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The Eric Metaxas Show
"john lennox" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"All right here we go again folks welcome, we have our dear Friends. I always forget their names. I think it's Sam and Kevin sorbo is that did I get it right? Did I pronounce it correct? Close enough. For you earlier. So I know you guys, you guys have a film out, a new film, another film called irreligious nation available at Salem now dot com. What is this film about folks? What is this? So we decided to it was a bucket list thing. We wanted to go to Israel. We decided to lead a tour group in Israel. And one of the people on the tour, when I mentioned to him that I wanted to do a documentary, he said, that would be really interesting. We can do it together and we can basically document our families experience of Israel. His family had reached a point where they had basically been divided by social media by the calls of the day and so they were kind of in a sense falling apart as a family and he wanted to get them back together again and he thought a trip to the homeland might be just the thing to do that. And so the film that resulted, it's a documentary and the film that resulted from that is a film called irreligious nation and it asked the question is faith really, is it even worthwhile anymore? Is there a point to having religion? And of course, as Christians, we know that, yes, there is. But our culture seems to be more and more leaning towards no, there's no point, and so we kind of we kind of tackle that head on. They're listening to Bill Maher out there more than they're listening to us. So we're trying to rectify that with a much better documentary. Well, I'm glad I'm glad you are. So tell us again, what's the substance of the story of irreligious nations? This is documentary, but tell us about the story, tell us we're forgiveness comes into it. Oh, yeah. Well, forgiveness is a big deal for me. I think, you know, we're living in a culture today that's very unforgiving. And of course, the bedrock of the Christian belief system is forgiveness, right? That's what we hang all of our hope on. And so that becomes a big topic of conversation in the film, but really it's about reconnecting with our roots. The name of the tour was walking in the footsteps of Jesus and we visited the Jordan baptized in the Jordan, went to the upper room, went to the garden of gethsemane and had a service there, and you just, you experience Israel through the eyes of these people who have never been there before, who are sort of reconnecting with their faith. And so in a way, you can vicariously live through the people in the film and reconnect with your own faith. I've actually been there, we're going back. That was a group we took in 2019. We were going to do it every year. Obviously, COVID put it all to that. When now we're doing it again this year going back in May. But I went back a year ago in Sam tagged along. I did another documentary, and I went, I went before we took a group, I went with John Lennox, and I know you know who John Lennox is, and I did another documentary of him. So I've been there three out of four.
The Eric Metaxas Show
"john lennox" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"I am working right now, well, two things, two things I got to mention. Two days ago was a 78th anniversary the death of Dietrich bonhoeffer. And I'm seeing things in the news. I write about this a little bit on my website and we'll be talking about this. The parallels to Germany in the 30s. That's what I write about in my book letter to the American church. Every day I am seeing some despicable overreach by this fake government from those who stole the election. They seem to be more and more obviously every day at war with the founder's vision of the United States of America and with the people who are the citizens of this country. Obviously I'm disgusted. There's an incredible review of my book letter to the American church written in the western journal, which I think I also put in my newsletter. But the parallels are astonishing. Absolutely sickening. The fact that the FBI is sending people into conservative Roman Catholic parishes. This is so despicable. If you're going to a church that doesn't care about this, it doesn't talk about it. Or if you're reading David French or Russell Moore, folks, you've become part of the problem. This is just, it's mind bending how bad it's gotten this quickly. Okay, and a positive note. Socrates in the city, we're doing one in Seattle, April 28th, coming up in a few weeks. Now listen, folks. We are pulling together a compilation. It's going to come out. It should come out by November, December. A compilation of some of the best Socrates in the city conversations as a book. Yeah. And I have been editing the conversation. So I have the transcript of the conversations and I'm editing them. I have no words to tell you how thrilled I am about what I'm doing. I can not tell you I was annoyed this morning that I had to come into the studio because I was editing one of these cameras. I said, this is such a joy. These are conversations with people three of the four so far that I'm editing have passed on. They are no longer with us. These people were friends. And these are the most brilliant, extraordinary human beings I've ever had the privilege to be friends with much less have deep conversations with publicly. You can watch them at Socrates in the city dot com. John Lennox, Alice von Hildebrand, Tom Howard, and then Walter hooper, who was C. S. Lewis secretary. But editing these transcripts, I'm just telling you, I'm practically drooling. It is so some of it is so great because I had forgotten. I do these interviews, and then I move on. Yeah. But some of these are, I don't know, 12 years old, ten years old, 8 years old. Some of them, this is from a little while ago, but they are, I mean, what these geniuses say, dame Alice von Hildebrand, Walter hooper, Tom Howard, and John Lennon. By the way, we're only scratching the surface. We've got many more to go. But they are so amazing. I'll be talking about this more in the future in the book will come out. The book will come out in the fall. I hope November, December. But I just can not tell you reading it is even more exciting than watching the video. So watch the video, but you get a different thing. So if you want to see these trust me, these are just they're no, no, no. I am beside myself, enjoying it's like reliving this and realizing they said something so brilliant. By the way, dame Alice von Hildebrand. You can watch it. Go right now. Soccer team city dot com, Dave malloy and Hildebrand. I had a conversation with her. That woman she was 90 years old, almost 91. She was intense, brilliant, and at times unbelievably hilarious, so funny that on the plane, I'm like hitting Suzanne, Suzanne. Unbelievable. Socrates in the city dot com. All right, we're at a time when we come back. Folks, no joke. We're talking to the big man himself, general Michael Flynn. This is a big deal. It's also very important. It's very important. We'll be right back. I'm sitting here in London now you know it's true. Oh man just a little monkey combined my love for you. Tell me why relief factor is so successful at lowering or eliminating pain. I'm often asked that question just the other night I was asked that question, well, the owners of relief factor tell me they believe our bodies were designed to heal. That's right, designed to heal, and I agree with them. And the doctors who formulated relief factor for them selected the four best ingredients, yes, 100% drug free ingredients, and each one of them helps your body deal with inflammation. Each of the four ingredients deals with inflammation from a different metabolic pathway. That's the point. So approaching from four different angles may be why so many people find such wonderful relief. If you've got back pain, shoulder, neck, hip, knee, or foot pain from exercise or just getting older, you should order the three week quick start discounted to only 1995 to see if it'll work for you. It has worked for about 70% of the half a million people who've tried it and have ordered.
The Charlie Kirk Show
"john lennox" Discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
"Now, how do you get some, this is interesting, one of the things you see the authors of the Bible do is they start with where people are. And you mentioned Greek mythology, which I think is fascinating because I want you to go home and I want you to read in the book of acts, the New Testament, Matthew Mark Luke John, acts as the next book, read chapter 17. The apostle Paul goes to a place called Athens. This place called Mars hill right next to the Parthenon. You can see the Parthenon from Mars hill, and he says, there is an unknown God down there in the marketplace, and that's the God I'm going to proclaim to you. He started with the culture of what the people already thought about and used that as a platform from which to teach the gospel. So maybe ask questions like, oh, wow, so you're interested in mythology. The interests you about that. You know, is it kind of ring true to you that I mean that there may be there is an epic battle and we're all part of it and we think that our standing for truth could actually make a difference. You ever feel bad or think that. In other words, you can just kind of use that interest. And you can also ask questions like, do you ever think about, should we really try to make a difference? Should our lives be used to make a difference for other people? If there ever was a situation where we had to stand for the truth, what would you do? Do you think it's worth risking your life for what you really believe? There are all kinds of questions that you can ask that will help him start to think, yeah, maybe there is something bigger. There's something more important than just by everyday experiences. And the reason I can recommend that to you is because that, what I just described to you is almost exactly how J.R.R. Tolkien led C. S. Lewis to faith in Christ. Thank you, man. All right. My question is, why do you think the world goes off of logistic and scientific facts? Get the Bible speaks the truth and it's still so rejected. I did quite get. So the you reread the first part, sorry. Why do you think the world goes off of logistic and scientific facts? Get the Bible speaks the truth and it's still so rejected. Yeah, okay. Awesome question. In the book true change is everything. I had a whole chapter on science. It could be my very favorite chapter. Because here's the bottom line. Science did not rise in rebellion against God. It rose to applaud him. It's still, John Lennox, who was a retired Professor of mathematics at Oxford University, said that two thirds of the people who have ever won the Nobel Prize in science listed Christian is their affiliation. That's not just old times. Now, he's talking about. What's going on? All right, this is at the heart of your question. If you were object the biblical assumption that the world was created, then we don't know that the world exists in a stable fashion, do we? If you do an experiment at time a, you can experiment at time B, you might actually be experimenting in a different world. So in fact they're in the book, I list 7 different assumptions about the world that are rooted in a biblical worldview that have to be assumed by scientists in order to even do their work. Okay, but keep in mind also this, science is a way of knowing. It is not the only way of knowing. At some industries, we look at ten areas, theology philosophy, ethics, biology, psychology, sociology, law, politics, economics, and history. All of those have different ways of knowing things. Scientific way of knowing is not infallible. We need to be really clear about this. Scientists, science is in many ways the pursuit of failure for the sake of knowledge. Only 11% of cancer clinical drug studies were able to, in one study that I looked at, were able to be replicated. Like only 11%, 90 people said, this drug is going to be a miracle cure. 90% of the time, they were wrong. And nobody could replicate the results. Right. So all sorts of things come into it. Science is important. It is a good way of knowing and it's possible because they're actually a God..
