Resources

There's a wealth of quality material out there that will help you investigate and grow in your faith in Jesus. Here's some worth checking out (and they're free!).

Highly Recommended
The Trouble With Christianity (MP3)
A series by Tim Keller, of Redeemer Presbyterian, New York looking at common objections to Christianity
Exclusivity: How can there be just one true religion?
Suffering: If God is good, why is there so much evil in the world?
Absolutism: Don't we all have to find truth for ourselves?
Injustice: Hasn't Christianity been an instrument for oppression?
Hell: Isn't the God of Christianity an angry Judge?
Doubt: What should I do with my doubts?
Literalism: Isn't the Bible historically unreliable and regressive?

God's Plan For Our World
A series by Tom (N.T.) Wright (Bishop of Durham, England) on the wonderful hope in God's plan for our world:
Resurrection and The Future of The World (MP3)
Did Jesus Really Rise from The Dead (Audio and Video links)
Resurrection and the Task of The Church (MP3)
Resurrection and the Calling of the Christian (MP3)
Resurrection and the Calling of the Christian Q&A (MP3)
NT Wright on Hell in Short (Web)

Other Great Resources

N.T. Wright Website
One of the world's foremost New Testament scholars - and he's actually readable and easy to listen to - and very challenging for today's Christians...

Mars Hill Seattle Podcast - Mark Driscoll - Awesome teaching that always focuses on Jesus, he can get up your nose and be funny and right on the money at the same time. Also visit their website (www.marshillchurch.org) and download lots more teaching, check out the series on Jesus' Crucifixion, 'Vintage Jesus' and Genesis! Wow!

Mars Hill Michigan Podcast - Rob Bell (of the Nooma DVD Series) and "Velvet Elvis" fame - great teaching with a creative edge and insight into Hebrew/Jewish worldview that Jesus spoke into.

Christianity Today - online magazine

Relevant - online magazine

Suggestions/comments/feedback welcome. Please let Mike know if any links are broken.

“Jesus’s teaching consistently attracted the irreligious while offending the Bible-believing, religious people of his day.”
— Tim Keller
The Prodigal God

“Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne and I myself have founded great empires; but upon what did these creations of our genius depend? Upon force. Jesus alone founded His empire upon love, and to this very day millions will die for Him...”
— Napoleon Bonaparte

“People think of Jesus as a marginalized Galilean peasant hippie in a dress rockin out to the Spice Girls driving around in the Middle East in a Cabriolet hoping to meet nice people to do aromatherapy with while drinking herbal tea.”
— Mark Driscoll

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