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Sir Fred Hoyle, the Cambridge astronomer, one of the 20th century's most significant scientific thinkers, compared the random emergence of even the simplest cell to the likelihood of a tornado blowing through a junkyard and just happening to produce a perfect Boeing 747 airplane. What explains this incredible precision?

A random collection of genetic letters, or made with purpose? Dr. Vince Vitale looks at the odds

“To recognize our need is to recognize our reality.” In today’s #TakeFive, Tanya explains how, as a culture, we’ve largely valued self-sufficiency and detachment, looking down on those who express their emotional needs. With God, we’re invited to fully recognize our needs, and drink from the Living Water: an invitation for all to be fully satisfied in Him. 
 
You’re invited to discuss the Take Five video series in RZIM Connect: https://connect.rzim.org/c/ask-rzim/take-five

“To recognize our need is to recognize our reality.” In today’s #TakeFive, Tanya explains how, as a culture, we’ve largely valued self-sufficiency and detachment, looking down on those who express their emotional needs. With God, we’re invited to fully recognize our needs, and drink from the Living Water: an invitation for all to be fully satisfied in Him.

You’re invited to discuss the Take Five video series in RZIM Connect: https://connect.rzim.org/c/ask-rzim/take-five

Where Do You Go, When You Reach the End of Yourself? | Tanya Walker | Take Five | RZIM

“We’re living through uncertainty, anxiety, loss, struggle, suffering, injustice of myriad types; so many in chains, so many destitute, so many heartsick on the inside, despite the appearance of all being well externally. Where is God?” This question resounds throughout the ages, and specially relevant for today. On #TakeFive today, Tanya Walker asks the profound question, “what might it take to see God and recognize his fingerprints throughout the world?” 
 
You’re invited to discuss the Take Five video series in RZIM Connect: https://connect.rzim.org/c/ask-rzim/take-five

“We’re living through uncertainty, anxiety, loss, struggle, suffering, injustice of myriad types; so many in chains, so many destitute, so many heartsick on the inside, despite the appearance of all being well externally. Where is God?” This question resounds throughout the ages, and specially relevant for today. On #TakeFive today, Tanya Walker asks the profound question, “what might it take to see God and recognize his fingerprints throughout the world?”
 
You’re invited to discuss the Take Five video series in RZIM Connect: https://connect.rzim.org/c/ask-rzim/take-five

Where is God in the Suffering, Injustice, Anxiety, & Uncertainty? | Tanya Walker | Take Five | RZIM

“You don’t need to have been born in a fundamentalist state, as I have been, to know that the concept of an all-seeing power from which there is no escape is not a positive concept in our world.” Tanya Walker says. So why would God being an “all-seeing God” be a positive experience? What is it that we are missing or taking for granted that makes this concept of God a source of wonder, comfort, and strength? Hear more in today’s #TakeFive. 
 
You’re invited to discuss the Take Five video series in RZIM Connect: https://connect.rzim.org/c/ask-rzim/take-five

“You don’t need to have been born in a fundamentalist state, as I have been, to know that the concept of an all-seeing power from which there is no escape is not a positive concept in our world.” Tanya Walker says. So why would God being an “all-seeing God” be a positive experience? What is it that we are missing or taking for granted that makes this concept of God a source of wonder, comfort, and strength? Hear more in today’s #TakeFive.

You’re invited to discuss the Take Five video series in RZIM Connect: https://connect.rzim.org/c/ask-rzim/take-five

Shouldn’t the idea of an "All-Seeing God" Make Us Nervous? | Tanya Walker | Take Five | RZIM

Are there parts of yourself that you’re desperately hiding today? “The fact is that we all hide...not just from others, but even from ourselves. But seeing ourselves as we really are is the beginning of sanity, the beginning of the adventure of transformation.” This week on #TakeFive, Tanya Walker is spending each weekday exploring an intriguing phrase that appears multiple times in the Bible, “eyes that see and ears that hear,” to dare us to engage with and trust our deepest self to a saving, healing God. 
 
You’re invited to discuss the Take Five video series in RZIM Connect: https://connect.rzim.org/c/ask-rzim/take-five

Are there parts of yourself that you’re desperately hiding today? “The fact is that we all hide...not just from others, but even from ourselves. But seeing ourselves as we really are is the beginning of sanity, the beginning of the adventure of transformation.” This week on #TakeFive, Tanya Walker is spending each weekday exploring an intriguing phrase that appears multiple times in the Bible, “eyes that see and ears that hear,” to dare us to engage with and trust our deepest self to a saving, healing God.
 
