Sermon Tone Analysis

Intro - Counting Cards

There was a book written in 2003 called Bringing down the house: The inside story of six MIT Students Who Took Vegas for Millions.

This book was later adapted into a movie called 21 and it tells the story of, as it says, 6 students from MIT, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, I think JP has a hoodie from there.

But these 6 students, led by one of their professors form a blackjack team that would travel from Massachusetts, to Las Vegas regularly and together they would be able to manipulate the odds to consistently clean out the blackjack tables through card counting.

There was a book written in 2003 called Bringing down the house: The inside story of six MIT Students Who Took Vegas for Millions.

This book was later adapted into a movie called 21 and it tells the story of, as it says, 6 students from MIT, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, I think JP has a hoodie from there.

But these 6 students, led by one of their professors form a blackjack team that would travel from Massachusetts, to Las Vegas regularly and together they would be able to manipulate the odds to consistently clean out the blackjack tables through card counting.

There was a book written in 2003 called Bringing down the house: The inside story of six MIT Students Who Took Vegas for Millions.

This book was later adapted into a movie called 21 and it tells the story of, as it says, 6 students from MIT, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, I think JP has a hoodie from there.

But these 6 students, led by one of their professors form a blackjack team that would travel from Massachusetts, to Las Vegas regularly and together they would be able to manipulate the odds to consistently clean out the blackjack tables through card counting.

In this story, the team is pursued by a casino security expert who’s job it is to make sure that no money is stolen from the casino and everyone is playing fair.

Eventually, cameras are able to pick up on these characters, despite their efforts to disguise themselves, security picks up on their faces, and they track their winnings.

In this story, the team is pursued by a casino security expert who’s job it is to make sure that no money is stolen from the casino and everyone is playing fair.

Eventually, cameras are able to pick up on these characters, despite their efforts to disguise themselves, security picks up on their faces, and they track their winnings.

In this story, the team is pursued by a casino security expert who’s job it is to make sure that no money is stolen from the casino and everyone is playing fair.

Eventually, cameras are able to pick up on these characters, despite their efforts to disguise themselves, security picks up on their faces, and they track their winnings.

Not that I would ever encourage you to dive into gambling, but the cardinal rule gamblings is that the house.

always.

wins.

If you ever read or watch anything that dissects how it is that casinos are built, it is actually fascinating.

Everything is structured to keep you in the gamblers seat because no matter how much you go up, casinos know that if they can keep you in the seat long enough, eventually you are bound to lose it back.

Not that I would ever encourage you to dive into gambling, but the cardinal rule gamblings is that the house.

always.

wins.

If you ever read or watch anything that dissects how it is that casinos are built, it is actually fascinating.

Everything is structured to keep you in the gamblers seat because no matter how much you go up, casinos know that if they can keep you in the seat long enough, eventually you are bound to lose it back.

Not that I would ever encourage you to dive into gambling, but the cardinal rule gamblings is that the house.

always.

wins.

If you ever read or watch anything that dissects how it is that casinos are built, it is actually fascinating.

Everything is structured to keep you in the gamblers seat because no matter how much you go up, casinos know that if they can keep you in the seat long enough, eventually you are bound to lose it back.

The house always wins.

Lighting is set to specific levels to induce endorphins, lower inhibitions, so that you will take more risks.

They pump in heightened levels of oxygen to produce a more euphoric feeling.

There are no clocks in casinos so that you are more likely to lose track of time, sit at tables longer, lose more money.

Waiters come around more frequently than in typical restaurants, why, because they want you to drink, get a little looser, and guess what… lose more money.

The house always wins.

Lighting is set to specific levels to induce endorphins, lower inhibitions, so that you will take more risks.

They pump in heightened levels of oxygen to produce a more euphoric feeling.

There are no clocks in casinos so that you are more likely to lose track of time, sit at tables longer, lose more money.

Waiters come around more frequently than in typical restaurants, why, because they want you to drink, get a little looser, and guess what… lose more money.

The house always wins.

Lighting is set to specific levels to induce endorphins, lower inhibitions, so that you will take more risks.

They pump in heightened levels of oxygen to produce a more euphoric feeling.

There are no clocks in casinos so that you are more likely to lose track of time, sit at tables longer, lose more money.

Waiters come around more frequently than in typical restaurants, why, because they want you to drink, get a little looser, and guess what… lose more money.

So when this crew from MIT strolls in and consistently clean out the Big Vegas Machines, they clues point to the fact that something is going on.

The term is card-counting, these brilliant minds are able to perform a certain system of math so instinctually that they are able to calculate odds that higher value cards are more likely to be dealt at this time, vs a colder deck of cards at this time.

So when this crew from MIT strolls in and consistently clean out the Big Vegas Machines, they clues point to the fact that something is going on.

The term is card-counting, these brilliant minds are able to perform a certain system of math so instinctually that they are able to calculate odds that higher value cards are more likely to be dealt at this time, vs a colder deck of cards at this time.

