Greetings and welcome to this bonus edition of Faith to Live By.
I'm Pam Christian, your host, where each week I help us explore current events from a biblical
and prophetic perspective, so we, as God's people, can know how He wants us to respond.
With this bonus edition, I'm taking a little departure from the focus that I just mentioned
to highlight specific prophecy that's been called a billion soul harvest or a great harvest
of souls that is imminent and what God has asked of His people in preparation to partner
with Him for this harvest of souls.
In Matthew 28-18-20, known as the Great Commission, each one of us is instructed to make disciples
of all nations, baptizing all men, meaning of course all people, in the name of the Father
and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to obey God's commands.
And in 2 Timothy 4, verse 2, we are instructed to be ready at all times to share the reason
for the hope that is in us.
Most Christians are not confident enough about their own faith to be willing to share their
faith with others.
There are many reasons for this, but regardless of the reason, the solution is to gain confidence.
First and foremost, so you have a strength of faith to see you through whatever life may
bring you, and also so you can effectively share your faith with others.
For over 31 years now, I have served in Christian ministry.
I didn't discover the accurate truth about Jesus until I was nearly 30 years old, and
the moment my eyes, mind, and heart were open to truth, I was radically and forever transformed.
There has been nothing in life or world events that has been able to shake my faith ever
since.
I've gone through a great deal of trials and sufferings and losses through the years,
but as I've said, nothing has been able to move me or cause me to doubt or fear because
I confidently know truth is eternal and truth is the greatest power over all lies, deception,
and evil.
This degree of confidence in truth is what I want all people to know.
And from this deep-seated passion wanting others to know truth, I have willingly spent
every available working hour to help to that end.
Whether it be through teaching, speaking, radio, my books, internet television, my podcasts,
or my faith to live by training center, my aim is always the same, to help people discover
and live in life-giving truth and experience all the hope truth provides.
For these reasons, I'm bringing you this special edition of this podcast so you can
know about my online apologetics class.
This is a word derived from a Greek word which means speaking in defense.
It's not apologizing but offering a defense for the Christian faith.
However, the words apologetics and apologize are related.
They both come from the Greek word apologia, which means answer back or respond.
So apologetics is a learned discipline of speaking in response to challenges to a line
of thought, whereas to apologize is to respond to a wrong that has been done.
Not finding the truth until I was nearly 30 years old and wanting very much to make up
for lost time, I immersed myself in every way possible to learn all about my newfound
faith.
In this effort, I heard various men on Christian talk radio who used apologetics to defend
the Christian faith.
I was fascinated by the whole process and I found it to be the one sensible way to personally
gain confidence in what I believed, and the bonus was that I also became better equipped
to share my faith with others.
Also, as in a court of law, the one who makes a claim must be able to provide evidence in
support of their claim.
If they cannot, then why would a judge have any reason to rule on that claim being true?
Beyond any court of law, the same logic applies to all of life.
If a person claims there is only one God and one heaven and only one way to be rightly related
to God, the creator of all that exists, then that person must be able to defend what they
claim.
In other words, the one who makes a claim must be able to substantiate it.
If we can't substantiate why we believe the Christian faith, in contrast to all other
religious beliefs, we cannot help others find the same truth we have discovered.
As a quick test, if someone asks you why you believe the Christian faith, could you provide
at least three convincing reasons in support of your faith?
If you say you believe the Christian faith because Jesus was who he said he was, then
you need to be prepared for the next question.
How do you know Jesus was who he said he was?
If you say because Jesus was raised from the dead and he is alive, interceding in heaven,
then you need to be prepared for the next question.
How do you know?
If you say because the Bible says so, then you need to be prepared to answer the next
question which is, why is the Bible to be trusted over any other document of religious
authority?
Do you see what I mean?
With a basic understanding of the Christian faith, from the apologetic discipline, you
don't have to have all the answers, just the basic answers.
And from that much, you will know how to find answers to other questions.
The method of study learned through apologetics deepens our ability for weighing evidence
and thinking critically.
And that serves us in every area of life where we need to know truth.
As we've been learning since 2020, the vast majority of people are deceived about many
things, including truth itself.