You’re invited to discuss the Take Five video series in RZIM Connect: https://connect.rzim.org/c/ask-rzim/take-five

I’m Hiding Who I Really Am… But Can God Handle It? | Tanya Walker | Take Five | RZIM

At the foundation of morality, we believe all people are equally valuable. However, for all people to be equally valuable, there has to be something about everyone that is equally true and unchanging. What is it? What assigns humans value? This clip comes from a longer talk by Dr. Vince Vitale, "How to Make Sense of Life?" Click here to watch it: https://youtu.be/ejjTrFm-Aco.

Where Does Our Value Come From? | Dr. Vince Vitale

“When we’re faced with inordinately and overwhelmingly terrible circumstances... we cry out for something permanent.” In today’s #TakeFive, Lara Buchanan gives us a simple reminder that, during COVID-19 and #lockdown, when we’ve experienced the fragility of human life and feel exposed with little control over life’s circumstances, God’s love is permanent; despite all that can change, God’s love never fails. 
 
You’re invited to discuss the Take Five video series in RZIM Connect: https://connect.rzim.org/c/ask-rzim/take-five

“When we’re faced with inordinately and overwhelmingly terrible circumstances... we cry out for something permanent.” In today’s #TakeFive, Lara Buchanan gives us a simple reminder that, during COVID-19 and #lockdown, when we’ve experienced the fragility of human life and feel exposed with little control over life’s circumstances, God’s love is permanent; despite all that can change, God’s love never fails.

You’re invited to discuss the Take Five video series in RZIM Connect: https://connect.rzim.org/c/ask-rzim/take-five

A Reminder that Love Never Fails | Lara Buchanan | Take Five | RZIM

“While Jesus was being treated wrongfully and being sentenced to death, he did not view himself as a helpless victim, but as someone who was acting powerfully.” In today’s #TakeFive, Lara Buchanan explains that, far from enabling any wrongful use of power or encouraging victimhood, agape love inspires choice: in Jesus, power was manifested in his freedom to lay down his life for others. 
 
You’re invited to discuss the Take Five video series in RZIM Connect: https://connect.rzim.org/c/ask-rzim/take-five

“While Jesus was being treated wrongfully and being sentenced to death, he did not view himself as a helpless victim, but as someone who was acting powerfully.” In today’s #TakeFive, Lara Buchanan explains that, far from enabling any wrongful use of power or encouraging victimhood, agape love inspires choice: in Jesus, power was manifested in his freedom to lay down his life for others.

You’re invited to discuss the Take Five video series in RZIM Connect: https://connect.rzim.org/c/ask-rzim/take-five

Does Love Make You Powerless? | Lara Buchanan | Take Five | RZIM

"When Paul comes to the point of defining love, it's as if a person walks onto the pages." In today’s #TakeFive, Lara Buchanan continues to explore Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians. Today Lara focuses on the 15 attributes he ascribes to love, all built around the central line that, “Love does not seek what is for itself.” 
 
You’re invited to discuss the Take Five video series in RZIM Connect: https://connect.rzim.org/c/ask-rzim/take-five

"When Paul comes to the point of defining love, it's as if a person walks onto the pages." In today’s #TakeFive, Lara Buchanan continues to explore Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians. Today Lara focuses on the 15 attributes he ascribes to love, all built around the central line that, “Love does not seek what is for itself.”
 
You’re invited to discuss the Take Five video series in RZIM Connect: https://connect.rzim.org/c/ask-rzim/take-five

How to Avoid Self-Seeking Love | Lara Buchanan | Take Five | RZIM

“It's impossible to read through the Bible and not notice that all the way through it, it equates love with action, especially towards those in need.” In today’s #TakeFive, South Africa-born Oxford-based RZIM speaker Lara Buchanan explores Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians to discover how loving with generosity can move us deeply in spirit and move us deeply towards action to address the plight of the oppressed or the misused. 
 
You’re invited to discuss the Take Five video series in RZIM Connect: https://connect.rzim.org/c/ask-rzim/take-five

“It's impossible to read through the Bible and not notice that all the way through it, it equates love with action, especially towards those in need.” In today’s #TakeFive, South Africa-born Oxford-based RZIM speaker Lara Buchanan explores Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians to discover how loving with generosity can move us deeply in spirit and move us deeply towards action to address the plight of the oppressed or the misused.
 
You’re invited to discuss the Take Five video series in RZIM Connect: https://connect.rzim.org/c/ask-rzim/take-five

Our Call to Lean Toward the Oppressed | Lara Buchanan | Take Five | RZIM

When you wake up in the morning, what is the first voice you reach out to listen to? Your phone, Instagram, or your favorite news outlet or commentator? This weekend on #TheSaturdaySession, Sam Allberry reminds us of the phenomenal power words have and why the words of Jesus–although not always easy–can utterly change your life.

