Tag Archives: Summit Ministries

Stonestreet: The Sexual Revolution: Its Ideas and Its Victims

Posted on August 5, 2019 by David E Smith

What grounds human dignity? Without the answers that the Christian ideas of inherent dignity and equality provide, the culture turns to sex.

In the first session at the 2019 IFI Worldview Conference, John Stonestreet spoke on what it means to be human. In his second lecture, available here, he speaks on the sexual revolution and how culture has completely sexualized their answer to what it means to be human. After identifying the three major ideas of the sexual revolution, Stonestreet presents the redeemed reality of these ideas in light of the human dignity God has given us.

Please watch and …

Posted in Faith, Sexuality | Tagged BreakPoint, Christian Worldview, Chuck Colson, Colson Center for Christian Worldview, John Stonestreet, Summit Ministries | Comments Off

Worldview Work Isn’t Optional

Posted on April 25, 2018 by David E Smith

Some are saying that Christians have lost the culture. But what if it was never a war to win, instead it was a calling to embrace? If there is an overarching theme for BreakPoint—starting with Chuck Colson and now with Eric Metaxas and me—it’s culture. Specifically, how Christians can understand it, engage it, confront it, even restore it—through the clarity of a Christian worldview. As Brett Kunkle and I explain in our book, “A Practical Guide to Culture,” what we mean by culture is not some mysterious thing cloistered in art museums. No, culture is the…

Posted in Faith, Marriage/Family/Culture | Tagged A Practical Guide to Culture, Alvin Plantinga, Apologetics, Bill Brown, BreakPoint, Brett Kunkle, Christian Living, Chuck Colson, Colson Fellows, Colson Fellows Program, Culture/Institutions, David Noebel, Eric Metaxas, Francis Schaeffer, Gary Phillips, John Stonestreet, Summit Ministries, Worldview | Comments Off

Getting Creative with Education

Posted on October 24, 2017 by David E Smith

Throughout history, Christians have been at the cutting edge of education. It’s time to reclaim that tradition.

Posted in Education | Tagged Blackstone Fellowship, Chicago Hope Academy, Colson Center, Glenn Sunshine, Hannah More, Impact 360, John Jay Institute, Link Year at Kanakauk, Summit Ministries, William Carey | Comments Off

Apologetics in the Family

Posted on December 26, 2015 by David E Smith

There was a time in my life when I questioned everything. I questioned the existence of God. I questioned the reality of heaven and eternal life. I questioned what it meant to be saved. I had many, many questions. And my dad had to listen to each and every one of them.

Posted in Faith, Marriage/Family/Culture | Tagged Alex McFarland, Apologetics, Sean McDowell, Summit Ministries, Vern Bengston, Worldview | Comments Off