So when this crew from MIT strolls in and consistently clean out the Big Vegas Machines, they clues point to the fact that something is going on.

The term is card-counting, these brilliant minds are able to perform a certain system of math so instinctually that they are able to calculate odds that higher value cards are more likely to be dealt at this time, vs a colder deck of cards at this time.

Their defying the typical odds of the house coming out on top pointed to a reality that something was going on.

Their defying the typical odds of the house coming out on top pointed to a reality that something was going on.

Their defying the typical odds of the house coming out on top pointed to a reality that something was going on.

That’s where we’re heading in this second part of our apologetics series where previously we were tackling these common objections to faith, and now we move into a series of seeing reasoning for faith.

And just as the surrounding clues pointed to something deeper with the MIT 6, so too can we take stock of everything around us in this world and we see that it points to something deeper doing on than just chance.

That’s where we’re heading in this second part of our apologetics series where previously we were tackling these common objections to faith, and now we move into a series of seeing reasoning for faith.

And just as the surrounding clues pointed to something deeper with the MIT 6, so too can we take stock of everything around us in this world and we see that it points to something deeper doing on than just chance.

That’s where we’re heading in this second part of our apologetics series where previously we were tackling these common objections to faith, and now we move into a series of seeing reasoning for faith.

And just as the surrounding clues pointed to something deeper with the MIT 6, so too can we take stock of everything around us in this world and we see that it points to something deeper doing on than just chance.

We spoke a couple of weeks ago about the how science is not an inhibitor to faith, but instead it shows the majesty of God’s glory in that he brings chaos into order.

We serve a creator God who has intelligently and sovereignly constructed this universe just so, so that we might live, thrive, and ultimately worship the Creator.

We spoke a couple of weeks ago about the how science is not an inhibitor to faith, but instead it shows the majesty of God’s glory in that he brings chaos into order.

We serve a creator God who has intelligently and sovereignly constructed this universe just so, so that we might live, thrive, and ultimately worship the Creator.

We spoke a couple of weeks ago about the how science is not an inhibitor to faith, but instead it shows the majesty of God’s glory in that he brings chaos into order.

We serve a creator God who has intelligently and sovereignly constructed this universe just so, so that we might live, thrive, and ultimately worship the Creator.

The Regularity of Nature

The Regularity of Nature

The Regularity of Nature

Think about it.

We spoke a couple of weeks ago about how science indicates that our universe is ever-expanding and has been doing so since so long ago and because of this expansion, scientist can essentially predict the rewind and guess how long ago the origin point was when this indescribable surge of energy bursted forth all of creation, from nothing.

Think about it.

We spoke a couple of weeks ago about how science indicates that our universe is ever-expanding and has been doing so since so long ago and because of this expansion, scientist can essentially predict the rewind and guess how long ago the origin point was when this indescribable surge of energy bursted forth all of creation, from nothing.

Think about it.

We spoke a couple of weeks ago about how science indicates that our universe is ever-expanding and has been doing so since so long ago and because of this expansion, scientist can essentially predict the rewind and guess how long ago the origin point was when this indescribable surge of energy bursted forth all of creation, from nothing.

What are the odds?

What are the odds that in a universe filled with countless planets, innumerable stars, and natural forces so finely tuned to sustain organic life that it would be just an accident that we find ourself in such a situation.

Where gravity is operates just so, where our atmosphere is just rightly composed for us to breath, where we are just so rightly situated from the sun for warmth and for life to spread.

What are the odds?

What are the odds that in a universe filled with countless planets, innumerable stars, and natural forces so finely tuned to sustain organic life that it would be just an accident that we find ourself in such a situation.

Where gravity is operates just so, where our atmosphere is just rightly composed for us to breath, where we are just so rightly situated from the sun for warmth and for life to spread.

What are the odds?

What are the odds that in a universe filled with countless planets, innumerable stars, and natural forces so finely tuned to sustain organic life that it would be just an accident that we find ourself in such a situation.

Where gravity is operates just so, where our atmosphere is just rightly composed for us to breath, where we are just so rightly situated from the sun for warmth and for life to spread.

What are the odds?

To say that it is merely an accident would be like sitting at the card table and being dealt quad aces 20 times in a row.

There’s no way that that just happens.

What are the odds?

To say that it is merely an accident would be like sitting at the card table and being dealt quad aces 20 times in a row.

There’s no way that that just happens.

What are the odds?

To say that it is merely an accident would be like sitting at the card table and being dealt quad aces 20 times in a row.

There’s no way that that just happens.

The philosopher John Leslie poses a similar illustration.

He imagines a man who is sentenced to be executed by a firing squad consisting of fifty expert marksmen.

They all fire from six feet away and not one bullet hits him.

Maybe an expert marksman can miss from 6 feet away.

And maybe it is technically possible that all fifty just happened to miss at the same moment.

Though you could not prove they had conspired to miss, it would be unreasonable to draw the conclusion that they hadn’t.