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How to Answer the Fool: A Presuppositional Defense of the Faith (DVD)

TylerJohnson — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:21:22 +0000

“The fool has said in his heart, ‘There is no God.’” – Psalm 14:1

Not since the late Dr. Greg Bahnsen debated Dr. Gordon Stein in “The Great Debate: Does God Exist?” have we really seen presuppositional apologetics in action. And few have taken it into culture to show that there are only two positions,Christ…or absurdity.

But wait no more… Apologist Sye Ten Bruggencate takes this apologetic to the streets and Universities exposing the logical inconsistencies of the unbeliever (and dare we say some ‘Christians’) by showing that we don’t need ‘evidence’ to prove that God exists. For as Romans 1:18-21 declares:

“The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness, since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities – his eternal power and divine nature – have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made,so that men are without excuse. For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened.”

Produced as a cinematic film, How to Answer the Fool was adapted for use in small group and Sunday School classes, making it a useful tool for individual or group study. With an eye-opening, cinematic message, How to Answer the Fool deliberately and strategically teaches you how to defend the Faith; answering the call of Scripture to ‘be ready in season and out of season‘ in order that we may ‘…always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in [us].’

“Within a minute or two you’ll see highly intelligent college students stunned at their inability to answer questions about knowledge and ethics. This six-part video series is a game-changer, not only for the unbelieving world but also for Christian apologists who compromise the gospel by arguing for the possibility that God exists and not the certainty of God’s existence.” - Gary DeMar

“Sye also shows the method in action in a radio debate setting. The unbelievers simply cannot answer even basic questions of truth on their own professed worldview. The fact that unbelievers do know things demonstrates that in their heart-of-hearts, they really do know God. But they have suppressed that truth in unrighteousness, just as Scripture teaches (Romans 1:18-20). If all Christians began defending the faith the way the Bible tells us to, recognizing Christ as our ultimate authority, it wouldn’t take long at all to make disciples of all nations (Matthew 28:18-20.)” - Dr. Jason Lisle

Product Details

Format: NTSC DVD
Approx. Time: 86 minutes
Speaker: Sye Ten Bruggencate
Includes: DVD with 6 Cinematic Lessons & Paperback Study Guide

Jesus Among Other Gods: The Absolute Claims of the Christian Message (DVD)

TylerJohnson — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 17:47:40 +0000

In a world with so many religions – why Jesus? In his most important work to date, Ravi Zacharias shows how the blueprint for life and death itself is found in a true understanding of Jesus. With a simple, yet penetrating style, Ravi uses rich illustrations to celebrate the power of Jesus Christ to transform lives. With four 15-24 minute powerful segments and dramatic footage shot in 14 different countries, Jesus Among Other Gods contrasts the truth of Jesus with founders of Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism, strengthening believers and compelling them to share their faith with our postmodern world.

Product Details

Format: NTSC DVD
Language: English
Speaker: Ravi Zacharias
Studio: Ravi Zacharias International Ministries
Year: 2001
ISBN: 1612562140

We The Deceived: The Seduction of Christian America (DVD)

TylerJohnson — Thu, 06 Jun 2013 16:06:13 +0000

Is America a Christian nation? What evidence is there to that effect? Were the founders of the U.S. Constitution Christians? Is the Constitution a Christian document? If we are a Christian nation, how have we drifted so far from Christian principles in government?

In this series, Dr. Gary North charts a course, a course that takes us back in time over 230 years ago. He brings us to the table of examination to witness what America was prior to 1787 – what was happening politically, economically and socially during this time period and who was involved in changing our Constitution.

While those men who met at the Constitutional Convention were called to strengthen the Articles of Confederation, they were also forbidden to draft a completely different Constitution. However, they dismissed their charges and did so anyway. They sought to establish a moral government without appealing to the Triune God of Scripture by using the model Roger Williams had employed in Rhode Island. As such, they established a government not based upon God as the sovereign of the Nation, but the People as the new and absolute sovereign.

During this two hour presentation, Dr. North explains how covenants are made, discusses the principles of a covenant and then gives historical evidence to show how the Constitution established a new sovereign in America and how it completely dismissed the God of the Bible from its pages. The impact of our founder’s ideas led to the states removing any religious test oaths in their state constitutions to be more in line with the Federal Constitution.

In We the Deceived: The Seduction of Christian America, you will learn about the history and the foundation of the U.S. Constitution and how its impact has deceived a once Christian nation and turned it into a pluralistic society.

