RZIM: Just a Thought Broadcasts

By Ravi Zacharias

Religion & Spirituality Christianity

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A one-minute, daily program featuring excerpts from Ravi Zacharias. The programs seek to explore issues such as life's meaning, the credibility of the Christian message and the Bible, the weakness of modern intellectual movements, the uniqueness of Jesus Christ, and other topics mixing biblical teaching and Christian apologetics.

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Jesus' Powerful Hands

05.29.2020

Ravi Zacharias described how Jesus' hands were some of the most powerful tools of His ministry here on earth. Listen to today's program as he explains the impact in people's lives that was made when Jesus reached out to touch ...

RZIM: Just a Thought Broadcasts episodes:

05.29.2020 Jesus' Powerful Hands Ravi Zacharias described how Jesus' hands were some of the most powerful tools of His ministry here on earth. Listen to today's program as he explains the impact in people's lives that was made when Jesus reached out to touch ...
05.28.2020 Not the Absence of Purity, but the Presence Describing the life of Augustine, Ravi Zacharias points to a statement he made about how he wrongly viewed his life of sin. Listen to today's program to hear the quote and the realization that dawned on Augustine in his perspective ...
05.27.2020 A Definition of Purity Ravi Zacharias explains that the definition of purity is similar to the definition of nothing. On today's program he explains how they are similar and the significance of that similarity.
05.26.2020 Getting the Definition the Wrong Way Around "Existence precedes essence, what it means is, what I do determines who I am." This definition of existentialism demonstrates that proponents of the philosophy have the definition backwards, listen as Ravi Zacharias explains the error on today's Thought.
05.25.2020 The Definition of Value Ravi Zacharias states, "We look at life with our eyes rather than through our eyes." What does he mean by this statement and how does this problem cloud our perspective? Find out on today's Just A Thought.
05.22.2020 What Is Your Name? In the Old Testament story of Jacob's life we see a man that is running from the consequences of his actions until God literally grabs ahold of him. God then asks an important question of Jacob that clarifies the trouble ...
05.21.2020 Historian Dies of Boredom Ravi Zacharias speculates that if there were one human historian that lived to view all of human history he might die of boredom. He makes that statement tongue-in-cheek since history is full of examples where humankind has repeated the same ...
05.20.2020 Trusting God For A Miracle Ravi Zacharias describes a time in the days of the prophet Elijah where there were many people with leprosy in Israel, but the only man healed of it was a Syrian named Naaman. Christian's today are in the same situation, ...
05.19.2020 The Brightest Light During the Darkest Days Israel had some of its darkest days as described in the Old Testament book of II Kings when Jehoram was king and the city of Jerusalem was beseiged by the Syrians. It is often during these times of darkness especially ...
05.18.2020 Solving Society's Ills Ravi Zacharias describes an alarming statistic concerning the occurrence of violent crimes in America: they occur once every 22-24 seconds. How do you begin to solve this problem? On today's Just A Thought Ravi recommends a starting point to begin ...
05.15.2020 God Have Mercy on Me Ravi Zacharias warns of the complacency toward sin that Christians can develop over time due to self reliance. It is during these times that God can allow them to have their own way with disastrous consequences.
05.14.2020 Points of Tension When attempting to bridge the gap of understanding between Islam and Christianity there are fundamental differences that need to be overcome, unfortunately dialogue becomes almost impossible if one side is constantly challenging the other.
05.13.2020 The Glory of True Greatness F.W. Boreham describes a scene of a field of poppies and corn planted together and how the 2 plants side by side seemed equally beautiful. Ravi Zacharias builds on this idea to explain the glory of true greatness.
05.12.2020 The First Funeral Ravi Zacharias describes a statue called "The First Funeral" in a museum in Copenhagen, Denmark which seems to poke fun at the death of Abel as his body is carried by his father Adam. However, of course, there is no ...
