My Topics

  • Blah, Blah, Blah: Making Sense of the World's Spiritual Chatter. A simple, fun and entertaining weekend seminar on the concept of worldview and how to identify the six basic worldviews, with the goal of helping people be more confident, effective public representatives of Christian faith in our increasingly pluralistic culture.
  • The One, the Many and the Few: Shadow Apologetics. Introduces a non-exahaustive way to approach presenting Christian faith in a skeptical culture (45 - 60 minutes).
  • The Power of Saying, "I Don't Know." In a pluralistic culture, how the stance of humility about what you don't know is as important as what you can affirm on the basis of your experience in Christ and what God has said in the Bible (45 - 60 minutes)
  • Earn the Right to be Heard. How knowing worldviews is critical for evangelizing in our culture (45 - 60 minutes).
  • Getting Past Being a Christian to Becoming a Human Being. A double-edged title referring to the box people put Christians in and the box Christians put themselves into; suggests that our identity as humans created in the image of God gives us a tremendous bridge for sharing the gospel (45 - 60 minutes).
  • Cut out the Jibberish -- Cut to the Chase. How religious labels can be misleading and misused by both non-Christians and Christians (45 - 60 minutes).
  • If it Walks Like a Duck. Shows how your worldview is more important than whatever religion or philosophy you profess (45 - 60 minutes).
  • The Worldview Mantra. What all worldviews have in common (45 - 60 minutes).
  • Virus Alert! How knowing a few simple worldviews can help you detect "viruses" in any cult, philosophy or religion (45 - 60 minutes).
  • The White-Hot Core. Using the concept of worldview, discerning the central Christian affirmations through the centuries(45 - 60 minutes).
  • Mainstreams of Christian Faith. A brief summary of 2000 years of Christian history with emphasis on the main branches of Christian faith (45 - 60 minutes).
  • Where did the Denominations Come From? What everybody wants to know but is afraid to ask (45 - 60 minutes).
  • The PC Buzz Saw. How it's not just one issue at a time that students must deal with in college, but a whole buzz saw of issues (45 - 60 minutes).
  • The Freedom Trail. How we derive democratic principles from the Bible (45 - 60 minutes).
  • The Haunted World vs. the Bible. What the Bible says to the Ancient Near Eastern creation myths (45 - 60 minutes).
  • Pagans R Us. How neo-paganism is rising in our culture and even in the churches (45 - 60 minutes).
  • The Magical Mystery Tour. A really simple primer on postmodernism (45 - 60 minutes).
  • The Two Enlightenments. Why the 17th and 18th century Enlightenment isn't all bad, but isn't all good, either (45 - 60 minutes).
  • 101 Ways to Kill God. How the rules of the dominant worldview in academia work to exclude the possibility of God ever doing anything (45 - 60 minutes).
  • Asking Creative Questions. How to talk with people who do not share your worldview without instantly alienating them (45 - 60 minutes).
  • How to Talk to Absolutely Anybody. How to be a genuine human being -- and yet share your faith with others (45 - 60 minutes).
  • Other topics or timing by mutual agreement.

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