Alpha and Omega Ministries is a Christian apologetics organization based in Phoenix, Arizona. James White, director, is a professor, having taught Greek, Systematic Theology, and various topics in the field of apologetics for numerous schools.
The genitive of the decalogue (don’t ask, it’s secret) let me know today that a partial portion of my article on the New Covenant has been posted at the RBTR website. There is still time to subscribe (can you tell I really would like to see this publication take off?), not just for yourself, but for your elders, too! This
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I love computers. But I hate computers. Know what I mean? When they work, they are a joy. When they don’t, they simply drive me nuts. I really lose a lot of progress in sanctification when a machine that should act in a precise and logical fashion seemingly doesn’t. But anyway, I managed to beat the network problem after a
Thursday night I spent about 35 to 40 minutes discussing a particular lecture by Tom Wright, bishop of Durham, author extraordinaire. Those who actually listened know that it was sort of a basic introduction, since many are not familiar with Wright and his books. I mean, I sat here and just went through some major titles from the past decade
Pro-Abortion Catholics Seek Mary’s Intercession
When I travel I love to show pastors the Uber Bible. The look on their faces as they hold it is just priceless. What on earth is the Uber Bible, you ask? Well, it is the NASB Large Print UltraThin Bible from the Lockman Foundation. What makes it so special? Well, as I have said to a number of folks,
I do not remember where I read that about fifteen years ago or more, but in essence, the womb now has a window, and I saw the impact of it just yesterday. I happened to be grabbing a bite to eat and flipped on the telly (my way of keeping our British readers happy). “Good Day Live” was on out
If you have ever wondered how it is conservatives are told they can’t address issues of “politics” while liberals can stand in certain churches with impunity, you are not alone. Here is a must-read article on the continued efforts to deny free speech based upon conservative religious belief.
Only an hour or so after posting the story on the imaging of pre-born children below, Pastor John Samson, affectionately known as SillyBrit2, dropped me a story from London on the impact those images have had in causing folks to rethink abortion laws (!!!). It also contained the link to the on-line videos themselves. Here they are. Enjoy, and share
I can’t believe this. I was told yesterday that “Lou Rugg–as he is known in that pit of despond, that concentrated mass of theological ignorance called PalTalk (“Don’t have anything meaningful to say? Come on over!”)—has been playing an edited version of our “debate” (talk about using a term loosely) in various rooms in PalTalk. Evidently he has inserted his
I used to use that as a tagline on my old BBS posts (if you know what a BBS is/was, well, you are older than my kids). It was followed by a reference: “Behold, I am insignificant; what can I reply to You? I lay my hand on my mouth.” (Job 40:4) The context was in reference, back then, to
A note from this morning’s Reformed Baptist Discussion List: The second issue of the Reformed Baptist Theological Review (RBTR I:2) is now available for purchase and should be mailed by August 1st, 2004. This edition includes the following articles: “The Remaining Sabbath for the People of God,” Robert P. Martin; “John Owen and New Covenant Theology,” Richard C. Barcellos; “The
Topic: Ruminations on N.T. Wright (aka, “Tom” to those who love and adore him so!). Just a quote to warm you up: God forgive us, within modernity, when often we as Christians thought that the way to use the Bible to address the world was to abstract large chunky doctrines from the Bible and hurl them at the heads of
Eric Svendsen has replied to comments by Paul Owen on Galatians 5:2. I would still like to find time to interact with Owen’s claims on exegetical grounds, but have two publishing deadlines to wrestle with as well. We will see.
David King provided the following citation this evening: If those who profess to return to the right way feel hurt by these requirements, they are greatly mistaken. For it is impossible to accept them as Christian pastors if they have not renounced the papal priesthood in which they were ordained to sacrifice Jesus Christ, which is a blasphemy worthy of
I’m sorry, but I refuse to pay $1.25 for five lousy minutes on a local call, and then $0.15 per minute thereafter. But that is what the hotel across from Central Park wanted (I guess since it is right next to the Trump International Tower that explains it), so I didn’t even try. And with preaching duties on the Lord’s
Apologies for being AWOL, but Monday the phones went out at my hotel, and that put me way behind. I’ve been updating PowerPoint presentations, one for tonight on the Witnesses (did you know their baptism rate continues to decline, down 20% since 1999?) and then a pretty much fully new presentation for the American Bible Society on Saturday. Google’s image
Early this AM (and when you are on PDT and you fly to EDT, 5AM is actually 2AM, so the term “early” takes on new meaning) I got up so I could head up to the graduation ceremonies of a small Christian school in upstate New York. It was an honor to speak, if only briefly, at the graduation. So
Odd to have a book arrive prior to its publication date, but here it is! Perspectives on Church Government: Five Views of Church Polity from Broadman/Holman publishers is edited by Chad Owen Brand and R. Stanton Norman. It comes in at 350 pages, and presents the viewpoints of Daniel Akin (Single Pastor Model), James Leo Garrett, Jr., (Congregationalism), Paul F.
This interaction is simply one of the clearest the “blog wars” has produced on the vast difference between rCism and a vision based upon biblical teaching concerning the centrality of the gospel. A must read. Update: In responding to a Roman Catholic correspondent, Mr. Johnson wrote, “The only thing I would say in response to your comment is that hopefully
For those who have never been in the midst of a debate on what Augustine meant in Sermon 131, those words may not be familiar. But they were suggested by the PlaidMan, and I thought they fit very well. As Alexander continues his crazed rampage, the picture he paints of me becomes ever more distorted, so that all who actually
Download the file. This presentation was explained previously on a Dividing Line broadcast.
Selections From a Sermon Preached on the Basis of Galatians 2:3-5 GALATIANS 2:3-5 WE FIND WELL ENOUGH what an enemy of our welfare the Devil is, sith he ceaseth not to labor by all means to stop the course of the Gospel. And therein we perceive also, that God hath set all our welfare, joy, and happiness, in being taught
For years I’ve heard about him. Tan Book Publishers (super conservative Roman Catholic publisher) still prints his book, The Catholic Controversy (Bethany House named my book, hence, no, there is no connection), a series of tracts he wrote that are specifically aimed at converting Calvinists to Roman Catholicism. Many a modern Roman Catholic has referred me to de Sales’ work
by Benjamin B. Warfield (1851-1921) The following short essay was originally published in the The Christian Irishman, Dublin, May 1911, p. 71. The electronic edition of this article was scanned and edited by Shane Rosenthal for Reformation Ink. It is in the public domain and may be freely copied and distributed. Sometimes we are told that Justification by Faith
In the realm of the theological blogosphere today the conjunction of the great luminaries of reformed Catholicism collided in what observers called a “near black hole incident” wherein TGE and Alexander the Coppersmith piled laud and congratulations upon l0g0s for his stunning ability to take a comment about my consistency in holding to one particular view, ignore that context, and