The Officer Tatum Show
"john lennox" Discussed on The Officer Tatum Show
"All right, I got so many people calling in. Let me see, I got to pick one that I think is most consistent here. Let's go with Scott from Corbin, Kentucky. Welcome to the off state of the show. Hello, officer, Tatum. Good to hear you. I have a couple quotes if I can not be real quick. The first one is spoken by a man named John Lennox. Nonsense is still nonsense. Even when spoken by a famous scientist or expert, the next one is from a guy named Edmund Burke. The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing. And I say this. All you good judeo Christian men out there get off your butts. God's wondering when are you going to start doing something right? Get off your derriere and start doing something right. Because. You go ahead, you go on the road, go ahead. Because Dodge asking, if you love me, protect the children and the little ones are being sacrificed by all these canaanites that are in our schools and running our country. A 1000%, Scott, thank you so much for the call. Wonderful. Those quotes are incredible. And I do believe, you know, Scott, when he says that God is asking us to step up. You know, we can't just be passive forever, man. We can't just live in this kush Christian life forever. Where we just think that, oh, yeah, I'm safe, my grace through faith, and I don't have to do nothing else. I'm not gonna even do nothing. I'm not gonna help nobody. I'm not gonna. Feed the poor. I'm not gonna do nothing in Christ said. I'm just gonna live and hope that when I die go to heaven. I mean, that's not the purpose, your purpose on earth, you have a purpose. You have a mission. God didn't put you in America and bless you for you not to bless other people, God didn't put you in America to bless you for you not to stand up for freedom and do what's right. But Christians are going to have to lead this thing, man, I always say, you know, there was a little revival of somewhere in Kansas or something. We're going to need a revival, man. Christians are going to have to come together and get sanctified. Because there's a difference between talent and somebody who's anointed. We need anointed men and women to go out and do God's work. And everybody else to be in a supportive role. Doing your part as a Christian, but we need anointed people to go out and create miracles for our nation. We need people praying. We need people getting saved. We need people saving other people preaching to gospel. We need all of these things to go forth because if we don't do this, I don't care what kind of voodoo all what kind of smoke and mirrors you doing, what kind of meditation you're doing. The country ain't ever gonna get better. Alex Christian step up and Christ become king in the United States of America. Hold a phone I'll be back at the break. Everybody's got their cups, but they ain't chipped in. The officer Tatum show.
The Eric Metaxas Show
"john lennox" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"If you change your mind take a chance take a chance on me. If you need me. Folks, they said it couldn't be done. But we've done it. We got our friend Larry, Taunton. Whom you know from this program, he is now in Poland. He was just in Davos, Switzerland with the Antichrist convention. Or whatever they call it, Larry, thank you so much for making the effort all the way from Poland to be on this program. Hey, great to be with you, brother. What part of Poland are you in, sir? I am in Warsaw, and I've been here with Ukrainian refugees almost exclusively women because of course the men were required to stay in fight. And just trying to get a look at what's going on there. And it's very interesting. Well, I want to talk to you of course about where you just were. You were at the world economic forum, I am, again, amazed that you made your way there, we've got a few minutes, tell us what did you see and hear, what are you thinking? Yeah, Eric, you know, you learn from experience that there are some things that you just can't deduce not being there. They're just certain experiences that you're going to get. Things you're going to understand by just having boots on the ground. And that's the way I felt about Davos by going there. I thought, you know, I'm probably going to get some insights here that I otherwise would not get. Now let's be clear, the World Economic Forum, there were over 50 heads of state at this particular gathering. There were more than a 115 billionaires, 600 plus a major CEOs in about 2700 attendees. And my approach here, rather than doing what in some ways you and people at home probably had a better idea of what was going on with the big picture than I did. You're in an individual session or something and you don't see the big picture of what's going on. But that stuff was being covered very well by other people. My approach was to try to get some idea of the people who are attending and the big ideas that are driving the forum. And of course, at bottom, it is utterly atheistic. Now, when you say it's utterly atheistic, I mean, I know that and it follows, but let's talk a little bit about that because what I see happening globalism, the advent of technology that makes it possible to have a quote unquote global perspective. That is new. It was not possible for the whole world to be connected. So, you know, when people were talking in 1920s or something about it in the future, there'll be a one world government. It didn't seem possible, these things are now possible because of technology and these globalists and these billionaires who seem to think that's a good idea. They have thrown in the garbage not just the idea of the nation state or of a sovereign sovereignty and people governing themselves. But the idea of God is rather pointedly something they reject. So why? In other words, that ought to be chilling to anybody paying attention. Sure. The way I think of it is kind of like this. You know, in 2006, the organization that I direct, fixed point foundation, we made a commitment to start addressing the atheism that was then being made fashionable by the so called new atheists. You know, guys like Sam Harris and Daniel dennett and Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens. And we debated them. Quite openly, who celebrated debates with those guys. But since that time, Eric, we've been tracking that same atheism the way a hunter stalks his prey. And we've watched that atheism move from what was then high level academic discussions into the public schools into Hollywood and popular culture and now it's beginning to take rest, refuge in a government policy. And so when I speak of the atheism of the World Economic Forum, it isn't so much that they even really think of themselves as atheists. I think it's just that it's a settled disposition that's just assumes there is no God. And they're all moral less. And again, this is the kind of thing you get from being there. You know, just sitting in, you know, just any kind of conference is. You know, you've got guys sitting out in the hotel lobby and at coffee shops and this sort of thing, which is where I made myself presence. I was just there. It's just another conference attendee. Nobody knows who I am. And so I started having conversations with guys. And what starts coming out is, you know, first of all, the themes of the conference, which I think this year was a theme, I won't say exactly right, but it's something like finding unity in a fragmented world or something like that. I think I just have to call out cliches. Is there anything more painful and stupid than an utterly banal cliche? Finding unity in a fragmented world. Gee, what a bold idea. I mean, it's just amazing to me that so many people are brain dead enough, not just to go along with that blather, but to put it out there like we're actually saying something. What in the world are you saying? Words have power. And when words are meaningless, there's something creepy about that. It's just creepy. This is all quite creepy. And some of the conversations I could relate to you are quite creepy. But see, some of the themes are not just the, you know, finding unity in a fragmented world that IoT, which means the interconnectedness of things, just what you were talking about. The interconnectedness of the world through technology and then second one is AI, artificial intelligence. So when you're sitting and talking with these guys, Eric, and one of them that I spoke to, he was one of the presenters, he was a younger guy. An artificial intelligence inventor developed her, and he advises governments, and he advises businesses, which are almost exclusively security businesses on the use of artificial intelligence. And at first when he's talking to me, Eric, he's telling me, you know, he's just relating all of the cliches of the World Economic Forum, which is to say how wonderful it all is. But I said to him, let me just play devil's advocate. What makes you think that these people won't misuse the technology? The artificial intelligence that you are equipping them with. And he kind of does this. He kind of looks around and he leans in in a hushed voice. He says, they already are. They already are. And I said, how? And he said, I'm watching the development of my word, not his warrior robots. That never miss. He says they never miss. They were trained to hunt human beings, and they never missed. He says, this technology will soon be available on mass in a very big way. And he goes on to tell me, you know, he says to me that within three to 5 years, artificial intelligence will be, quote, completely out of control. So I ask him, well, then why are you doing what you're doing? Why are you advising them on this if you're so sure that this is the direction this will all go? And he says, because that just gets somebody else. I mean, if it's not me, it'll be somebody else, and that's why that's why my children do heroin in the basement because if I don't give them heroin, they're just going to go to the neighbors. That's why I provide them with heroin, you know? They're just going to get at someplace else, man. It's incredible, but he says at least I can advise them on the ethics of and the use of this. So then I did what I do so often with college students or high school students or anyone with Christopher Hitchens or Richard Dawkins. And then I ask, are you a religious man? And he says, no, I'm not really, he says, you know, I really thought about that or he said, well, what are you basing your ethics that you are advising them? Larry, I find this funny because this dude doesn't know who he's tangling with. He's talking Larry Taunton, who's asking all the right questions. So you ask him that question, what is his response? He says, it was really anything that he had really given a whole lot of thought to. He really just kind of tried to change the subject, but I was saying to him, look, you know, and I brought up John Lennon's John Ronnie's has written a book on artificial intelligence. He has. Have you read his book? And it was thrilled to bits. He said, yes, he has. Did he have? That's actually amazing. Isn't it amazing? This guy at Davos read John Lennox's book on artificial intelligence. That's pretty cool. I said, well, you do realize I said, you know, it just so happens I know him quite well. He's kind of a mentor of mine. And John is, you know, he's a Christian. And he bases his objections to artificial intelligence on his Christian faith. So where are you? What's yours based on? Is it enlightenment ideals? What is it? And of course, he never really gave me an answer to that. But again, this gives us a glimpse Eric into the heart and soul of the World Economic Forum, which is to say that it is completely rudderless and these are these are technocrats who never pause to think and ask whether or not a technology shouldn't be developed in used. If we can use AI, let's do it. If we can clone, let's do it. If we can amass surveil populations, let's do it. If we can brain chip people, let's do it. It's the way they think. Yeah, let's make a buck. Hey, I got to make a buck. You know what I'm saying? This is so extraordinary, Larry. And again, I my hat off to you for having braved that environment. It's an extraordinary thing that you're willing to do that. We have you for the rest of the hour folks. I'm talking to my friend Larry Taunton, this is the Eric metaxas show. Please go to Eric metaxas dot com for all your tobacco needs. We'll be right back. Because I really don't know why. Tell me why relief factor is so successful at lowering or eliminating pain. I'm often asked that question just the other night, I was asked that question, well, the owners of relief factor tell me they believe our bodies were designed to heal. That's right, designed to heal, and I agree with them. And the doctors who formulated relief factor for them selected the four best ingredients, yes, 100% drug free ingredients, and each one of them helps your body deal with inflammation. Each of the four ingredients deals with inflammation from a different metabolic pathway. That's the point. So approaching from four different angles may be why so many people find such wonderful relief. If you've got back pain, shoulder, neck, hip, knee, or foot pain from exercise or just getting older, you should order the three week quick start discounted to only 1995 to see if it'll work for you. It has worked for about 70% of the half a million people who've tried it and have ordered.
