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Summit Lecture Series

The Existence and Nature of God
As belief in the existence of God is consistently challenged by professors, classmates and others, Francis Beckwith offers a discourse on the self-existence of God. He discusses God's nature as all-powerful and all-knowing and the fact that He is a rational agent.

Loving God with Your Mind 1
In Part 1 of this series, J.P. Moreland begins with an account of how he came to know Jesus as his personal Lord and Savior. Moreland describes the biblical picture of a disciple and discusses the importance of spreading values as ambassadors for Christ.

Loving God with Your Mind 2
Part 2 includes a discussion of learning and knowledge. Moreland offers tools that students may employ to improve the exercise of their minds.

Leadership 1
Speaker Jeff Myers begins this series by sharing his own process of becoming a leader. He challenges students to stop viewing themselves from a humanistic viewpoint and rather view themselves as Christ sees them. Myers describes the meaning of a strategic mission. He continues by sharing examples of leaders in history and how each precipitated change in his generation.

Leadership 2
In Part 2, Myers moves into a discussion of goal setting, servant leadership and what it means to be used by God to influence the world.

Leadership 3
Part 3 concludes this series with a discussion of rationality, faith and the weakness of arguments that are based on assumptions.

Christianity and Scientific Naturalism
J.P. Moreland discusses the worldview of Naturalism. Moreland discusses claims of reality and claims of knowledge, and speaks on the naturalist's belief that the only thing that is real is the physical universe. Moreland goes on to discuss naturalists’ claim of knowledge and the claim that the only way a person can know something is through the proof of science — empiricism. All things have to be explained by the laws of nature. Naturalism is the view that science is the entire search for knowledge. Moreland exposes fallacies in naturalistic thinking, and uses examples in nature to argue that science cannot explain all things in the universe.

Ambassadors for Christ
Gregory Koukl begins this lecture with the words of the apostle Paul in 2 Corinthians 5:20: "Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were entreating through us; we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God." Koukl challenges the students to conduct themselves as worthy representatives of Christ. What kind of qualities does an ambassador possess? Koukl presents these qualities in three categories: knowledge (an accurately informed mind), wisdom (and artful method), and requisite character (an attractive manner).

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