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UNASHAMED: Defending Your Faith (Youth Apologetics Conference) DVD/MP3 Set- $35
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In a time when the Christian worldview is being attacked from all sides, there is a need to contend for the faith. UNASHAMED: Defending Your Faith is a joint effort from many ministries coming together for the common goal of preparing our high school and college students in presenting the Gospel, and defending the historic Christian faith.
Norman Geisler
College Bound
Sean McDowell*
Understanding Intelligent Design
Can We Trust The Bible?
Brett Kunkle*
Tactics for Defending Your Faith
Charlie Campbell
If God, Why Evil?
Don Stewart
Reasons to Trust Your Bible
Joseph Holden*
Archaeology Confirms the Bible
Sarah Ankenman
Created With a Purpose
*Editor of the Apologetics Study Bible for Students
DR. NORMAN L. GEISLER POWERPOINT LIBRARY ON 8GB FLASH DRIVE - $150
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The NLG PowerPoint Library is a compilation of nearly 200 PowerPoint presentations created by Dr. Norman Geisler throughout the past 8 years covering apologetics, Bible, theology, and philosophy. Perfect for use in the classroom by teachers and students! Tailor each presentation to your specifics. At only .83 cents per presentation (which includes a new 8GB flashdrive), the donation price is recession proof. A full list of the included powerpoints can be found here
APOLOGETICS STUDY BIBLE FOR STUDENTS - Paperback- $22 Simulated Leather -$38
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The Apologetics Study Bible for Students anchors younger Christians in the truths of Scripture by equipping them with thoughtful and practical responses for whenever the core issues of their faith and life are challenged. Multiple research studies have shown that spiritual focus often weakens among teenagers and college students as they head into the attention-dividing realm of young adulthood. Up to 66% of them leave church altogether. The Apologetics Study Bible for Studentsworks against that trend by helping this audience begin to better articulate its beliefs.
This new study Bible also includes:
Two-color design-intensive layout on every page for the visual generation
Sixty “Twisted Scriptures” explanations
Fifty “Bones & Dirt” entries (archaeology meets apologetics, Joseph Holden)
Fifty "Notable Quotes"
Twenty-five “Tactics” against common anti-Christian arguments
Twenty “Personal Stories” of how God has worked in real lives
LIVING LOUD: Defending Your Faith (High School Apologetics) - Paperback $9
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Why a Christian apologetics book for high school students? Norman Geisler and Joseph Holden contend it is "because American high school students are on the front line of the spiritual war between persons who worship God and those who seek to cultivate a world apart from God." Students are being attacked on every flank—through movies, music, television, friends, and, yes, even in the classroom where a Judeo-Christian worldview is presented as antiquated, if presented at all. Now, more than ever, young Christians need to be prepared to defend their faith against the onslaught of lies and humanistic propaganda that so saturates our culture today. Authors Geisler and Holden lay a firm foundation so every student can feel bold and confident in defending their faith.
ARCHAEOLOGY AND THE BIBLE: The Top 10 Amazing Discoveries - DVD $25
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Hear for yourself Christian and non-Christian biblical scholars and world renown archaeologists such as Drs. Norman Geisler, Randall Price H. Wayne House, Leen Ritmeyer, Ronald Young-blood, Steve Collins, Gabriel Barkay, Aren Maeir and others, confirm what various parts of Scripture have saying for 3400 years! Historical fact can no longer be separated from faith (John 3:12; Romans 4:25) since many of Christianity's most precious doctrines are dependent on real events such as the crucifixion, resurrection, and creation. This documentary will build confidence in the reliability of the Bible and equip you to defend the faith (80 minutes).
AN INTRODUCTION TO CHRISTIAN APOLOGETICS: Developing a Biblical Worldview - DVD COURSE with MP3 - $49
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An Introduction to Christian Apologetics course (with PowerPoint) contains 11 DVD and 2 MP3 lectures from Joseph Holden who argues the case for Christianity while at the same time helping one defend the most cherished doctrines of historic Christianity. This resource is designed to equip you to not only understand and defend the essentials, but also deepen your relationship with Christ, eventuating in a more clear and effective presentation of the gospel message. This non-technical and easy-to-understand course is perfect for lay persons.
TOPICS INCLUDE:
Introduction to Apologetics
Why do Apologetics
The Cultural Shift
The Nature and Knowability of Truth
The Existence of God
Understanding Worldviews
The Problem of Evil
The Problem of Eternal Punishment
The Reliability of the New Testament
The Deity of Christ
The Resurrection of Christ
ARCHAEOLOGY AND THE BIBLE: A Pictorial Guide to the Amazing Discoveries of the Bible - PowerPoint - $20
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Indispensable for pastors, teachers, and all students of the Bible who desire to make the connection between history and faith. This unique ready-to-use and Easy to understand new PowerPoint version of Archaeology and the Bible (created by Joseph Holden) systematically presents nearly 200 slide frames illuminating and describing the most current affairs unearthed by archaeologists in Europe and the Middle East that relate to Scripture. Subjects include ancient writing, Old and New Testament artifacts, Dead Sea Scrolls, coins, inscriptions, reliability of the Bible and more!!
TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES: CRITICAL ISSUES CONFRONTING THE CONTEMPORARY CHURCH -DVD - $35
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Join VES faculty and other scholars recognized for their stellar research in the field of cults, religion, apologetics, and theology. Each lecture will inform and equip you to discern the truth from error. Several lectures feature clear PowerPoint presentations.
