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Ecclesiology, Response to Matthew Vines, And Almost a Third Topic…But Not Quite

James White, June 5, 2014, Homosexuality, The Dividing Line

Flirted with going full Jumbo edition today but pulled the plug because even I could not handle transitioning from a full response to a new (short) Matthew Vines video (with a rather, uh, interesting lesbian interlocutor) to a discussion of the textual transmission of the Qur’an. Just couldn’t pull that off. But before discussing (and playing) Vines, I discussed some

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On the Abuse of Language and Imagery to Mollify Shallow Thinkers

James White, June 4, 2014, Uncategorized

Christians are to be marked by “discipline” and are not to be like those who have a “depraved mind” (2 Tim. 1:7, 3:8, Titus 1:15). We are warned not to be taken captive by sly words of speech (Col. 2:8, Eph. 5:6). This means we do not glorify God when we let our emotions control our thoughts. We instead show

Responding to Pastor Danny Cortez: Preparing for the Tsunami

James White, June 4, 2014, The Dividing Line

Over the course of the next few years we will experience a tsunami of compromise and change relating to homosexuality, marriage, and a plethora of related concepts within what was formerly known as evangelicalism. Holding to a consistently biblical and historical view of sexuality, gender and marriage will become more and more rare, and those who do so will be

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Talk About Needed Encouragement…

James White, May 30, 2014, Uncategorized

This was tweeted to me this morning. Rachel @RachelBeth 1689 sent it, with the description, “Miniature fans in Washington. They did this on their own.” Well, made my day! 🙂

Upcoming Worldwide Ministry Trips/Psalm 33 and Molinism/Peter Lumpkins, Tim Rogers and Ergun Caner

James White, May 29, 2014, The Dividing Line

A jumbo edition of the DL today, beginning with our letting you know of two international trips coming up this Fall, one to South Africa in October, the other to Kiev in December. We need your help to make these trips happen and to schedule other opportunities of ministry while traveling to and from. If you can help with this

Psalm 33 and Worship (PRBC Wednesday Evening Service)

James White, May 29, 2014, Uncategorized

Muslim Persecution of Christians in Sudan

James White, May 27, 2014, The Dividing Line

Talked a little about Muslim persecution of Christians in Sudan, then looked briefly at Titus 2:11ff for balance in the grace/obedience issue, then took calls on a wide variety of topics including the Trinity, John’s gospel, and more. Here is the YouTube link:

Thinking Through a Common Pro-Abortion Argument

James White, May 22, 2014, Uncategorized

Invested the entire hour examining the presentation made in 2010 by Dr. David Boonin from the UofC in Boulder on the subject of abortion. It is so important to be able to identify the underlying world-view issues in this day when our society has lost all semblance of moral and ethical sanity. Here is the YouTube link:

A No-Show, Technically Challenged Dividing Line

James White, May 20, 2014, The Dividing Line

Well, our intrepid Molinist was a no-show, so we examined a few articles and listened to Glenn Beck melt down, and took a few calls. Unfortunatley, the YouTube feed failed for the first time, so it is incomplete. The audio feed should be complete. Here is the YouTube link:

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Special Friday Dividing Line with Michael Brown

James White, May 16, 2014, Homosexuality, The Dividing Line

Spent an hour with Michael Brown today discussing his new book, Can You Be Gay and Christian? Covered a pretty wide variety of important subjects regarding homosexuality, so don’t miss this one! Only had one brief “Skypiccup” as well. Thanks for your time, Michael! Here is the YouTube link:

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On the DL Today: Ergun Caner, and Seven Bible Verses We Need to Know and Be Able To Proclaim

James White, May 15, 2014, The Dividing Line

Today on the Dividing Line we reviewed the judge’s decision in the second of Ergun Caner’s sinful lawsuits, and rejoiced to see the judge ransacking the thesaurus to come up with such terms as “ludicrous,” “astounding,” “outlandish” and “bizarre.” Hooza! Well done. Spin that, Lumpy! Then we moved to this article and explained why we need to be able to

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Studies in Southern Presbyterian Theology

Jeff Downs, May 15, 2014, Pastoral Theology, Personal, Theology Matters

My time at Greenville Seminary is coming to a close. In fact, I will graduate from this seminary next Friday (Dr. John R. de Witt will give the commencement address). The Lord has used the professors at GPTS not only to shape me theologically, but modeled how to “walk in the same manner as He Himself walked” (1 Jn. 2:6).

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Molinism and Michael Rood on a Jumbo Edition

James White, May 13, 2014, The Dividing Line

I was going to do things the opposite direction, but Rich’s call got me onto the topic of Molinism, so I spent a good portion of the first hour responding to Zachary Lawson’s comments found here. Then I moved over to reviewing Michael Rood’s comments about John 6:4, found here. A bit eclectic, but hopefully helpful! Here is the YouTube

Richard Porter: Do As I Say, Or Else!

James White, May 12, 2014, Uncategorized

So I was wrapping things up today and Richard Porter, the young Molinist who is supposed to call into the Dividing Line next week, tweeted me and demanded that I remove this statement from my previous post: “Then, next Tuesday, we will be joined by a young apologist who thinks I do nothing for the kingdom, am like the sound

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A Few Thoughts on Holiness, Repentance, and the Lordship of Christ

James White, May 12, 2014, Uncategorized

Just a quick Screenflow video following up on the sermons from last evening.

