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Thursday 9 July 2015

#StalkList: Today on StalkList is Ravi Zacharias

I heard about Ravi from a friend who was so passionate about listening to his every preaching and I decided to hear the Author. I tried downloading his podcast online and luckily stumbled on Just Thinking and the experience was unending. Ever since then, each time I enter a place and hear his voice, I am always correct with my guesses of him being the one speaking. His voice is so unique, you wouldn't miss it. It registers once you hear it.



Frederick Antony Ravi Kumar Zacharias (born 26 March 1946) is an Indian-born Canadian-American Christian apologist. A defender of traditional evangelicalism. Zacharias is the author of numerous Christian books, including the Gold Medallion Book Award winner Can Man Live Without God? in the category "theology and doctrine" and bestsellers Light in the Shadow of Jihad and The Grand Weaver. He is the founder and chairman of the board of Ravi Zacharias International Ministries, host of the radio programs Let My People Think and Just Thinking, and presently honorary senior research scholar at Wycliffe Hall Oxford. Zacharias held the chair in Evangelism and Contemporary Thought at Alliance Theological Seminary from 1981 to 1984. Evangelical Christian leader Chuck Colson referred to Zacharias as "the great apologist of our time." Zacharias is considered to be a leading figure of the evangelical intelligentsia movement. (Wiki)


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At some point in his life, as an Atheist until age 17, he recounts his encounter with God through a visiting christian while he was hospitalized. Zacharias says that it was John 14:19 that touched him and meant to him as the defining paradigm: "Because I live, you also will live." He said that he thought, "This may be my only hope: A new way of living. Life as defined by the Author of Life." and that he committed his life to Christ praying, "Jesus if You are the one who gives life as it is meant to be, I want it. Please get me out of this hospital bed well, and I promise I will leave no stone unturned in my pursuit of truth."

In 1966 Zacharias emigrated with his family to Canada, earning his undergraduate degree from the Ontario Bible College in 1972 (now Tyndale University College & Seminary) and his M.Div. from Trinity International University.

You should see the works he is committed to doing.

Just Thinking

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He runs a Just Thinking is a teaching resource of Ravi Zacharias International Ministries and exists to engender thoughtful engagement with apologetics, Scripture, and the whole of life. It is a quarter-hour weekday broadcast. The broadcast outreach of RZIM is a listener supported ministry that powerfully mixes biblical teaching and Christian apologetics. The programs seek to explore issues such as life's meaning, the credibility of the Christian message and the Bible, the weakness of modern intellectual movements, and the uniqueness of Jesus Christ.


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