Truth Changes Everything

Topic: Introduction to Worldview

Speaker: Jeff Myers

Books

• 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

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• 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)

YouTube

• Understanding Patterns of Ideas

• What is a Worldview 

 

Marriage: Why It Matters

Topic: Marriage, Singleness, Gender Roles

Speaker: John Stonestreet

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

It All Started with a Wedding

Topic: Marriage, Singleness, Gender Roles

Speaker: John Stonestreet

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 Case for Life

Topic: Abortion, Bioethics

Speaker: Scott Klusendorf 

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

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• 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 

 

Bioethics: Getting the Big Picture Right

Topic: Bioethics, Abortion, end of life issues

Speaker: Scott Klusendorf

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 

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• 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

Does Evil Really Exist? 

Topic: The Problem of Evil

Speaker: Tim Barnett

Books

• The Problem of Pain, C.S. Lewis

• A Grief Observed, C.S. Lewis

• Evil and the Justice of God, N.T. Wright

• Not the Way It’s Supposed to Be: A Breviary of Sin, Cornelius Plantinga, Jr. 

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• Article: Lex Luthor’s Problem of Evil

• Video: How can Christians Respond to the Problem of Evil?

• Article: Suffering, from a Christian Perspective

• Video: Does the Reality of Evil Disprove the Existence of God?

• Article: Redeeming Structural Evil

• Video Series: The Problem of Evil

• Video Lecture: How Does Christianity Explain Evil and Suffering? 

Other Videos

• Video: If God, Why Evil? 

• Video Series: The Problem of Evil

External Resources

• Article: Where is God in Our Pain? A Review of “Christ and Calamity”,  BreakPoint

• Article: How Can a Good God Allow Suffering? BreakPoint

• Article: Would a Good God Allow the Coronavirus? Joseph Backholm

• Article: The Problemless Problem of Evil, STR

• Article: Why Does God Allow Tragedy and Suffering? 

The Christian Worldview: Does Jesus Really Heal Everything? 

Topic: Christianity

Speaker: Jeff Myers

Books

• Understanding the Faith, Jeff Myers

• Understanding the Times, Jeff Myers

• Understanding the Culture (Chapter 3, 4), Jeff Myers

• Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis

• The Secret Battle of Ideas about God, Jeff Myers

• Unquestioned Answers, Jeff Myers

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

• Basic Christianity, John Stott

• The Story of Reality, Greg Koukl

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• Video: Is Your Worldview Biblical? 

• Video: Isn’t Christianity Just a bunch of rules and regulations?

• Article: Why Christianity Matters

Other Videos

• The Story of Reality, STR

External Resources

• Colson Center,

• BreakPoint 

• Stand to Reason

The Struggle to Communicate

Topic: Christian Conversations, Apologetics

Speaker: Jason Jimenez

Books

• Challenging Conversations, Jason Jimenez

• Evidence that Demands a Verdict, Josh and Sean McDowell

• A New kind of Apologist, Sean McDowell

• Tactics, Greg Koukl

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• Article: Controversial Topics in the Church

• Video: Having the Truth Isn’t Enough

External Resources

• Article: Distinguishing Marks of a Quarrelsome Person, Kevin DeYoung

• Article: When You Say Nothing at All, Kevin DeYoung

• Article: We Need More Sound Biblical Doctrine Taught in the American Church, Stand Strong Ministries

• Website: ChallengingConversations.org

• Article: Two Steps to Engage Anyone, STR

• Article: Do Not Nod Your Head to Lies, STR

• Article: Knowing the Purpose of Speaking Truth Will Help You Persevere, STR

• Article: Pick Your Battles with Unbelievers, STR

• Article: Render to God, STR

The Case Against Relativism

Topic: Apologetics, Worldview

Speaker: Scott Klusendorf

Books

• Relativism: Feet Firmly Planted in Mid-Air, Francis J. Beckwith, Gregory Koukl

• The Abolitions of Man, C.S. Lewis

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• The Relativistic Fog: Why Moral Relativism Can’t Be True

• “Let it Go”  — Relativism for Kids

Other Videos

• Video: The Consequences of Relativism, STR

• Video: How Does Relativism Contradict Itself? TGC

External Resources

• Americans Are Most Likely to Base Truth on Feelings, Barna Research

• Podcast: Recognizing and Responding to Relativism, STR

• Article: Relativism’s Moral Hero Disproves Relativism, STR

• Podcast: Relativism in Court, STR

• Podcast: Relativism and the Problem of Evil, STR

• Article: Relativism Self-Destructs, STR

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 

• Video: Effective Apologetics without Being an Expert 

• Video: Having Conversations with Authority Figures

• Article: Starting Conversations with Questions

• Article: Defining Our Terms, Having Clear Conversations

YouTube

• Two Kinds of Evangelists 

• Presenting Christianity in a Thoughtful Way 

• The Columbo Tactic 

External Resources

• Stand to Reason

The Cold-Case for the Reliability of the Gospels

Topic: Apologetics, Reliability of the New Testament

Speaker: J. Warner Wallace

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? 

• Is the old testament reliable?

External Resources

Cold-Case Christianity, J. Warner Wallace

The Secularist Worldview: Is Matter all that Matters?

