WONDERFUL!! Thank you for posting this and thank you, Mr Peretti! Saw this soon after Mr. Peretti he preached it. Never forgot it because it made such an impression on me as a former New Ager and (thank the LORD!) a new believer changed by the Holy Spirit! PRAISE YOU, JESUS!!
Love Frank. Read all of his books except for The Wounded Spirit. Which I'm reading now. Only author thats EVER kept me captivated with every one of their books.
Dude I had no idea you were SO funny. I read This Present Darkness and piercing the Darkness 20 years ago and I have always loved them and thought of them often over the years. But I never had any idea how interesting you were. Great message too.
Got a lot of people I wish could hear this or understand these things about God. Like my Granddad but is very ingrained in his beliefs and I'm certainly not someone he would listen to. His name is Phil if anyone can pray for him with me. And also my Daughter Azariah, I don't know where her heart is at with God right now. and My Mum Chris and Sister Robyn
When he mentioned Plato, I knew he was serious about relativism. When my children think of Plato, they imagine something in a small can that you can mold into any shape you like.
You know, I have never seen God, but I have seen the Virgin Mary and I have had the hand of God (or something) reach down and pick up a car going over 100 miles a hour that lost control and turn over, yet was laid gently on the ground. That is not possible yet we felt it hold us up. then lay it down. God was with me the night my brother was killed. I hear my brother crying, looked all over for him, yet could not find him, until the moment of his death he cried and cried, then stopped. I saw (what ever you want to call it) the moment of my Mother in laws death a small white mist leave her chest and go out the window.Anyone who lives a long time and does not see all the miracles and answered prayers.is not looking. You can't spend your whole life seeing all the bad an blaming God, he made you, he did not dictate to you how to live. I love God with everything in me. I am not a fan of religion it is so man made. But God? I am a huge fan.
You've seen Mary, the mother of Jesus? Where? She had other children, so she was not a virgin..Like so many, you want to put experience over Scripture, but God's word is the final authority. I suggest you spend more time immersed in it.
An atheist-humanist doesn't lose his God given morality just because he doesn't believe it wasn't given to him by God. He still knows what's good and what's evil even if he denies the existence of God. Just like the theist doesn't suddenly lose his moral compass if it turns out God doesn't exist. What an absolutely insane view to have. But of course a Christian crowd like this is going to eat up jokes like this all day.
@@edmundsmith7199 From a Christian POV morality is given to people by God. Morality isn't something you lose just by denying the existence of God. Just because I'm not Christian doesn't mean I don't understand Christian worldview.
If you are acknowledging that God is the author of morality, and morality only comes from God, then atheism is utterly false. If your contention is that you recognize that the morality that comes from God is good , but you don’t believe in God and can practice morality without Him, aren’t you then laboring in spiritual ignorance?
What do you expect? Secular scientists constantly change definitions to avoid being told they are wrong. Now it's gotten to the point where the term "trust the science" is the crock.
Yes, we should. He's a better comedian than most though I think he intended for the atheist to be the but of the jokes, it actually was him who was the butt all along. Quite hilarious.
😂Mr. Peretti is so brilliant!
Always delightful, yet to the point.
One of the single most brilliant, and more important, TRUTH filled lectures ever given. Period.
WONDERFUL!! Thank you for posting this and thank you, Mr Peretti!
Saw this soon after Mr. Peretti he preached it. Never forgot it because it made such an impression on me as a former New Ager and (thank the LORD!) a new believer changed by the Holy Spirit! PRAISE YOU, JESUS!!
Wow, He's a good speaker! He is one of my favorite Christian fiction authors!
Love Frank. Read all of his books except for The Wounded Spirit. Which I'm reading now. Only author thats EVER kept me captivated with every one of their books.
Phenomenal story teller through fiction initially: This Present Darkness. Very animated with a point. Excellent communicator.
So good! Accurate, attention grabbing, relevant, and conveys important truths about God and worldviews.
Dude I had no idea you were SO funny. I read This Present Darkness and piercing the Darkness 20 years ago and I have always loved them and thought of them often over the years. But I never had any idea how interesting you were. Great message too.
He is Almighty God, The I Am that I Am God
On VHS in our homeschool library. What a great expose of relativism.
This sermon was spot on
Man, he's like a wholesome Christian George Carlin.
With a touch of mad scientist.
Got a lot of people I wish could hear this or understand these things about God. Like my Granddad but is very ingrained in his beliefs and I'm certainly not someone he would listen to. His name is Phil if anyone can pray for him with me. And also my Daughter Azariah, I don't know where her heart is at with God right now. and My Mum Chris and Sister Robyn
When he mentioned Plato, I knew he was serious about relativism. When my children think of Plato, they imagine something in a small can that you can mold into any shape you like.
How to confuse an American - get them to say "Marry merry Mary" five times in the mirror
and people wonder why kids are so confused...
great sermon! which year was it? its still acual!
+christophollus spekulatius I'm pretty sure the original was in 1983.
+Rana Dimmick While I assume you're being sarcastic the answer is no :)
+christophollus spekulatius I was had just started driving when the sermon was first aired so... 1998/1999
Lol, I thought it really was. I guess I was 15 years off, or so.
1995
You know, I have never seen God, but I have seen the Virgin Mary and I have had the hand of God (or something) reach down and pick up a car going over 100 miles a hour that lost control and turn over, yet was laid gently on the ground. That is not possible yet we felt it hold us up. then lay it down. God was with me the night my brother was killed. I hear my brother crying, looked all over for him, yet could not find him, until the moment of his death he cried and cried, then stopped. I saw (what ever you want to call it) the moment of my Mother in laws death a small white mist leave her chest and go out the window.Anyone who lives a long time and does not see all the miracles and answered prayers.is not looking. You can't spend your whole life seeing all the bad an blaming God, he made you, he did not dictate to you how to live. I love God with everything in me. I am not a fan of religion it is so man made. But God? I am a huge fan.
You've seen Mary, the mother of Jesus? Where? She had other children, so she was not a virgin..Like so many, you want to put experience over Scripture, but God's word is the final authority. I suggest you spend more time immersed in it.
An atheist-humanist doesn't lose his God given morality just because he doesn't believe it wasn't given to him by God. He still knows what's good and what's evil even if he denies the existence of God. Just like the theist doesn't suddenly lose his moral compass if it turns out God doesn't exist. What an absolutely insane view to have. But of course a Christian crowd like this is going to eat up jokes like this all day.
Could you clarify “recognizing God given morality but denying the existence of God?” Seems to be a contradiction of ideas.
@@edmundsmith7199 From a Christian POV morality is given to people by God. Morality isn't something you lose just by denying the existence of God. Just because I'm not Christian doesn't mean I don't understand Christian worldview.
Looks like someone wasn't paying attention.
If you are acknowledging that God is the author of morality, and morality only comes from God, then atheism is utterly false. If your contention is that you recognize that the morality that comes from God is good , but you don’t believe in God and can practice morality without Him, aren’t you then laboring in spiritual ignorance?
What a crock. Not even a good caricature of the science.
What do you expect? Secular scientists constantly change definitions to avoid being told they are wrong. Now it's gotten to the point where the term "trust the science" is the crock.
Every atheist should hear this.
Yes, we should. He's a better comedian than most though I think he intended for the atheist to be the but of the jokes, it actually was him who was the butt all along. Quite hilarious.
@@ThePelitin Are you a True Believer in Evolutionism?
@@theinsectmanofwv I've never heard of such a thing.
@@ThePelitin Are you a born-again Christain?
@@theinsectmanofwv No