Christ and the Crescent
June 02, 2019
Guest speaker John Dickson helps us see some important differences between Christianity and Islam. He unpacks the places Islam disagrees with Christianity and looks at why those places are so essential to the Christian faith.
Romans 3:22b–25a
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Christ among the gods
Guest Speaker John Dickson wraps up the series, “What’s the Difference?” by examining common responses to the universality of the religious impulse. We see that every culture about which we know anything significant has made religion a core part of their values. Today, there are two ways to avoid the religious impulse, atheism, and religious pluralism. He concludes with why Christianity has a claim on all of us and how at the heart of the Christian faith is a series of historical events. Acts 17:28-31
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