Monday Miscellaneous

James White, May 12, 2014, Blog Stuff, Exegesis, Misc, Pastoral Theology, Resources, The Dividing Line, Theology Matters

Tackled a tough, challenging section of Hebrews at PRBC on Sunday. NOTE TO ALL ANTI-LORDSHIP, CHEAP-GRACE, NON-REPENTANCE FOLKS: Please note both sermons, but especially the evening sermon. I really tried to give you all the evidence you could possibly need that I am firmly, unalterably OPPOSED to your position and identify it as a fundamental denial of the Gospel. I

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Behold the Secular Woman & WLC on Molinism (Once Again)

James White, May 8, 2014, The Dividing Line

Couldn’t let the Emily Lett video go by without comment, but having done that, we spent the rest of the hour listening to WLC respond to two articles on Molinism. Once again, listening to someone responding to criticism is one of the best ways of getting clear definitions, and that is what we got today. Not an easy program, but

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Can a Non-Marriage Experience Divorce? And Ergun Caner on Mormonism

James White, May 6, 2014, Homosexuality, Islam, The Dividing Line

Started off with a bit of a discussion on Eugene Robinson’s “divorce” and how a non-marriage’s “divorce” cannot be viewed in the same way as a true marriage’s end. Then we moved on to listen to Ergun Caner, from 2005, absolutely destroy Mormonism—not in a proper apologetic fashion, but by his own unique style of ridiculous and errant assertion and misrepresentation.

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Thoughts on Ergun Caner, Hypocrisy, LU’s Leadership, and Glenn Beck’s Mormon Myths

James White, May 1, 2014, Uncategorized

Pushing the Antithesis on Bart Ehrman’s Worldview

Dr. Alan Kurschner, May 1, 2014, Atheism, Christian Worldview, General Apologetics

Michael Kruger does an excellent job in exposing the inconsistency in Bart Ehrman’s worldview by showing that Ehrman is not really a genuine “agnostic” that he claims to be. Read how he uses the presuppositional approach in his critique of Ehrman. http://michaeljkruger.com/bart-ehrmans-worldview-problem/

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SBCToday – Calvinism vs Pelagianism

Micah Burke, April 30, 2014, Reformed Apologetics, Reformed Baptist Issues, Theology Matters

This post is intended to address some comments by Doug Sayers on the sbctoday.com blog. I’m posting this here because the owner of the sbctoday blog has an aversion to honest and robust debate from appearing on his blog. After posting several comments, having a couple of them approved, the blog owner went back and deleted them all. The author

Remember, Caner Defied Scripture to Claim Copyright on This Pack of Lies

James White, April 30, 2014, Misc, Uncategorized

Here is a concentrated version of Ergun Caner’s lies, exaggerations, falsehoods, off-color jokes, etc., from just one of the two Marine videos—the videos he has claimed copyright on, and lost a lawsuit over. The antics are embarrassing, the lies damning, and all the more because he dared defy Scripture and sue a pastor over having posted them publicly for all

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Catching Up With Technology

James White, April 29, 2014, Misc, Personal, Resources, Technology

We all know most things we buy in the tech world are planned to become obsolete in a relatively short period of time. It’s a built-in aspect of the market, it seems, but it is also a function of the fact that thankfully, at least in many areas, technology continues to advance and progress. This is a very small ministry,

Jesus: the One Way of Salvation

James White, April 27, 2014, Christian Worldview, Exegesis, General Apologetics, Pastoral Theology, Post-Evangelicalism, Reformed Apologetics

Here are some of the presentations from this weekend at New Hyde Park Baptist Church. Will be speaking again in about an hour!

Teaching: Why One Way, New Hyde Baptist Church, Long Island, NY, 4/27/2014

James White, April 27, 2014, Uncategorized

https://youtu.be/fxW2xQelez4 https://youtu.be/9dl7vVHlagU https://youtu.be/2wXeiQYDFuo https://youtu.be/Ab_yXWJx_Tc

Haykin Corrects Emir Caner’s Revisionism of Andrew Fuller’s Calvinism

Dr. Alan Kurschner, April 25, 2014, Reformed Baptist Issues

http://www.andrewfullercenter.org/blog/2014/04/andrew-fullers-calvinist-soteriology-a-brief-response-to-emir-caner/

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You Can Tell Ergun Caner is Angry When…

James White, April 24, 2014, Uncategorized

I imagine things are tough for Ergun Caner these days. The reality of his past, of his many lies and exaggerations, is becoming more widely known, despite the efforts of his enablers (Norman Geisler leading the list). Everywhere he goes, if he appears in public, he has to be thinking, “Will someone bring it up? Will someone ask about Hadith

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Technology Can Be a Blessing!

James White, April 24, 2014, Technology

We had better be using these avenues while we still can. Tuesday afternoon I had the privilege of teaching an introduction to apologetics class for Michael Brown’s ministry. Now aside from the kidding I got for being a Calvinist (fully expected!), what made it pretty unusual for me was that I was sitting in the Dividing Line studio and the

The Tsunami of Pro-Homosexual Books from “Gay Christians” and Their Supporters

James White, April 23, 2014, Homosexuality, The Dividing Line

Today we started with a review of some of the major works that have come out in support of “gay Christianity” and the normalization of homosexuality within Christianity. I had been on the Janet Mefferd Show the hour before, so I was already “on a roll” you might say. I then took calls and, amazingly, they were all on topic!

Matthew Vines Releases his Book and Ergun Caner’s Marine Corps Video

James White, April 22, 2014, Homosexuality, The Dividing Line

We had a number of audio difficulties at the start but eventually we were able to limp through. While the video lost some of the early audio portion, the Sermon Audio version is whole. Is there such a thing as a ‘gay christian?’ What is the church to do in the face of an onslaught against the gospel message. In

Evil, Chance, Etc.

Jeff Downs, April 22, 2014, Uncategorized

Two new books worth noting (and worth putting in your library): First, William (Bill) Edgar’s booklet titled “How Did Evil Come into the World?” This is part of “new” series Christian Answers to Hard Questions. You can purchase this book for $4 here. You can read a portion of this book by clicking here. Second (by another WTS professor), is

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