The return of "What About?" Wednesdays! Text us your questions for apologist and pastor Robby Lashua! Today: Perhaps you should sit down. In a Kingdom Culture Conversation that you will not soon forget, in today's episode we meet pastor and author Dean Davis. Dean has innumerable qualifications for ministry, is well educated, has served the Lord faithfully for decades, and is a profoundly avid student of scripture. And it is that study of scripture, followed by years of scientific research, that have led him to a remarkable conclusion. Dean Davis believes that the Earth is the center of the universe. The heliocentric model — the idea that the Earth and other planets orbit the Sun — gradually became the dominant scientific view between the 1500s and late 1600s. But, today, you will meet a credibly incredible individual who holds to the opposite: the geocentric model. And, in what will be a two-part episode, Dean will present what he holds to be both the scriptural and scientific justification for his position. And, this is the part where you might want to sit down. What you will hear him say today and tomorrow makes a lot of sense. To learn more about Dean Davis' ministry, Come Let Us Reason, please follow this link. To read Dean's testimony and about his call to ministry, please click here. Dean's case for a Young Earth can be found here. His exploration and explanation of what he believes is scriptural cosmology can be found here. Background: In the summer of 2016, the annual Crusaders Charge into Summer Reading campaign introduced us to Russ Miller, a storied and established Biblical creationist who lives, believe it or not, off-the-grid in a crater in northern Arizona. If that were not crazy enough, during that summer, Miller introduced us to his book, "The Cost", and he made two audacious claims. First, Russ Miller claimed that the universe and all of creation was established by God in six 24-hour days, less than 10,000 years ago. He claimed he had scientific and scriptural evidence to back up his claims. Second, Miller claimed that if our nation continued to deny God the creator and the concept of "Imago Dei" -- that we are created in the image and likeness of God, on purpose, and for a purpose -- our culture would go into a freefall, losing all concept of right and wrong, falling into chaos and disorder. Now, ten years later, Russ Miller is back and his warnings and worries have exploded into reality. Our country and our culture are mired in confusion about truth, gender, marriage, race, identity, spirituality, and more. We are paying what Miller called "The Cost" of losing track of who we are and whose we are. This summer, we're going deep into creationism. We are going to spend time with audacious individuals who believe in Young Earth, Old Earth, Theistic Evolution, Geocentricity, and, yes, a Flat Earth. Our journey will be anchored in God's word as we enjoy some pretty amazing conversations. "Kingdom Culture Conversations" is a podcast created by Northwest Christian School in Phoenix, Arizona. For more information on Northwest Christian School, visit: https://www.ncsaz.org/ To reach out to Geoff Brown, please email gbrown@ncsaz.org or you can reach him by cell phone: (623)225-5573.
