TechWise: Living with God’s Wisdom in a Digital Age Pt. 4 Screening Our Hearts Colton Conrad Plato’s Cave: Our Cave is Our Hearts What is a Heart? “The Heart is not just the seat of the emotions. It is the seat of the mind, will, and emotions… The heart is the seat of your deepest […]
I. Who Is Writing Your Story? “…there arises in Western societies a generalized culture of “authenticity”, or expressive individualism, in which people are encouraged to find their own way, discover their own fulfillment, “do their own thing” – Charles Taylor, A Secular Age The digital landscape – especially through social media – reinforces and […]
I. Naming the Challenges a. Digital Communication Greatly Reduces the Embodied Elements of Communication We communicate a great deal (perhaps up to 93%) with our physical bodies – in our tone of voices, gestures and body posture. b. Technology Enhances the Platform For Uncivil Discourse “Technology has, in an enhanced way, given mockers a platform […]
I. Some Key Challenges: Living in a digital age… Means often being distracted Often leads to increased consumerism Can lead to a loss of boundaries between work and home life Compounds challenges for parenting “We feel helpless to prevent…[out kids] from overexposure, far too early, to the most violent and intimate facts of life….Parents feel […]
Christ Our Passover “For the Son of Man did not come into the world to be served, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many.” Aesop’s Fable, The Wolf and the Dog Eden to Egypt: “Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through […]
The Story of Hope Part Three: The King and the Kingdom David Fields, November 25 I. God is the Creator, the true King of the whole world God is called the “King of kings, Lord of lords” (1 Tim 6:15) Jesus is co-equal with God the Father and shares the same title: […]
The God Question Part Seven: Is it Reasonable to Believe in the Resurrection? Dave Fields, October 28, 2018 I. Jesus As The Centre of Christianity and His Impact On History Arguments for God’s existence provide a means of “shaking up the dogmatic confidence…that naturalism and materialism are the default rational views of the universe.” – […]
The God Question Part Six: The Church has done so much Injustice. Aren’t Christians Hypocrites? Pastor Colton Conrad “I…hate the corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial and hypocritical Christianity of the land… I look upon it as the climax of all misnomers, the boldest of all frauds, and the grossest of all libel…” Frederick Douglass, […]
The God Question Part One: Doesn’t Christianity Restrict Our Freedom? Dave Fields, October 14, 2018 I. The Problem The commonly shared value of our late-modern Western culture says that each person should be free to decide what is right and wrong for him or herself so long as it doesn’t harm anyone else. Freedom, in this […]
The God Question Part Four: If God Is Good, Why Is There So Much Evil and Suffering in the World? Dave Fields, September 24, 2018 The Logical Problem of Evil Revelation 19:6: “Hallelujah! For our Lord God Almighty – or as the King James puts it – our Lord God Omnipotent – reigns.” […]