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Peter John Kreeft (born 1937) is a professor of philosophy at Boston College and The King's College. He is the author of numerous books as well as a popular writer of Christian philosophy, theology and apologetics. He also formulated, together with Ronald K. Tacelli, SJ, "Twenty Arguments for the Existence of God".
Kreeft took his A.B. at Calvin College (1959), and an M.A. at Fordham University (1961). In the same university he completed his doctoral studies in 1965. He briefly did post graduate studies at Yale University.
Kreeft has received several honors for achievements in philosophical reasoning. They include the following: Woodrow Wilson, Yale-Sterling Fellowship, Newman Alumni Scholarship, Danforth Asian Religions Fellowship, and Weathersfield Homeland Foundation Fellowship.
He joined the Philosophy faculty of the Department of Philosophy of Boston College in 1965. His intellectual reputation stems from his strengths in debating and summarizing the philosophical arguments of the major Western philosophers. He has debated several academics in issues related to God's existence. Shortly after he began teaching at Boston College he was challenged to a debate on the existence of God between himself and Paul Breines, an atheist history professor, which was attended by a majority of undergraduate students. Kreeft later used many of the arguments in this debate to create the Handbook of Christian Apologetics with then undergraduate student Ronald K. Tacelli, S.J..
Conversion- Trip Lee
[Mark Dever]
People today are skeptical that anyone can really change
people today start to be learning to accept your internal circumstances
to adapt to them and adjust to them
not to try to fundamentally change them
is any real change possible?
what does the Bible say
about deep, real, personal change?
[Trip Lee]
Yeah, okay, let’s go, yeah
Ay let me grab the mic, wrote this song to tell the truth (Tell it)
Cause rarely do, and yet we hear it, clearly fellas do
Need to get the facts straight, time to get a better view
We learn from our culture, but the Bible is the better school (c’mon)
this time we’ll profit us, but I ain’t talking revenue
talking understanding God and how He makes a fella new (new)
He can take a felon who was stealing’ since a little dude
and He can clean him up though, He can Cinderella you
Not with three steps, it had to be a better you
Cause our hearts are hardened, we headed straight to Hell its true
yeah we need a savior, but we don’t wanna let Him through
No room for Him cause its us up on our pedestals
God is light, He’s the only one who’s got the right fix
we walking in darkness, we ain’t got the right kicks (Nah)
there’s no darkness in Him man, He got just the right mix
grace and truth and He’s known for flipping on that light switch
[Mark Dever]
And certainly one characteristic of a healthy church is this:
A Biblical understanding of conversion, the great change
and the first question we want to ask is this. "Is change needed?"
Now many say "No, not at all, we’re fine."
But be that as it may, the Bible clearly teaches that change is needed
and we are not fine; in fact we’re in trouble
Verse
Yeah some folks think they Christians just because they sing the right songs
Somebody tricked them, got it twisted like a cyclone
You think its based on your attendance then you’re quite wrong
Darkened in our understanding til' He turn the lights on
Dirty until he cleaned us, then our guilt is quite gone
Nothing but the blood of Jesus, homie that’s my fight song
Thought you’d get by and you still tipping just like you Mike Jones
You must not be hearing me, like I ain’t got this mic on
God is so holy, in His presence we cant stand (so what)
His Son took on flesh and dwelt off in this wasteland
You should know He raised right after he took our place, man
Paid our price though we wasn’t worth it like a fake brand
God is the cause, the Gospel is the means
We raised from the dead, the hostel are redeemed
Transferred to His kingdom, we locked in on His team
Adopted as His children, His flock, we are the kings
Mark Dever- Jesus himself taught us that light has come into the world,
but men love darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil
everyone who does evil hates the light
and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed
Paul reminded the Ephesian Christians that before they were converted
they were dead in their sins and transgressions, dead! Paul taught that this spiritual death was shared by all.
Verse
Look why you trying to drive home a right view of conversion?
You all on that doctrine, we just trying to worship (what)
But so many churches do you a disservice
Got you thinking that you saved, but you ain’t been purchased
Yeah Jesus loves us, He died up on a tree
but just because He shed His blood don’t mean that that applies to me
(He said) Ya’ll can be united, you can die and rise with Me
Stop trying to clean yourself up, and trust the job to Me
It’s by grace alone, through faith alone
the gospel’s what we base it on
not just random faith at all
Christ is what we place it on
turning from our sins to our Lord who was hanging on
the cross, and behind the scenes He’s the one who changes Holmes
Changes hearts, changes lives, praise Him all my stains are gone
Blameless, sinless Savior, now His righteousness is painted on
That’s how we’re converted, this is something we can’t get wrong
If we’re missing this, we miss it all… fall at His gracious throne
[Mark Dever]
Jesus told everybody that they must turn from their sins
and turn to God
Jesus from the very beginning told people that the great conversion they
need is to turn away from their sins and to turn to God
Christianity does not preach that we can save ourselves
and here is the great puzzle for many
the bible says that this change is a matter really of our character
of our heart, that's what we need
that's the change that has to be affected
and that we will not change to making these right choices
these are times that we must fight
to keep in tact the words and truths we've etched
upon our hearts, our hearts that pump
the blood thru veins, the blood
sustains and the blood remains
vital to life, and I will write out
in my blood the truth I know,
that brought me to my place in life
and toward the light that beckons me
to fall down on my knees and face the cross
for Your blood cleanses me
the chains that bind my soul released
Your blood renews, Your blood rebirths,
Your blood refines, Your blood restores
wash me in Your blood
Loss and recollection escort a quietus.
