Our Deepest Desires: How the Christian Story Fulfills Human Aspirations
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As human beings, we are created with desires. We all long for meaningful relationships, lives that reflect goodness, engagements with beauty, and the freedom to pursue our lives with integrity. But where can our restless hearts find fulfillment for these universal longings? Philosopher and apologist Greg Ganssle argues that the Christian story grounds and explains the things that we care about most. With grace and insight, Ganssle explains how the good news of Jesus Christ makes sense of—and fulfills—our deepest desires. Instead of arguing philosophically or deductively, he unpacks the key features of our deep concerns and shows how the elements of the Christian story align best with those features. Arguing that it is only in the particular claims of the Christian faith, not the atheistic story, that our universal human aspirations can find fulfillment and our restless hearts will be at peace.
Even the most devoted C.S. Lewis fans may not know of or have never read some of his most important works, such as The Discarded Image and An Experiment in Criticism. Jerry Root and Mark Neal sought to correct this problem with their helpful book The Neglected C.S. Lewis. In this podcast they introduce us to their book and many of Lewis’s books you’ll want to read after hearing about them. Show Notes: The Neglected C.S. Lewis: Exploring the Riches of His Most Overlooked Books by Mark Neal, Jerry Root Many Christians know Lewis as a children's writer or apologist---but he was also a literary historian and scholar. Neal and Root trace signature ideas in some of these critical works, including The Allegory of Love and The Discarded Image, and point out how they also appear in his more familiar books. https://www.christianbook.com/neglected-lewis-exploring-riches-overlooked-books/mark-neal/9781640602946/pd/602944?event=ESRCG ...
We’re called to love God with all our heart, soul, strength, and mind. Some of us gravitate toward the intellectual side and love God with our mind. Others go in the opposite direction toward feelings. But these should not be in opposition to each other. Rather, we’re whole persons called to love God with our whole being. Tom Schwanda helps us pursue this integrated approach to discipleship. Show Notes Books by Tom Schwanda: The Emergence of Evangelical Spirituality: The Age of Edwards, Newton, and Whitefield (Classics of Western Spirituality) https://www.amazon.com/Emergence-Evangelical-Spirituality-Whitefield-Classics/dp/0809106213/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&qid=1628787635&refinements=p_27%3ATom+Schwanda&s=books&sr=1-1&text=Tom+Schwanda Soul Recreation: The Contemplative Mystical Piety of Puritanism https://www.amazon.com/Soul-Recreation-Contemplative-Mystical-Piety-Puritanism/dp/1610974557/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&qid=1628787707&refinements=p_27%3ATom+Schwanda&s=books&sr=1-2&text=Tom+Schwanda ...
Books have always played a strategic role in discipleship. God chose to reveal himself in a book, the Bible. And reading has a powerful effect on how we grow spiritually. My conversation with Tim Thornborough of The Good Book Company explores what books people are reading and what reading-trends can tell us about God’s people in God’s world. Learn more at: https://www.thegoodbook.com https://www.thegoodbook.com/series/gods-word-for-you/ ...
