Online Conference Student Resources

The Case for Life

• Why the Church Needs Bioethics, John Frederic Kilner
• The Case for Life Scott Klusendorf
• Stand for Life, Scott Klusendorf and John Ensor
• Pro-Life Answers to Pro-Choice Arguments, Randy Alcorn
• What does science say about when life begins?
• Is there a difference between persons and humans?
• Popular Cultural Narratives That Are Untrue: What Pro-Choice Advocates Want You to Believe.
• Video: What is the best ways to respond to popular pro-choice arguments?
• Video: Bioethics: Making Taking Faking Life
• Video: Is there such a thing as ‘dying with dignity’?

External Resources

• Life Training Institute
• Live-Action
• Save the Storks

Truth Changes Everything

Topic: Introduction to Worldview Speaker: Jeff Myers

Resources

• Summit Worldview Library: Understanding the Faith, Understanding the Times, Understanding the Culture by Jeff Myers
• The Secret Battle of Ideas about God, Jeff Myers
• The Universe Next Door, James Sire

• Definition of Worldview
• Worldview Chart PDF
• Article: Christian Worldview
• Article: Introducing Worldview
• Article: Competing Worldviews Can’t All Be True
• All resources tagged: “Christian worldview”
• Video: Is Your Worldview Biblical? (Stonestreet)

• Understanding Patterns of Ideas
• What is a Worldview 

Bioethics: Getting the Big Picture Right

Topic: Bioethics, Abortion, end of life issues Speaker: Watts

Books

• Why the Church Needs Bioethics, John Frederic Kilner
• The Case for Life, Scott Klusendorf
• Stand for Life, Scott Klusendorf and John Ensor
• Pro-Life Answers to Pro-Choice Arguments, Randy Alcorn 

• Video: What does science say about when life begins?
• Video: Is there a difference between persons and humans?
• Video: What is the best ways to respond to popular pro-choice arguments?
• Video: Bioethics: Making Taking Faking Life
• Video: Is there such a thing as ‘dying with dignity’?
• All resources tagged: “Pro-life/abortion”

External Resources

• Life Training Institute
• Live-Action
• Save the Storks

Dealing with Doubts: Is it Okay to Doubt as a Christian?

Topic: Christian worldview, apologetics Speaker: Michael Sherrard

Books

• Unquestioned Answers, Jeff Myers 
• Why I Still Believe, Mary Jo Sharp 
• The Reason for God, Timothy Keller
• 10 Answers for Skeptics, Alex McFarland 
• The End of Our Exploring, Matthew Lee Anderson

• Video: Are Christians allowed to doubt? 
• Article: Lessons from Link & Rhett’s Spiritual Deconstructions 
• Article: When doubt comes from a lack of knowledge, parts one, two, and three
• Article: Subculture Breeds Weak Immunity 

• Dealing With Christian Doubt, William Lane Craig
• Dealing With Doubt, Greg Koukl

External Resources

• Article: Doubt as Virtue: How to Doubt and Have Faith without Exploding, Travis Dickinson
• Article: Acknowledge and Engage Doubt, STR
• Article: Can Christians have doubts about God?, STR
• Podcast: Dealing With Doubt About Christianity, STR

5 to Thrive: Meet Your Needs – Once and For All

Topic: Mental health and Christian worldview

Speaker: Kathy Koch

Books

• No More Faking Fine, Esther Fleece

• The Problem of Pain, C.S. Lewis

• A Student’s Guide to Culture, John Stonestreet and Brett Kunkle

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• Article: “Everything I Wanted”: Suicide in Pop Culture

• Summit Basecamp: Helping Teens Find Hope

• Video: Sharing Our Pain

• Video: Gritty Kids in a Fragile Age

• Video: Teens & Mental Health: Hope and Healing for a Struggling Generation

• Video: In This Together: Teen Suicide Prevention

External Resources

• Podcast: Teen Suicide

• Education for a Lifetime

The Postmodern Worldview: Should we be Suspicious of Truth? 

