RZIM: Just a Thought Broadcasts

In today's Just A Thought Ravi Zacharias urges everyone to listen to the Yale graduate address of Václav Havel, the first President of the Czech Republic. He was a poet, dissident and statesmen who had previously lived under an atheistic regime and then became the leader of that country. Listen today to find out his challenge to those students to gain wisdom from the lesson's his country learned the hard way.

From his experience of speaking to students on university campuses in the West Ravi Zacharias makes a statement about how the relevance of his talk is perceived by their professors. It is often derided as irrelevant vestiges of religious practices no longer required for the students to attend. However, there is a corollary to this particular attitude and the failings of other cultures as Ravi relates in today's Thought.

God used the experience of the wandering of the Israelites in the desert to teach them three life principles. Listen to today's Thought as Ravi Zacharias explains what those three principles were.

Ravi Zacharias describes the character and patience of a friend of his with whom he has traveled. He relates a specific experience where their baggage did not arrive with them on a flight and the grace with which his friend handled the inconvenience.

Ravi Zacharias tells of personal conversations with people where they confess to making a mess of their life, following a pattern of sin and once realizing it, wondering how they got off track. From this experience he has a warning for believers on today's Thought.

"What would God want us to know at a time such as this in a changing world?" This is the question that Ravi Zacharias asks himself when preparing to speak. In today's program he talks about the privilege of sharing God's word to the world.

While presenting to an open forum in Iowa a medical doctor had one question after Ravi Zacharias' presentation: "I wonder what he is like in his private life?". This one question is a challenge to all Christ followers to practice what they believe and preach.

Back in his early ministry Ravi Zacharias had an opportunity to speak in Vietnam to the American troops and the Vietnamese. It was in the summer of 1971 during the Vietnam war and his ministry took place during a revival in that country. Listen today as he relates a poem written by a soldier who became a believer at that time.

God created each person individually unique and it is not His intention for anyone to try and be somebody else. Ravi Zacharias describes just how important this concept is on today's Thought.

While on a trip to the Philippines Ravi Zacharias was confronted by someone from the audience that shouted "everything is meaningless". On today's Thought hear how Ravi answered this man and how his answer led to a changed life for this individual.