If you would like Rob to speak at your church or your university or other venue, below is a starter list of topics Rob is prepared to cover (i.e., a bio ethical issue, Islam, the specific claims of Jesus about His death and resurrection, deity or second coming, authenticity and authority of the Bible, the cults, false teaching in the church, truth in culture issues). If you have another topic you would like Rob to address, please contact Rob at roblundberg2000@yahoo.com or go to the Contact link and send your request.
+ Why Defend My Faith?
Many Christians, when asked, why they are a Christian often times give their personal testimony. This is due to the last few decades of the church not adequately equipping the people for what is coming with the new religions, cults, and the rise of Islam and cultural issues. This talk shares that fact that defending our faith is a command and about a life of loving God with all of the heart, the soul and the mind.
+ Did Jesus Really Rise from the Dead?
How can a dead man come back to life? Should we believe the resurrection story? With the rise of criticisms challenging Jesus, the answer to this question is crucial for all those claiming to be Christians. The resurrection of Christ is the foundation of the Christian faith, as the Apostle Paul has written, “If Christ is not risen from the dead, your faith is empty and you are still in your sins.” (1 Corinthians 15:17).
In this presentation I will give the evidence for the resurrection, by showing why it is most reasonable that Jesus Christ rose from the dead, and not a matter of blind faith. If Jesus is truly resurrected, then it is most reasonable to worship Him with the assurance that the believers' relationship with Christ is totally secure.
+ What is a Cult?
Someone comes knocking at your door, and tells you they are from the local Kingdom Hall, or from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Are these people Bible believing Christians following the line of the historical Christian faith or do they belong to a cult group? What is a cult? What about other groups? How do we know the difference? This talk teaches the listener four major marks on how to recognize a cult and what makes some groups a cult and others not a non Christian cult.
+ Is the Mormon Church Really a Christian Church?
You see the name Church of Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints. “Jesus Christ” is in their name, but are they really a representation of the historical teachings of the Christian faith? With the political landscape heating up, it is important to know the difference between how the biblical faith of Christianity stands head and shoulders over this deviation of historical Christianity.
+ Why Believe the Bible?
Is the Bible full of myths, fables, fairytales of a God who is a moral monster? Was the Bible concocted by a religious establishment a few hundred years after the events described in the Bible were lived out? Why do you believe the Bible? Rob gives some clear cut responses to these questions in this talk. This talk can be included in the Bible Authenticity package with "How Did We Get the Gospels?" and "Is What We Have Now the Real Thing?"
+ How Did We Get the Gospels?
Matthew Mark Luke and John comprise the historical narrative of the life of Jesus Christ of Nazareth. But where these gospel records concocted by a religious establishment a few hundred years after the events of the life of Christ lived out? Are they early or late? Rob gives some clear cut responses to these questions in this talk. This talk can be included in the Bible Authenticity package with "Why Believe the Bible?" and "Is What We Have Now the Real Thing?"
+ Is What We Have Now the Real Thing?
Is the Bible full of myths, fables, fairytales of a God who is a moral monster? Is the Bible that we have in our hands what was written back when it was lived out? How do we know? What about the alleged difficulties and "errors"? Are there errors or variants? This talk can be included in the Bible Authenticity package with "How Did We Get the Gospels?" and "Why Believe the Bible?"
+ Witnesses of the Kingdom (Hall)
They go door to door and conduct BIble studies, and have an annual meetings where hundreds are baptized? They are known as members of the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society or Jehovah’s Witnesses. What do they believe? Do they line up with the teachings of the BIble and biblical salvation? This talk answers these questions and more.
+ “I Don’t Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist”
This talk’s title is from a book by Frank Turek and Norman Geisler, but also describes my personal journey to faith in Christ and how atheism does not work logically, experientially, and eternally. Atheism is a logically and philosophically bankrupt worldview. However 53% of the university professors are either agnostics or atheists and waiting upon Christian students coming into their classroom. The Lifeway and Barna surveys respectively, tell us that 75-88% of the Christian kids going into the colleges and universities are coming home on break skeptics. We need to understand this uprise of skepticism in our culture, and even in our churches. This talk defines atheism, the “new atheism” and equips the believer with the understanding that Christianity is unshakable despite the claims coming at us in the culture.
+ What Is and Why Do Apologetics?
When someone hears the word, “apologetics” the first thoughts are “what am I apologizing for?” Apologetics has nothing to do with apologizing. The word apologia, is a transliteration for a Greek word (apologia) meaning to give answer, defend or give a reason for believing something. It is the discipline of defending a position. A person can be an “apologist” for anything, a basketball team, a political party, a particular type of computer, an education methodology, an ideology, or a particular religion.
