On Winning Debates, Sinful Desire, and What Truly Matters

AN IDEA FROM ME

In a debate, you're not really there to win over your opponent, although that would be wonderful. But you're there to really win over the audience.

—From the Worldview Legacy episode “How to Debate an Atheist as a Christian with Eli Ayala.” Get tips on how to engage in formal debate and informal discussions here: https://thethink.institute/articles/how-to-win-a-debate-against-an-atheist. 

A QUOTE FROM SOMEBODY ELSE

“It's not as if we lack the ability to come to God. It's we lack the desire, because we are  born dead in our sins. Our desire is for sin. Our desire is for the things that oppose God. Our desire is not for Him. And so that's what is really the issue is: our lack of desire to come; our moral inability to come.”

—Keith Foskey, “Calvinism: Fact of Fiction.” Find the episode here: https://thethink.institute/articles/foskey-on-calvinism

SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT

Jesus said, “Watch out and be on guard against all greed, because one’s life is not in the abundance of his possessions” (Lk 12:15 ). If not possessions, then what truly matters?

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P. S. I am hosting a men’s cigars-and-conversation Meetup for men in Aurora, Illinois, on Thursday, September 19. If you’re a man and will be in the Chicagoland area on that night, I’d love to have you come out. Get more information here: https://www.meetup.com/thethinkinstitute/events/302992521/?utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=share-btn_savedevents_share_modal&utm_source=link.