Reasonable Faith" and "God is Great, God is Good." In this session, he presents some response to Bart Ehrman's objections to Christianity

William Lane Craig - Response to Bart Ehrman - Gracepoint Berkeley (2010) from Gracepoint Berkeley on Vimeo.

If God, Why Evil?

http://ankerberg.com/Articles/practical-christianity/upside-down/bad-things.htm

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Thursday July 8th we will be going over the problem of Evil in our young adults group. This is a link from John Ankerberg that gives some very good articles and part of a video debate between Dr. Norman Geisler and Dr. Harold Kushner as they debate why an all good God would allow evil.

Is The New Testament Reliable?

Veracity of the New Testament from The Veritas Forum on Vimeo.

Veracity of the New Testament
Gary Habermas
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
29 January 2005

Dr. Peter Kreeft

The Problem of Evil and Suffering from The Veritas Forum on Vimeo.

The Problem of Evil and Suffering
Peter Kreeft
Iowa State University
19 February 2010