Helping Your Freshman Survive His First Year in College: A Radio Interview

On the heels of the TGC video I did on surviving a university religion class, I have had an influx of inquiries into this topic. People have been asking all sorts of questions about how to prepare their high school student for what’s to come, or how to encourage their college student in the midst of struggles.

Last Thursday, I was invited to a radio interview with Chris Fabry Live on Moody radio in Chicago (which is nationally syndicated).  We had a fascinating discussion on this topic, and had folks call in from all over the country with their questions.  Here is what appeared on the moody radio website, …

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How Is the Authority of the New Testament Being Attacked Today (and What Can We Do About It)?

I recently spent some time in Chattanooga speaking to various groups about the authority of Scripture.  I spoke to college students from RUF at the University of Tennessee (Chattanooga) and Covenant College about “Five Misconceptions about the Origins of the New Testament.”

Then I spoke to Alternate Seminary on “How Do We Know the Bible is God’s Word?”  Alternate Seminary is doing some great work training African American pastors and leaders. Here is a twitter post from my visit there:

Then I gave two lectures …

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One of the Best Apologetics Books in Years

Every once in a while a book is published that is so helpful, so original, and so needed, that it makes one wonder, Why was this book not written before now?  James Anderson, associate professor of theology and philosophy here at RTS Charlotte, has written such a book: What’s Your Worldview? An Interactive Approach to Life’s Big Questions (Crossway, 2o14).

This is a wonderful little book for a number of reasons. (1) Target audience. Although this book is certainly for Christians, it has a strong evangelistic thrust to it.  It is designed to be given to non-Christians.  (2) Methodology: Anderson has written this book from a presuppositional …

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