05.11.2020 Who Takes God's Place? Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote the line "God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him." On today's thought Ravi Zacharias follows up that idea with a question, "If God is dead who takes His place?"
05.08.2020 The Ultimate Sense of Wonder Ravi Zacharias, on today's Thought, states, "The ultimate sense of wonder can only come in a relationship with a person and that person is God himself." Listen to the program to find out what he means by his statement.
05.07.2020 Questioning the Questioner Jesus often responds to a questioner with a question. Why did he do that? Today on Just A Thought Ravi Zacharias describes how this effective method is useful in determining what a person's assumptions are before giving the best answer.
05.06.2020 Privatization of Faith Ravi Zacharias describes privatization as the breakdown between public and private life and the action of being compelled to take the things of ultimate value into the private world. This repression of public pronouncement of personal faith has created an ...
05.05.2020 All Religions Are Exclusive While being interviewed by a National Public Radio host Ravi Zacharias was asked why Christianity is so exclusive. Ravi proceeds to answer the charge by examining the claims of other major religions including the Bahá'í faith which is supposedly the ...
05.04.2020 The Danger of Losing a Sense of Shame Ravi Zacharias relates the answer that convicted serial killer Ted Bundy gave when asked if he experienced any guilt for the murders he committed. Bundy's shocking response showed that he had no point of reference for guilt and it is ...
05.01.2020 A Coherent Worldview Ravi Zacharias defines the four main questions of life: origin, meaning, morality and destiny and the answers to these questions can determine if a worldview is coherent. Listen to today's Thought as he describes how they are are answered most ...
04.30.2020 Who Are You? In the Old Testament story of Jacob's life we see a man that is running from the consequences of his actions until God literally grabbed a hold of him. God then asks an important question of Jacob that can apply ...
04.28.2020 Infused With Meaning Because of Hope Having an eternal perspective can have an effect on all of life's meaning and purpose. Listen to today's program as Ravi Zacharias explains what it is that gives our lives purpose.
04.27.2020 A Painting of Significance in Your Heart In today's Just A Thought, Ravi Zacharias describes an image of God as a painter and our hearts as canvas on which He is creating a masterpiece. Listen as this imaginative wordscape draws your attention to the wonderful work of ...
04.24.2020 Would It Make a Difference? Dennis Prager, a Jewish thinker and talk show host, presents an interesting question while debating Jonathan Glover, an Atheist from Oxford. Ravi Zacharias relates what Dennis says and summarizes the reality of living out a worldview and its consequences.
04.23.2020 The Answer of God G.K. Chesterton, an early 20th century apologist, said "God is like the sun, you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else." Ravi Zacharias uses this statement to illustrate how man's search for meaning cannot ...
04.22.2020 Scholarship Without Heart Citing a quote from C.S. Lewis, Ravi Zacharias describes a serious spiritual condition where people become so focused on the promotion of God's existence that they entirely miss the heart of the message. Listen as he describes this condition on ...
04.21.2020 Asleep in the Storm We find the prophet Jonah in a ship on the sea in the middle of a storm running from God's will for his life and what is he doing? He is sleeping. Ravi Zacharias exclaims that many believers today are ...
04.20.2020 Suppressing the Evidence When it comes to proof for God's existence, the book of Romans declares that it is not the lack of evidence but rather man's suppression of that evidence that is the problem. Ravi Zacharias explores this concept with an illustration ...
04.17.2020 Commended for the Good When communicating the truth of the Bible to people of a different worldview be careful not to belittle or humilate them in an effort to show the error of their belief. This advice is something that Ravi Zacharias has lived ...
04.16.2020 Volume Substituted for Communication Ravi Zacharias recounts an example of how miss-communication often occurred in his home land of India between an Indian and a tourist trying to get information. From this example Ravi makes a connection between this experience and how christians sometimes ...
04.15.2020 Understanding the Depth of Sin Many people understand the feeling of guilt, but until they understand that they are a sinner they will not be ready for a savior.