The Eric Metaxas Show
"john lennox" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"Are they going to be good men or not? That's kind of up to up to us. We've got plenty more with Larry Alex Taunton, find him on social media. You can find him at Larry Alex Taunton dot com and let me remind you folks to please don't forget CSI. We want everyone to participate. You have to go to metaxas talk dot com at the very top of metaxas talk dot com. You can free a slave in Sudan. It is unbelievable that they are making this possible for us to participate to those of you who have God bless you if you haven't go to metaxas talk dot com and do whatever you can do. We'll be right back. At the start of the sky. Folks, welcome back, I'm talking to Larry Alex Taunton, his article is where have all the good men gone. You know, Larry, it's funny. I didn't mean to talk so much about my book 7 men or the sequel, 7 more men, but the first man in the book 7 men is George Washington. And he was not a literal father, but he was the father of the country, so we're not just talking about, you know, being an actual father. We're talking about it's a spiritual issue that got calls us whether we are biological fathers or aren't that we can be fathers and grandfathers and role models. And obviously the same goes for women. You can do that without actually having children of your own. You can be a loving mothering influence. And this is really at the heart of civilization. You can not have a beautiful free civilization unless you have human beings who understand this issue. You know, and you touch on you anticipate really where I want to go with this. And that is that we have different types of role models. I don't think I don't just have one. I've had many. I've had professional role models. I've had figures in my life who model a variety of things that I have wanted to emulate. I was so fortunate. In fact, I just put out a little Twitter thread on mentors. I wouldn't say they were father figures for it. But they were mentors for me, professionally. They developed my skill as a writer. They demanded excellence from me. They pushed me to be more than I thought that I could be. Those were those were role models for me. They continue to be role models to me. I still hear still hear their voices in my head as I'm working on an essay or as I'm thinking of taking a shortcut in writing a book. I can hear, I can hear them rebuking and correcting. It's like, no, we don't do that. So they're all sorts of role models that I'm grateful for. And I'm sure you've had them too. Well, that's what's so interesting. I think about the fact that my dad, because he grew up in war torn Europe, couldn't be a role model for me in some ways. He didn't know how to throw a football or a baseball like that. He didn't have time for sports, you know, when he was being shot at or looking for food. But God put in my life, my uncle Joe, who passed away, who was a profound influence on me. And I think my dearest friend John to mania, his dad, who just passed away this year, was in many ways a second father to me who took us camping and I just think that a lot of the folks who have had the biggest effects on our lives, maybe we'll never get a chance to tell them. So this is an opportunity to say to you out there if you're listening, folks. If there's somebody like that in your life, let them know. Let them know that without them realizing it, they may have played a role in your being a good person, the person you are today. And Larry, there's so many different types of people like that. You were talking about when you're writing something, you know? I think of chuckles and all the time. Chuckles was such an influence on me. And I know you've had people John Lennox, our mutual friend to whom you introduced me. Is one of those people Oz Guinness. And these are just the ones that pop into our heads. We've got another long segment with Larry coming up folks. The article is where of all the good men gone. You can find it at Larry Alex Taunton dot com. I recommend it and everything that Larry writes I want to remind you before we go to the news break that we're doing a campaign to free slaves in Sudan. This is real. It's extraordinary. You have to go to metaxas talk dot com right at the top of the banner. You'll see the link and I exhort you from the bottom of my heart. Please do what you can. We'll be back. The just because deal..
Expositors Collective
"john lennox" Discussed on Expositors Collective
"As an undergraduate and during that time really went through, I guess, a lot of, again, experiencing hostile pushback. And that was from your kind of professors and teachers. And so I was really forced to ask myself, do I believe this a and B is it actually true? Because there's quite a high level of cost involved and you just facing this onslaught of questions and objections and through that was really a three year process. There were different characters and Tom NT right being very key professor Alistair McGrath as well, very key. Professor David wenham and others who were just exemplified that thoughtful honest approach to the word to the questions of the age. And then during that time at Oxford, I was invited to just give little talks and we really small things, maybe 20 or 30 people here or there. And I just began, I guess, to emerge in a very, very small scale ministry of evangelism. And then I went to postgraduate study, I was going to be doing a doctorate back at Oxford, my husband was training for the ministry, ordained ministry, and I was asked by a fledgling group of new organization that was focused on apologetics and evangelism to come and join there and to really help shape that ministry initially in the UK. And so I took that and just got a pinned amazing doors of opportunity to speak in churches. Yes, but lots in university's secular institutions where the Christians would invite you in to speak and they bring friends in a crowd to come and ask questions and then that kind of grew into more international ministry and writing ministry as well. So yeah. Wow. So you talked about that why I'm leader kind of spotting potential all those years ago and that really has come to pass. And so that's an encouragement. So yeah, what do you believe? So that's kind of the vocational evangelist, which is rare, you know? You're outnumbered. There's not many vocational evangelists. Maybe I wonder if you could speak to us Bible teachers and preachers who are not vocationally evangelists or might even say, listen, I'm not really gifted in any evangelism. You know, I've actually heard that a lot from the listeners to this podcast. People would say, well, you know, I'm a Bible teacher. I'm an expositor. Not really an evangelist. And some people have asked if I could get guests on the show to encourage us in that apologetic oriented invitational giving type of teaching and preaching. So what are the ways that you think that apologetics can be rolled into the regular teaching and preaching ministry of the church? I mean, that's such an important question. And honestly, I also think often we sort of imagine apologetics to be this very rarefied thing and banjo is them to be this sort of Benny Graham in the stage and I know people are listening to this podcast and know that's not the case but just deep down we have this feeling that it's them and not us. But actually in a regular preaching ministry, a sort of seam of apologetics and an expectation of making invitation to people either to go deeper with God or to make some kind of a commitment I think to do that intentionally just lifts the level of your Bible to teaching in a way that really helps the congregation. So I think I would be trying to encourage you to not only think about when you're thinking about your activity so you might be thinking about illustration of how you kind of go deeper into what a point is and maybe trying to use contemporary illustration. But really think about what the apologetic challenge of the passage might be. What might be the, or the apologetic opportunity of the passage B so whether it's my husband was preaching through the book of Daniel and there's the whole scene of the king ending up sort of going out to eat grass and thinking he's an animal. And that seems like a really, really odd thing to happen. And then you think, well, what does that look like? What does that mean? And then contemporary world where we have all sorts of body dysmorphic dysmorphia happening in our world right now. How does the Bible position this? What does the lord Jesus have to say into that situation? Or you might think about introducing issues of perhaps science and faith when you're talking about creation in a psalm or in genesis or even just referencing the historical reliability of the Bible even as one small three minute section in a New Testament text that you're giving. So locating the word of God in the real world, which is obviously where it is. I think that can be really powerful. And it doesn't have to be the whole sermon, but if your congregation, a journey with you through the year and you're introducing a two, three, four minute even apologetic seam in the exposition, it cumulatively builds in God's people, a confidence that the Christian faith is true and that the scriptures make sense, not just in a kind of religious bubble when we enter it, but they actually have touch put those scriptures has touch point with reality and reality as we face it. And I think it also then encourages people to reflect biblically on the questions their friends have and the conversations they want to be having in the workplace and all of that. That is such an encouraging I love the phrase that you mentioned there like little apologetic scenes within the larger sermon or Bible study. I think that some people might feel a bit intimidated or to think, well, I'm not able to give an apologetics talk. And it sounds like what you're saying is we don't need to. But just to include the fact that this addresses the real questions, the real concerns, the real objections of our friends. And let's spend a few minutes on this. Yeah. And even to just, you know, I know people joke about how long can you go in any evangelical sermon before C. S. Lewis is quote. Joke is because he did this so well. It's there. So even quoting someone else and then the thoughtful question who wants to grow who's there hearing that can actually then go and follow that thread themselves with more depth, but you're equipping your equipping the saints then to go off in the right direction and say referencing thinkers quote John Lennox quote C. S. Lewis quote Alistair McGrath and.