When a person is deceived, they are unaware of their condition, because that's the nature
of deception.
Until and unless a person's core beliefs are abruptly challenged, causing them to reconsider
what they believe and why they will go on living in deception.
At the same time, all human beings universally desire truth.
No one likes being lied to, not even a pathological liar likes being lied to.
And especially since 2020, the whole world is waking up and out of deception and the
importance of confidently knowing truth.
For several decades, people claimed truth was relative, and the vast majority of us,
without knowing how to defend truth, went along with that claim.
Belief that truth is personal and subjective is called relativism.
It claims what is true for you is your truth and what is true for me is my truth, even
if what we both believe contradict.
Relativism is finally being recognized by people all around the world as one of many
deceptions we've been subjected to.
Subjective truth and objective truth are two very different matters.
Let me demonstrate.
If I say I believe double chocolate cake is the very best in the whole world, I'm telling
the truth of what I believe about cakes.
However, you could claim that lemon cake is the very best cake in the whole world, and
that's your truth.
When it comes to subjective matters, there can be more than one truth.
Subjective matters are those based on influence, personal feelings, tastes, or personal opinions.
Subjective truths will differ from person to person.
Understanding that people have their own preferences and this should be respected is the premise
by which relativism took root.
However, with this trend, feelings came to have more authority than rational thought.
Our culture and society were radically changed when feelings became more important than objective
reasoning.
If a person says I feel, we have come to a place in our culture that we don't question
why they feel as they do because people are entitled to their own feelings.
This has gotten our world so far removed from what is true that we are now expected to believe
that there are countless genders, men can have babies, and children know what's best
for them and need not consult their parents as just three examples.
As you can see, there's not a standard of truth in these three examples.
However, objective matters are not influenced by personal feelings or opinions in considering
and examining the facts.
Subjective means information based on facts and evidence that align with reality, while
subjective means information or perspectives based on feelings, opinions, or emotions.
Consider this.
If it is nighttime where I am and I claim it is daytime, since what I claim is obviously
contrary to reality, people would rightly determine that at the very least I'm confused
or blind and most certainly I'm not relating to reality.
That makes sense to you, right?
But in our current culture, if I claim I'm a man when I'm clearly a woman, even though
what I claim obviously is contrary to reality, people not only leave me to my own demise,
they are also expected to offer support for my claims in a variety of ways.
This is the absurdity of the lie that truth is relative, which is nothing but a deception
from the pit of hell and it must be stopped.
I believe exposing this lunacy and waking people up to the fact that we've been lied
to is exactly what God has been doing since 2020.
However, simply realizing we've been lied to is not enough.
We need to know how to find our way back to truth.
Earlier, I made the claim that universally, people all around the world want to know truth.
They want to live their lives based on truth.
That claim can easily be substantiated by the fact of how upset people become when they
realize they've been lied to.
So we must be able to agree upon the answer to the question, what is truth?
We've already explored the tragedy that comes from the claim that truth is subjective or
relative.
So now let's consider what our world would be like if we agreed truth is objective.
Here's what I wrote in my first book, in my Faith to Live by Ceres.
There is an absolute standard regarding any truth, though not everyone is willing to accept
this.
To confirm a matter is truth, three essential characteristics must be in place at the same
time.
Number one, the truth is always based on reality.
Number two, only one thing can be true and all opposing matters are false.
And number three, truth is universal.
Now consider this, people who claim truth is relative make this statement.
They would say, there's no such thing as absolute truth.
And I really want you to consider that claim.
That claim is indefensible because while they claim there is no such thing as absolute truth,
they actually use the law of absolutes to make their claim.
It can't be both ways.
So the standard we need to agree upon is truth is clearly absolute and objective and based
on reality.
Now what I just demonstrated is ration and reason in an apologetic style that you can
use when helping people discover what truth actually is.
If my demonstration was new to you, then you just learned how to use apologetics when it
comes to defending what truth is.
And this is without any reference to any religion or spiritual component.
That makes this a great method when it comes to helping others discover truth.
Just start with truth itself and know truth will always lead us to Jesus, who himself
is the way, the truth, and the life.
