Author Archive for: DrOakley

   Acts 10:42 “And He ordered us to preach to the people, and solemnly to testify that this is the One who has been appointed by God as Judge of the living and the dead.”    Let’s consider what we can learn from this description of preaching in the early church. First, we see that it is a divine command. “He ordered

   Paul knew he was going against popular intuition. He wrote, “For indeed Jews ask for signs and Greeks search for wisdom; but we preach Christ crucified, to Jews a stumbling block and to Gentiles foolishness, but to those who are the called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God” (vv. 22-24). Please do

   A quick unedited sneak peek at Pulpit Crimes:    I have come to view this concept of preaching as one of the greatest signs of the decay of modern evangelicalism in Western culture today. It is so blatantly unbiblical, in fact, so patently absurd in light of even the briefest scripturally-inspired reflection, that it must be a sign of God’s judgment

   I am currently “out of pocket” working on writing Pulpit Crimes (which also explains the blog silence). So, here are a couple of unedited sections from a “notes file” I have put together. This material then becomes incorporated into various chapters in the process or organizing the book. Since I am often asked about the writing process, I thought some

   Greetings from Long Beach Airport. On my way home after spending yesterday with Ray Comfort and Kirk Cameron and the entire crew at The Way of the Master here in Southern California. I talked, quite honestly, non-stop, from yesterday morning at 7:30am till yesterday afternoon at 4:30pm. We shot a great deal of footage (high def!) on Jehovah’s Witnesses, Mormonism,

   Might get a little slow around here for the next two weeks. I will be gone a good bit more than I’m here, with questionable internet access. But I’ll do my best. We will shoot for a Wednesday afternoon DL next week, though it would be best to go for an earlier time, like 6pm EDT instead of 7pm.    Oh,

   The DL will be live this afternoon at 4pm. I might even have something other than a plastic table to sit at today! I have been listening to the sounds of hammers, drills, saws, all day…and the wood for my bookshelves is supposed to arrive next week! The trees finally grew up, I guess. Not sure what I will do

   I get a weekly e-mail from John Shelby Spong (no, it isn’t personal: it’s mass produced). The things people write to him are often utterly amazing to me. But today’s was most notable. Grimes G. Slaughter (that’s what it said, honestly) wrote: I have just been fired as a Jr. High Sunday School teacher at the First Presbyterian Church in

Shabir Ally Debate mp3’s Available! Click here to order. No, we don’t have the DVD’s yet, for two reasons: 1) we don’t have the tapes from Biola, and 2) these mp3’s were taken from a tape in one of our two cameras that had an audio feed. Believe me, we want the DVD’s as badly as anyone else, and will