Author Archive for: DrOakley

After a brief report on ministry in Hawaii, I looked at two examples of why apologetic methodology must be derived from sound biblical exegesis and theology, not the other way around. Specifically, I responded briefly to this article by Paul Copan during the first half of the program. Here is the video of that portion: I noted that others had

We will do the DL live from Phoenix on Tuesday at the regular Thursday time, i.e., 4pm MST, which is now 4pm PDT (thanks to the fact you all messed with your clocks again! I am red-eyeing it home from Hawaii Monday night/Tuesday morning, so, I think I will be a bit more functional for the afternoon time slot than

Yesterday I managed to sneak in a Skype-aided Dividing Line from my room here in Hilo, Hawaii. We discussed a variety of issues, including the Sandra Fluke controversy, the wild-eyed attacks on Kirk Cameron for daring to be a Christian in the United States today, etc. Then we discussed the continuation of the Great Evangelical Coverup with another example of

Join me for the Dividing Line one hour late today. I can tell you now there may be an interruption along the way, as my Internet purchase will run out sometime around that time, but, we will work our way through it anyway! Join me!

Started off responding to comments by a British fellow on FaceBook regarding my sermons this past week, all of which were on the topic of, or touched upon, homosexuality. Then I read Michael Brown’s excellent article on the heartbreaking results of artificial insemination on the lives of those who are born of the procedure, including a poem that truly communicates

Had a fascinating little tidbit of information turn up today, specifically, that the Word documents from which the two “really bad, downright silly, really embarrassing excuses” files Norman Geisler has been hosting on his website for Ergun Caner (now found here and here) are stored in the same folder with the html files produced from them (currently able to be

Started off the program today with about 20 minutes on the topic of Matthew 24:36/Mark 13:32 and about the fullest discussion I’ve given of this text (uploading a YouTube video of just this portion even now). Then got back into my response to Wajdi Akkari, dealing with issues from early church history and the doctrine of the Trinity. Wanted to

Wide ranging show once again. Apologies for my rough voice, but the outer man is decaying! Played Dan Wallace’s specific words regarding the new manuscript finds, then did about 50 minutes in response to Wajdi Akkari, then took calls, the first on the consistency of apologetic methodology (specifically, how the Qur’an relates to the Bible in comparison to how the