As a Christian apologist, I contend for the defense of the Christian faith against the opposing worldviews, philosophies or religions. Because there are so many things at odds with the Christian faith, this task has become more important than ever, for the individual Christian and for the church at large.
+ What You Will Hear Your First Years of College
Christians coming out of the safety and sheltering of their homes are having their faith ripped out from underneath them by approximately 51% of the professors who are skeptics of anything supernatural. What are they saying that causes to leave an impression on the Christian student? Is truth really relative? Are morals relative? Is the Bible full of myths and fables? Is Christianity nothing more than myths and not history? What about the Creation narrative, is that all nothing more than Gilgamesh revisited? Rob tears down the arguments in a cordial manner that will leave you with no more wonders about the attacks upon your faith.
+ With So Many Worldviews, What is the Best Worldview?
Have you ever tried on a different pair of glasses to see how or what things would look like? When you put them on, the glasses literally change what everything looks like. Every person you meet has a set of assumptions that they use to navigate their way through life. These assumptions affect the way they see the world.
The Christian worldview has its assumptions and the worldviews prevalent in our culture are opposed to the Christian worldview and the Bible. As a Christian it is important to learn and recognize the world views we run into, and to know how to guard against the messages that are inherent in those world views. This talk will explain what is a worldview using four questions that each worldview must answer and show why Christianity satisfies those questions.
+ Why Christianity and Not Something Else?
Religious pluralism is the pervading notion that there are many religious pathways and no one of them is dominant. Because this message is so creedal in our culture, someone might ask you sooner or later, “Why is Christianity true?” In fact, there is a pretty good chance that there are people in your church asking that same question and living without an answer to that question.
In this presentation, I will explain to you how you can know that Christianity is true. You can have confidence in the fact that Christianity is not just one of several different options, but the truth claims made in the Bible and of Jesus Christ are true and should be believed.
+ Is Christianity A Reasonable Faith?
In 1992, Darwin’s bulldog and author of The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins made the following statement: “Faith is the great cop out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence”
Are Dawkins and his colleagues correct? What is faith? Is faith only for those who refuse to think or deal with evidence? Or is there evidence to prove Richard’s rant completely false? It is not hard to find people who think like this on the web boards, the coffee shops, and other places in our culture. In fact, even in our churches there are those who believe that faith is completely without reason and all we have to do is “just know.”
In this presentation, I will explain why it is reasonable to believe in God, and why regardless what your science teacher or Albert Einstein, or Stephen Hawking says, you should believe in God. You have no need to be embarrassed when intelligent, reasonably thinking people tell you that you following blindly a God who is completely invisible in the world.
+ The Problem of Evil and Suffering
The problem of evil is probably one of the most pervading questions that come from the atheists. It is important for all Christians to deal with the problem of evil for two main reasons: First, there is nothing more pervading of a question that is causing someone to become an atheist. Secondly, sooner or later, suffering is going to hit us all. False beliefs about the problem of evil are semi-causal to Christians losing their faith and/or abandoning the faith, church, and Christianity when potentially shipwrecking difficulties arise. In this presentation, I will answer the question of evil, defining evil and explaining why suffering occurs, and how a loving God still shows His love in the midst of allowing suffering to happen in our lives.
+ Is Truth Absolute or Relative?
Our culture has shifted over the last few decades. We live in a culture where the creed, “it may be true for you but not for me” seems to be a battle cry in the culture, the college campus, the public school and in some cases even the church. This is cultural relativism, and it is a cultural hot button toward which the church of Jesus Christ needs to respond. This talk helps the hearer understand that truth is absolute and respond by learning how to recognize and use relativistic statements against themselves.
(This talk is a good companion to Where DO you Hang Your Morality Coat? and Do All Gods Go to Heaven?)
+ Do All Gods Go to Heaven?
You hear it on the talks shows, on the news reports, and even from politicians who say, “all religions say the same thing” OR “all ‘Gods’ are basically the same.” Is this truth claim true? If not then why not? This talk shows from many angles why this statement is false and why Christianity stands as the true faith.
(This talk is a good companion to Where DO you Hang Your Morality Coat? and Is Truth Absolute or Relative?)
+ Where Do you Hang Your Morality Coat?
In our culture, there is a mantra that is decrying, “if it hurts no one, then do it.” This thinking creates a slippery slope for people trying to defend all kinds of immoral behavior. Many people, both from outside and inside the church, want to know, “why is it wrong?”
In this presentation, I will answer that question, and will explain how truth, morality, and the existence of God are inseparable.
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