Author Archive for: DrOakley

   I just learned that the insanely low costs for the October cruise on the Mercury will go up on 1/1/07, but, still, you can sign up with nothing more than a $50 fully refundable deposit before then! It’s time to move! I have talked to literally dozens of folks who have expressed interest in coming with us for The Cross:

   I just ordered a copy of J.R. Miller’s Come Ye Apart from Solid Ground. They are having a year end sale and this devotional in hard-back was only $7.50. Check out what they have available.    Last, last, last chance to be a part of the apologetics class at Golden Gate in the Phoenix area starting next Tuesday evening.    Also, for

   A number of times I have had students and staff from Liberty ask me a question something along the lines of, “So, why worry about this Calvinism stuff? Does it really matter?” Aside from the issues we addressed in our gift to the students at Liberty (found here), there is another example to be offered in answer to the question.

   What a wintery day here in Phoenix! A storm snuck up on us (the weather forecasters were talking about sunshine and a high of 61 right up to when the storm hit!). It’s a drizzly 44! But I love it.    Anyway, two quick notes. First, there is a religion forum co-hosted by the Washington Post and Newsweek, and here you

Don’t take your Bible to Saudi Arabia, noted by Tim Challies. Great post by TQuid on the always popular, but highly doubtful, “Council of Rome” claim. While you can’t take the Bible to Saudi Arabia, whatever you do, don’t talk about Mohammed in Pakistan. They’ll ban your book. I check out the ID weblog of Dembski etc. fairly regularly, and

   Omar Abdel-Rahman, the “blind Sheik,” imprisoned years ago for his role in a plot to blow up New York City landmarks, has left instructions to “extract the most violent revenge” should he die in prison. Ayman al-Zawahiri, Al-Quaida’s second in command, has said, “I call on every Muslim to make use of every opportunity afforded him to take revenge on

   First, I know you all have already gotten this book, and I apologize for it taking so long for us to finally start carrying it, but I would recommend to your reading Reinventing Jesus by Komoszewski, Sawyer, and Wallace. You may even disagree with a few perspectives taken in the book, but will benefit greatly nonetheless simply because the authors

   Steve Hays forwarded me an argument from an Orthodox apologist charging Thomism (and by extension, all of Romanism) with monothelitism (monenergism). I see it suffers from the same kind of “make a conclusion in this field of theology, transport it over here and use it as a club to beat someone over the head” fallacy as Prejean’s does, but it