Words that Heal in a Hurting World | Sam Allberry | The Saturday Session | RZIM

On the shores of the Sea of Tiberias, the biblical character Peter has a breakfast conversation with Jesus that changes his life forever. Here he learns that true love can’t be turned away; death itself is conquered by its power. God leaves signs of love all around us, no matter how far away from his heart we have drifted. This talk by Xandra Carroll is a part of our online ReFresh: Ready for College event for students and will be followed by a Q&A session. #REFRESH2020

REFRESH Extra | Is Jesus Worth It?

Looking the current state of the world, along with how the Church can often be a poor example of Christ and the recent de-conversion stories, why still believe in Christ? Is he really who he says he is, or have we made him to be something he isn’t? This talk by Lou Phillips is a part of our online ReFresh: Ready for College event for students and will be followed by a Q&A session. #REFRESH2020

REFRESH Extra | How Can You Still Believe When…?

The Biblical view of humanity is that we are unique among creation in our capacities, our value, and our destinies. Clarity on what we are provides the foundation for answering many of life's big questions. This talk by Nathan Rittenhouse is a part of our online ReFresh: Ready for College event for students and will be followed by a Q&A session. #REFRESH2020

REFRESH Extra | Mind Over Matter: What Are You Made Of?

“My people-free desert during lockdown made me crave relationships, preferably with three-dimensional people.” In today’s #TakeFive, RZIM France’s Léa Köves reminds us what #lockdown has taught us: that when everything else stops, we’re left with the truth that we need community, and if we want to enjoy community we need to be intentional about it. 
 
You’re invited to discuss the Take Five video series in RZIM Connect: https://connect.rzim.org/c/ask-rzim/take-five

“My people-free desert during lockdown made me crave relationships, preferably with three-dimensional people.” In today’s #TakeFive, RZIM France’s Léa Köves reminds us what #lockdown has taught us: that when everything else stops, we’re left with the truth that we need community, and if we want to enjoy community we need to be intentional about it.

You’re invited to discuss the Take Five video series in RZIM Connect: https://connect.rzim.org/c/ask-rzim/take-five

Seeking Community in Desert Times | Léa Köves | Take Five | RZIM

With all of the statistics coming out on what is really good for the environment some are not sure how worthwhile recycling is in the long-run. Should we invest our time and energy in such initiatives? Nathan Rittenhouse discusses this question on a livestream Q&A Panel. 
 
This question was asked at an RZIM Trending Questions event called “Is Environmental Justice Possible?” held at the Zacharias Institute.

With all of the statistics coming out on what is really good for the environment some are not sure how worthwhile recycling is in the long-run. Should we invest our time and energy in such initiatives? Nathan Rittenhouse discusses this question on a livestream Q&A Panel.

This question was asked at an RZIM Trending Questions event called “Is Environmental Justice Possible?” held at the Zacharias Institute.

Is recycling worthwhile? | Nathan Rittenhouse | Q&A | RZIM

“In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth” Genesis tells us. But did He? What does science have to say about the origin of everything? And why does it even matter? This talk by Matthew Mittelberg is a part of our online ReFresh: Ready for College event for students and will be followed by a Q&A session. #REFRESH2020

REFRESH Extra | In the Beginning God: Where Did the Universe Come From?

After several months of the COVID-19 pandemic, we are all undoubtedly feeling the effects of social distancing and the profound impact it has had on our relationships. While social distancing is a fairly new concept for us, it is something Jesus would have been very familiar with when he lived on earth some 2,000 years ago. What did his approach to social distancing look like? And how does that impact our lives today? In this talk from REBOOT 2020, Vince explores some of the many challenges we face in this season, and how God remarkably meets us in each one.

Would Jesus Social Distance? | Dr. Vince Vitale

“This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us,” 1 John 3:16 says. In this week’s #TheSaturdaySession, Sam Allberry delves into this beautiful and challenging verse to guide us towards a deeper understanding of the implication of that definition for how we live our lives.

Longing for Love | Sam Allberry | The Saturday Session | RZIM

“When my friend Nabeel Qureshi died a year after his cancer diagnosis, I had to ask myself the question, ‘why?’” In exploring this difficult personal question in his final #TakeFive of the week, RZIM’s Matthew Mittelberg seeks comfort in three key Biblical truths about God’s character. 
 
You’re invited to discuss the Take Five video series in RZIM Connect: https://connect.rzim.org/c/ask-rzim/take-five