Summit Ministries

On July 4, about 60 high school teenagers will complete a two-week intensive training program at Liberty University sponsored by Summit Ministries. Students attending the Summit program learn from national experts about significant religious, moral, cultural, legal and political issues. They learn about the Christian worldview and how to reason from a Christian intellectual perspective.

Summit Ministries, based near Colorado Springs, Colorado, endeavors to educate Christian youth about today's post-Christian culture and to equip them with the practical knowledge and tools necessary to stand firm in their faith. During its summer program, Summit offers comprehensive lectures by leading experts on a variety of topics, including apologetics, history, theology and popular culture. Students learn how to articulate a reasoned and biblically sound Christian response on issues such as abortion, postmodernism and popular culture. Summit has dual goals of instilling in those students a steadfast Christian worldview and a meaningful understanding of why they believe what they believe.

During this two-week program, Mathew D. Staver, Founder of Liberty Counsel and Dean of Liberty University School of Law, conducted a three-hour interactive dialogue with the eager students in the Supreme Courtroom at Liberty University School of Law. Staver covered topics that included abortion, marriage and the Foundations of Law. Over the course of the two weeks, the students learned from leading national experts such as Dr. Ergun Caner, President of Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary and Graduate School, Dr. Gary Habermas, an expert on apologetics at Liberty University, and many others.

For more information about Liberty University School of Law, visit www.law.liberty.edu.

Lightbearers is a one or two semester video-based curriculum for 8th grade designed to help students clearly understand the tenets of the Christian worldview, and how they compare to the tenets of the leading humanistic worldviews of our day. Students will learn how to apply their Christian faith to every area of life: theology, philosophy, ethics, biology, sociology, psychology, law, politics, economics, and history.

Note: Ships at the end of July.

Popular Culture: How Should A Christian Respond?

Francis Schaeffer once wrote that the secular philosophies of intellectuals filter down to the general population through the arts, becoming what we call "popular culture." Thus, pop culture is the prevailing worldview expressed primarily through blockbuster movies, best-selling novels, "top-forty" music, highly rated television shows, the visual arts, and advertising.

Why Are Evangelicals So Easily Deceived? [Guest: Dr. Albert Mohler]

In Culture Shift, Dr. Mohler touches on the many issues we face in 2008 America: Christian engagement in the public square, the public educational system, the Supreme Court, the softening of our culture, terrorism, torture, poverty, racism, abortion, same-sex marriage, and much more.

A book that is meant to inform and educate Christians of the biblical worldview on current issues in an election year is a worthy and necessary undertaking; that Evangelicals in significant number, according to polls, will be enthusiastically voting for a religious humanist in Barack Obama makes one ask the question: Why are Evangelicals so easily deceived?

If you are aged 16-23, you are eligible for The Christian Worldview Essay Contest! Summit Ministries will be awarding a FREE scholarship (i.e. tuition) to one male student and one female student to a two-week Summit Summer Conference at the location of your choice. Wow!

The essay question is: How has a biblical worldview helped you overcome a challenge you have faced or are facing in your life?

The deadline for submission of the essay has been extended to no later than June 30, 2008. The essay should be 500 words or less and emailed to david@davidwheaton.com or mailed to David Wheaton, P.O. Box 401, Excelsior, MN 55331. Please include your full name, address, phone number, email address, age, and sex.