Category Archives: Worldviews

The Lion Awakes!

(I’m told that we can help finish this movie.) And then there is this 8 minute discussion of the film’s spiritual dimensions: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jy41czilFq0]

March 27, 2012 – 6:00 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Arts and Culture, Worldviews | Comments (0)

Become a “Centurion!”

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March 26, 2012 – 1:43 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Worldviews | Tagged | Comments (4)

On the Radio This Weekend

Tomorrow morning, March 24, at 10 am I’m scheduled for a conversation with Frank Turek on Cross-Examined Radio. See the link there to listen online. Then this Sunday on Stand To Reason radio nationwide… …well, I’ll let them explain it: Greg Koukl is live on the air Sunday 2-5 p.m. PT with three hours of …

March 23, 2012 – 6:08 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in New Atheism, Thinking Christianly, Worldviews | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (0)

Ten Turning Points: Jesus Rose From the Dead

It is the greatest turning point of them all. Nothing else could possibly compare. It turned days of desperate hopelessness into centuries of joyful celebration. It turned death upside down. Of this Christians are convinced: the resurrection of Jesus Christ is the greatest and best thing that has ever happened. Are we right? I am …

March 23, 2012 – 9:13 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Evidences, Worldviews | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (2)

Ten Turning Points: Again, Why the Cross?

When Jesus died on the cross he did it for joy and for love. We saw that last time in this series. That doesn’t do much by itself, though, to explain what was so helpful about dying. Much earlier in this series (here and here) we looked at humanity’s fundamental problem, our separation from God …

March 14, 2012 – 6:00 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Knowing God, Life and Choices, Thinking Christianly, Worldviews | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments (2)

Ten Turning Points: Why the Cross?

Why did Jesus die on the cross? Last time in this series I explored Bruce L. Shelley’s observation, “Christianity is the only major religion to have as its central event the humiliation of its God.” Why would God—why would any God—endure such a thing? Let’s see what the Bible has to say about it. Hebrews …

March 10, 2012 – 8:55 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Bible, Thinking Christianly, Worldviews | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments (1)

Ten Turning Points: The Humiliation of the Cross

“Christianity is the only major religion to have as its central event the humiliation of its God.” That’s the opening sentence in Bruce L. Shelley’s Church History in Plain Language. It sounds more like the end of a history than the beginning. Yet the weekend of Jesus’ death and resurrection was the crucial1 turning point of …

March 5, 2012 – 6:00 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Knowing God, Worldviews | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (1)

Ten Turning Points: God In the Flesh

God came to earth as a human. There is much mystery in that. Recently I looked at how it was possible for God and man to subsist together in one person. That question has an answer, but that answer could never tell the whole story. Today I will take an all-too-brief look at why he …

February 25, 2012 – 8:26 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Knowing God, Thinking Christianly, Worldviews | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Ten Turning Points: The Incarnation, Once For All

We Christians need to be realistic about the way our religion looks to others. Our message is that a wandering teller of tales and miracle worker who lived 2,000 years ago makes all the difference to everyone throughout history. If you don’t sense a touch of unlikeliness attached to that, then you don’t understand your …

February 24, 2012 – 10:44 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Bible, Worldviews | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments (4)

“Are You Ready for the Reason Rally?”

This entry is part 3 of 3 in the series True Reason

My BreakPoint column for this month: I’m trying to imagine how one conducts a rally for Reason. “Three cheers for Reason! Hip! Hip! True Major Premise! Hip! Hip! True Minor Premise! Hip! Hip! Valid inference to a sound conclusion! Now everybody go give your all for objectively and dispassionately examining evidences, and reasoning through appropriate …

February 21, 2012 – 5:02 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in New Atheism, Worldviews | Tagged , | Comments (2)