References:
(1) New MAHA report claims ‘alarming increases’ in child chronic conditions.
(2) The report states there has been a RISE in childhood chronic disease. It IDENTIFIES poor diet, chemical exposure, lack of physical activity, and medical over prescription of drugs — what the report calls “overmedicalization” — as key drivers of deteriorating child health.
(3) Children absorb thousands of SYNTHETIC CHEMICALS through the foods they eat, the water they drink, and the air they breathe. Pesticides, microplastics, and dioxins are commonly found in the blood and urine of American children and pregnant women — some at alarming rates.
(4) Stimulant prescriptions for ADHD in the US increased 250% from 2006 to 2016, and antidepressant prescription rates in teens increased by 1400% between 1987 to 2014.
(5) The usual procedure in the development of a THEOLOGY is to present, first of all, a discussion of God and we have been doing that from the inception of this program.
(6) J. Warner Wallace’s podcast “Cold Case Christianity.
(7) Wallace asks people when he goes to speak at a Christian church: “What do you believe about Christianity?” Almost without exception he gets the same 3 answers: (a) My family raised me to believe in Christ. Or they might say my friends, or my culture believed in Christianity. That, of course, is a reasonable answer. (b) I had an experience that convinced me that Christianity made sense. (c) I used to be a jerk, but I had an experience concerning Christ that TRANSFORMED my life.
(8) We cannot talk about Jesus being the SON of God, the Bible being the WORD of God, and miracles being the ACTS of God unless first God EXISTS. So I gave several arguments for God’s existence. I extended the Kalam Argument to show that the first cause of the universe is identical to the God of the Bible.
(9) The primary proposition for the Christian, his ULTIMATE ACT of faith, is the Person of Jesus Christ. It is here that the Christian finds a SECURE PLACE TO STAND. Jesus is our FIRM FOUNDATION, our SOLID GROUND, our ground zero. To change the metaphor, Jesus of Nazareth is the CENTER, the HUB around which all things Christian revolve.
This is Episode 225.