Everyone wants to live their life on the basis of truth.
So why doesn't everyone take the time and effort to examine what they believe and why,
to be certain, what they believe is true?
Well, again, there are many reasons.
And one, I think, is highly significant is that most of us believe what our parents,
teachers, or other people in positions of authority taught us to believe.
For us to even consider reexamining what we believe can feel like a disrespectful affront
to these precious people who had authority in our lives.
Certainly, we trust our parents and others in authority over us would not intentionally
lie to us.
But what if what our parents understood to be true wasn't truth at all and they just
didn't realize it?
What if our teachers and professors had been taught to believe a matter is true and they
never really examined it?
What if self-appointed elites who are influenced by greed, power, and money with an understanding
of human nature actually schemed away to deceive people for their own selfish purposes?
These are questions worth pondering.
Transitioning to another thought, most people believe what we act on as truth in our earthly
lives will determine where we spend our eternal spiritual lives.
This is true of the five major world religions which are Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam,
and Christianity.
In fact, even New Age teaches belief in reincarnation.
And every person who holds to these different faiths believe that their religion is true,
otherwise they wouldn't adhere to it.
Again, all human beings want to live their life on the basis of truth.
If in fact people adhere to their religious faith, believing how they live their temporal
lives, impacts their eternal lives, then why wouldn't there be more emphasis on genuinely
examining what they believe and why?
And why isn't there more interest in knowing how each of the five major world religions
and New Age differ to determine which is the most plausible to believe?
Not only are these good questions for each of us to answer for ourselves, they are excellent
questions to ask others to consider in effort to help them discover and live in truth.
Okay, all of this is to bring you to some areas of critical thinking that you may have
not explored before because I know you want to live in truth and you have others in your
life that you can help lead to truth.
This is why when I was asked to start an online course in apologetics, I jumped at the chance.
I want you to know about this course.
I have a link or two you can use to actually see parts of the course that you can take
in your spare time to confidently discover truth, to be able to defend why the Christian
faith is the most plausible and satisfying of all, to defend why the Bible is unique
in contrast to all other documents of religious authority and more, so you can be confident
you are living your life on the basis of truth and be equipped to share your faith with friends
and loved ones to help them confidently live their lives on the basis of truth.
With that, I have invited my associate professor, Frank Kodespati, to join me as we discuss how
we came to develop and offer this five-course curriculum.
This is simply a recorded phone call, so the audio is not perfect, but that didn't matter
so much to me because our compassion and desire to help others discover truth is what counts.
Frank's background is in both ministry and the fields of information technology, real
estate development, and financial services as a solution architect that supported the
IT departments of Fortune 100 companies as well as government and education, including
development of his own Christian apologetics curriculum.
This first book is titled Angels and Demons, the Battle for Your Mind, and is offered through
our Faith to Live by Training Center, which I'll tell you more about after you hear my
conversation with Frank.
Listen, as we endeavor to share our hearts with you, here's my interview with Frank Kodespati.
Frank Kodespati, I am so delighted to introduce you to my audience.
I've already told them a little bit about you.
So at this point, I would just like you to speak about yourself and personally share
what you'd like people to know about you.
Well, thank you, Pam, for having me.
I've been in ministry for a number of years, and I've seen how the lack of being able to
defend your faith has really taken your toll on our kids.
And that's been really a motivating factor for me in getting involved in the ministry
early on.
I know you actually began ministry work with children, and you explained to me before we
started the program that it was visiting the Museum of Natural Science that really started
directing you in this whole area of apologetics.
Absolutely.
I began to really recognize how the museums, our documentaries, and even our school books
are indoctrinating our children and adults into believing that our origins are coming
from monkeys.
They're pressing the Darwinism philosophy that has been responsible for a lot of damage.
Many people don't realize that Adolf Hitler was a staunch Darwinist.
So was Mussolini.
And they believe that there, especially in Hitler's case, that the Aryan race was a
superior race.
And they believe like Darwin professed when he was on the Elapatos Islands that these
people were inferior to speaking themselves.
