Two doors up for me, Donnie was taking the alarm clock apart to see how it worked.

I'm asking, why do we have clocks?

Why is there such a thing as time?

And from the earliest part of my life, I was, as I say, preoccupied with this question, why?

And I still am.

Like R.C. Sproles so often did, do you stop and ask the question, why? Why is there something rather than nothing? Why do we exist? It seems for many outside of the

church, they've stopped thinking. And sadly, Christians can sometimes be guilty of the same thing, too.

It's good to have you with us for this Tuesday edition of renewing your mind. I'm Nathan Dobie Bingham.

As redeemed people made in the image of God, we are to engage our minds.

Jesus tells us to love God with all of our mind.

And that's one of the reasons why we're featuring this series from Dr. Sprole,

a blueprint for thinking to help us better understand the elements of a worldview.

Well, here's R.C. Sprole, on what's beyond the physical.

As we continue our study of the elements and structures of a worldview,

I'd like to start by asking you a question, those of you who are here in this room,

how many of you have

photo albums at home that include pictures of yourself from your childhood? Let me see.

Those things are kind of interesting. We almost all keep those keepsakes, don't we?

One of my favorite pictures that I have at home is a picture of myself and my best friend at age three.

In fact, this boy was my first playmate, and the picture was taken where the two of us were standing on a log at the public park called South Park in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

This fellow's father took us out there one Sunday afternoon and snapped our pictures, and I still

have the photograph, and both of us are standing there on the log, holding hands, and we're

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