Book Recommendation: Basic Christianity by the late John Stott
In this classic book John Stott explains the basic message of the Christian faith.
You can see the vlog here
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We went to have some conversations last week with students in Delft. We met a Dutch Ph.D. student. When we asked “what do you think about God?” she said that one difficulty she has is the following: if an all-powerful God exists why is then happiness not equally spread? Here some reflections we have
Here are some points we have to include while trying to find a good explanation about this ‘widespread unhappiness’ in our world:
This is an open conversation and we will be happy to hear what you think?
You can watch the vlog here
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MAKE ROOM FOR THOUGHT: Is faith unreasonable?
Students in Leiden here in The Netherlands run a week with talks about the meaning of life.
So they asked me to prepare a talk about the question of faith in relation to reason. My talk was under the general topic of MAKE ROOM FOR THOUGHT. Here then is a summary of my talk in 5 minutes.
We all have the same starting point: we believe something about reality. The real question then is: which view makes more sense? Would like to hear what you think. leave a comment or ask a question. Stay safe!
Some things we cannot change easily, the fact of the corona pandemic and lockdown we are going through is an example. But we can do something about how to respond to this pandemic.
This is a talk I gave at ICF Delft Sunday, October the 6th 2019. With the corona pandemic and the lockdown we experience these passages can bring comfort and strenght. They also can show us how to deal with uncertain times, even with death, with courage and hope.
Talk theme: living with hope and courage whatever may come
We all live our lives without knowing what may happen in the future. All humans are fragile in one way or another. For instance, we cannot avoid death or the death of loved ones. Furthermore, we need to know who we are to be able to live a life free from wrong expectations or the trap of performing to be accepted.
We want to live with values that will help us live a life worth living. Who can help us live with hope and courage during our short and fragile lives?
The Christian faith has an answer to these questions. Our passage this coming Sunday from 1 Thessalonians 4 and 5 talks about
Click below to listen to the talk from about minute 29.
Outline: A Creed. A Meeting. An Identity. A lifestyle.