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"john lennox" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"I saw people for the first time. She'd never even seen shadows before. So I saw people for the first time I saw plants. I saw trees. I saw animals and then when her spirit returned to her body, and she was revived her eyesight disappeared again. And one medical researcher said, this is medically impossible. This just can't happen. And yet we have multiple corroborative cases like that. And of course, the most famous one involves a woman named Maria, who was died in the hospital of a heart attack. And yet she says, I was alive the whole time. I watched the resuscitation efforts, but my spirit floated out of the hospital. And then when her spirit returning with reunited and her body was reanimated, she said, pipe away, there's a man's tennis shoe on the third story ledge the roof of the hospital. And it's dark blue. It's left footed. It's a man's shoe. There's some way or over the little toe, and the shoelaces tucked under the heel. And so they go on the roof and guess what they find the exact same thing. I'm pretty sure that could just be a coincidence. Can you can we believe God is so amazing and so funny. I mean that that's what he chooses to do to blow people's minds. He could do anything, but he chose that specific now of course I want you to write another book about who was the guy that lost his shoe and why was it there? I mean, why is this on the roof, right? That is, I've never heard anything like that. 'cause you hear all these stories that the doctors were in this corner of the room and they did this and it's all true. But this is the level of specificity and altitude, which is really impressive. Yeah, that's right. There was another case where a woman 31 year old housewife from Atlanta, Georgia had a brain aneurysm. So she got bleeding into her brain. They had to do a radical surgery. So they get her into surgery. They cool her body to 60° first. Then they drained every drop of blood from her head. Three clinical tests showed there was zero brain activity. No breathing, no heartbeat, she was clinically dead. They put earphones ear plugs in her ears with a hundred decibels of noise, which is like a subway train going next to you. And they taped their eyes shut. And yet she said, I was conscious the whole time. And I even met deceased relatives. I was in a very presence of God and when her spirit returned to her body. She was able to describe the highly unusual surgical tools that were used during her surgery. She was able to describe the conversations in the surgical suite when she said one nurse said we have a problem or arteries are too small. Another nurse said, well, let's try the other leg. And then she was able to know that during the surgery, they were playing the song hotel, California in the background. The eagles, one of my favorite bands, although that song's a little dark, but it's kind of scary because it's like you can check in, but you can never check out. Yeah, I don't think I'd want that being played during yeah man. But it's kind of some dark teenage for near death experience. But I gotta say that, you know, the idea, I actually do mention this in my book is atheism dead. John Lennox talks about this. He says, the brain is not the mind and the mind is not the brain. So here they drain the blood out of her brain. The brain is there's no brain. But her mind continues. So the brain that's not the mind. Your brain will you will continue to exist. We have to go to a break, we'll find out what's on the other side of the break in just a moment. Don't go away. Thank you. Everyone. Hey folks Eric taxes here. Joe Biden and the Democrats have laid out the most socialist agenda our country has ever seen. Instead of following president Trump's blueprint that had the economy booming, the Dems are going to raise taxes increase regulations and skyrocket and.
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"john lennox" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"Heroes and John Lennox and James tour Stephen Meyer and many others. And I wrote it in part to introduce them to you, because the evidence that has been piling up in recent years and decades for a designer for a God is simply astonishing and we need to understand it is astonishing, you should look into it. You should familiarize yourself with it. It is just a wonderful time to be alive when all this stuff comes out. You mentioned that comets are 85% water and that they are replacing the water that naturally evaporates from earth, not much does, but what does is replaced by comets? And you're saying it's roughly a one to one ratio? Roughly one to one and keep in mind where we get struck by a lot of miniature comets. So they don't do any damage to us. They come into the atmosphere. They break up and distribute the water quite evenly over the earth. And then we get the asteroids which deliver valuable metals to us. But you're typically taciturn about how amazing this is. I mean, the idea that we lose water, but whoops, it's replaced by these heavenly snowballs that come in at just about the rate we need them to. That just seems crazy. I mean, that's an amazing thing. I don't think I've ever really processed that. Well, you don't want too much delivery because having too much water on the earth is a problem, having too little water on the earth is a problem. We're now finding planets beyond our solar system, better quite similar to the earth. But they got 500 times as much water as we have. And with that much water, you're going to get a layer of ice between the water and the rocky planet, which it basically eliminates the possibility of life. And we have dry planets, and we have very wet planets, our planet has just the right amount of water. Well, we talked again about asteroids and things hitting earth. I only learned fairly recently that if not for the extraordinarily massive planet that we call Jupiter, many, many more of these objects would be hitting earth. And so when you tell somebody, do you see that tiny pinprick in the sky, you can barely see it, but sometimes you can see it. That is the gigantic planet, Jupiter, and by the way, it is so massive and has so much gravity that it pulls away 99% of the things that would hit us and make life on earth impossible. That's another argument from design that it's very tough to take in. That's something that far away if it weren't there. We wouldn't be here. Eric was phenomenal is our solar system has a unique distribution of comets and asteroids. When we look at other stars, we see that they either have comet asteroid belts that are a thousand times bigger than ours or they got none at all. And on my next book, I explain why that almost always happens. Earth is the one exception. But we also have these gas giant planets, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. And in order for us to get the optimal gravitational shield, it's crucial that the most massive of these gas giant planets be the closest to us, the second most massive be the next closest to us, and then you want two smaller ones beyond that, that's exactly what we have in our solar system. You also need the right distribution of rocky planets to break up the mean motion resonances that are generated by the four gas giants. We literally need every planet in our solar system to be exactly the orbit that it has the mass that it has so that we could have Christmas dinner or Thanksgiving dinner here on Planet Earth. So when our family celebrates Thanksgiving, we thank God for Mars. We thank God for mercury. We thank God for Neptune. We need all those plan to speak exactly the way God designed them in order for us to be able to enjoy life here on Planet Earth. And it's a good thing there are only 8 or 9 planets otherwise the Turkey would get very cold. Let me simply say that I had not heard the part about the did you say the magnetic resonances of the four gas giants, we need rocky planets to offset that. I wasn't clear on that. Those are mean motion resonances because you're going to get nasty collisions, for example, if you've got Jupiter, making two orbits around the solar system for exactly one orbit of Saturn. That sets up a one tune to mean motion resonance and that gravitationally destabilizes the common and asteroid belts. But fortunately, the four gas giant planets are oriented just the right way that we don't get any dangerous mean motion resonances. And the small ones we do get are broken up by the rocky planets. And what's unique about a rocky planets, we are seeing rocky planets going around other stars. But they're all smaller than ours and closer to the star to break up these me motion resonances. You want the rocky planets to be relatively massive and orbiting fairly far away from their star. And our solar system is the only one we found amongst thousands of and what are these huge rocky planets? Is Neptune one of them? Well, we're talking earth we're talking Venus. Because when we look at rocky planets, orbiting other planetary systems, they're either they're typically orbiting really close to their stars, and when orbiting that close, they don't have much influence. Motion resonances. So you're considering Venus earth and Mars to be far enough away to be born with this and their massive enough. And by the way, the moon plays a role in breaking out the mean motion resonances. So the fact that we got a massive moon orbiting the earth is a crucial factor as well. That's another design feature of the muno has recently discovered. I mean, when I share with atheists, I taught to eat as frequently as you know. I tell them you're not convinced today, wait one month and watch the evidence pile up. Every day, scientific research papers are published that make the fine tuning argument more persuasive than it was the day before. Well, that's why people talk about silly things like multiverse theory, which I have to laugh. I mean, it's so silly and all it reveals is that some people have anything but that attitude. If God comes into the picture, they're willing to they'd be happy to accept the flying spaghetti monster. Anything but the God of scripture will be back folks. I'm talking to Hugh Ross, my new book is atheism dead. We hope you pre order a copy, don't go away. Hey there folks I'm talking to Hugh Ross. He is the head of reasons to believe I recommend you visit reasons to believe tremendous resources there. Hugh, we haven't talked.
