The Nature of Everything, Part 2

Starting in April 2015, for seven weeks, I’ll be teaching a class based (loosely) on Martin Theilen’s What’s the Least I Can Believe and Still be a Christian? at Springhouse Worship & Arts Center. The class is designed to cut through the clutter and excess focus on non-essentials and renew our faith with clear focus on the essentials.

Week 2 non-essential: The Gifts of the Spirit, essential: the Godhood of the Holy Spirit

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ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:
Some perspectives on tongues and other Gifts of the Spirit: John Piper on What is the Gift of Tongues? He is fully vulnerable on his own experiences. Mark Driscoll on Common questions about the Gift of Tongues. The whole sermon can be found here on the topic of Empowered by the Spirit to Follow Jesus. While Driscoll (like Piper) is Reformed, he is also open to the gifts being ongoing.

From John MacArthur’s Strange Fire Conference (Cessationalist), Nathan Busenitz, assistant to John MacArthur and professor at The Master’s Seminary, teaches on Charismatic Counterfeits: Do the Modern Gifts Meet the Biblical Standard? in this clip. You can also find quite a bit more on the Strange Fire Conference, which was basically a Cessationalist Conference. For John MacArthur’s own views, which are very strong, watch a sermon here.

For a clear explanation of how to discuss and not divide over the Gifts of the Spirit from an apologist who is not Charismatic, Hank Hanegraaff of the Christian Research Institute, listen to this video here.

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The Nature of Everything, Part 1

Starting in April 2015, for seven weeks, I’ll be teaching a class based (loosely) on Martin Theilen’s What’s the Least I Can Believe and Still be a Christian? at Springhouse Worship & Arts Center. The class is designed to cut through the clutter and excess focus on non-essentials and renew our faith with clear focus on the essentials.

Week 1 non-essential: Evolution, essential: the Nature of God.

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Worksheet  |  Audio

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:
Pastors Matt Chandler of Village Church in Dallas-Fort Worth, Tim Keller of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City, and Professor of Theology and Apologetics at Westminster Seminary California Michael Horton discuss how to disagree and not divide in this short discussion clip. A great primer for the central concept of this class: disagreeing agreeably.

Can Science Disprove God? is a short video clip with Frank Turek on the One Minute Apologist webcast.

Links to the ministries named in the Creation, ID and Evolution discussion: Biologos (Christian Evolution), Ken Hamm’s Answers in Genesis (Young Earth), Reasons to Believe (Intelligent Design).

For a perspective by Dr. Norman Geisler on the One Minute Apologist, on whether or not Christians can believe in Evolution, watch this clip. (Based on the feedback in class, it seems like most of you would agree with this.)

Has God Spoken? Final Exam

This term at Springhouse Worship & Arts Center, I’m teaching Has God Spoken? a class on how to interpret the Bible correctly and also how we know we can trust the Bible.

In week 7 we work through a recap of this 7 week study of interpreting the Bible from Hank Hanegraaff’s Has God Spoken?

If you have trouble streaming the audio, then right-click it and download the MP3. Contact me if you can’t get the audio to work and I’ll send it to you.

Has God Spoken w7 audio.
Has God Spoken w7 worksheet (PowerPoint).

The Synergy Principle

This term at Springhouse Worship & Arts Center, I’m teaching Has God Spoken? a class on how to interpret the Bible correctly and also how we know we can trust the Bible.

In week 6 we work through the Synergy Principle of interpreting the Bible from Hank Hanegraaff’s Has God Spoken?

If you have trouble streaming the audio, then right-click it and download the MP3. Contact me if you can’t get the audio to work and I’ll send it to you.

Has God Spoken w6 audio.
Has God Spoken w6 worksheet (PowerPoint).

The Historical Principle

This term at Springhouse Worship & Arts Center, I’m teaching Has God Spoken? a class on how to interpret the Bible correctly and also how we know we can trust the Bible.

In week 5 we work through the Historical Principle of interpreting the Bible from Hank Hanegraaff’s Has God Spoken?

If you have trouble streaming the audio, then right-click it and download the MP3. Contact me if you can’t get the audio to work and I’ll send it to you.

Has God Spoken w5 audio.
Has God Spoken w5 worksheet (PowerPoint).

The Grammatical Principle

This term at Springhouse Worship & Arts Center, I’m teaching Has God Spoken? a class on how to interpret the Bible correctly and also how we know we can trust the Bible.

In week 4 we work through the Grammatical Principle of interpreting the Bible from Hank Hanegraaff’s Has God Spoken?

If you have trouble streaming the audio, then right-click it and download the MP3. Contact me if you can’t get the audio to work and I’ll send it to you.

Has God Spoken w4 audio.
Has God Spoken w4 worksheet (PowerPoint).

The Literal Principle

This term at Springhouse Worship & Arts Center, I’m teaching Has God Spoken? a class on how to interpret the Bible correctly and also how we know we can trust the Bible.

In week 3 we work  through the Literal Principle of interpreting the Bible from Hank Hanegraaff’s Has God Spoken?

If you have trouble streaming the audio, then right-click it and download the MP3. Contact me if you can’t get the audio to work and I’ll send it to you.

Has God Spoken w3 audio.
Has God Spoken w3 worksheet.

Manuscript Copyists

This term at Springhouse Worship & Arts Center, I’m teaching Has God Spoken? a class on how to interpret the Bible correctly and also how we know we can trust the Bible.

Week 2 starts in on the text at hand, Hank Hanegraaff’s Has God Spoken?, on the topic of Manuscript Copyists.

If you have trouble streaming the audio, then right-click it and download the MP3. Contact me if you can’t get the audio to work and I’ll send it to you.

Has God Spoken w2 audio.
Has God Spoken w2 worksheet.

The Historicity of Jesus

This term at Springhouse Worship & Arts Center, I’m teaching Has God Spoken? a class on how to interpret the Bible correctly and also how we know we can trust the Bible.

In week one, we start with the most important question: did Jesus really exist ? If he didn’t, or we couldn’t prove, it then there really isn’t any reason to study the Bible. But if we can prove he is real, along with belief in his deity and the basic outline of his life, were all believed at the start of Christianity – not later beliefs added hundreds of years after his death, as some doubters claim – then our study of the Bible carries additional weight and importance.

In week one of this study I’ll show that Jesus and basic facts and beliefs about his life (like his virgin birth, miracles, death and resurrection) are verifiably, historically provable without using the Bible… and using no Christian sources!

If you have trouble streaming the audio, then right-click it and download the MP3. Contact me if you can’t get the audio to work and I’ll send it to you.

Has God Spoken w1 audio.
Has God Spoken w1 worksheet.

Can I Really Know if I’m a Christian?

Here is week 7 of the Am I Really a Christian? series I’m teaching at Springhouse Worship & Arts Center. It is based on the study of the same name by Mike McKinley, which I highly recommend.

Download the worksheet then the audio and follow along! You comments are welcome here or at Facebook.

This was the last face to face class for the series but there is another, in the words of Master Yoda: Week 8: Now That I’m a Christian, What’s Next? It should be published in the next couple weeks.

Week Seven: Can I Really Know if I’m a Christian?
Worksheet Week 7
Audio Week 7
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