Summit Online 2022
The Case for Life
Topic: Abortion, Bioethics
Speaker: Megan Almon
Resources
- 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
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)
The Christian Worldview: Does Jesus Really Heal Everything?
Topic: Christianity
Speaker: Jeff Myers
Resources
- 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
- Video: Is Your Worldview Biblical?
- Video: Isn’t Christianity Just a bunch of rules and regulations?
- Article: Why Christianity Matters
External Resources
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
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
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
Resources
- 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
What Does it Mean to be Smart and Why Does it Matter?
Topic: Identity, smarts, differences
Speaker: Kathy Koch
Resources
- 8 Great Smarts, Kathy Koch
- Five to Thrive, Kathy Koch
- 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
External Resources
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
- Is Reality Secular? Mary Poplin
- 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: Postmodernism and Secularism Influence Today’s Christians
- Article: Sexual Brokenness
- Article: Secularism and the State
The Case Against Relativism
Topic: Apologetics, Worldview
Speaker: Megan Almon
Resources
- 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
If God, Why Evil?
Topic: The Problem of Evil
Speaker: Tripp Almon
Resources
- Evil and the Justice of God, N.T. Wright
- Not the Way It’s Supposed to Be: A Breviary of Sin, Cornelius Plantinga, Jr.
- 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 Lecture: How Does Christianity Explain Evil and Suffering?
- 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 Postmodern Worldview: Should we be Suspicious of Truth?
Topic: Postmodernism
Speaker: Tripp Almon
Resources
- Understanding the Times, Jeff Myers
- The Secret Battle of Ideas about God, Jeff Myers
- Relativism, Francis Beckwith and Gregory Koukl
- The Beauty of Intolerance, Josh and Sean McDowell
- 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
Porn: The Elephant in the Room
Topic: Pornography
Speaker: Dustin Jizmejian
Resources
- Amusing Ourselves to Death, Neil Postman
- A Guy’s Guide to Four Battles Every Young Man Must Face, Jonathan McKee
- 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
- 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
- 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
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
- 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
- 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
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
- 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
- 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
You Are a Leader: How to be a Good Leader
Topic: Leadership
Speaker: Jeff Myers
- Article: Getting Started as a Mentor
- 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
- 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
Is the New Testament Reliable?
Topic: Apologetics, Reliability of the New Testament
Speaker: John Noyes
Resources
- 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
- 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”
External Resources
Testimony + Sexual Identity: False Identity
Topic: Sexuality, Homosexuality, Sin, Identity
Speaker: Christopher Yuan
Resources
- Out of a Far Country, Christopher and Angela Yuan
- Holy Sexuality and the Gospel, Christopher Yuan
- Loving my LGBT Neighbor, Glenn Stanton
- The Ambassador’s Guide to Understanding Homosexuality, Alan Shlemon
- God and the Transgender Debate, Andrew Walker
- 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”
- 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
- 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”
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
- 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
- Two Kinds of Evangelists (STR)
- Presenting Christianity in a Thoughtful Way (STR)
- The Columbo Tactic (STR)
External Resources
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