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"john lennox" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"Heroes and John Lennox and James tour Stephen Meyer and many others. And I wrote it in part to introduce them to you, because the evidence that has been piling up in recent years and decades for a designer for a God is simply astonishing and we need to understand it is astonishing, you should look into it. You should familiarize yourself with it. It is just a wonderful time to be alive when all this stuff comes out. You mentioned that comets are 85% water and that they are replacing the water that naturally evaporates from earth, not much does, but what does is replaced by comets and you're saying it's roughly a one to one ratio? Roughly one to one and keep in mind where we get struck by a lot of miniature comets. So they don't do any damage to us. They come into the atmosphere. They break up and distribute the water quite evenly over the earth. And then we get the asteroids which deliver valuable metals to us. But you're typically taciturn about how amazing this is. I mean, the idea that we lose water, but whoops, it's replaced by these heavenly snowballs that come in at just about the rate we need them to. That just seems crazy. I mean, that's an amazing thing. I don't think I've ever really processed that. Well, you don't want too much delivery because having too much water on the earth is a problem, having too little water on the earth is a problem. We're now finding planets beyond our solar system that are quite similar to the earth. But they got 500 times as much water as we have. And with that much water, you're going to get a layer of ice between the water and the rocky planet, which it basically eliminates the possibility of life. And we have dry planets and we have very wet planets, our planet has just the right amount of water. Well, we talked again about asteroids and things hitting earth. I only learned fairly recently that if not for the extraordinarily massive planet that we call Jupiter, many, many more of these objects would be hitting earth. And so when you tell somebody, do you see that tiny pinprick in the sky, you can barely see it, but sometimes you can see it. That is the gigantic planet, Jupiter, and by the way, it is so massive and has so much gravity that it pulls away 99% of the things that would hit us and make life on earth impossible. That's another argument from design that it's very tough to take in. That's something that far away if it weren't there. We wouldn't be here. Eric was phenomenal is our solar system has a unique distribution of comets and asteroids. When we look at other stars, we see that they either have comet asteroid belts that are a thousand times bigger than ours or they got none at all. And on my next book, I explain why that almost always happens. Earth is the one exception. But we also have these gas giant planets. Jupiter Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. And in order for us to get the optimal gravitational shield, it's crucial that the most massive of these gas giant planets be the closest to us, the second most massive be the next closest to us, and then you want two smaller ones beyond that, that's exactly what we have in our solar system. You also need the right distribution of rocky planets to break up the mean motion resonances that are generated by the four gas giants. We literally need every planet in our solar system to be exactly the orbit that it has the mass that it has so that we could have Christmas dinner or Thanksgiving dinner here on Planet Earth. So when our family celebrates Thanksgiving, we thank God for Mars. We thank God for mercury. We thank God for Neptune. We need all those plan to speak exactly the way God designed them in order for us to be able to enjoy life here on Planet Earth. And it's a good thing there are only 8 or 9 planets otherwise the Turkey would get very cold. Let me simply say that I had not heard the part about the did you say the magnetic resonances of the four gas giants, we need rocky planets to offset that. I wasn't clear on that. Those are mean motion resonances because you're going to get nasty collisions, for example, if you've got Jupiter, making two orbits around the solar system for exactly one orbit of Saturn. That sets up a one tune to mean motion resonance. And that gravitationally destabilizes the common and asteroid belts. But fortunately, the four gas giant planets are oriented just the right way that we don't get any dangerous mean motion resonances. And the small ones we do get are broken up by the rocky planets. And what's unique about our rocky planets, we are seeing rocky planets going around other stars, but they're all smaller than ours and closer to the star to break up these mean motion resonances. You want the rocky planets to be relatively massive and orbiting fairly far away from their star. And our solar system is the only one we found amongst thousands of and what are these huge rocky planets? Is Neptune one of them? No, we're talking earth. We're talking Venus. Because when we look at rocky planets, orbiting other planetary systems, they're either they're typically orbiting really close to their stars, and when orbiting that close, they don't have much influence. Motion resonances. So you're considering Venus earth and Mars to be far enough away to be part of this. And they're massive enough. And by the way, the moon plays a role in breaking up the mean motion resonances. So the fact that we got a massive moon orbiting the earth is a crucial factor as well. That's another design feature of the muno is recently discovered. I mean, when I share with atheists, I talked to atheists frequently, as you know, I tell them you're not convinced today, wait one month and watch the evidence pile up. Every day, scientific research papers are published that make the fine tuning argument more persuasive than it was the day before. Well, that's why people talk about silly things like multiverse theory, which I have to laugh. It's so silly and all it reveals is that some people have anything but that attitude. If God comes into the picture, they're willing to they'd be happy to accept the flying spaghetti monster. Anything but the God of scripture. We'll be back folks. I'm talking to Hugh Ross, my new book is atheism dead. We hope you pre order a copy, don't go away. Hey there folks, I'm talking to Hugh Ross. He is the head of reasons to believe I recommend you visit reasons to believe tremendous resources there. Hugh, we haven't talked about anything on the nano level..
