Students Need Our Support

It was fun to celebrate those graduating from H.S. over the weekend. I've been thinking about them a great deal as well as those are currently in college. They need our support.

Beginning July 15, we're offering 7 super weeks of summer for our students. I want to do what I can to support them by strengthening their faith in Scripture and who Jesus is. We're looking at the Truth Project as one offering. Have any of you viewed it? What do you think?

I've enjoyed listening and reading to some of Tim Keller's stuff. His book "Reason for God" is getting some mo right now. (Some thought-provoking sermons related to the book can be listened to for free here.)

What are the best books you've read that give solid answers to faith questions? Here are a few of mine:

• Why I am a Christian (John Stott)
• Mere Christianity (C.S. Lewis)
  
• Christ among other gods (Erwin Lutzer)
  

How much do I need to defend God?

God is on the witness stand. The accusers have lined up:

• God does not explain why He does what He does
• His followers are sometimes mean and vicious
• His laws are too restrictive
• He allows bad things to happen

The church has been called on to defend God. So we do what we can. There are some amazing and bright minds who have dedicated their lives to that purpose: Ravi Zacharias and William Lane Craig are the top two on my list. I admire their knowledge of scripture and efforts to reason with the post-modern mind.

There is a place where questions still remain however, and that is where faith still stands. Because I believe in an omnipotent God I also believe that He knows things I don't. If we could explain everything God did and does, wouldn't we be God? His ways are higher. His thoughts are higher...not by earthly measurements but by heavenly. How much higher? Start with the closest galaxy for starters.

“Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.” (Oswald Chambers)