And here we are in schools, in the National History Museum, showing this displays of a
Neanderthal man or a Java man and all these different things.
And I remember going to school and having to basically memorize information about these
subspecies of Homo sapiens and be able to pass a test.
And I know we have a lot of students in our public schools that, all the way through college,
that are doing the same thing.
Even those who might be Christian are having to memorize material in order to pass a test.
And it is also chipping away at their own personal faith in Christ.
Absolutely.
And, you know, unfortunately, and I'm thinking back in the days of children's ministry, where
in Sunday school, we never really armed our kids.
And I believe you can start at a very early age.
Arming them with information that at least begins the process of critical thinking.
And being able to ask pointed questions.
Yes.
I know this has been something very important to me to help people learn how to think critically,
because our schools of public education, especially, are teaching our children what
to think rather than how to think.
And we've actually turned out to our society, and I'm sure it's by design, but there's people
who are adult, who are influential and very successful in their own right, who are influencing
many, many other people without the ability to think critically.
Absolutely.
And, you know, I mean, you throw in mainstream media and all the other talking heads and
such that are all there.
They all seem to be exercising the same agenda to really indoctrinate all of us, you know,
of all ages, into a way of thinking about our worldview, where our origins, and really
the fact that all of this could have happened all by itself, which is ludicrous.
Right.
And, of course, this is a way to displace God, to make people believe that God doesn't
really exist.
Satan doesn't really exist.
And in this way, Satan has the victory to actually control the masses.
And this is exactly what we've seen.
And I think people are waking up to this reality of the battle between good and evil, the existence
of God, the existence of Satan.
People are waking up to these truths, and they're starved for truth by this point in
time.
I mean, most people know the media and governments have been lying to the people of the world,
and people today are starved for the truth.
So I can't think of a better thing for us to be able to offer than our apologetics course.
And I love how it even happened that you and I came together to be able to do this.
Why don't you talk about that a little bit?
Oh, absolutely.
I remember I was at the Rock Church in Anaheim, and Pastor Jerry Deerman, the senior pastor,
had gotten up at the end of a message and said, you know, if you all can think of a
ministry that perhaps you'd like to see at the Rock, why don't you turn over your guest
card and write it down on the back of the card.
And I wrote apologetics.
And about a week or so later, the church announced that they were going to have an interest group,
a little meeting on apologetics.
So I thought, woohoo, let's go.
So I did.
And here I am.
I go to this apologetics meeting.
You know, there was probably 100 people in a room, and I'm sitting at the front row,
and Pastor Jerry's going through what his vision was for the group.
And he had asked if anyone was willing to coordinate a committee.
And no one raised their hand, so I raised my hand.
So he picked me.
Okay, you're it.
You know, so you're going to be the person to coordinate on the development of the Rock's
ultimately the apologetic curriculum.
And so through the ensuing weeks, I spent several hours working with Pastor Jerry, and
the group was big, and then it got smaller and smaller and smaller, and it just didn't
really didn't have any traction.
So we shifted gears a few ways with, you know, the curriculum.
First we were going to develop our own curriculum.
Then we were going to assemble a group of free published curriculums that others had done
and and craft that into some form of a class.
It never really took off.
And but that's how I had the chance to work with Pastor Jerry and get to know him and
it knows family well and the association with apologetics.
So I had sent him a text message on his birthday, and he responded back saying, Hey, we think
you'd be interested in being an associate professor with our apologetics class.
Of course, sir.
So here we are.
Yeah.
And the way it happened for me because I didn't know Pastor Jerry, but I was introduced
to him by a mutual friend because of my book series, They Use Apologetics and Explaining
the Christian Faith.
And Jerry was really pleased not only with my book series, but he asked me to create
the curriculum for their online school to help people, help leaders, especially in the
church know how to teach apologetics, not just to use apologetics, but to help others
learn to use apologetics.
He really wanted to broaden the perspective.
And the next thing I know he says, I've got the perfect associate professor for you.
And it was you.
So this has just been a wonderful match.
And I've enjoyed every bit of it.
Now we started off with their school, but they put their school on pause and then encouraged
us to go ahead and start our own training center.