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"Hey there folks I'm talking to doctor Hugh Rossi's with reasons to believe my new book is atheism dead in large part owes its existence to friends like heroes and John Lennox and James tour Stephen Meyer and many others. And I wrote it in part to introduce them to you, because the evidence that has been piling up in recent years and decades for a designer for a God is simply astonishing and we need to understand it is astonishing, you should look into it. You should familiarize yourself with it. It is just a wonderful time to be alive when all this stuff comes out. You mentioned that comets are 85% water and that they are replacing the water that naturally evaporates from earth, not much does, but what does is replaced by comets and you're saying it's roughly a one to one ratio? Roughly one to one and keep in mind where we get struck by a lot of miniature comets. So they don't do any damage to us. They come into the atmosphere. They break up and distribute the water quite evenly over the earth. And then we get the asteroids which deliver valuable metals to us. But you're typically taciturn about how amazing this is. I mean, the idea that we lose water, but whoops, it's replaced by these heavenly snowballs that come in at just about the rate we need them to. That just seems crazy. I mean, that's an amazing thing. I don't think I've ever really processed
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"Hey there folks I'm talking to doctor Hugh Rossi's with reasons to believe my new book is atheism dead in large part owes its existence to friends like heroes and John Lennox and James tour Stephen Meyer and many others. And I wrote it in part to introduce them to you, because the evidence that has been piling up in recent years and decades for a designer for a God is simply astonishing and we need to understand it is astonishing, you should look into it. You should familiarize yourself with it. It is just a wonderful time to be alive when all this stuff comes out. You mentioned that comets are 85% water and that they are replacing the water that naturally evaporates from earth, not much does, but what does is replaced by comets and you're saying it's roughly a one to one ratio? Roughly one to one and keep in mind where we get struck by a lot of miniature comets. So they don't do any damage to us. They come into the atmosphere. They break up and distribute the water quite evenly over the earth. And then we get the asteroids which deliver valuable metals to us. But you're typically taciturn about how amazing this is. I mean, the idea that we lose water, but whoops, it's replaced by these heavenly snowballs that come in at just about the rate we need them to. That just seems crazy. I mean, that's an amazing thing. I don't think I've ever really processed
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"john lennox" Discussed on Tha Boxing Voice
"We haven't seen numbers like this since Vladimir in vlad was going to do sixty in germany Gotta respect that and you gotta respect the names that he keeps fighting. I mean again. His third gold medalists. That's a. I don't know any other heavyweight this for three gold medals. No you know what people don't realize is everyone wants to criticize the you know the resumes of not only joshua but wilder and fury. But we got to really understand one thing. This isn't the heavyweight the same heavyweight division of the olli era. This isn't the heavyweight division of the nineties. When you had holyfield you had a bo you had tyson. You had lewis. You had michael moore and the list goes on and on right. This isn't the same division so when you look at this big three you have joshua fury and wilder who else to have. Maybe you can throw dillion white there. Maybe joe joist possibly daniel dubai. Here's the potential but this division really isn't the same division as it was back in the golden years. Those two golden era of heavyweight. You can make an argument. That in my opinion i think the nineties was the best era. I think it was even better than ever because you had a bigger guys and you had guys who were not only big but they could box well too so i just think of that had a lot of debt with the nineties at a lot of death and you can throw the clinch goes in there right. There nineties heavyweights as well. How big was larry holmes. Six three about Two twentyish to fifty to eighteen ish. He knew that he had a good dad. But that's what i'm saying. I don't know that that era man. Those nineties heavyweights were pretty small man. Lot of the night the nineties heavyweights or the or the seventies and eighties. Heavyweights the nineties. Any weight you have and you had you had tyson to three short guys right. Well both but you had john lennox lewis you had you had Had a riddick bowe right. You guys like michael grant. You have both klitschko brothers right. That was the era where the guys started getting bigger. You had michael. Grant wasn't the greatest but you know he was a big guy. You had a little bit of a mix you don't have. You don't have the size you have now but you still have guys like six. Six three six flourished his oral. You know but i think we see a progression in an evolution of these heavyweights. They become bigger back. In ali's day everyone was six three right. The tallest guy was six three six four. Now you know you had six seven six six right. Six five was the norm so there was a lot of big heavyweights in the nineties. Bought a decent sized heavyweights in the ninety s. When you look a guy like ooh is match up in terms of high all those guys match up with our our error you know you got wilder. He's six seven fury six nine. You got tony yoka. He's another like six nine eight. Jags the next to him. He's definitely six seven. You know fucking joyce is huge dubai's huge and dillion. You're not giving credit to. I think maybe he's six three but and i'm tell you sex four. He's six four but he'd stick. Thanks i'll give you that. Say he's he's a big boy. Though so that way on you you know. Joseph parkas the next to him. He's he's not he's probably like a like a sixty two and so was perfect. There sure in is not that saw. But joseph fi junior fi. he's tall. I mean we got a lot of big heavyweights man. I don't know. I feel like you know a few years back. It could be the hormones in the who knows man but they just weren't as big as they are right. Now look dominic brazil. He's he's tall us. Hell david price told us how i mean. List goes on and on and on and obviously you know we're only comparing high not skill because you know people start saying how are you gonna talk about both price in the same sentence and we're not but you know and ziang. That's right july huge. Even though you know jerry forest made everyone think twice but listen. He's working guys if you're not following them on instagram..
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"john lennox" Discussed on The Atheist Experience
"Pm central and nonprofits is on right before this show at three pm. Finally we want to send a big thank you out to the crew. Who put this show together every week. Let's see that crew cam. Say hi to our amazing crew high grail. There they are there they that crew gets bigger and bigger seems like every week. I love it and they did an amazing job. They keep this thing humming fan. So jenna what's anything new other than a baby. We want to get to the calls. Anything going on. let's jump in it. Okay you got them all right. Well you said you wanted me to call in studio. So how about caller number nine to start We've got chris in idaho and says you wanna talk about god. God's nature is responsible for the foundations of the universe. You wanna tell me. Oh oh yeah. Yeah so well. I was just listening to a to a debate by john. Lennox and richard dawkins on has has science buried god and I was listening to two dachshunds. Because i actually side with what john lennox talks about and What he was saying is he's Doc and said it was. The universe is simple. It has simple beginnings right. So i was thinking about that and so the moment that the universe bringing his to existence because we can confirm that there was a a big thing that took place scientifically. You know. We'll give that to them. So from that point on there was You know Initially chaos and then What spring about. It was order You know there's certain laws that we can confirm scientifically And kind of what i was thinking about was from the moment. Spring into to into existence it had to have almost like a You can look at it like a genetic like code you know like it is what it is similar to you know when you have a child It is gonna be what the child is gonna be what he is he you know he. He's going to be athletic There's just like a number of things that genetically make up that that person so it's if that makes sense i'm just trying to like well so so i ain't gonna wanna go ahead. Connects confirmed so it sounds like you're saying that the universe came from chaos and then it somehow turned to order. Is that i right so okay you gotta think about okay. So what is when it came into existence. Okay when the big big 'cause we can confirm the big thing scientifically there had to have already been Genetic others say genetic okay like a dna of and then everything that came out from. It is what we are number. Have you heard of determining what is it. Have you heard of determinism. I haven't okay so it sounds to me like you're suggesting determinism which i'm actually i consider myself a determinist and it. It can really be defined several different ways. But the way that i defined it. Is that basically everything that happens. Has a reason. it's not that it's like predisposes predetermined or anything. It's just that something else happened. That caused whatever happened to have right so cause and effect. It sounds like you kind of looking back and saying well. There's a reason for everything in that. Something caused something which caused something which caused something. Is that what you're saying what it is. Almost it's more of a pre predate redetermined. So i lose you would you. Would you have when you go ahead as well. So so i i do believe in we have to be really careful semantics. Here that things have been predetermined but are you. Are you assuming agency. Are you suing that. There is a mind that has predetermined things separately. I'm say i'm well. I'm not going to put any label on on it. But all i can tell you is that there's a things are rolling out in a way that fair there seems to be purpose behind. It is your is your. I guess your point would be that the purpose behind the creation of the universe is god. Is that what. You're i mean is if we're going to boil it down to what i'm not i'm not well. What okay. what. I'm trying to say is there seems to be some type of their house. Okay so i mean you could you guys could take it on a it just kinda rolled out and and it is the way it is but there is already something there and then it's kinda rolled out in the way that it has so that's where you lose me. Why would we assume that it was something already there so you don't agree that there was a big thing that took place. I didn't say that i was just asking. Why would we assume that there was something already there when all this happened because it it's rolled out in a way that it has it was already a four determined that it was going to be what it is. Now you some kind of our determination behind that there's something behind all of the bang or the creation. Okay so the way that. I can the way that i can. I can connect the purpose to what it is. Is you have to look at us. Human beings and see that we have These intrinsic things inside of us. You know sense of purpose. Justice and these things cannot be overlooked. You have to take them white because well no. I think that assuming you're assuming things that aren't aren't giving. I mean when you say we have to have a scent. We have a sense of purpose. What do you. How do you know that. What do you mean by that. What what is what is my sense of purpose. Okay so you don't you don't have that any. You're the one around to you know you can't do that. One that said we have a purpose. And i'm asking you to define that and tell me why you think we have a purpose. Don't tell me to explain. Why don't you do so okay. Okay well i mean if you look look around at at all the books that are on shelves okay like what. What is the the key thing that people discuss it self-improvement it's slow better your life. Everybody has things and the first of every year you know. They want to improve their so. There's that sense of purpose. I want to improve myself. I know a lot of aren't i know. A lot of people aren't trying to improve themselves every year. That's that's a bold assumption. That's abroad assumption. That you've made that everybody wants to improve their selves every year. That's just what is it called. Wasn't it called there's a fallacy people. Don't go ahead. I think there's a fallacy where it's like you're assigning your own ideas and your own desires on other people. You're assuming that while. Since i feel this way everybody must feel this way and i just that sounds like a really really big leap. Yeah and also you're you're you're telling me these go ahead go ahead. No you could respond to jenner. I'm sorry oh that's all right. I i'm just saying that it okay. If you take the entire population of people you don't take that a majority of them if if if they see committed like This is kinda gone moving into morality but if you see them let's say You know some type of sexual crimes. They're gonna they're gonna frown down on that specific thing the majority of people that you know there's going to be few. That are kind of. I don't think it's ever a good argument to say something by saying the majority of people because the majority of people believe in some kind of god. What difference does that make to me. That doesn't make me want to say well. There must be a god if not doing offer mansion in it's confirmation bias and so if you said the majority of people feel like they need to have a sense of purpose and want to improve their lives every year that's not a signing some kind of divine purpose to our human existence. You're making a bold leap there yet and the going off of what you said you started off your statement by saying we'll i think and so i think that's where you you lose me because what i what you and i what. I don't think that what you and i think necessarily determines what's real in any way and that's why we've tried to use the the scientific method of verifying and making sure will do is this is this. What do you call it. Oh my god. What's the word Falsifiable right we have to. We have to make sure. Because we what i think can be wrong and it has been wrong in the past. Everybody thinks things that are wrong..