This is a four part presentation and is suitable for personal study, group study and other classroom settings as well.

Product Details

Format: DVD/NTSC/Color/Stereo
Language: English
Studio: NiceneCouncil.com
Producer: Jerry Johnson
Speaker: Dr. Gary North
Year: 2011
Time: 100 minutes

Future Grace with John Piper (DVD)

TylerJohnson — Wed, 15 May 2013 19:41:54 +0000

In this DVD version of his foundational book Future Grace, John Piper reveals how the journey to freedom in the Christian life requires a deeper awareness of the expansive reach of God and his extraordinary grace. Victory over sin comes not from a herculean effort to avoid worldly pleasures, but through fixing one’s focus on the reality that God is far more desirable than even life itself. His grace is not only past, but future.

This video taps John Piper’s biblical understanding on how a life of purity can be recovered through the power of God’s future grace–streaming into our present through faith. Delighting in the bounty of God’s promises frees us from sinful patterns, to the glory of Christ!

In ten sessions Piper teaches on:

A Passion for Holiness
Justification by Faith and the Necessity of Perseverance
What Is Faith?
The Crucial Function of Bygone Grace
The Role of Gratitude in Producing Obedience
How Faith in Future Grace Produces Radical Love
Future Grace Versus Anxiety and Covetousness
Future Grace Versus Lust, Bitterness, and Impatience

Recorded in HD, these video sessions are ideal for use in adult and youth Sunday school classes, small groups, retreats, classrooms, and families.

Introduction to the New Testament by Louis Berkhof (PDF)

TylerJohnson — Fri, 10 May 2013 18:23:29 +0000

In his book, Introduction to the New Testament, Louis Berkhof investigates the history and purpose of the Gospels and Epistles in the New Testament. Berkhof’s sections begin with a brief outline followed by a comprehensive look at the characteristics, authorship, composition, and canonical significance of each New Testament book. Preceding his discussion of the Gospels, Berkhof discusses the nature and inspiration of the Gospels in general, and introduces the Johannine problem, in which the first three Synoptic Gospels are set apart from the latter Gospel, John. Berkhof’s Introduction relies on the findings of a wide range of New Testament scholars including the early Church Fathers. Berkhof’s references are very easy to navigate which makes Introduction to the New Testament a prime text for student study. In fact, Berkhof intended this work to be utilized in the classroom at Calvin Theological Seminary where he taught for nearly 30 years until becoming its president in 1944.

Product Details

Format: PDF
Language: English
Pages: 199

IndoctriNation (DVD)

JerryJohnson — Thu, 09 May 2013 11:28:47 +0000

Indoctrination: To instruct in a doctrine, principle, ideology, etc., esp. to imbue with a specific partisan or biased belief or point of view.

“IndoctriNation” is a 90-minute documentary film that takes the audience on a panoramic exploration of one of the most important and controversial issues in the history of mankind, the issue of education.

Traveling all over America with his family in a big yellow school bus and conducting a series of candid conversational interviews, Colin Gunn, a Scottish filmmaker, actor, and homeschool father of seven children living in Texas, is on a quest to discover the origins of our modern educational system.

What he discovers is a masterful design that sought to replace God’s recipe for training up the next generation with a humanistic, man-centered program that fragmented the family and undermined the influence of the Church and its Great Commission.

Part documentary, part testimonial — a confessional and a rebuke, this film is above all a challenge and an encouragement to millions of Christians who need to know what history, experience, and the Scriptures have to say about what is perhaps the pivotal issue of our time: the discipleship and training of the next generation.

Product Details

Format: DVD/NTSC/Color/Stereo
Encoding: Region Free
Language: English
Studio: Gunn Brothers Productions
Year: 2011
Time: 90 minutes

The Roman Catholic Mass: Is it Biblical? (DVD)

TylerJohnson — Thu, 02 May 2013 16:51:01 +0000

James White debates Roman Catholic Apologist Robert Sungenis on the biblical and historical merits of the Mass. This debate deals with vital topics like:

• What is the history of the Mass?
• What about transubstantiation?
• Why is the Mass called a sacrifice?
• Can a priest “re-present” Christ on the altar?
• How did the early church view the “Eucharist”?

Was the sacrifice of Christ a “once for all” event or is it to be repeated over and over as in the Roman Mass?