So that's exactly how you and I came together to create the Faith to Live by Training Center.
And you, with all of your amazing technical background, you thought it best that we would
also continue with that, not only for our students, but because of the ease of using
it.
Talk a little bit about the structure of the Canvas platform and what the students can
expect by using it.
Oh, you know, it's a very user-friendly platform.
It's a platform where the courses can be plainly accessed.
There are features within it where you can communicate with your instructors.
You can participate in discussion groups.
It has a testing system and quizzing system that's very easy to create and easy for the
students to use.
And so given the simplicity of the platform, it really makes it a perfect fit for the courses
that we're offering.
Right.
Now we have five classes with a total of 29 weeks or sessions.
And when the students go online, when they sign up to take the particular courses, they
do so knowing that they will have live interaction with you.
I wanted to talk about that a little bit, please.
Well, absolutely.
As you had mentioned, we've got the five courses, you know, Y-apologetics, True Foundations,
Diplical Morality versus Culture, and Nations are Christ, and then the last one, Real Science.
They go on, they begin to take the course, and when they have a question, they can send
me a message on the platform.
And then I'm able to go in, respond to their question.
Sometimes they have observations.
Maybe something's not working properly, or maybe they need some clarity on a particular
question.
And I'm able to address those needs right away.
And I think that's just so helpful to know that it's a live interactive type experience.
It's not just AI or something.
Of course, I have developed the course, and they will see me each week on video or guests
that I might have on to present the information.
But they do have complete access to you, which is just tremendous.
And what would you say would be some of the benefits for our students in taking our particular
course?
Well, I think first and foremost is the principles that are taught on how to send your faith.
That's probably the best armor that we can give to anyone, really knowing not only archeological
facts, but also the scientific facts that support what we believe in.
And also, because of the information that they're receiving and ingesting, they receive
the confidence to be able to share their faith and to be able to respond intelligently to
people that have questions or perhaps retorts, if you will, to them being a Christian or
to a statement they make that's based upon your faith.
I know that in the development of the course, I included some of my books, some references
to others, some references to articles.
It's a really rich course in terms of the content.
And one of the things that people have said, especially about my first book, which is called
Examining Your Faith, Finding Truth in a World of Lies, is that they thought they were reading
the book so that they could learn more about how to share their faith.
But in reality, what they came away with was a deeper confidence for themselves in their
Christian faith.
And I think it's important that we help people understand that not all religions are equal,
not all religions lead to the same God and same heaven.
And we give them tools on how they can talk to their Muslim friends, how they can talk
to their Mormon friends, how they can talk to people from other faiths and find commonality,
find what is the human interest for all of us, what's common for all of us, which is
a desire for truth.
Everyone wants to know the truth.
No one wants to live their life on the basis of a lie.
And between your years of experience and apologetics and mine, with all the resources, including
many of your written materials, and I want to talk about your sub-stack in just a minute,
but this is available through extra ways they can take advantage of the materials that are
available through the Faiths of the By Training Center.
Absolutely.
And sometimes it just comes down to knowing what question to ask.
As an example, gee, we came from monkeys.
It's like interesting when monkeys have 48 chromosomes and humans have 46.
Where'd the other two come from?
I was just asking.
Or you're telling me that Jesus wasn't dead when he came down from the cross, but it's
interesting that it was written by eyewitnesses that when he was pierced by a spear that
out poured water and blood, the water and blood refers to a condition called Erychardial
Infusion, which happens at the point of death when the heart is surrounded by a sack of
water.
The lungs are also surrounded by a sack of water as well.
So when he was pierced with the spear and when water came out in addition to a small
amount of blood, that proved that he was dead, but not swooning or he fell asleep and then
he just got out and walked.
But anyway, these fine points are important.
Yes, they are all very important.
And they're valid questions.
And the Bible tells us as Christians, as believers, that we are to be ready in season
and out of season to share the hope that is within us.
And I believe with all my heart, with everything the world has gone through, especially since
2020, that there is going to be what has been spoken of as a billion soul harvest, people
coming by the droves to churches, wanting to embrace their newfound truth of Jesus Christ
and understand how to live their faith on a daily basis.
