Topics include: Practical ways to use the single years to grow closer to God, pursue your calling, and improve your relationships.

Purity and Truth

Teen Camp Session 8: God’s R-O-M-A-N-C-E for singles

Topics Include: God’s word on love, romance, and commitment; romance: The permanence of the glue and the power of the flame; the importance of being faithful to your spouse even before you meet.

Teen Camp Session 7: God's Design for Sex and Romance

Heidi and I share our love story and the lessons we learned along the way. God can be trusted to write an amazing love story!

Teen Camp Session 6: Our Story: Love Comes Loudly

Topics: What must I do to be saved? What is saving faith? Why did Jesus have to die on the cross?

Teen Camp Session 5: What Is the Gospel Message?

Session 4: Who is Jesus…God or Fraud? Topics: Do we have historically reliable information on Jesus? Was Jesus a lunatic, liar, or who He claimed to be? Did Jesus really rise from the dead? Or were his disciples deceived or deceivers? If God became a man, what would that look like?

Teen Camp Session 4: Who is Jesus…God or Fraud?

If God wrote a book, what characteristics would it have? Reliable guide to history, fulfilled prophecies, accurate insight into life, unified themes, enduring, and life changing power? The Bible fits each of these descriptions. In this podcast I look at evidence for the divine inspiration of the Bible, and how to use your hand to remember seven categories of evidence (credit to Greg Koukl  for the original idea). I also briefly examine if we have accurate copies of the original texts or if thousands of years of copying by hand distorted the text.

Teen Camp Session 3: Is the Bible God’s Word?: The Handbook of Proofs for Divine Inspiration

I look at some evidence for the existence of God, but also tackle some of the emotional arguments that are used to deny God's existence.

Teen Camp Session 2: Does God exist? and the Problem of Evil

The next 9 podcasts are a series of talks I gave at a Teen Camp in the States in 2015. This first one examines the issues of truth and beliefs. Why should we believe anything? Is religion a private matter that may be true for you but not for me? These are critical issues that will determine your destiny. 

Teen Camp Session 1: Does Truth Matter?

Session 9 “The Plight of the Lost.” Topics: Why evangelize? How does the Bible tell us to witness? The emptiness of those who are outside of Christ. How does God see the non-believer?

Personal Evangelism Session 9: “The Plight of the Lost.”

Session 8: “How to memorize Scripture” Topics: New techniques that are guaranteed to make scripture memory easier, and help with longer retention.

Personal Evangelism Session 8: “How to memorize Scripture”

Session 7 “Dealing with objections” Topics: Strategies for dealing with common objections. Concise apologetics arguments that work in real life conversations. Objections covered, “There is no God.” “How can there be a God when there is so much evil in the world?” “Jesus was just a myth.” “The Bible is a man-made book full of contradictions.” “God won’t send anyone to hell.” “The church is full of hypocrites.”

Personal Evangelism Session 7 “Dealing with objections”

Session 6 “Dealing With Doubt” Topics: My personal journey with doubt and the truths that strengthened my faith.

Personal Evangelism Session 6: “Dealing With Doubt”

Session 5 “The Ambassadors methods.” Topics: How questions can move people farther along than answers will. Questions that can turn conversations toward spiritual ideas. Conversation starters.

Personal Evangelism Session 5: “The Ambassadors methods”

Session 4 “Worldview Awareness” Topics: What is a worldview? Objective Truth vs. Subjective Truth. Worldview and Evangelism. False Worldviews. Strategies for discerning and exposing a false worldview.

Personal Evangelism Session 4: “Worldview Awareness”

 Session 3 “What do they hear?” Topics: The importance of listening in evangelism. Overcoming the language barrier. How worldviews and past experiences affect how our message is perceived. Communication skills that are critical to evangelism.

Personal Evangelism Session 3: “What do they hear?”

Exploring and declaring the goodness of God, through church history, apologetics, and personal stories.