Hey, Everyone!!!

This month I will be speaking at two or three different events. On Saturday, February 27, I will be speaking at the Ratio Christi meeting at Bradley University. The talk that I will be giving will be 'A Positive Argument for the Resurrection of Jesus Christ'. This will be the first time that I get to speak to students at a Ratio Christi meeting, and it would be great to get to interact with them. On Tuesday, February 23, I will be speaking to a gathering of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes of Morton High School. Similar to the Ratio Christi event, this will be the first time since starting Credible Faith that I will be speaking to a group of high school students. Pray that for both events, my words would clearly communicate the truth of the gospel and the intellectual credibility of the Christian message, and that the Lord would use such words to work in students' hearts and draw them to him or to a greater confidence in Him and his Word. I might also have an opportunity on February 29 to speak to a group of campus ministers in the Greater Chicago area. The talk that I gave at Augustana College seemed to be generally well received (one person's words were 'mind blown'), and I also had the opportunity to talk with students afterwards, which was nice.

In regards to developing material, I also have two new talks that are ready to be given at churches or universities: 1. Some Objections to the Traditional Authorship of the Gospels, and Why The Objections Fail, and 2. Was the New Testament Canon a Late Second Century Development? Part 1, Tracing the Canon From the Late Second Century through Justin Martyr. This talk on the development of the New Testament canon will be followed by a talk that traces development of the New Testament canon back to the time of the apostles. Those two talks taken together will be an attempt to show that a dominant modern position in New Testament canonical studies, that the canon was a late second century development, is not the best explanation of the evidence. That is important given that the supposed late second century development of the canon is an important part of a historical paradigm popular in New Testament scholarship in which much of the New Testament is viewed as being not very reliable historically.

On the family side, my brother Travis and his wife Amy and their three boys came to the house on Super Bowl Sunday, and Mom prepared some good food. Given how much I need to get done in this period of life, I have not always given as much time as I would like to playing with my nephews, but I did manage to play a little with Hosea and Jude before they left.

PRAYER REQUESTS
1. Fundraising. Financially, one of the hardest seasons for a ministry is the beginning. Please pray that God would bring monthly supporters alongside Credible Faith. Credible Faith is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization and donations are accordingly tax-deductible in the US as permitted by law.

2. Ministry Opportunities. Pray that doors would be opened for ministry in churches and on campuses and for relationships to be formed that would be mutually beneficial for ministry in those places.

Have a great month!!!

Sincerely,

Paul

Wednesday, February 10, 2016
Illinois, USA

Quote of the Month

From Nicholas Wolterstorff's 'Lament for a Son', as cited in April 16, 2014 Ravi Zacharias email: When we have overcome absence with phone calls, winglessness with airplanes, summer heat with air conditioning—when we have overcome all these and much more besides, then there will abide two things with which we must cope: the evil in our hearts and death.