Chasing Elephants Audio Podcast
"john lennox" Discussed on Chasing Elephants Audio Podcast
"Chosen this one and god is and the holy spirit is working that through you and it's it's a much more intentional thing and make you more aware than a lot of people don't realize i have a world until you tell them right and tell them what it is. Wow i've got you know and I had that happen a lot in russia. When i would go and speak leap. Brilliant people say. I have a naturalistic worldview. I'm not sure. I want a natural and But yeah that was something that i think really transform bryan bryan was a small school getting smaller and it was At the world be emphasis which is still has the curriculum in a lot of things that are going on there still And i think that helped turn it around to make it something unique among college universities. How did you go from okay. This degree get your to being involved in higher education. Will you know interesting. One of the things that i did i went to dallas. You know for seven years and for the master's doctorate and One of the things they allowed you to do is to get involved in a lot of ministries to see where you felt god leading you and not. Everybody did that. But i did. Because i i. i didn't know anything about ministry you know. And so i did. Inner city ministry. Which i thought was really cool. We went overseas. Went to poland back when it was when it was still Communists for three three and a half months. did Some some preaching. I did some youth ministry and so but the thing i enjoyed the most was teaching. We had this lay institute where students like like like like i was could have a class and It would be advertised to the community and then people would come of for me. No i think it was like for six weeks or something and teach it. So here was his people. I've never met before. And i'm teaching them. I had to come up with lesson plans and all that. I'd never done it before. And it was really really good but the thing that made me mostly. This is what i needed to get into is because people would respond way beyond my abilities. You know i. I felt like i just stumbled through say was really really so good esser and i thought that must mean god is using this. There's a spiritual dimension that i don't know about but receivers to and so i thought let me let me do this. And so that's what i did and when i finished with my my doctorate I looked at colleges universities to teach adam. Brian had an opening and ended up there. ended up becoming eventually the president of that right right right and then you go on and serve as as university president and chancellor at another cedar ville. Yeah for ten years and left there about thirteen so got eight years ago. Yeah and what have you been doing. It tells what you'd be doing for the last eight years. What's going on right now. Well i have been you have a fascinating job. Let me just go okay. Everybody closely fascinating interesting. I do a lot of different things which is which is really cool. Because i i like that more generalist i. I was working with a company that the ukrainian company was a senior executive with this company. I was mentoring the leadership They were not believers. Because except holy the one whom i think you know all actually and And so I would go to kiev. Go to london. And i up to boston and i would work with their employees and everybody knew i was a christian. Most of them were not maybe one or two out of the two hundred The great great ministry and That was a real nice outlet in but then one of our Compatriots and graduate. Brian college johnstone stonestreet called me About a year and a half after. I'd left cedar. Villa was busy doing all these things and he asked me if i would come and help him. at at The colson center for christian worldview and It was of course started by chuck colson and of course center was just fascinating fascinating place to atop to learn because the goal there is to inform christians about what's going on in culture right so that you can give them insight and equip them to make a difference to to speak into that culture to minister into that culture and so on and of course. That's that's all i've been doing know and so I said yes. And he wanted to reboot the was called the centurions program and And this is a program which is It's a ten month program for people who want to be involved. They want to know more about culture. They want to know more about worldviews. And so and chuck would get one hundred people together A year and he would say these books that you've read and they would read these books in a systematic fashion. They'd get together two or three times a year. They're about one hundred of them and they'd have a two day conference and So and then you'd be commissioned as a centurion when tech passed away in two thousand and twelve that program kinda died Because people really just like come to hang with chuck Wouldn't want to spend time with charcoal some and so that's what john called me. Bassett could you kind of lead this program it. It died you know and so That's that's what i did. I came and i helped a little bit with the leadership of the of the whole colson center but focused on that will you've you've shifted. It's not a century in thing anything we're not quite as militant sounding now it's a fellowship and it is. It's a fellows program house program. And i took the program and it's not just reading books. It's pretty it's pretty robust. It's got the books But also Allow devotional out of video interaction. Got john lennox at harvard. Medical school about the problem of suffering and answering questions from that not is not hostile. But it's not a friendly crowd but listening to what he says and how he says it is so instructive Oh let's life give me going as awesome. And it's a real hopeful kind of approach to being created the skull riding moment and So this is the fifth year and we just finished the fish. That's actually leave your and your fine but we had five hundred in the program. Wow it's just really blown up. And so i very exciting. And i'm focusing. Now we hired a fella to kind of do the tactics of the of that. But i'm really more interested in Teachers and christian schools Going to the program so that they can really educate the kit equipped. The kids Because you can edit this out if you want. But it's a whole lot of christian schools talk about Teaching from a christian worldview or a biblical worldview And to them. It's teaching the bible. Thought what it is and you need to keep up and and someone that's why access is very helpful uses using that that group it is a wonderful group so the the reality is now that Some schools are doing this. It's transforming the way they teach their classes that one big school in ohio is actually using view and culture stuff met letter from for them for their entire chapel program. And it's just not gonna get socks off their dislike. This is awesome talking about things. I mean who talks to kids about. Lgbtq stuff their parents probably not their their smartphone of course and that's where they're learning this kind of thing is wide open and it's been really good And i'm.