Topic: Postmodernism

Speaker: Tripp Almon

Books

• Understanding the Times, Jeff Myers

• The Secret Battle of Ideas about God, Jeff Myers

• Relativism, Francis Beckwith and Gregory Koukl

• Postmodern Times, Gene Edward Veith

• Total Truth, Nancy Pearcey

• The Beauty of Intolerance, Josh and Sean McDowell

• Saving Truth, Abdu Murray

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• Article: What Does Postmodernism Mean?

• Fact Sheet: Postmodernism

• Video: Postmodernism Part One and Part Two

• Article: Postmodernism and Secularism’s Influence Today’s Christians

• Podcast: The Case for Truth

• Podcast: The Need for Truth, Identity, and Meaning in Life

• Video: Truth & the Next Generation

• Video: Truth in a Relative Culture

• Article: Making Sense of Postmodern Metaphysics

• Article: Total Truth

External Resources

Article: Truth, Philosophy, and the Postmodern Turn, J.P. Moreland

Porn: The Elephant in the Room

Topic: Pornography

Speaker: Dustin Jizmejian

Books

• Amusing Ourselves to Death, Neil Postman

• A Student’s Guide to Culture, John Stonestreet and Brett Kunkle

• A Guy’s Guide to Four Battles Every Young Man Must Face, Jonathan McKee 

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• Article: Four Ways to Stand Against the Avalanche of Pornography

• Podcast: Pornography & Culture

• Article: Sexual Brokenness

• Article: A Modern Epidemic

• Article: Some Thoughts on Game of Thrones

External Resources

• Covenant Eyes

• Beggar’s Daughter

• Your Brain on Porn

• Fight the New Drug

• https://www.josh.org/resources/apologetics/research/

• https://www.barna.com/the-porn-phenomenon/

• https://endsexualexploitation.org/

• https://learn.covenanteyes.com/hobbies-and-habits/

• https://learn.covenanteyes.com/your-brain-on-porn-1/

Does What We Think About Marriage Ring True?

Speaker: Megan Almon

Topic: Marriage, Singleness, Gender Roles

Books

• The Ring Makes All the Difference, Glenn Stanton

• Holy Sexuality and the Gospel, Christopher Yuan

• The Case for Marriage, Linka Waite and Maggie Gallagher

• The Meaning of Marriage, Timothy and Kathy Keller

• God and the Transgender Debate, Andrew Walker

• Our Bodies Tell God’s Story, Christopher West

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• Article: The Consequences of Putting Off Marriage for Christians and for Culture

• Article: Jesus on the Definition of Marriage

• Article Series: Life and Marriage Article 1, Article 2, Article 3

• Article: Marriage Story and the Disease of Selfishness

• Video: Poverty, Marriage, and Society

• Video: Family’s Role in Society

• Article: Worldviews and the Family

YouTube

• Doesn’t Love Make a Family?, What Would You Say

• What Establishes a Marriage According to the Bible?, STR

• Can Christians get married without the government in God’s eyes?, STR

External Resources

• Article: Our Bodies Tell God’s Story

• National Marriage Project

The Great Divorces

Speaker: Megan Almon

Topic: Marriage, Singleness, Gender Roles

Books

• The Ring Makes All the Difference, Glenn Stanton

• Holy Sexuality and the Gospel, Christopher Yuan

• The Case for Marriage, Linka Waite and Maggie Gallagher

• The Meaning of Marriage, Timothy and Kathy Keller

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• Article: The Consequences of Putting Off Marriage for Christians and for Culture

• Article: Jesus on the Definition of Marriage

• Article Series: Life and Marriage Article 1, Article 2, Article 3

• Article: Marriage Story and the Disease of Selfishness

• Video: Poverty, Marriage, and Society

• Video: Family’s Role in Society

• Article: Worldviews and the Family

YouTube

• Doesn’t Love Make a Family?, What Would You Say

• What Establishes a Marriage According to the Bible?, STR

• Can Christians get married without the government in God’s eyes?, STR

External Resources

• Article: Our Bodies Tell God’s Story

• Family Facts

• National Marriage Project

If You Only Knew…Mental Illness, Suicide & Faith

Topic: Mental health, mental illness, end of life issues, and Christian worldview

