Christians find themselves at odds with our world on many fronts. But surely we can all agree that “freedom” is a good thing—something we should all protect and promote as widely as possible.

Unfortunately, it’s not as simple as that, because there are starkly different visions of “freedom” at play in our society. In fact, as Os Guinness will explore in this lecture, what Western culture regards as “freedom” may, in fact, be the enemy of true freedom.

As Christians, we need to understand the “illusions of contemporary freedom” (as Os Guinness describes them) so that we can embrace true Christian freedom and bring its blessings to a needy world.

Speaker: Os Guinness is known internationally as a Christian author, speaker and apologist. He is currently a senior fellow at the Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics. He lives with his wife Jenny in Washington DC.

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Phillip Jensen.

Of all the everyday issues that Christians struggle with or are anxious about, “hell” is not high on the list. We don’t think or talk about it much. It’s not the subject of many articles, sermons or tweets—at least until some Christian leader comes along and says he doesn’t believe in hell anymore, after which there’s a brief flare-up of heated debate, and then the subject dies down again.

But whether or not we are very concerned about hell, Jesus certainly was. He talked about hell more than anyone else in the Bible; perhaps if he thought it was an important subject, so should we.

So what is hell? Who is going there? And what difference does this knowledge make to our Christian lives? So what is hell? Who is going there? And what difference does this knowledge make to our Christian lives? These are the questions Paul Williamson will address at our October event.

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Paul Williamson teaches Old Testament, Hebrew and Aramaic at Moore College. His book Death and the Afterlife was recently published by IVP in their New Studies in Biblical Theology series.