| What is the Christian Worldview? To find out, explore these links:  The First Steps of the Christian worldviewa map of different worldviews
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| I've been working on Spurgeon's Questions & Answers for Families, an edited version of his catechism. These questions and answers reveal the gospels multi-faceted application to many areas of life and are helpful in developing a thoroughly biblical worldview. This is a work in progress, but you're free to download it now. | ||||||
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11:13 AM 1/21/2005 Someone has said “the purpose of life is a life of purpose”! I couldn't disagree more. It is the kind of thing you'll hear on Opra or Dr. Phil. It is a very 20th century view. "You need purpose to get you out of bed, any purpose will do, just find one." Accordingly, you can devote your life to the sick, like Albert Schweitzer, or to the Shaw of Iran; to feeding the poor or to sexual exploits. "It doesn't matter," we are told, "Everyone needs some purpose for mental health and psychological grounding." What thinking person is satisfied with such arbitrary purposes? Are they any different from . . .(read more) | ||||||
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December 2004 Antony Flew debated the existence of God with the likes of CS Lewis. Now, according to Flew, scientific discoveries relating to the complexity of DNA point to the philosophical necessity of an intelligent designer behind the origin of life. "My whole life has been guided by the principle of Plato's Socrates. Follow the evidence, wherever it leads." Read the full-interview with Dr. Gary Habermas for Philosophia Christi Also read the essay in the Seattle Times or the article in Baptist Press. | ||||||
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1:30 PM 3/17/2005 Ben's 2004 Reading List I was recently asked what books I had read over the past year and after reflection decided to post this list, purely as a record and not as recommendations. I have never kept detailed reading lists and notes. This is probablly a mistake. In Isaac Watts classic book on logic (which I began last year but decided to temporarily put aside in favor of rereading a more contemporary treatment of the same subject matter, Adler's Aristotle for Everybody), Watts suggests journaling and an end-of-the-day review of everything one learned on that day. Several of the books have been so incorporated into my thinking as to render such an exercise pointless, yet others I had completely forgotten. Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death . . . (click here for more) March 12 - 2:20 PM Brief booknotes on Theodore Beza's The Life of John Calvin. So check it out. . . | |||||||||
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