We just finished the sermon series All Grown Up at Covenant which was based on Andy Stanley's sermon series Who Needs God.
This series was received so well at Covenant I thought I would offer a summary of each message over the course of several blog entries.
The idea of the series is that we need a "grown up" faith to go along with living in a "grown up" world. We need "grown up" answers to our "grown up" questions. In an adult world we need adult answers to our adult questions. The answers we have carried with us from childhood don't always withstand the rigor and experience of adult life.
The idea of the series is that we need a "grown up" faith to go along with living in a "grown up" world. We need "grown up" answers to our "grown up" questions. In an adult world we need adult answers to our adult questions. The answers we have carried with us from childhood don't always withstand the rigor and experience of adult life.
The first week was called Atheism 2.0. We referenced several books by modern atheists that have shaped the nature of atheism in our world today. Books like A Letter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris, The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins and God is not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchens.
By discussing what we don't believe it can help clarify what we do believe and why. So we shared six belief's shared by atheists and discussed them:
1. The Illusion of the Mind
2. The Illusion of Freewill
3. The Illusion of Value
4. Something Came from Nothing
5. First Life Emerged from no Life with no Help
6. Natural Selection is Responsible for All Life after First Life
1 Peter 3:15 reminds us: Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect.
I don't know about you, but for me, thinking through what atheists believe in a respectful way helps bring clarity to what I believe and why.
For the full message video click here.
By discussing what we don't believe it can help clarify what we do believe and why. So we shared six belief's shared by atheists and discussed them:
1. The Illusion of the Mind
2. The Illusion of Freewill
3. The Illusion of Value
4. Something Came from Nothing
5. First Life Emerged from no Life with no Help
6. Natural Selection is Responsible for All Life after First Life
1 Peter 3:15 reminds us: Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect.
I don't know about you, but for me, thinking through what atheists believe in a respectful way helps bring clarity to what I believe and why.
For the full message video click here.
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