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Lindsay Brooks

Lindsay Brooks is the Apologetics.com discussion board moderator and co-host of the Apologetics.com Radio Show.

A graduate of Musician’s Institute, he is a former songwriter/producer for legendary Motown music publisher, Jobete, and has done music for several major motion pictures. His passions for Theology, Church History and Philosophy have been focused through his love of music, resulting in a robust music ministry at several churches in the Los Angeles area.

Lindsay’s desire to share insights into the Christian aesthetic in light of new challenges—such as post-modernism and relativism—was a driving force behind establishing the Apologetics.com Life of the Mind Conference series. A profound love of the Gospel has led him to actively pursue alternative evangelization modes. Lindsay is a frequent public speaker on the subject of Christian Apologetics and has developed a workshop on the co-linguistics of music and its application to Christian liturgy.

He is Daddy to Tinisha and Gabrielle who are plotting to take over the world.

Burdens We Were Never Fit To Carry

"The weight of evidence for an extraordinary claim must be proportioned to its strangeness." ~ Pierre-Simon Marquis de Laplace

“Theists have not yet grasped the concept of the burden of proof, apparently. It's really simple, so I find it astounding that it is so easily dismissed-the one who makes the positive claim (ie-god exists) is the one who has to prove that claim, not the person who is in the default position of suspension of belief due to lack of evidence (ie-as far as we know, god does not exist).” ~ How to Respond to a Supercilious Christian, Kelly O'Connor,

Go Forth And Shut Up About The Gospel!

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I love the very shape of the Christian life.

Consider the way we start our days in prayer: how it puts us in our place in the universe and in relationship to a holy God; how it readies us for a day of loving our neighbors as ourselves. It prioritizes our works, helping us to attend the weightier matters of life and not get confused about what is heavy and what is light. Family takes its place at the epicenter of the practical exercise of our faith, and thus becomes a rich ground where other relationships can take root and grow because of the forgiveness that is the central imperative in all our dealings with others.

After appreciating the warp and woof of how we nurture our Christianity and it nurtures us, I'm prompted to consider the place of apologetics in this Christian life. How does our defense and explanation of the notion that we have peace with God, afforded us by a foreign righteousness imputed to us, figure in all this? Can't we just do as the quote oft attributed to St. Francis of Assisi said, "Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words?"

Words of Wisdom

Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way. - Karl Barth