Product Details

Format: NTSC DVD
Language: English
Approx. Time: 215 minutes
Discs: 2

Amazing Grace: The History & Theology of Calvinism (DVD)

TylerJohnson — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 05:24:27 +0000

Just what is “Calvinism?” Does this teaching make man a deterministic robot and God the author of sin? What about free will? If the church accepts Calvinism, won’t evangelism be stifled, perhaps even extinguished? How can we balance God’s sovereignty and man’s responsibility? What are the differences between historic Calvinism and hyper-Calvinism? Why did men like Augustine, Luther, Calvin, Spurgeon, Whitefield, Edwards and a host of renowned Protestant evangelists deny the Arminian definition of free will and label it heresy? Why did the Roman Catholic Church condemn the Reformed teaching of predestination and election and embrace free will theology? And why do so many Protestants, perhaps unwittingly, agree with Rome on this issue? Amazing Grace:The History and Theology of Calvinism is the first video documentary that answers these and other related questions. This fascinating three-part, four-hour presentation is detailed enough so as to not gloss over the controversy. At the same time, it is broken up into ten “Sunday-school-sized” sections to make the rich content manageable and accessible for the average viewer.

Part One explores the history of the debate. It begins with the pivotal dispute between Augustine and Pelagius and continues through the semi-pelagian controversy; focusing particularly on the debate between Martin Luther and Desiderius Erasmus. Many viewers will be shocked to discover that free-will theology was NOT the doctrine of the Reformation but instead the teaching of an increasingly apostate Roman Catholic Church. The history section ends with a definitive historical explanation of the issues that arose during the Calvinist/Arminian controversy. By examining the five points of Arminianism and the Synod of Dort’s response, the viewer will clearly see that the Protestant Church understood how the Gospel would be compromised if Arminianism prevailed.

Part Two opens the Word of God, our ultimate authority for life and faith. The five points of Arminianism are put on trial as what would later come to be known as the “five points of Calvinism” are clearly and forcefully presented.

Part Three asks and answers the provocative question: If Calvinism is true, if God is absolutely sovereign; then why should we evangelize? It also explores the vital issue of how to and to whom the gospel should be presented so as to be faithful to the great doctrines of God’s sovereignty, man’s depravity, and the miracle of amazing grace.

Rich in graphics, dramatic vignettes, and biblical analogies, Amazing Grace: The History and Theology of Calvinism also features many of the finest reformed thinkers and pastors of our time: Dr. R.C. Sproul, Dr. D. James Kennedy, Dr. George Grant, Dr. Stephen Mansfield, Dr. Thomas Ascol, Dr. Thomas Nettles, Dr. Roger Schultz, Pastor Walt Chantry, Dr. Joe Morecraft, Dr. Ken Talbot, Pastor Walter Bowie and Dr. R.C. Sproul, Jr..

Come learn what the great Baptist preacher C.H. Spurgeon meant when he said, “…to deny Calvinism is to deny the gospel of Jesus Christ.”

“Jerry, thank you for putting this “amazing” tool together, all 4 His Truth (Jn 14:6: Heb 4:12) and all 4 the glory of God (1 Cor 10:31)! I have invited many friends to this group and am promoting this DVD in mine! It will be played over and over again in our home (with lots of note taking)! : )” — Karla T., From Facebook Group, Amazing Grace: The History & Theology of Calvinism

“I viewed this DVD a few years ago and have been recommending it ever since. It should be required viewing for all believers!” — Troy A., From Facebook Group, Amazing Grace: The History & Theology of Calvinism

“I keep getting more out of it every time I watch it. It’s so great to learn the church history in that video.” — Dave P., From Facebook Group, Amazing Grace: The History & Theology of Calvinism

“I intended to watch Amazing Grace: The History & Theology of Calvinism over the period of a few days. Once I started, I found myself watching it from start to finish in one sitting. The caliber of the resources used to document the theology, history, objections and answers was remarkable and the production quality was striking and quite frankly, uncommon in Christian circles. This is an excellent teaching tool for inquirers or a great review for those who have marginalized or perhaps lost sight of the significance of these great Biblical doctrines.” — Jack Smith, Banner of Truth Trust

“The information is as complete and consumable as I have ever seen. For someone who wont read, it is perfect.” — Pastor Robert Andrews, Author of The Family: Gods Weapon for Victory

