Training Our Minds

Often when we evangelize we don't know exactly how we go about it. But Van Til offers a three-step approach.

When imperialist and secular scientists run their experiments and write their conclusions, they make claims from their own presuppositions. But what are their starting points?

As complex as Scientism may appear, refuting it is a rather simple task. The Achilles heel for Scientism is that it is a philosophy that cannot be verified empirically. Therefore, it fails to meet its own standard.

What is scientism?

Ben Besset begins his fall project at Seventh Reformed Church with a look into how do we know something, and how well do we know it?

What roles does Christ perform? Why does Jesus sometimes say He doesn't know the day or the hour of the end times? Why does He refer to God as His Father? Is Jesus not God? All this and more in this episode!

The Trinity is a complex and difficult concept to understand. Ben defines what it is and offers different ways to defend the doctrine of the Trinity from the many worldviews trying to attack it.

This is one of the greatest proofs we have on the authenticity of Scripture that talks about one of the prophecies of Scripture being fulfilled. We also talk about one of the controversies regarding the difference between the time of the crucifixion in Mark's gospel and the time of Jesus' trial in John's gospel.

"My sister has spinal meningitis. They do not think she will live past Easter. What kind of a God is this?"

Let's say that you were given this statement by a friend. Do you pound them with theological principles right away? Give them scripture? Or just listen to them? How should a reformed Christian evangelize a person in grief? Find out on this episode of Training Our Minds.

"Persuasion happens not in the abstract but in the particular. Our social imaginary shapes the way we experience the world, interpret events, reason, and make decisions. Yet many apologists still give only a polite nod, if that, to the social imagination of the late moderns."

~ The Augustine Way by Chatraw and Allen