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Getting started with “How Faith Is Like Skydiving” (Excerpt)

May 2, 2014 by Tom Grosh IV Leave a Comment

Many books on apologetics do well with the arguments, but have little on how to present them. Faith Is Like Skydiving  combines reason with rhetoric, clarity with intellectual depth. It provides a vast array of arguments and a host of images to make those arguments clear and compelling. Intellectually sound and amazingly practical, this terrific book deserves widespread reading. --  James Sire, author of The Universe Next Door: A Basic Worldview Catalog and  guest contributor to the Emerging Scholars Network (ESN) … [Read more...] about Getting started with “How Faith Is Like Skydiving” (Excerpt)

Filed Under: Books, Christ and the Academy, Quotes Tagged With: apologetics, dialogue, evangelism, evidence, excerpt, faith, Faith is Like Skydiving, fideism, intervarsity press, Rick Mattson, seekers, skepticism, skeptics, skydiving

Late Have I Loved You

June 4, 2013 by Tom Grosh IV 2 Comments

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxaCs3vRpG0 In last night's Christian Devotional Classics  (Evangelical Seminary)  a fellow student shared how much he appreciated  Gungor's "lifting" of the words of Augustine's  Confessions  in  Late have I loved you. As you may remember Augustine's Confessions  won ESN's Best Christian Book of All Time  and this is a beautiful selection from the text. Belatedly I loved thee, O Beauty so ancient and so new, belatedly I loved thee. For see, thou wast within and I was without, and I … [Read more...] about Late Have I Loved You

Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Christian Thought and Practice, Quotes Tagged With: Augustine, Christian Devotional Classics, Confessions, Devotions, Gungor, Late have I loved you, Love

A Jigsaw Guide to Making Sense of the World IV

February 14, 2013 by Tom Grosh IV Leave a Comment

"[The belief scale]. Picture an old set of set of scales, the kind that would tip to the right, tip to the left, or balance in the middle depending on where you place the weight. These positions represent believing that a proposition is true (tipping to the right), believing that a proposition is not true (tipping to the left), or withholding belief about a proposition (balancing in the middle). The weight placed on the scale is reasons to believe one way or the other, and the balance of the scales reflects the balance … [Read more...] about A Jigsaw Guide to Making Sense of the World IV

Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Quotes Tagged With: A Jigsaw Guide to Making Sense of the World, Alex McLellan, apologetics, belief scale, Bringing Home the Gospel, Christian Apologetics, J.P. Moreland, jigsaw puzzle, Questioning Evangelism, Randy Newman

A Jigsaw Guide to Making Sense of the World III

February 7, 2013 by Tom Grosh IV Leave a Comment

"If you identify yourself as a Christian, you may get stuck with a label that describes you as harsh and offensive and when you try to stand up for your faith you will be told to sit down. It can come as a shock that people find your belief so corrosive, but the source of the problem is the cornerstone of Christian faith: you claim to know the truth. To say your understanding of the world is absolutely true means you believe you are right and everyone who disagrees with you is wrong. This is currently viewed as the … [Read more...] about A Jigsaw Guide to Making Sense of the World III

Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Quotes Tagged With: "Real Life", A Jigsaw Guide to Making Sense of the World, Alex McLellan, apologetics, Christian Apologetics, James Choung, jigsaw puzzle, spiritual question of the day, truth

A Jigsaw Guide to Making Sense of the World II

January 31, 2013 by Tom Grosh IV Leave a Comment

"The challenge [to seeing the big picture and living in light of the truth] is that every religion claims to grant such heavenly insight, and many peer groups will pull together to defend what is common sense at least to them. They may even point to a few pieces of the puzzle that seem to go together and support their view. A small sample of life can give you a glimpse of the big picture but it can also distort it, and when someone has drifted off course we need to try to steer them back in the right direction. Raising … [Read more...] about A Jigsaw Guide to Making Sense of the World II

Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Quotes Tagged With: A Jigsaw Guide to Making Sense of the World, Alec McLellan, apologetics, Christian Apologetics, jigsaw puzzle, listening, questions

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