Norman Geisler
Session 1: Divine Spiration: Answering the Latest Challenge to the Inerrancy of Scripture
John Ankerberg
Session 2: Presenting Jesus to Atheists and Those in the Cults
Ron Rhodes
Session 3: Mysticism and the Contemporary Church
Joseph Holden
Session 4: Truth or Consequences: Critical Issues Confronting the Contemporary Church
Richard Abanes
Session 5: Religions of the Stars and Pop Culture Apologetics
Paul Carden
Session 6: The Challenge of the Cults on the World Mission Field
Derwin Gray
Session 6: Incarnational Apologetics: Sharing the Gospel and Defending the Faith with Your Life
THE CASE FOR CHRISTIANITY -DVD - $49
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Get equipped as VES faculty and other top Evangelical scholars defend the historic Christian faith and present their case for Christianity. This DVD set (9 DVD lectures and 1 MP3 with all 9 lectures) will uplift your spirit and build your mind with essential truth that establishes what Christians have historically believed and why they believed it.
Dr. Ravi Zacharias
Session 1: The Case for God
Dr. Norman Geisler
Session 2: The Case for the Bible
Lee Strobel
Session 3: The Case for a Creator
Dr. Gary Habermas
Session 4: The Case for Christ's Resurrection
Dr. Ron Rhodes
Session 5: The Case for Christ
Dr. Ergun Caner
Session 6: Why I am a Christian
Dr. Ed Hindson
Session 7: The Case for the Second Coming
Greg Koukl
Session 8: The Case for Truth
Dr./Pastor Raul Ries
Session 9: The Case for Christ's Love
BATTLE FOR THE BIBLE - DVD - $25
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This worldview conference featured five Evangelical scholars from
Dr. Sasan Tavassoli
Session 1: The Qur’an: Some Critical Observations
Dr. Ron Rhodes
Session 2: Prophecy and Biblical Reliability
Dr. Steven Collins
Session 3: Archeology and the Bible
Dr. Randall Price
Session 4: Dead Sea Scrolls and OT Reliability
Dr. Norman L. Geisler
Session 5: Reliability of the New Testament
THE EMERGENT CHURCH & THE BATTLE FOR TRUTH - DVD - $25
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The Emergent Church movement is a fast growing movement in the church who are seeking to reconstruct Christianity so that it might be more appealing to our culture, particularly our youth culture which has been heavily influenced by postmodernism. This movement is fraught with dangers and is at this very hour making great inroads in the church. If you want to learn more about the merging church, this collection of teachings, recorded in Murrieta, CA will be of great help to you. This disc features three VES faculty members speaking at the Calvary Bible College worldview conference.
Dr. Norman Geisler
Session One: Emerging or Submerging Church? An Analysis of Postmodern Claims.
Charlie Campbell
Session Two: A Theological Examination and Response to the Emergent Church.
Dr. Joseph Holden
Session Three: How to Share Your Faith in A Postmodern World.
Dr. Luman Wing
Session Four: An Insiders Perspective of the Emerging Church.
THE PROBLEM OF EVIL AND ETERNAL PUNISHMENT - AUDIO CD - $10
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Problem of Evil and Eternal Punishment, Joseph M. Holden
Joseph Holden is the President of Veritas Evangelical Seminary in Murrieta, California. In this lecture Joseph answers the tough questions regarding evil and eternal punishment. In a world that appears to being getting darker by the day, Christians are often pressed to make sense of God and man’s relationship to evil by asking the tough questions: What is evil? Why is it here? Who is responsible? How do we overcome and manage it? In addition, Joseph explores the notion of eternal punishment which has often engendered feelings of anger towards God, since it appears to be inconsistent with His loving nature. In the end, evil and eternal punishment reveals God’s love and justice.
THE HISTORICAL RELIABILITY AND TRANSMISSION OF THE BIBLE - DVD - $12
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The Historical Reliability and Transmission of the Bible, Joseph M. Holden
THIS 60 MINUTE DVD LECTURE ADDRESSES:
- The accuracy of the New Testament Greek text
- The historical trustworthiness of the people, places and events of the New Testament
- The tests for reliability of the New Testament
- The accuracy of the Old Testament Hebrew text
- The historical trustworthiness of the people, places and events recorded in the Old Testament
- Dating of Old and New Testament Manuscripts
- Archaeology of the Old and New Testament
INCLUDES OVER 60 POWERPOINT SLIDES
INCORPORATED INTO THE LECTURE!!
HOW WE GOT OUR ENGLISH BIBLE - AUDIO CD - $12
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How We Got Our English Bible, Joseph M. Holden
Come discover the steps God used to give us our English Bible as Joe looks back to 1400 BC with the writing of the Torah and continues into the 3rd century BC with the translation of the Septuagint (LXX) and on to Jerome’s Latin Vulgate in the 5th century AD. Understand the contributions of John
This 54 minute audio lecture will
- What is translation?
- What is transmission?
- What is transliteration?
- How did the Septuagint contribute to the forming of the English Bible?
- What is the Latin Vulgate?
- Who did the translating, and when?
- Who is John Wycliff and William Tyndale?
- When did the Bible first come into the English language?
- What historically took place leading up to the translation of the English Bible?
- Why modern translations?