And people, everyday Christians, not pastors, not professors, but everyday people need to
know how to share their faith and what better way to do it than to take a 29 week course
through our online platform, which people can take at their leisure and complete according
to their timeline.
If they want to complete it in as little as 29 weeks, they can.
If they want to double that, they can.
But it's a very inexpensive course.
It's a very power packed course that is intended to equip Christians to share their faith effectively
and answer some of the tough questions and know how to do it in a winsome way, that we
are not ever lording over other people that we have the truth and you don't know that
is the worst method by far.
So I love that you and I have been able to join together to make this available and I
will have on the end of my podcast in the show notes the links that people can go to
to learn more and to consider signing up for this 29 week course.
Frank, I would like people to know a little bit more about you and the other work that
you've done beyond our mutual work with the Faith to Live by Training Center.
Can you briefly talk about your sub stack papers, please?
Yes, absolutely.
I started a sub stack about a year ago.
I want people are familiar with that because it's a publishing platform that anyone can
really create an accounting and begin to publish.
The start of it all was just knowing that people have been lied to not only in terms
of what we're being taught in school and in documentaries about our origins and the lack
of any discussion about intelligent design but also just a variety of different criticisms
about the Bible and about Christianity.
And as Christianity is becoming more and more attacked, I just felt compelled to begin to
write.
And so I started off in a series of newsletters or articles, if you will, starting off at
the very beginning and then I'm kind of moving through some of the content that I have in
my book.
And I just started publishing.
Right now I'm publishing twice a week on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
And then go to frankodispody.substack.com and see some of those articles.
But I just felt compelled to really just kind of get my point a few across and not only
make the statements but also back them up with some scientific and archeological proof
that kind of reinforcement I was saying.
You and I are identical on a method.
We like to ask questions, genuine questions to help people think critically, to help them
articulate why they believe as they do and to identify for themselves whether or not
it's valid.
Absolutely.
Especially now in an age where they're suggesting that our children can pretend to be a different
gender and then act on that pretension that with basically physical mutilation and just
destroying our kids or the lie that many women have swallowed that well it's my body and
I have the right to do what, murder a child.
And we can prove that babies have feelings in 10 weeks.
And before you even know you're pregnant the baby is capable of understanding pain.
So in any case there's just so much out there.
People have just been sold a bill of goods and they've been told like we witnessed what
happened with COVID.
They were told oh my goodness churches are non-essential so we're closing them down but
you can go to a marijuana dispensary and buy marijuana or buy a bottle of booze at a liquor
store and certainly Home Depot and Lowe's are more important than Bob's hardware store
which had to close down.
Those other organizations were able to stay open.
And then saying that gee you have to wear a mask and you can get, you can catch something
from a virus and stuff like that.
It just violated scientific evidence and people started believing it because gee Dr. Fauci
said this is the way it is.
And lo and behold you know thousands of more doctors finally stood up and said hey look
you know this is not the way that it goes and this is not how it works.
And they were threatened and many of them lost their licenses American Medical Association.
So all of a sudden government is peaking down on doctors that are telling the truth.
This is the age that we're living and it's accelerating and it reminds me of what Daniel
prophesied and what's been prophesied in the book of Revelation.
And of course eschatology is an amazing way of building your faith.
Understanding that just with Jesus there were over 300 prophecies that were fulfilled.
I mean in Isaiah more than 600 years before his birth Isaiah described where he was going
to be born and how he was going to die 900 years before the Persians invented crucifixion.
So I mean knowing these phoenix and being armed with it.
It's not only like you said before fills people with confidence because they know how to defend
their faith and they know what they believe and they can prove without a shadow of a doubt
what they believe.
But again we are at a time where people realize they've been lied to by government by media
and it impacts our daily lives.
It impacts our families and it impacts our children's education.
It impacts every area of our lives.
People need the truth over every aspect of life and the Christian faith unique to all
other religious beliefs can answer every life's question.
So anyone who's hearing this podcast who has had any questions about some of the moral
points of view or some of the social points of view whatever you might have a question
about I encourage you to check out our apologetics course with the Faith to Live by Training Center.
