TRUE SPIRITUAL AWAKENING

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Two of my most favoured ministers of God. Dr. John Lennox and Dr. James Tour speak on Scripture Meditation & God’s Voice. You will be blessed greatly by this conversation. Both share their life experiences getting to know God and how He speaks to us through His Word.

My own experience with God and His Word: I am challenged to ask God to speak to Me every time I open the two bibles which I believe God gave to me. When I do, the Holy Spirit always reveals something new.

I received my first bible from God in the UK, It was the New King James (The Open Bible) Expanded Edition by Thomas Nelson Publishers. I was in England at the UK Christian Booksellers Association Convention in 1985. I had purchased Christian Press Pty Ltd in 1983. It was the distributor of Thomas Nelson books and bibles in Australia. Thomas Nelson launched The Open Bible at that convention.

My youngest son Scott was with me, he was 17 at the time and had just finished the High School certificate and we had agreed he would attend Capernwray Bible College in the UK for 6 months rather than go direct to university to study economics. I knew Major Ian W. Thomas the founder of Capernwray Bible Colleges as we distributed his books in Australia. I had mentioned to him that I was concerned that Scott was too young emotionally to go to University and he suggested he attend his Bible College in Lancashire and then spend time with Scripture Union in London. Scott was more that willing to go along with this plan.

At breakfast on the first day of the CBA Convention we were sitting at a table with Arthur Farstad, Consulting Editor of the Open Bible. He heard Scott speak and asked me if Scott would read a passage from the Open Bible at the launch of the Open Bible the following night. He liked Scott’s Aussie accent and he wanted to get a number of people to read sections from the Open Bible to show that it retained the poetry of the King James version. Scott was delighted to do it and we both were given an Open Bible Expanded Edition which is a study bible (1403 pages + Concordance and maps). We both were blessed to receive it and are still using it today. The second bible I consider God gave me is the ESV Study Bible. It was given to me at the Christian Booksellers Convention in the USA in 2008 at the launch of the ESV Study Bible produced by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Scott was also with me on this occasion only now he was working with me at Care & Share Products, a ministry of Christian Press Pty Ltd. We were not the distributor of Crossway but went to the ESV Study Bible launch. Almost 2,000 people attended. Each person was asked for their business card which was put in a bin and after the launch they picked out one card and that person was to be given a leather covered ESV Study Bible. I was the lucky person to receive that ESV Study Bible. Both Scott and I were astounded when they called out my name. I have cherished it and use it alongside my Open Study Bible.

TWO GIANT INTELLECTUALS DISCUSS GOD

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Dr. Jordan B. Peterson sits down with mathematician, author, and theologian Dr. John Lennox. They discuss the axioms and dangerous aims of transhumanism, the interplay between ethical faith, reason, and the empirical world that makes up the scientific endeavour, and the line between Luciferian intellectual presumption and wise courageous exploration. Dr. John Carson Lennox is a ​​Northern Irish mathematician, bioethicist, and Christian apologist. Dr Lennox has been one of the most important apologists for me. I take every opportunity to listen to him. He has written books that will expand your Biblical knowledge and faith. He was a professor at Oxford and Green Templeton College (now retired) where he specialized in group theory. Lennox appeared in numerous debates with questions ranging from “Is God Good” to “Is There a God,” and faced off with academic titans such as Richard Dawkins, Michael Shermer, and Christopher Hitchens, among others. Lennox speaks four languages – English, German, French, and Russian, has written 70 peer-reviewed articles on mathematics, co-authored two Oxford Mathematical Monographs, and was noted for his role in translating Russian mathematics while working as a professor. I have also enjoyed listening to Jordan Peterson and seeing the positive impact he has had on male university students and watching his coming to faith after both his daughter and wife came to faith.