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Many people say they are unable to believe what the Bible says about God because they are unable to believe that miracles happened. They are at least clearly able to see what some liberal theologians can't - that belief in the God of the Bible implies belief in the miraculous....
'It is a central heresy of our culture to say that all truth is relative; that one thing may be true for me and quite another may be true for you. This absurdity destroys the very notion of truth.... and is the result of muddled thinking. No one can seriously...
It may sound a tall order but I believe the major beliefs of Christians can be reduced to five basic propositions. I want to outline them at the beginning of our discussion, and then questions can begin in any area you would like to take up. Proposition 1 Contrary to popular...
Mark Pickering gives the lowdown on the upcoming tour Confident Christianity Do you ever feel that your evangelism skills could be honed? Do you long to get the gospel message through to your friends but struggle to communicate? Or perhaps you worry about the difficult questions that might get thrown at...
If you would like to get involved in dialogue evangelism discuss the various possibilities with other Christian leaders in your medical school. Review your programme, and pray through the implications. What do you think of the booklet? Would you like to distribute them, and how? What about a Talk-Back? How many...
Many people today, like the philosophers at Athens, are miles away in their thinking and their behaviour. A short presentation of the Gospel may be the first they have ever learned about Jesus. If they are to come to trust him, they will need to learn much more. Hopefully they...
'If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent him.' Voltaire Isn't it possible to explain Christian conversion and behaviour in purely psychological terms? This question can be rather threatening. Our faith in Christ is intensely personal, and we are right to feel deeply about it. But emotional feeling...
In short, we do not know! 'The secret things belong to the Lord our God' (Dt 29:29). Certainly we cannot speak for any individual. However, the Bible does not leave us totally in the dark and various approaches towards an answer can be made. We are not here considering the...
Three Valid Approaches Beauty and design in the natural order eg Ps 19:1, Rom 1:19-20 Inner awareness eg Acts 17:27, Rom 2:15 God has revealed himself in Jesus Christ eg Col 1:13-15 Three Different Sets of Objections Creation Genesis v Evolution The problems of suffering and evil Experience The world's religions Isn't...
It is one thing to know what the Gospel is. But it is quite another to present it clearly and succinctly in a way that others can understand. A good Gospel outline needs to be simple to remember, and free of jargon terms while covering the central issues of the...
