March 23, 2004

James introduces the ministry to the listening audience.

Well, we have the new computer, the new camera, the new book shelf, the new monitor, the new microphones…so we celebrated by going long and deep today!  Finished the Ehrman/Gathercole exchange, then finished the Craig/Helm exchange as well!  Briefly addressed a single issue relating to homosexuality, and then dove into John 6 in preparation for fully responding to Kerrigan Skelly’s

Started off with a solid twenty minutes on the use of lexical sources and, in particular, recognizing the difference between scholarly facts and scholarly interpretation, using the graphics provided immediately below. Then the calls started, and we (expectedly) went over the Caner situation, and the Geisler statement. I told the story of what happened just under a decade ago with

Spent the majority of today’s program reviewing recent developments in the rapidly accelerating collapse of morality and ethics in the West, along with the rising totalitarianism of the left.  Looked at a recent episode of The Good Wife and its tackling of religious rights vs. the absolute necessity of redefining marriage, and then read with some horror the words of Frank

The “Christian” music group Phillips, Craig, and Dean are actually Oneness Pentecostals that reject the Trinity. A radio station that plays their music because they see the Trinity as a peripheral issue that does not affect salvation. A woman that says weight loss is more important to Christian women than the doctrine of the Trinity. A caller on distortions of

Talked a little about Muslim persecution of Christians in Sudan, then looked briefly at Titus 2:11ff for balance in the grace/obedience issue, then took calls on a wide variety of topics including the Trinity, John’s gospel, and more. Here is the YouTube link: