The Consequences of Ideas

As Christians we are not without answers to life's most fundamental questions. We have God's Word to supply those answers for us. But how have others tried to resolve those ultimat...

Unaided by Scripture, the pre-Socractic philosophers embarked on a quest for ultimate reality. How did we get here? What is the source of all things? What gives reality purpose and...

What are you and what are you becoming? Are you the same person you were ten years ago? If not, then who are you? How can we be the same but different? Apply these questions to the...

What happened to virtue? What happened to truth? Is all hope lost in the realm of science, politics, and our court system? These are questions we ask ourselves today, but actually,...

All of us should know what a person is when we see one. But if you were asked to give a definition of a person that captured the essence of personhood to the exclusion of all other...

What is the difference between opinion and knowledge? Everyone has an opinion about something. But what is that opinion based on? Perhaps we don't really know anything, but rather,...

Why do acorns produce oak trees instead of something else? It may seem like a ridiculous question to our biblically informed ears, but the early philosophers of the ancient world w...

What is the necessary instrument for knowledge? What instrument is employed to make sense of it all? How does knowledge enter the mind? How is it interpreted? In this message, Dr....

In Christian thought, we derive our being from the ultimate personal, rational, and volitional Being—God. But not everyone assumes that the God who exists is a being. Continuing th...

Many times we realize when our senses fail us, but how many times have they failed us, and we didn't know it? How can we be sure we can trust our senses? Pondering these questions...

Is God the greatest conceivable being you can think of? Of course He is. But how do we prove the God of our thinking is actually a being in reality? Early Christian thinker, Anselm...

You can't read about human DNA in the Bible and you can't study God's plan of redemption under a microscope. Does that mean science and faith contradict each other? Are there two d...

When we think about the awesome nature of God, we may be tempted to say the words can't describe it. Is God so far above us that He transcends all human language? How does the know...

It seems that in our day, people choose the authority of science and philosophy over theology. But this is not a new thing. The seeds were planted long ago in Western thought durin...

With all the opposing ideas in the world, how do you know which ones are right? How do know your thoughts are any closer to the truth than someone else's? Are you sure you thought...

Many times a day, we think about doing things without actually doing those things. Then we have thoughts that manifest themselves in action. The question before us is how does thou...

If God is perfect, how can His handiwork be so imperfect? How can a good God create a world with evil in it? These questions are not at all new in the world of philosophy. Many hav...

Often we use our imagination as a means of temporary escape from the pressures of life. We dream of an ideal world in which we are free from pain, suffering, and even death. But Po...

If you were to catalogue every piece of knowledge that is stored in your mind, you would realize that you know more than you know. But how did all that knowledge get there? Was it...

How do you know what is real? If you are relying on your five senses to supply you with an answer, remember, there are many things in this world that cannot be seen, heard, or tast...

What is the color of anything when the lights are out? As we try to understand the material world around us, how much can we rely on our senses? Questions like these occupied the m...

If a tree falls in the forest and there is no one there to hear it, does it still make a sound? You've probably heard that question before and you just might have passed it off as...

It has happened countless times in your life. You woke up and the grass was wet from the rain the night before, or so you thought. How do know the rain caused the wetness on the gr...

Philosopher David Hume has caused many to rethink the law of causality. In essence, he concluded that we cannot really know the true causes of the effects we perceive in our world....

Kingdoms rise and fall. This fact of life has been proven again and again throughout world history. If we could only learn from history, perhaps we can finally find a way to sustai...

During the Enlightenment, many minds were at work to rid society of religion. One way was to disregard Scripture and use only what is observed in nature and deduced by reason as th...

Where is the beginning of knowledge? What must be in order for knowledge to be? Most of us don't ponder questions like these, but philosophers like Immanuel Kant did. In the eighte...

Do our speculations about God lead us into the realm of contradictions? Is it possible to rationally come to the conclusion that God exists from our findings in the phenomenal real...

The traditional view of God is that He is a perfect being. In fact, one early church theologian described God as the most perfect being, for lack of a better term. But later the id...

Are you a productive member of society? Are you getting a fair wage for your work? Sometimes it seems that the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. Is there something wrong wit...

During a moment of existential decision, have you ever passionately committed yourself to the Christ of Scripture? This is probably not a question you have heard before, yet it is...

Where do you find your meaning? If you are a Christian, then you know it comes from God. Yet many people believe that meaning and purpose do not come from God. So what is their ans...

What is it that truly makes you human? What is the greatest threat to your humanness? Anthropology, the study of man, is anything but a unified discipline. Where we end up with our...

You don't need to be master logician to feel the weight of the question. If everything must have a cause, then what caused God, and what caused the cause that caused God? Before we...

Philosophies such as positivism, pragmatism, pluralism, and relativism have been let loose to roam the halls of our schools, workplaces, and, yes, even our churches. So how do we d...