Seeking Proof Finding Grace

When we begin our journey to find God, what do we do with the information contained within the Bible.  The goal is to determine if the Bible is a reliable source and if we can do that, then we can use some of the information in the Bible to help us answer important questions.  Throwing out the Bible is not the best way to approach this journey.  Let’s talk about this…   1st Corinthians 15, “3 For...

In our digital age that is becoming increasingly skeptical of everything, how do we know what to trust?  What makes something reliable?  The answer is actually easier than we might think and will help us on our journey to find God.   “Trusting testimony is not an irrational act of faith that leaves critical rationality aside; it is on the contrary, the rationally appropriate way of responding to a...

As we celebrate Easter this week we take a look at how God made the offer to us at the perfect time, in the perfect place and in the perfect way in the person of Jesus Christ.  We look at how Jesus, in the life He lived, the death He died and His resurrection changed the world.  And most importantly we look at the prayer to start an eternal relationship with God.   “Blessed be the God and Father o...

This week we take a look at God’s great love for us and His offer to us for an eternal relationship with Him as His children.  How can God make that offer to us?

As we begin our second great journey to find out if Jesus was who He claimed to be (spoiler alert – it was God), when we look for a coherent worldview we find that the Bible presents our best choice.  God loves you!! “This subversive belief in Jesus’ Lordship, over against that of Caesar, was held in the teeth of the fact that Caesar had demonstrated his superior power in an obvious way, by having...

This week we prepare to start the journey looking to answer the question: who is our Creator?  But how much evidence is really enough?

This week we wrap up our journey looking at moral values and prepare to kick off our journey looking at the answer to the question: Is God the God of the Bible?  What do we find when we look at the journey so far from the beginning of the universe to where we are today.  The best answer of how we got here points us to a God who loves you!   “In a universe of electrons and selfish genes, blind phys...

This week we look at how to judge between two sets of competing moral values?  Is there are third thing that helps us reach the right conclusion or is a consensus enough?  Thank goodness God loves us!   Definition – “To say that there are objective moral values is to say that something is good or evil independently of whether any human being believes it to be so.”  William Lane Craig, Reasonable F...

This week we look at a few more examples or morality building by consensus and then look at some historical examples of what has happened when you remove God from the equation.  Don’t ever forget how much God loves you!    “Religion is an insult to human dignity.  With or without it, you’d have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things.” Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion, 200...

This week we take a deep dive into the Golden Rule.  Can it really work without God?   Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion, 2006 quoting from the website Patheos  https://www.patheos.com/blogs/daylightatheism/essays/the-new-ten-commandments/      Do not do to others what you would not want them to do to you   Matt 7, “7 “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will b...

This week we look at attempts to build moral values from a consensus.  How do morals from a consensus compare to the teachings of Jesus Christ?    These are a few examples of a naturalistic 10 commandments that Richard Dawkins quoted from an atheist’s website Patheos on The New 10 Commandments.  https://www.patheos.com/blogs/daylightatheism/essays/the-new-ten-commandments/    in The God Delusion....

This week we see Christopher Hitchens try to answer the question of where moral values come from in a Darwinian model.  Don’t ever forget, God loves you!!    “There might be someone who says that’s so, but it would not be I think discernible by anyone here that I for example who do believe that we have evolved by random mutation combined with natural selection for success in certain genes, believe...

We continue our journey looking at moral values this week and examine whether or not evolution can help explain moral values.  Or, does natural selection and the survival of the fittest lead us to a far darker place?     “I am suggesting that the same is true of the urge to kindness – to altruism, to generosity, to empathy, to pity.  In ancestral times, we had the opportunity to be altruistic only...

This week we begin our journey looking into the question of where moral values come from.  In this episode we define our terms and look at the difference between moral values and objective moral values.  What we will find along the way is that the best answer not only points to a creator this time, but the best answer actually points to the God of the Bible who loves you more than you can imagine....

This week we conclude part four of our series looking at how the best explanation of our consciousness is an intelligent Creator. References: Lee Strobel, The Case for a Creator, 2004 – Interview with J.P Moreland Michael Egnor and Denyse O’Leary, The Immortal Mind, 2025, **Ref1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1YWy5SQPhg  “Suppose everybody who lacked a certain part of the brain was disabled in a...

Consciousness Points to a Creator Part 3: Podcast 87 This week we continue with part three of a four part series looking at how the best explanation of our consciousness is an intelligent Creator. Resources: Lee Strobel, The Case for a Creator, 2004 – Interview with J.P Moreland Michael Egnor and Denyse O’Leary, The Immortal Mind, 2025, **Ref1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1YWy5SQPhg   “ Thus h...

Despite what you may hear on line, there are no “serious contradictions” in the Christmas story.  This is one of the weakest arguments against Christianity that you see on line and this week we finish looking at the Christmas story in detail.   References: New King James Bible, 1982   Luke 2: 1-24; 39-40 Matthew 2: 1-23   A Charlie Brown Christmas, Charles Shultz, Bill Melendez, 1965

Despite what you may hear on-line, there are no "serious contradictions" in the Christmas story.  This is one of the weakest arguments against Christianity that you see on-line and this week and next week we will look at the Christmas story in detail.   References: New King James Bible, 1982  Luke 1: 26-38 Matthew 1: 18-25 Isaiah 7: 10-14  Starting with Mom… Luke 1, “26 Now in the sixth...

This week we look at Christmas, when God laid down His place in heaven and gave everything to offer you the chance to become His child for all eternity.  He loves you that much!!   “Reality, in fact, is usually something you could not have guessed.  That is one of the reasons I believe Christianity.  It is a religion you could not have guessed.  If it offered us just the kind of universe we had al...

This week we tackle part two, in our four part series looking at how the best explanation of our consciousness is an intelligent Creator. Resources: Lee Strobel, The Case for a Creator, 2004 -*Ref1 Michael Egnor and Denyse O’Leary, The Immortal Mind, 2025 -*Ref2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1YWy5SQPhg C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity,1952 G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man,1925 I'm afraid...

This week we start what will likely be a four part series looking at how the best explanation of our consciousness is an intelligent Creator. Lee Strobel, The Case for a Creator, 2004–Interview with J.P Moreland**Ref 1 Michael Egnor and Denyse O’Leary, The Immortal Mind, 2025**Ref 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1YWy5SQPhg “Nevertheless, it may be that the origin of life is not the only major g...

This week we celebrate Thanksgiving.  Thank you for joining us and don’t ever forget the most important truth in the entire universe, God loves you!!   Lyrics from The Truth, Megan Woods, 2025:   I know who I am  'Cause I know who You are  And I hold Your truth inside of my heart…   The truth is I am my Father's child  I make Him proud and I make Him smile  I was made in the image of a p...

This week we look at another naturalistic theory on how life might have originated.  And no, panspermia is not a better answer for how life got here.  Don’t run from the idea of a Creator who loved you so much He gave everything for you!     “Nevertheless, it may be that the origin of life is not the only major gap in the evolutionary story that is bridged by sheer luck, anthropically justified. ...

This week we finish our journey from nothing to how we reached where we find ourselves today.  In this episode we look at how a Creator is the best explanation of how we went from lifelessness to the abundant, diverse life that we see all around us.  How do we recognize the hand of intelligence verses the natural processes of time, matter and chance?   “Once the initial stroke of luck has been gra...

This week we take our second step of wrapping up our journey from nothing to how we reached where we find ourselves today.  In this episode we look at how a Creator is the best explanation of how we went from nothing to our little blue planet Earth floating in space.  How do we recognize the hand of intelligence verses the natural processes of time, matter and chance?