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.
Yes, that’s me, March, 1981, sitting at the controls of KWAO FM 106.3 in Sun City, Arizona. I worked there in High School and into college, working six to midnight Monday through Friday and noon to six on Saturdays. And though that image is small, you can note that 1) I weighed about 140 lbs and had a 30 inch
Want to test to see if your friendly neighborhood Arminian (a very common species of Christianus Evangelicus) has the Glasses of Libertarian Tradition firmly glued upon his or her face when reading the Scriptures? John 8:47 provides an excellent detection device: “He who is of God hears the words of God; for this reason you do not hear them, because
I get the Berean Call’s e-mail newsletter/update, and scan through it as time allows to see what comments are made regarding Dave’s anti-Calvinism campaign. I’ve seen some interesting comments. But this one was worth a reply: Dear Mr. Hunt, I enjoyed reading Debating Calvinism. I sat in the Calvinist camp for many years….Why don’t Calvinists preach their “doctrines of grace”
For the half dozen of you who are enjoying your desktops more these days….I upgraded one of the two fractal programs I use, and have found Orbital Trapping a wonderful arena for exploration. (Actually, I’ve had a couple thousand visits to my fractal pages since I started posting a few samples here. I hope those who have downloaded a few
The question which is raised in sacerdotalism, in a word, is just whether it is God the Lord who saves us, or it is men, acting in the name and clothed with the powers of God, to whom we are to look for salvation. This is the issue which divides sacerdotalism and evangelical religion. (B.B. Warfield, The Plan of Salvation,
OK, I’m getting the message loud and clear: massive confusion over-load in blog land. Perhaps this isn’t even the medium in which to attempt to address these things, I don’t know. In talking with folks in channel and in person I am coming to the conclusion that I am obviously incapable of expressing point #1 on the topic of the
Presbyterian Scholar of Today: In other words, I believe Roman Catholics and Protestants both agree that the sole OBJECT of faith is Christ. Anyone who believes in someone or something OTHER than Christ for justification does not have genuine faith. Faith is a whole-hearted commitment of oneself to, and trust in the person of Christ. The Roman Catholic who trusts
We noted a few days ago that the London Baptist Confession of Faith (LBCF) of 1689 very clearly asserts the unified righteousness of Christ. What I mean by this phrase is that one cannot cut the righteousness of Christ our divine substitute into sub-parts while maintaining the whole: while everyone can and should distinguish between the active and passive obedience
My good friend Steve Camp will be joining me on the DL this evening. Why, you might ask? Well, we have three things to discuss: 1) The Phillips, Craig & Dean Controversy (can we abbreviate that as the PC&D-C?) 2) Justification and the decline of sound theology in evangelicalism 3) the upcoming cruise which will feature both Steve’s music as
As I am continuing my commentary on Professor Seifrid’s comments on justification (thought I had forgotten that, didn’t you?), I was doing some reading and ran across an interesting “expansion” in the London Baptist Confession of Faith (1689) that is not found in the Westminster Confession of Faith (1648). Seemingly it comes from the Savoy Declaration, but I haven’t had
This is a simple 5th Order Newton M-set with the color tweaked out a good bit. Looks like neon lights behind the alien mother ship. 🙂 Or something, like that, sorta…I will have to talk about fractals sometime. Not only are they gorgeous, but I find some great theology in them as well.
Gal. 5:3 And I testify again to every man who receives circumcision, that he is under obligation to keep the whole Law. Not only will Christ not allow himself to be joined to human self-righteousness, but the Apostle makes sure everyone understands that there is no such thing as partial righteousness in the law: one either follows the whole of
Gal. 5:2: Behold I, Paul, say to you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will be of no benefit to you. Here is the outward manifestation of the yoke of slavery, circumcision. But here we see clearly the relationship that is being missed by many today. Why would Paul say to anyone, “Christ will be of no benefit to you”
Recently we have all heard about Barry Lynn’s group, Americans United for the Separation of Church and State, seeking to silence pastors from preaching in the pulpit on the moral stands of candidates for political office (story/follow up) and our duties as citizens in light of the Lordship of Christ. Our readers will remember that Lynn did not want the
Between May 5, 1993, and November of 1998, I rode right at 29,000 miles on a bicycle. I rode my first century race (100 plus miles) less than six months after starting, and finished in less than six hours. At one point I owned a Bianchi ELOS with Campy Record components, and a Nishiki carbon fiber with Dura-ace components. I
I’ve been hitting a lot of topics quickly this weekend, but one needs to stay “current” through Monday (when a lot of folks catch up on the blog). That is the Phillips, Craig & Dean controversy. If you didn’t see it, here’s the entire article.
It comes up every few years. Ever since I noted something that had appeared in Charisma magazine regarding the singing group Phillips, Craig, and Dean, namely, that they are ministers in Oneness or non-Trinitarian churches, in the context of writing an article on loving the Trinity, we have received inquiries, and once in a while, disturbingly accusatory correspondence regarding the issue. It
Someone came in channel last night and gave me the URL to a brief article by Jimmy Akin where, finally, after many years, he addresses the error he made in attempting to explain away John 6:37-44 in our debate. I had noted this, yet again, in my blog entries for 5/1 and 5/2/04. Here it is. I quote the most
In the comments section on l0g0s’ blog a number of folks (including Roman Catholic apologist Dave Armstrong) have taken him to task for asserting the citations offered above are “out of context.” l0g0s has been utterly unable to back up his claims outside of saying Bahnsen and I would not have agreed on other subjects, a glowing canard to anyone
Within a few hours after posting these words from Greg Bahnsen, l0g0s came unglued on his blog. How dare I quote Bahnsen’s own words directly on the subject of the Roman Catholic Church, and those who would prefer “a spirit of detente rather than antithesis”! How dare I post his own voice taking the opposite position of the rC’s, or
I was rummaging through some old—and I do mean OLD—files yesterday looking for a letter, when I ran across some old Penpoints. Penpoint was the monthly update from Dr. Greg Bahnsen of the SCCCS (Southern California Center for Christian Studies). My eyes happened to fall upon the issue from just over a decade ago, June, 1994, which carried the title,
In the midst of the battle the text of Scripture suffers at the hands of those who seek to mold it to their theology. Recently Paul’s words in Galatians 5 have suffered egregiously. Let’s remind ourselves of what Paul actually said: Galatians 5:1 It was for freedom that Christ set us free; therefore keep standing firm and do not be
As our kind readers have undoubtedly noticed of late, I am spending a lot of time thinking about, and responding to, those who have decided that to be Reformed no longer means we have a clear, compelling knowledge of the gospel itself. While these men continue to call themselves “Reformed,” some cannot even any longer affirm the imputation of Christ’s
I had over a thousand visits to one of my fractal pages last week after I noted one I had made a few days ago (I’m making fractal backgrounds to go with various Object Desktop Suites I have on my system). Here is one of today’s efforts. I’ve added it to the same page but I have a previous page
Lessons learned this AM: Respond to one rC, and another will say you are misrepresenting him. Lesson: rC’s are allowed to differ, but you aren’t allowed to criticize. rC’s can go ballistic and lose all balance on rC blogs, without rebuke (at least, public rebuke). If you say, “This position trumps soteriology with sacramentalism” rC’s will say, “No, you are