04.14.2020 Freedom Is Not Autonomy Ravi Zacharias relates how Prince Phillip the Duke of Edinburgh reacts to the actions of a disrespectful and jeering crowd and applies it to the state of man's freedom. Listen to today's program to hear what he said and Ravi's ...
04.13.2020 Man: A Stranger to Himself Using an illustration from the life and writing of C.S. Lewis, Ravi Zacharias describes how Lewis changed when he realized his approach to good and evil was wrong. Listen to today's program as Ravi describes how the confusion of what ...
04.10.2020 Life Pretending Man is attempting to build a philosophy, society a purpose without understanding that there is a designer and the source of all things: God. Ravi Zacharias describes the end result of this type of self building worldview on today's Thought.
04.09.2020 An Exclusive Message Why is it that when the Christian message of salvation is communicated, specifically that only through Jesus can man be reconciled to God, that some people react with scorn? Ravi Zacharias answers this question on today's Just A Thought.
04.08.2020 The Challenge of Evangelism Ravi Zacharias describes the glimpse of glory that the apostles Peter, James and John saw when they followed Jesus to the top of a mountain, they saw his body transfigured with a heavenly glow as well as seeing Elijah and ...
04.07.2020 Only One Voice: God's Critics of C.S. Lewis day claimed that when he was praying they could only hear one voice and since there was no one responding then he was just imagining that there is a God listening. Ravi Zacharias describes Lewis's response ...
04.06.2020 Preoccupied with Programs The church has struggled with teaching Christians how to share their faith with others. On today's Thought Ravi Zacharias points out how the church has failed in this area and proceeds to describes a better way to teach believers how ...
04.03.2020 The Shadow of Death In an attempt to explain the death of her mother to his young daughter her father found an image that communicated the love of God even during this time of great loss. Listen to today's program as Ravi Zacharias narrates ...
04.02.2020 Grace Giver Annie Johnston Flint was a famous hymn writer and her hymns of praise to God are born out of a life of pain. Listen to today's Thought as Ravi Zacharias recites some of the lines of one of her hymns ...
04.01.2020 Seeing Yourself As Who You Are Genesis chapter 32 verses 22-28 describe how Jacob wrestles with God and demands a blessing from Him. On today's Thought Ravi Zacharias describes God's requirement of Jacob before He will grant the blessing.
03.31.2020 Selfhood Lost On today's Just A Thought Ravi Zacharias describes the loss of identity when the perspective on our sinful nature is distorted. In this day of videographic immersion and visual panopoly, it takes wisdom informed by our conscience in order to ...
03.30.2020 A Moral Universe Founded on Spiritual Reality Using Joseph's refusal of Potiphar's wife's advances as an example, Ravi Zacharias explains that we live in a moral universe with rules and parameters. When that moral law is broken there are devastating consequences and refusing to acknowledge the existence ...
03.27.2020 The Original Absolute is Lost When dealing with different faiths where so called original absolutes regarding the faith can be overwritten by later revelation it precludes a philosophical argument. Ravi Zacharias describes this concept on today's Thought.
03.26.2020 The Impossible Challenges of Islam Ravi Zacharias describes the challenges that have been presented to him by members of the Islamic faith in attempting to prove that Islam is true.isl
03.25.2020 A Disappointed Job In the book of Job, God didn't just answer Job's questions in a propositional way, but in an experiential way. Find out how this was much more meaningful on today's Thought.
03.24.2020 Created Equal with Inalienable Rights The founding document of the United States begins with a statement which declares that human beings are created equal and have certain inalienable rights not to be limited by the government. Ravi Zacharias points to the basis for this idea ...
03.23.2020 The Shortest Route is Not Always the Best Route God used the experience of the wandering of the Israelites for 40 years in the desert to teach them three life principles. Listen to today's Thought as Ravi Zacharias explains what those three principles were.
03.20.2020 Problems and Mysteries "The problem of evil is not one that you have to solve, it is one that you have to resolve." Listen to today's Thought as Ravi Zacharias explains his statement.

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