The bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead is the crowning proof of Christianity. If the resurrection didn’t take place then Christianity is a false religion. If it did take place, then Christ is God & the Christian faith is absolute truth. Listen as Pastor Matt walks your through how to defend the historicity […]
Gospel-Centered Apologetics- Lecture 10- Confirmation for Christmas
A couple of week’s ago I stumbled on an article titled ‘Why You Should Stop Treating Jesus’s Birth Narratives as History.’ This guy loved the Spiritual lessons one could glean from the whole Jesus story. In his construct, the story is ‘truth’ but it isn’t TRUE. That is to say that it did not happen. […]
Gospel-Centered Apologetics- Lecture 9- Confirmation
The first three ‘Cs’ of Gospel-Centered Apologetics answers three questions; 1) Compatibility- How is this person’s worldview compatible with Christianity? There will be ways that it is, because all men are created in the image of God. 2) Consistency – How is this person’s worldview internally inconsistent? It will be, because all other worldviews are […]
Gospel-Centered Apologetics- Lecture 7- Countering Evolutionary Naturalism
In lecture 6 Pastor Matt explained how to direct conversations toward a productive ‘clash of gospels,’ where we point people to the Biblical Gospel consisting of Creation, Fall, Redemption in Christ, and Consummation. In this lecture we consider how to apply these principles when countering the worldlier of an Evolutionary Naturalist.
Gospel-Centered Apologetics- Lecture 5- The Danger of Under-Spiritualizing Faith
Apologetics is the biblical practice of defending the faith. Paul did it. Peter did it. Jesus did it. And we are commanded to do it. But man’s problem is not only an intellectual problem but a spiritual and moral problem. Listen as Pastor Matt explains from Romans 1 the limits of evidence and reason, and […]
