Knowing & Doing
Join us every two weeks for an audio article from Knowing & Doing, our quarterly teaching magazine, covering a wide variety of articles from nationally recognized leaders in discipleship, spirituality, theology, apologetics, and cultural analysis. Narrated by Aimee Riegert. Learn more at: www.cslewisinstitute.org
Episodes
Prudence is seeing the world as it truly is. Culture, from time immemorial, often hides true reality with a mask of gratification and pleasure. The world espouses messages like, “Sworn to fun! Loyal to none!”, but this is not the truth. Being unfaithful, in the end, is a painful life. As we soak in culture, at the movie theatres and elsewhere, we must have wis...
Eric Liddell, rugby and track phenom, used his athletic ability as a platform for sharing the Gospel. He understood that God gave him certain abilities in order to further God’s Kingdom on earth. Eric eventually hung up his Olympic track spikes to go serve as a missionary in China. Despite persecution, moral convictions, and trials, Eric remained faithful to God and served as an example ...
Apologetics has for a long time, been motivated either by guilt, because one has failed to give a defense or by pride, because one desires to win arguments. Nonetheless, a new and welcome change is motivating Christian Apologetics: Concern, which stems from true love for those around us.
The grace that comes to us in Jesus Christ is not measured. This grace refuses to allow itself to be tethered to our innate sense of fairness, reciprocity, and balancing of the scales. It is defiant.
Learn more in the audio message narrated by Aimee Riegert.
C.S. Lewis used imaginative depiction to enable readers to see a particular thing or truth more clearly. This message explores one of his greatest powers as an author. Read the article.
May 7, 1963, Sherwood Wirt climbed the long wooden stairway to C.S. Lewis’s office, hoping to interview Lewis on his thoughts on the subject of writing. The interview, however, quickly morphed into a much different conversation.
Listen in as Sherwood narrates his experience or read this article online here.
The modern notion of Apologetics is often thought of as someone bringing philosophical ideas into a battle of wits, with the only thing coming from it being murkiness. The Bible calls for all Christians to be prepared to give a defense of their faith. How can we, as ordinary lay people, best understand and apply this command?
Listen in to learn more in this message from Michael Ramsden o...
Is being jealous – red faced – a divine perfection? How can God be a God of love if the Old Testament seems to describe Him as jealous, angry, and ruthless?
Learn more in this message by Kevin Vanhoozer narrated by Aimee Riegert. Read this article online.
Many are aware of the accomplishments of William Wilberforce and his successful initiatives to abolish slavery and introduce institutional reforms in the United Kingdom. What is not known, however, is that his work is indebted to his closest friends, the ‘Clapham Sect,’ a group of men and women dedicated to being instruments of social and moral welfare. This underground group was highly ...
Join J.I. Packer, in a past interview with CSLI, reflected on his daily walk with God. Packer covered his schedule, his insights, and revealed how he kept God at the forefront of all his actions during his daily walk with God.
Learn more in this audio message narrated by Aimee Riegert. Read this article online.
The Kingdom of God moves forward through Prayer. The Holy Spirit and our prayers to God contain incredible power to bring God’s will. Old Testament patriarchs, the early Church, and Jesus especially, show us and tell us how to pray. We must lean into this power. Praying takes our limited and rational vision of life, and opens our minds to God’s wonderous, glorified plan.
The Jewish people make up less than one percent of the population, yet their impact on the world and culture is undeniable. Read how Dr. Newman, a Messianic Jew, describes how the Jewish people see the world and why that is important when talking about the matters of pain, pride, pleasure, and promise.
Once you realize your own worth hinges on Christ and not your resumé, you are freed up to love and appreciate others — regardless of their job or standing in life. A stay-at-home mom shares lessons learned in her journey from "politics to pampers."
Eighteenth century philosopher and theologian, Jonathan Edwards, speaks to us today as convincingly as several centuries ago. Learn more about the life and faith of one of America's greatest philosophers and theologians. Read the full article here.
Francis August Schaeffer was born on January 30, 1912 in the small town of Germantown, Pennsylvania. His life, books and Switzerland-based ministry L’Abri have had immense and wide-ranging impact on this generation. Schaeffer was known not just for his academic knowledge, but also his ability to answer difficult questions with personal and applicable ‘real knowledge’. He had the keen abi...
Rationalism often claims God cannot exist because there is no empirical evidence of God. This, however, is an incoherent argument and impossible to prove because it is a negative assertion. In this podcast, Dr. Lindsley argues that Rationalism is a limited argument. It fundamentally cannot disprove God. When doubts and attacks are prevalent, sometimes the most logical thing to do is to t...
The big moment of abandoning the faith didn't occur out of thin air; there was a gradual slope toward unbelief occurring within the heart. Learn more in this episode featuring insights from Dan Osborne.
Recommended Resources:
- The Danger of Drifting from the Word by John Piper (A message available from DesiringGod.org)
- A Peculiar Glory: How the Christian Scriptures Reveal Their Comp...
Joe Loconte reveals to us some of the ways C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien found faith in some of the most unlikely settings – the battlefields of World War I. While many people lost faith in God because of the carnage they experienced during those dark days, Lewis and Tolkien were transformed for eternal beauty. And their friendship after those days encourages all of us in profound way...
C.S. Lewis’s book Mere Christianity has a claim to being one of the most important religious works of the twentieth century. In this article, George Marsden discusses the origins of the book and its reception, as well as the factors that give the book its ongoing vitality. Read this article online.
Ralph Waldo Emerson was a gifted nineteenth century American writer who helped launch a movement of sorts called transcendentalism, in which the individual supplanted religious traditions and institutions. David George Moore argues that while Emerson’s work isn’t well known among Americans, his influence on our lives is incalculable. In this article, he offers suggestions for how Christi...
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