Tag Archives: apologetics

Equip Kids with Answers to Faith Challenges

“Oh, well, that is what you believe.” Have you heard that with a patronizing dismissal? Do you understand that suggestion that your Biblical commitments are marginalized? That you should be ashamed? That they can be explained by….your socialization, lack of education or whatever? If you can’t answer this challenge, how will your child?

Have you ever worried if your child could stand up to an atheist professor? To a supposed role model? To a really bright, but challenging friend?

Have you ever wondered what was taught in and around the school? What values might be creeping in via media of all kinds?

Did you know that those under 18 are the least likely to say they are Christians? Did you know that pastors are often baffled why young people today sit in a stupified way, untouched by the gospel, until they realize the amount of porn sewage coming across the young person’s phone.

It doesn’t take porn. It doesn’t take active choices. Just the value system taught in public schools and colleges often challenge faith.

If your faith is farther from the Bible than your parents, think how much farther from the Bible is your kids.

What to do? I have the answers! Nine, in fact. Listen to my series of Nine + Answers to the most common challenges to the Christian faith in today’s world. I give you a short synopsis of the value set and an answer to it. All in short audio segments.

Be sure and purchase the entire set. For nine CDs, mailed to you, so you can keep and share, it is only $30.00. However, if you send my a check to Sharon Sarles / The Great Shalom P.O. Boc 971 Cedar Park Texas 79630 before October the 1st, I will slash the price in half. Only $15.00. And I will pay the shipping and handling. That is how vital I think it is to get this information out.

In some Christian schools, they do teach a class called Apologetics. I am sure some of these are really great. Personally, I feel that most apologetics classes in college are more academic and dealing more with questions asked over time, rather than the questions most posed today. Worse, most of the courses that I have actually seen have been limited to high school and are so watered down as to be useless. First, we have serious challenges in today’s culture, unlike any other. Second, children need these answers long before they are juniors in high school. Thirdly, they need to be couched in modern, personal terms rather than made to sound silly, boring, or course-like. So this 9+ part series is vital for any Christian home.

Even the adults, faced with the same challenges will want to hear this series. This month, half price.

But that is not all. There are bonuses.
First, a CD discussing the importance of Sunday School/Children’s Church and how to evaluate program in which to place your child.
Then, there is a prayer CD, where I lead mothers, grandmothers, whoever, in prayer for their children and the children of this nation.
And THRID, is a tenth CD discussing yet another answer.

It is a deal. Send $15.00 today to P.O. Box 971 Cedar Park, Texas 78630, being sure to let me know your address!

Imagine how good you will feel when that slick, smart sounding bully doesn’t close down your kid. With these 19, no 10, answers, you and your children will have an answer for the hope that is within you.

Be sure to share this offer with others. Let them know. This is vital information for right now. Have an answer for the hope that is within you.

Recommended book:

    How to Not Lose Your Faith in College

by Sharon Sarles, available about on www.lulu.com

Explaining Political Correctness

We have heard now for 20 years the term “political correctness.”  We know that liberals promote speech that is politically correct. We know that conservatives say the term with disdain. Liberals hear that and sort of shake their heads, thinking; right. you should be correct. That is what we are talking about. It is a clash of values, I think people know that but no one really understands the other side.  Here I am going to try to explain to both sides so that there can be progress.

Conservative, the liberal is promoting what they think is right, correct. So, what you need to realize is that what you are promoting as right is not comprehensible to the liberal. Either on one point, you have been lumped together with others incorrectly. For instance, they think you beat your wife and discriminate against women and so your calling God He sounds to them like promoting that. If that is not true, you need to clarify. However, on some points it is exactly what you ARE suggesting, you just have not made yourself clear. Why, for instance, is it better for society and for homosexal people that they refrain from sexuality. They have not heard you make a reasoned argument and think it is YOU who is closed minded.

Liberal, when the conservative Christian (and obviously not all conservatives are Christians and not all Christians are consevative politically) say “political correctness” with disdain, it is derisive because it is unimaginable to them how some modern upstart could suggest that their values, newly innovated and untested  — or tested with bad results — could be imposed upon other people over and above the ancient, wholesome values given by God, the majority religion and founding religion in this country — and often from all religions.  The hubris is beyond comprehension.

It is even unimaginable politically. In a democracy, let along a republic, how is it that a handful of intelligensia on one far side of the political spectrum impose their will on the rest? Without reasoned discussion?

When the elite oppress others for very long, eventually the rabble get restive. Then the elite suggest the rabble are only animals. This is what the liberals are doing. It is just that they don’t see it. They have no mirror. Conservatives are not communicating well. And of course, it is pretty hard, given that the media normally choose the worst, silliest  representative. Equal time went out the window a long time ago.  Narrow casting, now on steriods, has taken over.

So it is time that each of us become an agologist — giving a reasoned or impassioned — answer for the hope within us. It is difficult, I know.  We have faced so much discrimination in the workplace, in education, in the marketplace, in the media, and often in our family for so many decades. But freedom costs lives. Just as grandparents went to war in a literal way, and just as our brothers and sisters are decapitated across the globe, it is time to stand and speak and face the giant, the furnace — and our Lord standing up from His throne to greet us.

Great teaching on Christianity and Islam by Ravi Zacharias

Islam and Christianity:
The Points of Tension
(CD)
Ravi Zacharias
$9.00 (One CD)

The long-simmering tensions between Christianity and Islam have escalated to alarming and often dangerous levels. But outside of fiery rhetoric, how does the Christian worldview most effectively engage Islamic thought? For an exhilarating hour, Ravi Zacharias defines the differences and clarifies many of the fundamental positions of Christian apologetics in response to Islamic challenges. Delivered in the Middle East, this is an important presentation that could truly change the way you think about the world’s most critical issues.