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 This blog has been silent for a few weeks now. I took a bit of a break during the Christmas and New Year’s holidays to relax with the family, watch a ton of football, speak at our annual youth conference, and gather my strength for the coming year. Professor John Lennox, teasing me about my hectic schedule, once quipped, “This is the only Fixed Point I have ever heard of that never stops moving!” 2010 will be no different. We begin the year with Seeking 7’s “Into the Fire”, an apologetics conference that starts tomorrow (Wednesday) night at the Sheraton.
Seeking 7 is a joint initiative of Ravi Zacharias International Ministries (RZIM) and Fixed Point Foundation. It is, in effect, a new ministry designed to equip, encourage, and mobilize Christians to engage a fallen world. The topics and speakers are sure to accomplish those goals: Radio personality Rick Burgess on the problem of suffering. Pastor Alistair Begg on the challenges facing the church in the new millennium and how the church must rise to meet those challenges. Scientist John Lennox on the Genesis account of creation RZIM apologist Ravi Zacharias on how Christians can affect the culture. Fixed Point’s own Bill Wortman on the authority of Scripture and modern education. Evangelist and Islamic scholar Jay Smith on the rise of Radical Islam. RZIM apologist Stuart McAllister on the Hollywood window onto America’s soul. Harry Reeder on the all but forgotten doctrine of Hell. And I will be offering a few common sense reasons why we can believe that the God of the Bible is real.
Many have asked about the name Seeking 7. What does it mean? One fellow joked with me, “I am coming to your … what do you call it? The Magnificent Seven Conference?” He was close, but incorrect. The name derives from the significance of the number seven in Scripture. It is a perfect number. Consider the seven days of creation; Joshua and the people of Israel marching around Jericho seven times; the seven loaves with which Jesus fed the four thousand; the choosing of seven servants in Acts 6; the seven lampstands and churches in Revelation; the seven thousand God reserved to Himself “who did not bend the knee to Baal”, etc. Furthermore, we are to seek God seven days a week. Into the Fire” is the name of this particular Seeking 7 conference. Picture Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego standing before the fiery furnace in Daniel 3. They remained faithful, even as the flames singed and ultimately consumed some of those near them. Are you willing to go into the fire? We hope to see you at the conference! Tickets range from $25 for individual sessions to $495 for a full conference pass. (The latter includes all four days and all meals.) Click here to register, or call (205) 414-6311.
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