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Thinking with Your Eyes Deciding with Your Hearts: Today’s Postmodern World

Thinking with Your Eyes Deciding with Your Hearts: Today’s Postmodern World. William E. Brown, Ph.D. President. Thinking with Your Eyes Deciding with Your Hearts: Today’s Postmodern World. William E. Brown, Ph.D. President. “Some of the best times in my life happened under

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Thinking with Your Eyes Deciding with Your Hearts: Today’s Postmodern World

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  1. Thinking with Your Eyes Deciding with Your Hearts: Today’s Postmodern World William E. Brown, Ph.D. President

  2. Thinking with Your Eyes Deciding with Your Hearts: Today’s Postmodern World William E. Brown, Ph.D. President

  3. “Some of the best times in my life happened under the influence of drugs . . . I’m not saying, ‘Go out and do drugs,’ but I always enjoyed them.” ~Robbie Williams Note: He gave up drugs and alcohol because they made him too fat.

  4. “It’s boring. We walked out after, like, one minute.” Paris Hilton onThe Passion of the Christ (Entertainment Weekly, June 11, 2004)

  5. “I guess it’s more comforting if you think there’s this Santa Claus in the sky who’s waiting to make us happy, or if we haven’t been good, he’s not going to give us any presents. God has no plan. It’s simpler to think that we’ll go to heaven or hell when we die. To me, that seems like a way to avoid living.” Dave Matthews (Rolling Stone, January 22, 2004)

  6. POSTMODERNISM What is it?

  7. POSTMODERNISM No Absolute Truth only MY truth No Past, no Future only NOW No Underlying Meaning or Purpose only MY Meaning and Purpose

  8. CLASSIC The Road To Postmodernism MODERN POSTMODERN

  9. CLASSIC KNOWLEDGE AND TRUTH DISCOVERED BY . . . 2000 BC – AD 1400 Revelation Reason Experience

  10. MODERN KNOWLEDGE AND TRUTH DISCOVERED BY . . . 1400 -1960 Revelation Reason Experience

  11. MODERN KNOWLEDGE AND TRUTH DISCOVERED BY . . . Reason Experience

  12. POSTMODERN KNOWLEDGE AND TRUTH DISCOVERED BY . . . 1960 - Present Reason Experience

  13. POSTMODERN KNOWLEDGE AND TRUTH DISCOVERED BY . . . Experience

  14. Confronting the Postmodern Culture TRUTH??

  15. TRUTH is to be . . . KNOWN John 8:32; 1 Timothy 2:4 UNDERSTOOD Colossians 1:6 OBEYED 1 Peter 1:22 LOVED 2 Thessalonians 2:10 BELIEVED 1 Thessalonians 2:13 HANDLED CORRECTLY 2 Timothy 2:15

  16. TRUTH can be . . . Suppressed Romans 1:18 Exchanged for a lie Romans 1:25 Wandered away from2 Timothy 2:18 Rejected Titus 1:14; 2 Timothy 4:4 Opposed 2 Timothy 3:8

  17. Confronting the Postmodern Culture Always be ready to give an answer for the hope that is within you to everyone who asks. 1 Peter 3:15

  18. Evidence that demands a verdict?

  19. A verdict that demands evidence?

  20. Thinking with Our Eyes Deciding with Our Hearts: Today’s Postmodern Culture William E. Brown, Ph.D. President

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