PART 1 – THE CASE FOR GOD

Does God Really Exist or Are We Just Making This Up?

  1. The Universe is Not InFinite

  2. The Universe is Finite

  3. The Universe Was Caused…by an Infinite State of Affairs

  4. Five Questions to Ask

PART 2 – THE CASE FOR A PERSONAL, INFINITE GOD

What Kind of God Is It That Exists?

  1. Infinite, Everlasting, Spirit, Unique, and One

  2. Perfect, Unchangeable, Personal, and Good

  3. Omnipresent, Omniscient, and Omnipotent

PART 3 – A SKEPTIC'S VIEW OF THE UNIVERSE

Isn’t Chance Wonderful? We Are Just Creatures of Chance Aren’t We?

  1. “Goldilocks” Variables (1-4) Necessary for Earth’s Habitability

  2. “Goldilocks” Variables (5-9) Necessary for Earth’s Habitability

  3. Life and Our Solar Home

  4. Life Elsewhere in Our Galaxy

  5. Necessity, Chance, or Design?

  6. Case Study against Guillermo Gonzales and The Privileged Planet

  7. Is Intelligent Design a Discredited Science?

PART 4 – HE IS THERE AND HE IS NOT SILENT

The Birth and Spread of the Jesus Movement

  1. The 1st Century Early Church Grassroots Movement

  2. Turning Back to a Vibrant Jesus Movement

PART 5 – WHERE THE WEST BEGAN TO TURN OFF

Christendom and Institutionalisation of the Jesus Movement

  1. Augustine and the Slide into Platonism, and Institutionalism (1st-3rd Century)

  2. Augustine, Christo-Platonic Spirituality, and Amillennial Eschatology (4th Century)

  3. Ireland’s Patrick’s Centrifugal Rather than the Roman Church’s Centripetal Approach to Mission (5th Century)

  4. The Spread of the Celtic Centrifugal-Mission and its Contrast with Roman Centripetal-Cultural Institutionalism (5th to 8th Century)

  5. The Constantinian Shift, the 6th to 8th Century Dark Ages, the Rise of the Institutional Roman Church, and the Suppression of the Celtic Christian Movement

  6. The 10th Century Rise of the Holy Roman Empire and the Middle Ages Roman Church’s Increase in Power

  7. The 11th to 13th Century Roman Church Use of Coercive Power

  8. 11th to 14th Century Cracks in Roman Church Imperial Power:

    Taxes, Early Renewal Movements, and the Avignon Papacy

  9. 13th Century Thomas Aquinas, Scholasticism, Islam, and Aristotle

  10. 14th Century Renaissance, Christian Humanism, and Secular Humanism

  11. 15th and 16th Century Widening Cracks in Roman Church Imperial Power:

    Late Middle Ages Renewal Movements