Cross Examined Official Podcast
"john lennox" Discussed on Cross Examined Official Podcast
"Completely christianized by now. You can't not say turn can't not love john lennox. I mean it was just wanted to be a data i mean. Everyone wants to john lennox for their uncle or something. Someone reviewed the debate. He had with richard dawkins this way. He said watching. John lennox debate. Richard dawkins was like watching santa claus. Debate the devil. You just can't like john lennox. You is amazing. Going back to the talk you did have between richard. I mean robert baron. And alex o'connor i listened to that one and that was one of the ones i was. I was going if i was just. I don't know how. I could restrain myself by saying alex. You're having all these moral complaints. By what standard are you. Are you judging this these these problems with pain and suffering and evil and that was a very interesting conversation but you grayson restraint. I don't know how you do it just because well well. I guess i guess i've learned over the years to try and you know kind of keep myself out of the debate if i can manage it in a way trying to let the guests live brought to do the debating and you know it's always gonna be different. Everyone comes with different perspective a different way issues and and frankly you know not all the christians who come on. Make the arguments in the way that i would prefer to make them. But that's okay because this is a very long running series. You know we've been doing this for years and and for me it's about the long game. It's it's not about whether in one individual episode. You know the christian one or the atheist. One one i find is that as skeptics especially listened to the show over a course of years they will be. They will at the very least be subjected to the fact that christianity has a strong intellectual tradition. And i'll hear that from a variety of different perspectives. And i think a lot of them end up being pleasantly surprised. Even if they're not won over by one episode the they they are nevertheless surprised at the the the legs that christianity has and that it's not all stuff and nonsense and fairytales as they were led to believe and of course they will hear. You know cogent robust responses as well but my hope is in the cost of hearing that they will simply discover the christianity can stand on. Its own two legs intellectually And and for me. That's that's kind of the long term. Ambition of the show is to just get people thinking. Get people to take christianity seriously again and i mean that forbe's the christians and non christians who listened to the show. It's not just about winning a specific debate. It's it's kind of the journey. The some of those listeners have gone on over the course of over a decade following the show. what's on the horizon for you and unbelievable it. Are there new directions you're going in. I know you started the big conversation. Which of course is a new direction or do you have any other thoughts or a different vision for the future. What he looking at right now. Justin yeah obviously. The world has changed hugely in the last year. And i kind of the fight. We're doing the conference all online this year. One once way. In which i think suddenly the world is opened up digitally and people being forced to kinda go digital. Now that's not to say white do in person events. of course we will. But i think from now when we're going to try and make things as global as possible in the way means and things like that at equally you know. We're all aware of the tragedy that has happened in him. And the implosion of yes that ministry effectively In the last year or so. And it's a way can be to the fact that That tragic as it has left a assad gap in the provision of apologetic training and resourcing to too many christians and churches. And and we're hoping that in some way we might be able to to help with that unbelievable. Does what it does you know. We have other shows like the n. T. wright show an and so on we're hoping to actually develop something a little more comprehensive from here in the uk that will help with apologetic and with training generally that sir very much in the formative stages. So i've got to tell you about that. Frank but all i will say is that we wanna make that collaborative effort. We want to bring in the best established people who are doing apologetic and give them the platform. We want to use people who are up and coming in and talking to different areas in youth into different cultures. So we've got hopes that we can do something significant and try to just do what we want. We believe within call to do which is to make christ known and to show that we can use a hot also undermined in the process of doing that. Why you're definitely doing that. And if you're just tuning in friends of the program is called unbelievable it is available anywhere you can get a podcast and justin brierley's my guest. Today is the of the program. He has people on the program that you might not be aware of but are thought leaders. Both in the christian world the atheist world the muslim world across the board. And it's a program that goes back almost fifteen years now youth. You get their app just an zoom. You could probably go back ten years and listen to some of these shows can't you. I mean maybe shows her ever. Yeah so yeah. Yeah that's the that's the joy of it. I get emailing me about shows. I did ten years ago. You know because essentially you know if if you get subscribed on the podcast you can go buy years and years really on the show by the app on the youtube channel as well. These days there is one more project. I should've told you about as well at she. Frank which is a a another book. Which i'm working on at the moment and and so i'm i'm looking forward to that. Hopefully being released in twenty twenty two. But it's very much along the lines of that conversation. We were talking about earlier. Which is that you know how the conversation moved on from the new atheism just looking at the influence of some of these significant you intellectual and how this well great when that comes out definitely have you back on just in. My guess has been just in brierley again. Unbelievable the podcast and also unbelievable. The conference may fifteen sign up for that online. And you can be a part of. It's been great being with you. Thanks justin and i'll see you guys here lord willing next week god bless..
Word on Wednesday with John Mason
"john lennox" Discussed on Word on Wednesday with John Mason
"Prunes to make it bear more fruit. You have already been cleansed by the word that i have spoken to. You abide in me as i abide in you just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself unless it abides in the vine. Neither can you. Unless you abide in me. I am the vine you are the branches. Those who abide in me and i in them bear much fruit because apart from me you can do nothing. Whoever does not abide in me is thrown away like a branch and withers. Such branches are gathered thrown into the fire and burned if you abide in me and my words abide in you. Ask for whatever you wish and it will be done for you. My father is glorified by this. That you bear much fruit and become my disciples the word of the lord. Thanks be to god. Food full outcomes is something we normally expect from worthwhile endeavors so we looked for measures of productivity in the corporate world. a measure of life and growth. Why then do we often overlook the fact. That cheeses is concerned with productivity. He lived in an agrarian culture and on one occasion used grape growing as a metaphor for the productivity to which he is committed. Finian owners work hard to develop the quality and the output of each vine. They know that to get maximum output judicious pruning as required good. Growers don't confuse short-term profitability with long term viability. Indeed jesus makes the point that a good vine gra treats low producing branches quite differently from non-productive ones in john. Chapter fifteen and the opening lines. Jesus says i am the truth online. And my father's the vine grower he removes every branch me that bears no fruit if we branch that bears fruit. He prunes to make it bear more fruit. Now don't wanna stand his reference to fruit. We need to consider the context if he's woods john. Chapter fourteen concludes with jesus expectation. That he's people will love him and keep his commands and in john chapter fifteen and i nine we read. If you obey my commands you will remain in my love. There are times in the old testament when israel was likened to a vine planted and tended by god psalm. Eighty the zeta nine says of god. You brought a vine out of egypt. You drove out the nation's and planted it. You cleared the ground for it. It took deep root and fill the land by the time of jesus. The great find was close to being a national symbol for israel. A little like the big apple the new york but there's an irony wherever we find the metaphor of the vine and the old testament it is usually associated with a moral and spiritual degradation of israel. Isaiah chapter five for example till says that instead of producing good grapes. Israel yielded salad grapes for all the blessing. God shout upon his people. He looked in vain for the harvest of righteousness. He wanted to see the his part. The prophet ezekiel commented that israel was a useless vine with his words. I am the truth. I jesus challenges israel israel may say it is a bind he says but i am the true vine you are the branches he continues those who abide in me and iron them bear much fruit because apart from me you can do nothing. These tough words went just for israel their words to everyone who says they are christian but for whom christianity is no more than a survey boxed check. Jesus warns us that he expects the visible evidence of loyalty to him in the absence. If such evidence we cannot be assured if he's friendship it said that the philosopher see 'em joe d- was once asked at a university high table. Tell me what do you think of god to which he replied. My greater concern is god thinks. Have me israel's mistake. Wish to assume that because they had the temple because they had the scriptures because they had the right pedigree they would be immune from judgment. We today can say. I've been baptized and married in the church and i attend church at christmas and easter thinking that all will be well when we passed from this world to the next. But according to jesus the mark of everyone who is part of the truth on is fruitfulness where fruitfulness is absent so is true faith so he continues. Whoever does not abide in me is thrown away like a branch and withers this dramatic change of tents in the verbs. Yeah literally here saying whoever is not remaining in me. The president has been thrown away past. Tense this strange. Counterpoint of tenses suggest that the severance of the branch and its consequent k. And not the result of its sterility but the colours it is because it never really belong to the vine that had never produced fruit so when jesus speaks branches in me being cut off. He's referring to people who have soup. Officially call themselves christian love in response. To god's love prayer and loyalty to god's commands is what jesus expect all this as we reflect on what this fruit bearing love obedience. Looks like we see that. It refers to the reality of a personal relationship with jesus christ. The quality of our life measured by the ten commandments. And the exhortations refined in the new testament. It also involves shaving. God's passion for the lost fruitfulness is seen in godly love and leading prayer and drawing out of this to know christ jesus. Let's pray for god's grace in these troubling times enabling us to lead fruitful lives in christ so just the need for fruitful. Goes living today. So ill equipped on many of god's people that i ask you to join with me and praying that many more will take up the count on alexa passing. The anglican connection. Gospel focused on line conference. It's not just for ministers or even anglicans available onto may thirty first at www anglican connection dot com. It is for everyone who is committed to the priority. Of god's good news keynote speakers include. Dr john lennox. Richard ball gone on of would want one dr liam gallagher and keith getty Come up for dog Is.
Word on Wednesday with John Mason
"john lennox" Discussed on Word on Wednesday with John Mason
"Is no forgiveness. These truths to be proclaimed to the nations. Jesus commissioned his first disciples and not just one or two of them all of them as his witnesses. And as it's good news must be taken to all nations until the return of jesus christ we to a- caught up in the sponsorship today. We can't be witnesses in the strict sense. But we can't introduce others to the god of love and compassion. One way we can do. This is to turn the pages of the word one-to-one with friends over coffee the word one-to-one has the text of john's gospel with a helpful explanatory set up notes. You can find out more at. Www the word it let us than the numbers one two one dot com www the word one to one dot com the more. The february anglican connection online conference included talks from doctor. John lennox and richard ball gonen both spoke of the advantages of this ministry. The thirty dollars you can access the conference at. Www anglican connection dot com. Jesus knew that even his close followers who had seen him risen from the dead didn't have the inner resources to go out until the nation's god's gospel they needed the holy spirit to clothe them they needed then as we do today a clear understanding of the truth wisdom and inner resolve to talk with others especially when we are faced with opposing voices. The encouraging news is that the regenerative power of god's spirit is now actively at work in us and in the world the coolest people's eternal lives are at stake. Let's not be silenced. By the voices around us. Rather that's pray that god's spirit will so feel our lives. The dow faith spills over into our conversations enabling all this to find life and joy it all its fullness in christ forever so let me pray. Lord crashed eternal word and lighter. The father's glory saint your light and your truth so that we may both know and proclaim your word of life to the glory of god. The father for you. Now live and rain god for all eternity.