Resources

DISCLAIMER: Being listed here DOES NOT IMPLY full agreement with everything that might be claimed or held by these ministries or persons. Ask us if you wonder where Pilgrim is at. Also these authors can be found on YouTube, etc. teaching, below are just some of their works.

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Habits to Develop+Tools
Our desires can be shaped by practices, which ultimate change what we love. This is important because what we love drives and motives us like nothing else.

Rituals are basically habit forming acts that can bring about new desires and shape our loves.

There are person and group practices that we can lean into to be transformed into all that God has for us. Below are some we use:

• Bible: Narrative Lectionary - We read one main Bible passage each week in worship (in addition to teaching) then provide daily readings with a ritual on a paper insert. The readings alone are also available here: spiritandtruthpublishing.com/calendar/
  

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Doing Relationships as a Believer

Christians are called to be a new humanity while honouring God-created diversity. How do we do this? We follow Jesus' teachings, having prayed to be filled with His Spirit. We call this peace-making.

Relational wisdom, in essence, is the desire and ability to live out Jesus’ two Great Commandments, namely, to love God with all your heart and to love your neighbor as yourself (Matt. 22:37-39).

Behaviours to learn:

• When to be assertive (vs. passive or aggressive)
  
• How to apologize
  
• Forgiveness (it's about you, not them as much)
  
• Restitution/Restorative Justice
  
• Reconciliation (Forgiveness is NOT reconciliation - a COMMON misunderstanding)
  

Great resources:
Relational Wisdom 360 rw360.org/

• https://rw360.org/getting-to-the-heart-of-conflict/
  
• https://rw360.org/the-four-gs/
  
• https://rw360.org/seven-as-of-a-biblical-confession/
• https://rw360.org/biblical-forgiveness/
  

Dr. Gregory A. Boyd, Lead Pastor Woodlands Hills Church (An Anabaptist Church affiliated with the Baptist General Conference network AKA "Converge Worldwide")

• Priest and Physicist Series
  • Evolution and Reason Greg presents five arguments against the deterministic view
    

• "Sure" Series: When we’re confident, we say we’re sure. When we sort of agree we say, “Yeah… sure.” When faced with the various worldviews and opinions in our society about spirituality and faith, many people say, “Sure. If it works for you, that’s great.”  But Jesus says he’s the only Truth. How can we hold that conviction in our culture of tolerance? How can we navigate the maze of truth with humility and confidence? Join us as we learn how to live at peace in a culture of ambiguity, and maintain a faith we can be sure of.

 

• whchurch.org/sermon_series/sure/
  • Why the Bible?
  • Why God?
  • Why Jesus?
  • What is Faith?
  • What is Truth?
• Helpful books by Dr. Boyd:
  • Letters From A Skeptic: A Son Wrestles with His Father's Questions about Christianity
  • The Jesus Legend: A Case for the Historical Reliability of the Synoptic Jesus Tradition, by Paul Rhodes Eddy (Author), Gregory A. Boyd (Author)
  • Benefit of the Doubt: Breaking the Idol of Certainty
  • Repenting of Religion: Turning from Judgment to the Love of God
  • Across the Spectrum: Understanding Issues in Evangelical Theology, by Gregory A. Boyd and Paul R. Eddy

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Bible Basics
The Bible Project: Amazing short videos all about the Bible, themes, books, etc.

How to Break Through the False Beliefs of Jesus Mythicism

From Atheist to Christian at Yale, Dr. Paul Lim

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Going Deeper - Some Authors To Explore

• Melissa Archer
  • I Was in the Spirit on the Lord's Day
• Sam Chan
  • Evangelism in a Skeptical World: How to Make the Unbelievable News about Jesus More Believable, by Sam Chan and D. A. Carson
• Simon Chan
  • Grassroots Asian Theology: Thinking the Faith from the Ground Up
• Timothy Keller
  • The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism
• C.S. Lewis
  • Mere Christianity
• John Polkinghorne
  • Questions of Truth: Fifty-one Responses to Questions About God, Science, and Belief
• N.T. Wright
  • After You Believe: Why Christian Character Matters
  • Simply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense
  • Simply Jesus: A New Vision of Who He Was, What He Did, and Why He Matters
  • Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church
  • How God Became King: The Forgotten Story of the Gospels

More Apologetics Resources
These are resources referred to us by members.

John Lennox

Does Science Require Faith?
What is the Conflict Between Materialism and Theism?
Is There Evidence of Something Beyond Nature?

Oxford mathematician John Lennox speaks at the Veritas Forum @ Harvard on the topic "Miracles: Is Belief in the Supernatural Irrational?" Lennox explains that naturalism is actually a self-contradictory belief system, such that science actually requires some faith. Full library available AD FREE at http://www.veritas.org/talks. Over the past two decades, The Veritas Forum has been hosting vibrant discussions on life's hardest questions and engaging the world's leading colleges and universities with Christian perspectives and the relevance of Jesus. Learn more at http://www.veritas.org, with upcoming events and over 600 pieces of media on topics including science, philosophy, music, business, medicine, and more!

 Os Guinness

The Forgotten Key to America's Current Crisis Fall 2017
Current Challenges of Humanity Talk at Wesmont College March 2018

Os Guinness is an English author and social critic who speaks about the forgotten key to America's current crisis at this chapel service. To learn more about Os Guinness and view books and resources that he has published, visit http://www.osguinness.com/

Great-great-great grandson of Arthur Guinness, the Dublin brewer, he was born in China in World War II where his parents were medical missionaries. A witness to the climax of the Chinese revolution in 1949, he was expelled with many other foreigners in 1951 and returned to Europe where he was educated in England. He completed his undergraduate degree at the University of London and his D.Phil in the social sciences from Oriel College, Oxford. Os has written or edited more than thirty books with his latest book is Fool’s Talk – The Recovery of Christian Persuasion, which was published by InterVarsity Press in June, 2015. Os has spoken at dozens of the world’s major universities, and spoken widely to political and business conferences on many issues, including religious freedom, across the world. He is currently a senior fellow at the Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics in Oxford, though he still lives with his wife Jenny in the Washington, DC, area.