You're able to talk to me or to talk to Frank before you even decide to sign up but let
us help you get the answers to life's questions in a way that satisfies you unlike anything
else.
I promise you that's available through the truth of Jesus Christ.
How about you Frank any last words?
I would just encourage people to get educated.
Education is power.
It's really up to us as a community to arm ourselves and to take that sword which is
the word of God and to use it not to be people over the head but to love them as Christ would
love them and offer them the reason for why we have the hope that we have and to share
that with them and hopefully through the power of the Holy Spirit to gain some traction and
help not only have people become comforted in the message but also recognize the truth
that's being spoken and proven and that causes them to want to dig deeper themselves.
In closing, I'll just say that we did mention about how people are more awake today to the
reality of God and Satan or good and evil and what a person can really expect when armed
with the truth which we offer through the Apologetics Course is that we would be empowered
with the authority and the power of Jesus Christ over all the works of the enemy.
In other words, we, when we are properly equipped with the truth, have the ability to overcome
the evil that's in our world.
Frank I look forward to having you back in some weeks to come.
I just want to keep my audience reminded of what you and I are doing through the Faith
to Live by Training Center.
Would you grace me with a return visit?
Oh absolutely.
Happy to do it Pam.
All right.
Thank you.
Frank always provides excellent work.
I highly recommend you consider his sub-stack membership page which you'll find a link
for in the show notes.
Frank mentioned eschatology which is the study of end to times that my initial Apologetics
Course indirectly covers with two books in my Faith to Live by series.
They're titled Prepare for the Harvest, Confidence and God's End Time Promises and Prepare for
the Harvest, God's Challenge to the Church Today.
Both books are required reading along with the course materials to help students have
an introduction to eschatology.
Depending on the interest in this initial Apologetics Course, I may add additional curriculum that
may more fully explore eschatology and other topics of interest.
My aim with this course is not to be overly academic or scholarly, but rather to explore
topics and concerns most everyday people have.
This initial course was created as an introduction to Apologetics, offering important tactics
and guidelines when using Apologetics to lead others to truth and then the sessions advance
to explore some of the more timely matters according to current world events and what
people are considering today.
Also, students of this course will receive a certificate of completion that may be useful
if you are pursuing a career in ministry.
The Apologetics Course, Frank's Books, My Books and more are all available from the Faith
to Live by Training Center website which is www.pamalakrishonministries.com.
There are dashes between the various words so I think you probably know what this is
and probably just want to use the link in the show notes.
But you can look through the specific classes offered to get an idea of what I provide,
beginning with discovering truth, and then explore the Christian faith in light of other
major world religions, the unique authority of the Bible, and the evidence and support
of Jesus being who he claimed to be.
From there, having sufficiently defended Christianity as unique, I explore our history
of God's people, various tenets of the Christian faith, the origin of creation, and more.
We've done all we can to make this interactive course very affordable, easy to use, and structured
for people to complete according to their personal schedules.
Also, we offer group discounts for groups of five or more.
We think this curriculum is an excellent tool for a church small group or as part of a home
study group so we're encouraging that by offering group discounts.
Contact us to learn more.
Do take a look at the webpage and also make a point of hearing the testimony of a precious
woman of God who shares how apologetics saved her faith and confidence in truth that her
experience in college nearly eroded.
There's a link for you to use to see the sample on the course materials on the Training
Center page.
As I said, you can talk with Frank and or myself before choosing to sign up.
Feel free to email us at faithtoliveby at PamelaChristianMinistries.com and we can arrange
a telephone call.
If you are not a regular listener to my weekly Faith to Live By podcast where I explore current
events from a biblical and prophetic perspective, please know what you've just heard is a bonus
podcast.
If you want to know what God is saying today and how He wants His children to respond in
these current times by all means, make a point of listening to my regular weekly podcast
right here where you have found this bonus edition.
I hope to have you join me on the regular podcast and certainly that you will decide
to become a student for my Faith to Live By Training Center.
I think you'll find everything you need to know about the course in the show notes, but
if you have any questions, please email me at faithtoliveby at PamelaChristianMinistries.com.