RZIM: Just a Thought Broadcasts

Ravi Zacharias relates a story about a student who had a moral dilemma regarding the choice of writing the truth about the content of Ravi's lecture and receiving a bad grade or writing a review with conclusions that she knew would please her professor. In this world of challenging worldviews the art of critical thinking is an essential skill.

Through the mass and social media this culture's corrupted values are assailing the lives of children. It is imperative that we recognize and counteract this influence in our children to help them cope with these attacks against their morals.

Ravi Zacharias makes the observation that since the thoughts and ideas of one person like a Hitler or Stalin can have such an impact on our world, how much more will the influence of the many voices of this culture have on our children.

Ravi Zacharias quotes poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge regarding the power of lessons learned from history. Ravi proceeds to challenge us to apply those lessons to our families and to our nation.

Ravi Zacharias delves into the claim Jesus Christ made that he would rise again from the dead in three days. Ravi points to how the specific claim of a bodily resurrection is a stronger proof of Christ's deity than prophesying a spiritual resurrection.

The nature of God is revealed to us in the trinity, God is a being in relationship. Find out the impact of understanding that concept and how it brings meaning and purpose to our lives on today's Thought.

Even as His life caused Pontius Pilate, the thief on the cross and the women at the well to testify to the purity and truth found in Jesus Christ. Ravi Zacharias challenges us with the thought that to live life the way it was meant to be is to follow Christ's example.

Jesus' life was such a clear reflection of God that his short 3 years of ministry has profoundly impacted history and continues to affect our lives today. Ravi Zacharias points to a quote by a skeptic emphasizing this very point on today's Just A Thought.

Ravi Zacharias relates a story from Jim Bakker, the disgraced tele-evangelist, being visited in prison by Billy Graham and the impactful image of that encounter demonstrating the love of God for sinners.

In Mahatma Gandhi's home is a banner with a quote from Bertrand Russell regarding the impact that the gospel message had in preparing the conscience of the Indian people. Ravi Zacharias explains the full quote and the juxtaposition of 3 worldviews represented in this particular scene.