Topic: Secularism

Speaker: Tripp Almon

Books

• Understanding the Times, Jeff Myers 

• The Secret Battle of Ideas about God, Jeff Myers

• Scientism and Secularism, J.P. Moreland

• Is Reality Secular? Mary Poplin

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• Article: Falling Asleep in a Secular Culture (Onward by Pixar) 

• Article: & Rings and our Favorite Things (7 Rings by Ariana Grande) 

• Article: Influence of Secularism

• Article: Naturalism is Inadequate 

• Article: Postmodernism and Secularism Influence Today’s Christians 

• Article: Sexual Brokenness 

• Article: Secularism and the State 

YouTube

• The Sexual Revolution and Its Victims 

Doubting Your Doubts: How to Deal with Doubts

Topic: Christian worldview, apologetics

Speaker: Brett Kunkle

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

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• Video: Are Christians allowed to doubt? 

• Podcast: Doubting Your Doubts 

• 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 

YouTube

• Dealing With Christian Doubt, William Lane Craig

• Dealing With Doubt, Greg Koukl

• How to Deal with Doubts, Cross Examined

External Resources

• Blog: The Benefit of Doubt, Travis Dickinson

• 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 

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?

Determining God’s Will for My Life

Topic: Christian Living

Speaker: Tripp Almon

Books 

• Just Do Something, Kevin DeYoung

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Videos

Other Resources

• Podcast: Fight the Drift on Mediocrity, Kevin De Young

• Article: God Will Be True to His Promises (Even When We Get in the Way), Kevin DeYoung

The Worldviews Found in Music

Topic: Culture, Music, Worldview

Speaker: David Knopp

Books

• Music, Modernity, and God: Essays in Listening, Jeremy Begble

• Music and the Experience of God, Mary Collins

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• The Reflect Series 

• The Root of Evil: Sin or Systems? 

• Loving Yourself Enough to Change

• Billie Elish on Abusing Power and Doing What You Want

Videos

• Can Music Lead Someone to God? TGC

Other Resources

• 4 Ways Music Can Reshape Us, TGC

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 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

The Social & Mental Impacts of Porn 

Topic: Pornography

Speaker: Haley McNamara 

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/

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

Testimony + Christian Responce to Homosexuality

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?

What Does it Mean to be Smart and Why Does it Matter?

Topic: Identity, smarts, differences

Speaker: Kathy Koch

Books

• 8 Great Smarts, Kathy Koch

• Five to Thrive, Kathy Koch

• Screens and Teens, Kathy Koch

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• Video: A Crisis of Identity

• Article: Love Never Fails

• Article: The Hunger for Meaning

• Article: Looking for Meaning in “Shallow”

• Article: “Rare” Expression of Self-Worth from Selena Gomez

YouTube

• Identifying 8 Smarts, Kathy Koch

External Resources

• Kathy Koch Vimeo Channel

• Celebrate Kids

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

Beauty. The Art of War 

Topic: Art and Music, Culture, Worldview

Author: Megan Almon

Books

• The Abolition of Man, C.S. Lewis

• The Weight of Glory, C.S. Lewis

• Total Truth, Nancy Pearcy 

• In Echoes of Eden: Reflections on Christianity, Literature, and the Arts, Jerram Barrs

• Art and the Bible, Francis A. Schaeffer

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• The Aesthetic: Clues to God’s Design for Beauty

• The State of the Arts, John Stonestreet

Videos

• The Cellist of sarajevo, Op. 12

Other Resources

• Music, Beauty, and Narnia, STR

God Wants Your Sad: The Theology of Lament

Topic: Sadness, Grief, Loss, and Mental Health

Speaker: Esther Fleece

Books

• No More Faking Fine, Esther Fleece

• Restored Memories, Marillyn Willis

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• Video: How Can the Church Encourage Healthy Grieving?

• Video: Why is the Christian Worldview Different When it Comes to Grief?

Other Resources

• Article: Worldly Grief, TGC

• Article: Godly Grief, TGC

• Podcast: Clinging to God in Grief, TGC

• Podcast: Trusting God in Grief, TGC

• Podcast: Learning to be Honest with God

• Podcast: The Truest Thing About You

• Podcast: Nothing is Wasted Ep. 119

A Discussion on Dating 

Topic: Biblical Dating

Speaker: Tripp & Megan Almon

Books

• Holy Sexuality and the Gospel, Christopher Yuan

• Single, Dating, Engaged, Married, Ben Stuart

• The Meaning of Marriage, Timothy and Kathy Keller

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YouTube

• How To: Have a Biblical View of Singleness

• Are some people called to singleness?

• What is holy sexuality? 

• What is the difference between temptation and desire?

External Resources

• https://www.boundless.org/

Critical Race Theory

Topic: Cancel Culture, Worldview, and Justice

Speaker: Derek McCoy

Books

• Confronting Injustice without Compromising Truth: 12 Questions Christians Should Ask About Social Justice, Thaddeus J. Williams

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• E-book: What is a Biblical Worldview of Justice? Jeff Myers

• E-book: 20 Things to Say & Do To Fight Cancel Culture, Jeff Myers

• Article: Fighting Cancel Culture, Jeff Myers

• Reflect: Cancelling Truth and Love, Jesse Childress

• Video: Race, Protests, Justice – A Conversation, Summit Staff

Other Videos

• Cancel “Cancel Culture,” PragerU

• Cancel Culture Stifles Creativity, PragerU

• What is Critical Race Theory? PragerU

External Resources

• Podcast: Learning From Jesus on Justice

• Article: Critical Race Theory: Civil Rights Upside Down, Greg Koukl

• Article: We Must find a Better Way to Talk About Race, Kevin DeYoung

• Article: Cancelled: How the Eastern Honor-Shame Mentality Traveled West, Abdu Murray

• E-book: Engaging Critical Theory & The Social Justice Movement, Ratio Christi

• E-Book: Thinking Theologically About Racial Tensions, Kevin DeYoung

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?