God: new evidence

There are two great intellectual challenges to Christian faith in our times: one is the challenge of postmodernism and the idea that what's true for you need not be true for me too. The other is the modernist challenge from Richard Dawkins and the 'new atheists.'

Focus has now released a major apologetics resource responding to the claims of the new atheists.

Dawkins claims that God is a delusion and that religious faith is evil. But what if the scientific evidence itself is telling a different story? Over the past fifty years scientists have uncovered a series of amazing facts which show that the creation is an extremely unlikely place, fine-tuned in specific ways that make human life possible. It shows all the signs that it has been purposefully designed as a place for us to live. ‘GOD: new evidence’ is a series of videos about these remarkable discoveries that point us towards the Creator.

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'Seize the Day' podcast #18 - August 2010: John Ayrton talks to Andy Dipper of Release International, about learning from the persecuted Church (14 mins) - last in series.

'Whether you're a Sunday School teacher in a prison in Indonesia – who could have quite happily just sat in a corner of a cell and served her two year term and waited till she got out again, and then gone back to church, or quietly got on with being a medical doctor – or Dr. Rebekka Zakaria in Indonesia: she started a church within the prison. She came out and she then went back into full time pastoral ministry. Now she is spending her whole life talking about God's faithfulness in spite of being in prison. God's name has been honoured and glorified, time after time after time, because of the persecution she went through.'

In this podcast, John Ayrton is talking to Andy Dipper, CEO of Release International, about what we can learn from the persecuted Church. Last in series.

'Seize the Day' podcast #17 - July 2010: John Ayrton talks to Linda Harding about the Kairos missions mobilising course for local churches. (10 mins 7 sec)

'People just fall in love with Jesus. They catch God's heart for the world, and they realise that they have a part to play in being a blessing to the nations - that they're not just blessed to be blessed, but they're blessed to be a blessing. They outwork that in many different ways: many people begin to pray more - one of the things we do on Kairos, every single session we pray for a few minutes for different nations, for different people groups - not just the other side of the world, but in their neighbourhood.'

In this podcast, John Ayrton is talking to Linda Harding about the Kairos missions mobilising course for local churches.