RZIM: Just a Thought Broadcasts

Religious clergy are often caricatured as unsophisticated, uneducated and prejudiced in today's media. Ravi Zacharias points to how this perspective has evolved from the exact opposite years ago to the detriment of the culture on today's Thought.

Why is there so much violence in our world today? Ravi Zacharias describes some ineffective ways in which we deal with violence and theorizes as to the underlying source of its proliferation on today's Thought.

Ravi Zacharias turns to Arch Bishop William Temple who provides an insightful definition of worship that paints a vibrant picture of all the vital components of worshiping the Creator God.

Listen to today's Just A Thought as Ravi Zacharias speaks about the current emphasis on emotional feelings over intellectual thought in this present age. Emotions were designed by God and in today's program Ravi describes the correct perspective on emotions as a part of our human make up.

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 God in our lives.

Matthew and Mark, both biblical gospel writers, relate the triumphal entrance of Jesus into Jerusalem between two significant events in the New Testament account. Listen to today's Thought as Ravi explains how these two significant events relate to the triumphal entrance in a way that emphasizes the power and authority of Christ.

Ravi Zacharias laments the loss of imagination that is occurring when today's young people are bombarded from many sides with so many images. He proceeds to make this point with a quote from William Blake who spoke of the magnificence of the imagination in his famous poem titled "Auguries of Innocence".

Once while speaking at an open forum at the University of Florida, Ravi Zacharias relates how the first question a student stood up and asked was "How do I know if I exist?". Ravi then asked the student if he thought that Ravi existed and he said he wasn't too sure about that either. Listen to today's Thought as he answers this sincere but seemingly confused student.

John Polkinghorne, a professor at Cambridge University and a leading quantum physicist, once speculated on the odds of the accidental origin of the universe. Listen to today's Just a Thought as Ravi Zacharias, a one time student of Dr. Polkinghorne, relates what his professor had to say those odds were.

Using an example of a person in a stopped vehicle who may look at a fixed object such as a lamp post as reference to make sure that they are not moving, Ravi Zacharias describes the necessity of absolutes in life. He proceeds in his illustration to ask the question: "What if the lamp post started moving?"