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Question & Thought for March 31st, 2016!

Question & Thought for March 31st, 2016!

See Ya March!
1. Question – If everything is meaningless, does that mean that that statement has no validity?
2. Thought – I recall an exchange I once had on the campus of the University of the Philippines in Manila. A student from the audience shouted out that everything in life was meaningless. I responded by saying, “You do not believe that.” He promptly retorted, “Yes, I do,” to which I automatically countered, “No, you don’t.” Exasperated, he said, “I most certainly do; who are you to tell me I don’t?” “Then please repeat your statement for me,” I requested. “Everything in life is meaningless,” he stated again without qualification. I said to him, “Please remain standing; this will only take a moment. I assume that you believe your statement is meaningful. If your statement is meaningful then everything is not meaningless. On the other hand, if everything is meaningless, then what you just said is meaningless too. So in effect you have said nothing.” The young man was startled for a moment and even as I left the auditorium, he was pacing the floor muttering, “If everything is meaningless, then….” So it went!
“There are three things that must go right with any argument:
  • The terms must be unambiguous
  • The premises must be true
  • The argument must be logical” (Beyond Opinion by Ravi Zacharias)
 Goodbye Sampa!
rem – I had no knowledge that I had no knowledge.
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Question & Thought for February 25th, 2016!

Question & Thought for February 25th, 2016!
Hi There Thursday!
1. Question – How do you defend your worldview?
2. Thought – The gulf between the two groups of scientists has little to do with conflict between science and religion but everything do to their worldviews. One group espouses naturalism, the other Christian theism. Their conflict is a worldview conflict.
Many teens I talk to about faith say it is the first time an adult has asked them why they believe what they believe. Yet make no mistake: they are learning about God from somewhere. The question is, who are we willing to teach them? (Ravi Zacharias)
“No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good.” (C.S. Lewis)
rem – I had no knowledge that I had no knowledge.
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Question & Thought for February 18th, 2016!

Question & Thought for February 18th, 2016!
Good Thursday Morning!
1. Question – Is the quality of life no different for the believer as well as the unbeliever?
2. Thought – There is no greater example in apologetics than the apostle Paul speaking at Mars Hill. The irony of the talk Paul gave is in the difference in reaction the Easterner has when reading Paul’s address to that of a Westerner. The Easterner is thrilled at how the apostle wove the message starting from where the listeners were to bring them to where he was in his thinking. The average Westerner is quick to point out that few of his hearers responded. Such an attitude says volumes about why the church in the West has been so intellectually weak. To those in the West, the bigger the number of respondents the more replicated the technique. The bigger the statistic, the greater the success. Westerners are enamored by size, largesse, number of hands raised, and so on. When the sun has set on these reports, we seem rather dismayed when statistics show the quality of life of the believer is no different from that of the unbeliever.
Sometime in the 1980s, Christians in the West began to label evangelistic techniques and reconfigure church services to reduce the message to the lowest level of cognition in the audience. As nobly intentioned as that was, the end result was the lowest level of writing and gospel preaching one could imagine. Mass media was brought to aid this purpose, and before long evangelicals were seen to be masters in entertainment and minimalists in thought. As this was happening, the intellectual arenas were being plundered and young minds gradually driven away from their “faith” in the gospel message. Christian are paying our dues today and likely will pay for an entire generation. (Beyond Opinion by Ravi Zacharias)
“Why do we never get an answer when we’re knocking at the door? With a thousand million questions about hate and death and war?” (Justin Hayward)
rem – I had no knowledge that I had no knowledge.
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Question & Thought for February 9th, 2016!

Question & Thought for February 9th, 2016!
Good Tuesday Morning!
1. Question – I didn’t study history in high school or college, as a matter of fact, I could not stand it. Now I know it repeats itself. How do we impress on our youth to learn history, apply it to today so we don’t repeat mistakes we made?
2. Thought – Malcolm Muggeridge once said that all news is old news happening to new people. He was right; even as Solomon said, “There is nothing new under the sun” (Eccl. 1:9) All that has happened before so often happens again. But in quoting that verse, we forget something very important. The people to whom it is happening are new, and the answers, however old, must never stand stale. (Beyond OPINION by Ravi Zacharias)
“Just because the message may never be received does not mean it is not worth sending.” (Segaki)
rem – I had no knowledge that I had no knowledge.
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