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.
Since I had been given some reason to think Sheikh Awal has been following my reviews, I dove back into my response to his presentations.
It has been pretty difficult for anyone to find any evidence of either of the Caner brothers engaging in debates with leading proponents of Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, etc., as Ergun’s pre-2010 bio used to claim. But maybe we have discovered why! We were looking for debates in English! This May, 2002 article in SBC Life may help us find those
(and why Steven Anderson should be avoided by any semi-rational, logical thinking individual). This would make for a great Radio Free Geneva…if there was anything of substance to it.
I noted last year that the White House under President Barack Hussein Obama had designated June as “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Month.” This resulted in TurretinFan doing an entire month’s worth of blog articles on the subject on his blog. Once again President Obama has added to our national shame by using the powers of his office to
When I find folks that do a great job, I like to let folks know. In the past I have noted my regular use of book covers made by Renaissance Art over in Santa Fe. I have a number of their excellent two-color covers now, and really enjoy them. They are well made and well priced as well. So recently
This morning I had my remote video monitoring program running, which allows me to keep an eye on our security cameras at our offices. I had it moving from camera to camera every three seconds, which meant that each image would be viewed, and refreshed, about every 40 seconds or so. I noticed something very interesting. The first image that
I started off the program playing a clip from Glenn Beck. Yes, the LDS Glenn Beck from Fox News Channel. Last week he attempted to make a point by drawing an illustration from how the Dead Sea Scrolls came about after the Council of Nicea. Yeah, not exactly your best source of historical information. Then the calls, all but one
Many thanks to the folks at Northernridge Baptist Church up in Denver for getting me going on the month of May on the bike (they rented a road bike for me for while I was with them). The altitude training spurred me on. So, for May, 2010: Miles ridden: 612.89 (record in one month, at least since I got back
Many people have asked me, “How could Ergun Caner think he would ever get away with all the tall tales he told in the pulpit?” Good question. I have no idea. If I were to make up fake Arabic while speaking before an audience (not just slaughter it, as I have in the past!), I would always be in fear
HT: PB “The Governor is jogging with his/her dog along a nature trail. A coyote jumps out and attacks dog. California : #1. Governor starts to intervene, reflects upon the movie ‘Bambi’ and then realizes he should stop; the coyote is only doing what is natural. #2. He calls animal control. Animal control captures coyote and spends $200 testing it
Took one quick call at the top of the hour, then delved into completing Sheikh Awal’s opening statement from his debate in 2009. Covered a good bit of territory in the “how to” of apologetic response, as well as diving a little deeper into John 5.
Last evening a brother pointed me to a comment by Emir Caner posted on Twitter back on the 12th of May. I have included it in the graphic so as to document that it is clearly from Emir Caner, and also to note his re-tweeting of Hussein Wario’s article “Desperate Muslims and Ignoramus Christians” as well. This demonstrates Emir Caner
Before diving back into Sheikh Awal’s opening statement I very briefly responded to yet another “Hey, let’s repeat every tired and silly argument against James White” thread on the Catholic Answers Forums. Also, we went over Norman Geisler’s less than unbiased (and still not really comprehensible) commentary on the Caner scandal. Then spent most of our time responding to Sheikh
I confess: I have no idea why Hebrews 6:19-20 is not just as well known amongst evangelicals as John 3:16. It is truly one of the most incredible texts in all of Scripture. I felt deeply my inadequacy to communicate these divine truths during the evening service at the Phoenix Reformed Baptist Church, but here is the attempt. We have
I was informed this afternoon that Dr. Norman Geisler has spoken out on the controversy concerning Ergun Caner’s refusal to openly and publicly answer direct, honest questions concerning the documented contradictions in his public pronouncements and claims concerning his past. The material, posted by Peter Lumpkins, is prefaced by Lumpkins’ claim that Dr. Geisler invited him to “spread it far
SB 1070 is “Senate Bill 1070,” passed a few weeks ago here in Arizona. I am one of the very small percentage of human beings on the planet who has actually read the entirety of the legislation (it is not, like a certain “health care bill” rushed through Congress a few months ago, thousands of pages long). It only took
Yesterday I noted some of the comments showing a high level of devotion to a personality (and a low level of concern for the facts of the case) from a particular Facebook page. When I pulled the text I decided to remove the names, as I was not responding to individuals, but making a general observation about a group of
Jumped right back into my response to Sheikh Awal’s opening statement from a debate in 2009. Sam Shamoun called in with some excellent Qur’anic insights halfway through the program, and then we took a phone call on atheism, and finished up with a little more from the debate. I hope to post video later today continuing the Awal response.
I just saw this video (I may have seen it before, hard to remember), but I noticed it has more views than anything I’ve ever done on YouTube. I find that humorous. Apologies to Erasmus who gets burned instead of Servetus. 🙂
I will admit, I have not taken a lot of the “cult of personality” stuff very seriously over the past number of years, mainly because I am a member of a small church, in a group of churches that really tends to shy away from that kind of thing, at least as it appears in the broader spectrum of evangelicalism.
Today on the DL I took a call at the start and then moved into providing a response to the opening statement of Sheikh Awal from a debate from 2009.
Just read this: So, did a fight over Calvinism lead to the questions about Caner’s background? That certainly seems to be a possibility. A fascinating one, too, although if Caner truly has fabricated his background, his theological leanings may not make a lot of difference at this point. The article is referring to the comment in this source hinting that
(Fixed the audio: YouTube and iMovie HD do not like each other, evidently, so I have to take a second very time consuming step to fix the problem. Hopefully this upload will work!)
Many thanks to WMG who sent me the AP article from 2002 that, it seems, yesterday’s AP article referred to in regards to Ergun Caner’s honest communication of his story (minus the embellishments that have accrued since then). The sad thing here is, this is a touching and powerful story, which has now been forever marred by the attraction of
As soon as I got into my car after spending over five hours on Mt. Lemmon outside of Tucson last Wednesday, I got a call requesting me to speak with an AP reporter on the Caner saga. So as I was driving across Tucson (note to Tucson: you really, really need an East/West corridor aka freeway. Really) I was on
