In some quarters there has been a questioning of the value of the entire Christian apologetic enterprise. Some of our Lutheran brothers view it as an attempt to reason people into the faith. Others question its usefulness on a cultural level. Are people even concerned with the truthfulness of the claims of Christianity anymore?

This past October, Zion Lutheran Church in Tomball, Texas invited two of the most eminently qualified individuals in the field of Apologetics to address the 2009 Apologetics Symposium. Dr. Rod Rosenbladt and Mr. Craig Parton, Esq. gave a series of lectures that were said by a number of attendees to be the best presentations on the subject they had ever heard. One gentleman told us that he has been studying the defense of the Christian faith for twenty years and these were the clearest and most powerful he had ever listened to.

In Mr. Parton’s opening lecture he makes a devastating point. We catechize our children in the Scriptures and Confessions and then ship them off to college. Once there, they are confronted with ’scholarship’ and objections that seem to debunk their faith. These objections are old and well-known in some quarters, and ably answered. But our college age confirmands aren’t taught even basic answers to these questions, then we wonder why upwards of 90% of our young people walk away from the faith.

That point right there is enough to justify the whole field of Apologetics in my book. Furthermore, the onslaught of the new atheists has rocked the faith of many believers who have been fed a diet of ‘How God can make your life better?’ sermons.

This is important stuff. In light of that, we are giving away the first two lectures of this series and the bibliography for free. Download them here.

The remaining four lectures and the Q and A session are priced as a package at an economical price. This is simply some outstanding scholarship.

This series lays the ground work for a clear and concise defense of the truth of the Scriptures and the claims of Christ. The standard objections to the Faith are quite simply devastated, and the listener is pointed to additional resources to augment further study.

Feel free to download the first two introductory lectures in the series and share them with friends or family. Burn copies and pass them out to anyone interested. They are excellently suited for personal or small group studies, or to use in Sunday school.

We are excited to be able to carry these presentations and hope they are of benefit to you in contending for the faith once delivered to the saints.

By Pat K

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