Present Day Miracles (with Craig Keener)

Think Biblically: Conversations on Faith & Culture

Talbot School of Theology at Biola University / Sean McDowell & Scott Rae

Talbot, Church, Christianity, Christian, Culture, Biola, Sean Mcdowell, Religion & Spirituality, Scott Rae, Think Biblically

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🗓️ 13 December 2018

⏱️ 31 minutes

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We know God worked many and mighty miracles throughout biblical times, but for many Christians, we don’t see as much evidence for miracles in our lives as there was in biblical times. You won’t want to miss Scott’s interview with Dr. Craig Keener, renowned New Testament scholar, who has done in depth research on miracles today. This discussion is a summary of the high points of his 2 volume, over 1000 page books entitled, Miracles. Join us for this fascinating discussion of miracles today.&nb...

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0:00.0	Welcome to the podcast Think Biblically, conversations on faith and culture.
0:10.0	I'm your host Scott Ray, Dean of Faculty and Professor of Christian Ethics at Talbot School of Theology at Biola University.
0:20.0	We're here at the meetings of the Evangelical Theological Society and talking with Dr Craig Keener.
0:26.0	Craig serves with me on the board of the Evangelical Theological Theological Society.
0:31.0	He is the FM and Ada Thompson professor of biblical studies at
0:34.9	Asbury Theological Seminary in Kentucky. He is, let's just say he is one of the most
0:41.4	prolific biblical scholars that I'm aware of and is so productive.
0:47.3	He is the author of 24 books and there's a couple of books I want to talk to you about today, Craig.
0:54.0	So welcome. Thank you for being with us.
0:57.0	We really appreciate you taking the time to come be on the podcast with us.
1:01.0	It's my privilege. Thank you so much for having me. Tell me first. One of the books I like to talk about first is the book Impossible Love. It's a story of how you met your wife Medina. I take it I pronounced that correctly.
1:15.2	Madeine.
1:16.2	Called Madine.
1:17.2	So tell our listeners a little bit about how you two met and why you wrote the book Impossible Love.
1:25.0	Well, everybody has a love story.
1:28.0	Well, I shouldn't say everybody, but lots of people have love stories.
1:32.0	But this one I think we were also able to communicate something of God's heart in the midst of suffering.
1:40.0	Meadeen was a war refugee for 18 months in her country of Congo.
1:45.0	Now, that also put me through some struggles because we already were close friends at that point.
1:50.0	I wasn't able to be in touch with her for that year and a half.
1:54.0	I didn't know if she was alive or dead.
1:57.0	All I knew was the last letter I got from her said she didn't know if she was going to live or die.
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