Conclusion of an era implies not terminus.
Altering the state, shape and prospect.
Reappearing symptoms assuring reconnect.
Decampment and continuation.
Margin for aberation.
Breaking unknown ground.
Embodies conversion.
An apple of discord.
Tossed into the void.
Indefinite echoes.
Die away in nothingness.
Scattered entities.
Gather in the mist.
Convergent paths.
The deaths in your eyes crawl and speak
Quenching this thirst of stupidity
Cease yourself
Die within the spineless book of god
A divine invention
Deceiving angel
Our deity manifests through slaughter
Wash away
Call it yours
Need underneath we tell
And our backs scorn
Eyes peel backwards as sin drips
Robed in lies
Spiral terror
Spell of hate
god of ugliness
Deceiving angel
Bring your holy death upon this land of praying to insomnia
Fevers kill them by will and with will alone
By faith and with faith alone
By prayer and with prayer alone
What be this beast here that lies deep asleep
Right in the heart of me?
They say I'm not the person that I used to be
But I don't know what's changed me
Today it feels right to let go of everything I know
Release the reins and just let it go
And I can't take this pain I'm holding back the storm
But can you tell me what we're fighting for
And why am I to blame? I've been here before
But can you tell me what we're fighting for?
There's more to me 'cause now I'm changed
No longer will I be the one to bare the pain
You pushed and pushed until you knocked me down
But I'll catch you on the rebound
This is the last time that I close my eyes
If I were you I'd run and hide 'cause I'm coming for you
Today it feels right to let go of everything I know
Release the reins and just let it go
And I can't take this pain, I'm holding back the storm
Can you tell me what we're fighting for?
Why am I to blame? I've been here before
But can you tell me what we're fighting for?
What are we fighting for?
Fade to gray, you can't hideaway
And I can't take this pain, I'm holding back the storm
But can you tell me what we're fighting for?
And why am I to blame? I've been here before
But can you tell me what we're fighting for?
No longer will I be the enemy
Break down the walls you built around me
(What we're fighting for)
No fear inside, I set my soul free
What we're fighting for
No longer will I be the enemy
Break down the walls you built around me
(What we're fighting for)
[T-Bone]
Im ready to make a murder scene happen
Pimp slappin demons and packin
Unload clips, reload and sink ships like a captian
You act like you be knowin, when a G be rappin
Runnin from the scene while O.R.C playas be gangsta scrappin
Now hold up cause they done did it, diss the lyric I spitted
Even though I know you and your crew ain't even gonna admit it
Now slow down T, this family
They mess wit you, they mess wit me and also E
Why?, this be O.R.C.
Lyrically comin wit ski masks out the bushes
Wit chainsaws, and axes diggin
These demons while they're blood gushes
Ima jack these demons one by one
They call me Big Daddy Kane, why? Cause I get the job done
Now watch me jack these demons, hit em wit a gat
Show em how a real G suposed to act
Smugglin Bibles instead of gat
Rollin drop top cadillacs, puttin it down streets corners and shows
For all my foes, thug riders and patnas on death row
Really though
[Chorus]
Bone be the one wit the guns in his hand
Demons tryin to kill him, cause they no like him
Smugglin Bibles to countries filled wit comminism
Tryin to preach them the WORD then convert to Christian
[2x]
[T-Bone]
Tryin to reach them pimps and thugs
Curb serves movin them major drugs
Gang bangin rollin 60's crips and them piru bloods
One love to all the preachas on the street corners
2 dubs for all my riders out in California
Peace to my patnas up in Frisco,
San Jose, East Palo Alto, Sacramento
Fresno, Vallejo, Richmond, Leandro
Oakland, Hayward, Los Angeles, Diego
Ya'll know, the golden state full of hate and drama
Marijuanna and thugs that shoot a quien las da la ganna
most got both hands on they're desert eagle
gotta watch ya back cause here in California killins legal
Rollin regals, impalas, cadis and them el caminos
Hittin switches, best beware of all them hattin snitches
Takin pictures of west coast cali sunsets
Streets infested wit all them gang bangin ghetto vets
No regrets, my patnas dyin over them gangs and sets
Havin sex wit girls in mini skirts and pink barrettes
Whats next, sick of techs and all them ghetto birds
Smell of herb, and playboys sippin on the thunderbird
I'll scream until I'm heard, preach the WORD
In every alley, crack ghetto curb
Wit the beats and verbs
Anointed by the might God I serve
The sea is like a neverending tune
And it comforts with its wave so pure
Comes in every corner of my body
And smiles and warmes
And it peels me with the sand
I wish i could convert to waves
And become the sea
Then i could clean you, clean you
Moments are scratching on my knee
I fight with the thoughts of fear
Fear for the loneliness i know
I'm alone as the sea
'Cause the pain you do in me
I wish i could convert to you
And you to the sea