Having written that title, I think it would be more fun to say, “Sounds odd? You’ll have to listen to find out what that is about!”
I just spoke with Dr. Shah and we are having to “take a different approach” you might say to our future interaction. Not only could he not find any Christian churches that were willing to support the debate, but he ran into a good bit of opposition in his own community as well. Let’s face it, we live in post-modern
There was a fascinating, albeit brief, exchange on the Textual Criticism Yahoogroup this week between Bart Ehrman and Dan Wallace. Those who have listened to the debate with Dr. Ehrman in Florida will remember this portion: I understand the arguments of people like James and Dan Wallace, but sometimes, you know, they don’t make sense to me, even though I
My sincere apologies! I talked about blogging this on Thursday on the DL, fully intending to do so that evening, and here it is Saturday evening before I get it done! Ah, well, at least I’m not bored! Having way too good a time studying for preaching tomorrow from Hebrews 1. Oh the Word of God is so rich! I
I started off playing a portion of Dan Barker’s “testimony” about his deconversion, focusing upon what kind of Christianity he left, and making application from there. Then we took our break and had two phone calls on Matthew 16:18 and “upon this rock,” leading to a fairly lengthy discussion of the development of the papacy over time.
I began the program today with a half hour discussion of my 2.5 hour meeting with a Jehovah’s Witness elder this past Friday, spending some time to go into the text in Revelation 4 and 5, playing a clip from the 2003 debate with Greg Stafford on the same topic. Then after the break we started taking calls on a
Some kind fellow believers provided a transcript of the Ehrman debate, which we are making available here. We hope this is of assistance to folks. Keep in mind that we hope to begin shipping DVDs of the Ehrman debate on 4/3! You can pre-order your DVD here! And, just a note: I have not been able to get any information
I have really missed having the opportunities I had back in the 80s and 90s to spend time meeting with Jehovah’s Witnesses. I used to have many opportunities to go to homes and meet with Witnesses. Most of these came about when the Witnesses came by someone’s home and asked to have a meeting with them. I would be invited
This morning I left my Macbook Pro open and running when I went for my ride. I did so because I was using Total Recorder to grab the audio of the Craig/Carrier debate from Wednesday night. So I get back from my ride and I notice…some odd things. Clearly, someone had been messing with my computer! In fact, they had
Played portions of an Iron Sharpens Iron program from last year with F. LaGard Smith, author of Troubling Questions for Calvinists…and all the Rest of Us. Dealt with issues of God’s knowledge, decree, Romans 9, etc.
“Unless you impute human-like irrationality to God, I will call you names.” This seems to be the attitude of many squeamish Calvinists on the net these days. Unless you are willing to drag God down to the level of a flummoxed suitor, who is torn between contradictory desires, you will be called to repent and labeled with terms meant only
I was joined by pastor Tony Bartolucci in studio today as we discussed Frank Beckwith’s reversion story and recent book. Also took calls on…completely different topics! One was on George Bryson, the other on the tenacity of the NT text.
My apologies for how long it took to get this video up. Had a lot of technical problems, and though it is only 16 minutes in length, it took many hours to put together.
I wanted to let folks know where we stand on current projects. I am still gathering materials for the Ehrman project. Of course, Ehrman is right now on the NPR/talk show circuit pushing Jesus, Interrupted, so I am gathering info from his appearances. I will post a video later today, Lord willing, drawing from his recent NPR appearance. I have
OK, this is just perfect. For all those who struggle with the fact that Arizona refuses to play games with time (for absolutely no reason at all), so that the time of the DL becomes mysterious twice a year. Carla has designed a wonderful clock to help you out! And, of course, for the rest of the year, this lovely
Started off with a pretty amazing clip from Jimmy Akin that we could very accurately dub, “We Don’t Need No Stinking Bible Verses!” Very interesting commentary. Then we took calls on predestination and election and Islam! I also discussed Randall Terry and the liberal Catholic Church in the US.
Michael Spencer, who has more than once had some pretty harsh things to say about yours truly and this ministry, nonetheless speaks much truth in this article in the Christian Science Monitor. Colin Smith pointed this out to me two days ago, and Phil Johnson commented on it on his blog today. I agree with many of his predictions, and
Not only is the music beautiful, but how encouraging is it to hear the gospel sung in a place where the martyrs died, abused and mocked by the world, so long ago? Makes you think. Update: I have been informed this was not shot in the Colosseum in Rome at all, but in Croatia. I have no way of knowing—still
I am exciting to announce that we now have the second edition of The Potter’s Freedom in stock. The text has not changed: instead, I have added a new foreword and two appendices including my response to Geisler’s attempted reply to the book, along with materials on 2 Peter 2:1 and 1 Timothy 4:10, for a total of thirty-two additional
We finished off the Barker/Wilson debate yesterday, then discussed further signs of the wrath of God upon Western society in the degradation of marriage and the family.
It is great to have so many supporters out there! I was sent a link to this video. Now, it had exactly one view on it when I watched it. If you can figure out what this very zealous fellow is talking about, you are wiser than I am. If you can figure out how any of this is actually
Sorry, forgot to blog it! Started off with more evidence of the fallibility of…me! Talked about a citation error I made regarding Basil of Caesarea, and compared it with Rome’s long history of use of completely spurious works in defense of her claims. Then we went back to the Barker/Wilson debate, which, I believe, we will finish on the next
We really wanted to be shipping the new edition of The Potter’s Freedom this week, but found out today that the distributor had put a hold on our order without the kindness of informing us of the matter. Rich let them know in no uncertain terms that they needed to get those books to us asap, and so we have
I began a series today reviewing portions of Doug Wilson’s debate with Dan Barker from 1997. I know I risk many barbs, slings, and arrows for saying Doug Wilson did a masterful and excellent job in this debate, but facts are facts, and he did. But I am not reviewing Doug’s presentations, as good as they were. I wanted to
So says Bart Ehrman when you challenge his highly challengeable theological conclusions and claims. Ehrman’s new anti-Christian book, Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible (and Why We Don’t Know About Them), is lying on my desk, having just arrived. I flipped the book open to the back and my eyes fell upon this statement: There is not
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