Speaker: David Galvan

Books

• No More Faking Fine, Esther Fleece

• The Problem of Pain, C.S. Lewis

• A Student’s Guide to Culture, John Stonestreet and Brett Kunkle

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• Article: “Everything I Wanted”: Suicide in Pop Culture

• Summit Basecamp: Helping Teens Find Hope

• Video: Sharing Our Pain

• Video: Gritty Kids in a Fragile Age

• Video: Teens & Mental Health: Hope and Healing for a Struggling Generation

• Video: In This Together: Teen Suicide Prevention

External Resources

• Podcast: Teen Suicide

• Education for a Lifetime

The New Spiritualist Worldview: Does Oneness Make You Woke?

Topic: New Spiritualism

Speaker: Jeff Myers

Books

• Understanding the Times, Jeff Myers

• The Secret Battle of Ideas about God, Jeff Myers

• Confronting the New Age, Douglas Groothuis

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• Article: Pantheism’s Finest Hour (Star Wars)

• Article: Let It Be (The Beatles)

• Article: Star Wars and the Power of Temptation

• Article: Psychology, Humanism, and the Battle of the Gods

• Article: The Shack

YouTube

• Video: Was Paul a universalist?, STR

You Are a Leader: How to be a Good Leader

Topic: Leadership

Speaker: Jeff Myers

Books

• Secrets of Great Communicators, Jeff Myers

• Secrets of World Changers, Jeff Myers

• Secrets of Everyday Leaders, Jeff Myers

• Understanding the Culture, Jeff Myers

• Grow Together, Jeff Myers

• In the Name of Jesus, Henri Nouwen

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• Article: Getting Started as a Mentor

• How To: Lead a Small Group

• How To: Start a Business

• How To: Write a Vision Statement

• How To: Be a Confident Public Speaker

• How To: Read a Book a Month

• Article: Spiritual Disciplines Series, Reading Books 

• Podcast: The Three Hungers (Truth, Identity, Meaning)

• Podcast: Faith in the Marketplace

The Marxist Worldview: Is Revolution the Solution?

Topic: Marxism

Speaker: Jeff Myers

Books

• Understanding the Times, Jeff Myers

• The Secret Battle of Ideas about God, Jeff Myers

• You Can Still Trust the Communists, Fred Schwarz and David Noebel 

• Saving My Assassin, Virginia Prodan

• Money, Greed, and God, Jay Richards

• The Naked Truth, James Bowers

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• Article: Worldviews of Destruction 

• Article: Socialism, Capitalism, and the Bible 

• Video: Why is socialism attractive?

• Video: Does socialism contradict the Bible? 

• Article: What’s so bad about Marxism? 

• Article: The Essence of Economic Freedom

• Podcast: Marxism as a Worldview

YouTube

• Should Christians be capitalists? 

• Is money the root of all evil?

Is the New Testament Reliable? 

Topic: Apologetics, Reliability of the New Testament

Speaker: John Noyes

Books

• Cold-Case Christianity, J. Warner Wallace

• God’s Crime Scene, J. Warner Wallace

• Forensic Faith, J. Warner Wallace

• The Big Book of Bible Difficulties, Norman Geisler and Thomas Howe

• Evidence that Demands a Verdict, Sean and John McDowell

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• Video: Can we rely on the disciple’s words in the gospels?

• Video: What makes eyewitness testimony important?

• Video: Is the New Testament reliable?

• Video: Don’t the Gospels contradict each other?

• Video: Did Jesus claim to be God? 

• Video: Why does our faith need evidence?

• Podcast: Evidence, Apologetics, and Outreach 

• Podcast: The Case for Truth

• All resources tagged “Biblical Reliability”

YouTube

• Can we Trust the Authors of the Gospels? (McDowell)

• Is the old testament reliable?

External Resources

• Cold-Case Christianity, J. Warner Wallace

Testimony + Sexual Identity: False Identity 

Topic: Sexuality, Homosexuality, Sin, Identity

Speaker: Christopher Yuan

Books

• Out of a Far Country, Christopher and Angela Yuan

• Holy Sexuality and the Gospel, Christopher Yuan

• Messy Grace, Caleb Kaltenbach

• Loving my LGBT Neighbor, Glenn Stanton

• The Ambassador’s Guide to Understanding Homosexuality, Alan Shlemon

• Love Thy Body, Nancy Pearcey

• God and the Transgender Debate, Andrew Walker

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• Video: Does God hate people who practice homosexuality?

• Video: A Crisis of Identity

• Article: Sexual Brokenness and the Church 

• Podcast: Texts and Hermeneutics

• Article: Healing for the Transgender Community

• Article: Loving Your LGBT Neighbor

• Article: Responding to “God and the Gay Christian”

YouTube

• How can churches love those in the LGBT community?

• What is holy sexuality?

• What is the difference between temptation and desire?

• Are some people called to singleness?

Holy Sexuality and the Gospel

Topic: Sexuality, Homosexuality, Sin, Identity

Speaker: Christopher Yuan

Books

• Out of a Far Country, Christopher and Angela Yuan

• Holy Sexuality and the Gospel, Christopher Yuan

• Messy Grace, Caleb Kaltenbach

• Loving my LGBT Neighbor, Glenn Stanton

• The Ambassador’s Guide to Understanding Homosexuality, Alan Shlemon

• Love Thy Body, Nancy Pearcey

• God and the Transgender Debate, Andrew Walker

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• Video: Does God hate people who practice homosexuality?

• Video: A Crisis of Identity

• Article: Sexual Brokenness and the Church 

• Podcast: Texts and Hermeneutics

• Article: Healing for the Transgender Community

• Article: Loving Your LGBT Neighbor

• Article: Responding to “God and the Gay Christian”

YouTube

• How can churches love those in the LGBT community?

• What is holy sexuality?

• What is the difference between temptation and desire?

• Are some people called to singleness?

Tactics in Defending Your Faith

Topic: Christian Conversations, Apologetics

Speaker: Tim Barnett

Books

• Tactics, Greg Koukl

• Tactics Study Guide

• Relational Apologetics, Michael Sherrard

• A New Kind of Apologist, Sean McDowell

• Winsome Persuasion, Tim Muehlhoff

• The Questions Christians Hope No One Will Ask, Mark Mittelberg

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• Video: Conversation Starters with Non-Believers

• Video: Effective Apologetics without Being an Expert (Mary Jo Sharp)

• Video: Effective Apologetics without Being an Expert (Sean McDowell)

• Video: Having Conversations with Authority Figures

• Article: Starting Conversations with Questions

• Article: Defining Our Terms, Having Clear Conversations

YouTube

• Two Kinds of Evangelists (STR)

• Presenting Christianity in a Thoughtful Way (STR)

• The Columbo Tactic (STR)

External Resources

• Stand to Reason

Excuses, Barriers, & Breakthroughs

Topic: What comes next after Summit? Repentance, Christian Living, Community, Mentorship, Vocation, Engaging the Culture

Speaker: Jeff Myers

Books

• Unquestioned Answers, Jeff Myers

• Grow Together, Jeff Myers

• The Secret Battle of Ideas about God, Jeff Myers

• The Summit Worldview Library, Jeff Myers

• How Now Shall We Live, Charles Colson and Nancy Pearcey

• Visions of Vocation, Steve Garber

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• Spiritual Discipline Series

• Article: Falsehoods about Finding Your Calling

• Podcast: How to Choose a Career

Article: What is Ministry Anyway?