Feed Your Brain

This being the 21st century and all, we are not flying around in personal space craft wielding lightsabers like in Star Wars, or chasing after the last drop of fuel like in Mad Max, but we do have access to more information than ever before.

We have access to the works of some of the greatest minds in Christian History and yet we choose to fill our minds with the latest Tim Lahaye book, or waste our time reading the most popular and coolest emergent book out right now. It's sad, I know.

There are plenty of good(and free) online sources, but I wanted to point out three that I think are good.

The first one is Reclaiming the Mind. It is basically an online theology program covering all the basic areas of Systematic Theology. It also has a library of Evangelical Theological Society (ETS) papers from a range of different contributors. It is backed by the likes of JP Moreland, John Frame, Roger Olson, Sam Storms, William Lane Craig, etc, and best of all it's FREE.

The second one is Biblical Training. It is sort of like an online Seminary. They go into actual seminary classes and record classes for the whole semester. They have classes ranging from Old and New Testament survey classes, Systematic Theology, Church History, Apologetics, World Religions, and even new believer classes, all for free. These courses are taught by some of the top scholars from various Seminaries, including Craig Blomberg, Bruce Ware, John Piper, etc. It's also endorsed by J.I. Packer if that name means anything to you. The goal of this is to help train pastors and missionaries in the field who don't have access to information like this, or can't afford to go to seminary.

The third one is Faith by Hearing. It is a huge collection of sermons and lectures from almost everyone imaginable. So download them put them on your iPod and learn a little something. You got to love their banner with all those guys with iPods, good stuff. I recognize Martin Luther, John Owen, and Jonathan Edwards, I don't know who the others are.

Anyway, take advantage of all the resources we have access to today. You don't have to go to seminary or have a huge library to get the training and resources you need. It is kind of ironic that while we have more access to information than ever before in Christian History, Biblical literacy is at its lowest point.