“Though the production quality is outstanding, the theology and the way it is laid out is even better. Not only is this the best documentary every written, researched and produced on the subject of sovereign free grace (a.k.a. Calvinism); it is the best Christian documentary I have ever seen. Hats off to Jerry Johnson and everyone involved!” — Dr. Kenneth L. Gentry, Jr., www.NiceneCouncil.com

Product Details

Format: 2 Disc DVD/NTSC/Color/Stereo
Studio: www.ApologeticsGroup.com
Executive Producer: Jerry Johnson
Encoding: Region Free
Aspect Ratio(s): 1.33:1
Audio Encoding: Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Rated: Unrated (General audience)
DVD Release Date: October, 2004
Run Time: 4 hours 17 minutes

Raising Godly Children in an Ungodly World? (DVD)

TylerJohnson — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 16:22:05 +0000

How Can We Raise Godly Children? answers the question: What does God’s Word teach us regarding roles of parents and how to bring up children? In a culture hostile to Christian values, Christian families struggle to give their children a strong foundation of biblical faith. Ken Ham present solutions and tips on creating an incredible faith legacy in your family.

Product Details

Format: NTSC DVD
Language: English
Studio: Answers in Genesis
Approx. Time: 30 minutes
Year: 2000

Puritans Made Easy by Dr. W. Gary Crampton

TylerJohnson — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 14:42:27 +0000

The genius of Puritanism, as Peter Lewis has called it, rests, first and foremost, in the fact that the Puritans saw all of life as under the dictates of Holy Scripture, the infallible, inerrant Word of God. Above everything else, the Puritan movement was a Bible movement. Scripture was the axiomatic starting point of the Puritan worldview. All of life is theocentric and sacred; it is to be lived coram Deo (“before God”). And the goal of life, according to the Puritan understanding of Scripture? Is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever.

“If you desire to learn more about the Puritans, then this book by Dr. W. Gary Crampton is a great place to start. Sweet and simple each chapter brings to light the heart and soul of the Puritans; what they believed, taught and perhaps most importantly, how they lived.” — Ed Walsh, President, Center for Reformed Theology and Apologetics

“Clear and concise! Dr. Crampton does another outstanding job in this latest installment of the Made East series by NiceneCouncil.com.” — Dr. Kenneth G. Talbot, President, Whitefield Theological Seminary

Note: This book was previously published under the title “What the Puritans Taught.”

Product Details

Format: Trade Paper
Language: English
Publisher: NiceneCouncil.com
Year: 2012
Pages: 94

Zwingli & Calvin (DVD)

TylerJohnson — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 16:10:17 +0000

This program covers the 16th century Swiss Reformation, its key centers of Zurich and Geneva, and its central leaders, Zwingli and Calvin—two theologians who led tumultuous lives. Zwingli questioned major teachings of the church and instituted sweeping reforms. He sought to apply the Word of God for the transformation of civic and church life. Calvin laid the foundation that made Geneva a unique international center. He wanted only the quiet life of a scholar but was thrust into a critical role in Reformation and theological leadership.

Product Details

Format: NTSC DVD
Running Time: 30 minutes
Region: All Regions

How Should We Then Live? (DVD)

TylerJohnson — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 11:11:05 +0000

This is Dr. Francis Schaeffer’s spectacular series on the rise and decline of Western culture from a Christian perspective. This special edition includes an intimate in-depth interview with Francis and Edith Schaeffer, which is available only in this package. This program presents profound truths in simple language and concludes that man’s only hope is a return to God’s biblical absolute–the Truth revealed in Christ through the Scriptures. Each episode focuses on a significant era of history while presenting answers to modern problems.

The series is divided into twelve thirty minute sections; The Roman Age, The Middle Ages, The Renaissance, The Reformation, The Revolutionary Age, The Scientific Age, The Age of Non-reason, The Age of Fragmentation, The Age of Personal Peace & Affluence, Final Choices, and the two-segment interview with Francis & Edith Schaeffer: Living with Suffering & Sickness, and God’s Leading in L’Abri & Our Lives.

“I have watched this series over and over and never fail to learn something. I wish every Christian, Church and Sunday School would go through this material; then perhaps, the Church would return to the Bible alone as our ultimate authority for life, culture and faith.” — Jerry Johnson, President, www.NiceneCouncil.com

Product Details

Encoding: Multi Regional
Format: Color, DTS Surround Sound, Full Screen, Special Edition DVD
Language: English
Rated: Unrated
Studio: GCI
Run Time: 360 minutes
Bonus Features
Study Guide include on DVD
Chapter selection