Living the Life at Waterbrook

09/09/2019

Slides from yesterday's discussion on 1 Corinthians 5-6

08/12/2019

Slides from yesterday's wrap-up session on the book of Job.

06/24/2019

Here are the slides from this Sunday's discussion on the Fall Festivals: Feast of Trumpets (Rosh Hashanah), Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur), and Feast of Ingathering (Sukkot).

06/09/2019

Slides from 2019-06-05: Catechesis feat. the Heidelberg Catechism

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06/03/2019

Here are the slides from this past Sunday's discussion on Pentecost.

05/26/2019

Slides from 2019-05-26:
The Illusion of Moral Neutrality by J. Budziszewski

(1) Tolerance cannot be neutral [we must make moral judgments] about what is good, for its very purpose is to guard goods & avert evils.

(2) Tolerance is … a moral virtue ... an Aristotelian virtue… a mean between two opposed vices of excess (soft-headedness) & deficiency (narrow-mindedness), its location [of the mean] … discovered … by practical wisdom

(3) Tolerance is right judgment in the protection of greater ends against lesser ends

The bottom line is that Neutrality is no more coherent in the matter of religious tolerance than it is in tolerance of any other sort.

What you can tolerate pivots on your ultimate concern [‘god’ / idol].

Because different ultimate concerns ordain different zones of tolerance, social consensus is possible only at the points where these zones overlap.

Note well: The greater the resemblance of contending concerns, the greater the overlap of their zones of tolerance. Should contending concerns become sufficiently unlike, their zones of tolerance no longer intersect at all. Consensus vanishes.

This, I believe, is our current trajectory. The embattled term "culture war" is not inflammatory; it is merely exact. And we can expect the war to grow worse.

The reason for this is that our various gods ordain not only different zones of tolerance, but different norms to regulate the dispute among themselves. True tolerance is not well tolerated.

For although the God of some of the disputants ordains that they love & persuade their opponents, the idols of some of the others ordain no such thing."

https://www.dropbox.com/s/4nitwfyki7tzmel/The%20Illusion%20of%20Moral%20Neutrality.pptx?dl=0

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05/08/2019

The video for the "Reason for Confidence" seminar I taught has just been released in case anyone wants to watch it.
(Thanks to Sarina!)

PM me with your email address and I can send you the handouts from the class.

Questions covered:

- What is faith?
- Is faith believing in spite of the evidence, without evidence, or with evidence?
- Is faith contrary to reason?
- Isn’t it arrogant to claim that we have the truth?
- Is Christianity something I have to believe in spite of
science?

05/07/2019

Slides from 2019-05-05:
The Revenge of Conscience by J. Budziszewski

Needs of a Conscience with Knowledge of Guilt:
- Confession
- Reconciliation
- Atonement
- Justification

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04/14/2019

Slides from 2019-04-14:
Mark 15:21-47 - In Between the Death and Resurrection

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03/24/2019

Slides from 2019-03-24:
Mark 14:34 - 15:47 - Betrayal & Death

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