Reasonable Faith
Study Group

Do you love God with "all your heart and all your soul and all your mind", but find it hard sometimes to practice the "mind" part? Would you like to be better prepared to fulfill Colossians 4:6 and 1 Peter 3:15, having a rational defense for your faith? Would you like to have answers for the difficult questions regarding science and the Bible, ethics, and theology? This is the place to be!

Current Activities - Past Activities - Resources

Current Activities

The Reasonable Faith study group meets at 6 pm on Sunday afternoons in the Disciples classroom. All are welcome.

Starting 17 Sept 2006:

We will be doing a book study on Nancy Pearcey's Total Truth. Please contact Pat McNamara if you'd like a book, or you may get your own.

We are tackling about one chapter per week.

Past activites

Book studies on Francis Schaeffer's "Escape From Reason", JP Moreland's "Love Your God With All Your Mind", and on Ken Samples "Without a Doubt - Answering the 20 Toughest Faith Questions".

Video curriculum - Making Abortion Unthinkable - The Art of ProLife Persuasion from Greg Koukl's Stand To Reason organization.

After doing it several years ago, we've recently repeated the "Good Science, Good Faith" video series from Reasons to Believe. As a followup, we looked at the issue of death before the fall; the presentation given, based on RTB's Death Before the Fall audio set, can be downloaded here:

• Death Before the Fall (Word document)
• Death Before the Fall (Powerpoint)

Eariler this year, we've completed the video curriculum "Jesus Among Other Gods", where renowned apologetics scholar Ravi Zacharias simply yet incisively contrasts the truth of Christ against founders of Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism; shows doubters how "other gods" don't measure up; and equips you to share the "blueprint for life" with others.

Previously, we viewed the video "Unlocking the Mystery of Life", a superbly made video that looks at the latest biochemical evidences for Intelligent Design.

We've also recently completed the following materials from Norm Geiler's Impact Apologetics and John Ankerberg:

• The Islamic Threat
• Islam and Christianity: 4 Critical Challenges
• Islam and Christianity: Four Apologists Debate Various Essentials of the Faith.

From Reasons to Believe, we've viewed the multi-week Young Earth vs Old Earth debate that had been broadcast on the John Ankerberg show.

We've also covered Lee Strobel's The Case for Christ, as well as Micheal Behe's Darwin's Black Box.

We've done a 13-week video series from Ravi Zacharias based on his book "Deliver us From Evil". From the same ministry we listened to an address to Ohio State University.

We've covered much material from Stand to Reason, on topics such as Tactics in Defending the Faith, abortion (The Art of ProLife Persuasion), stem cell research, a Christian response to homosexuality, and Responding to Relativism: A Conversation with Dr. Francis Beckwith and Gregory Koukl.

We've viewed and discussed various debates from the John Ankerberg show featuring Norm Geisler and Rabbi Harold Kushner, on the Problem of Evil, and Why Do Bad Things Happen to Good People? We've also covered a debate from that show between Hugh Ross and Kent Hovind on the Young Earth / Old Earth debate.And we've looked at some differences between evangelical Protestantism and Roman Catholicism in the John Ankerberg Video Debate: Do Roman Catholics and Protestants Agree on Justification and Papal Infallibility?

Resources