Archive for category: General Apologetics

Yesterday afternoon I had the privilege of participating in my first debate. Was this something I wanted to do? Not really, but I was coerced 🙂 by the president of GPTS to do so. The debate was for the spring 2008 logic course. And since I was auditing the class, I wasn’t going to debate a topic I had to

   I truly wonder what many of my Muslim friends think when they see this kind of stuff. Another anti-Christian work of absurd fiction, brought to you by folks who do movies about Area 51, the Bermuda Triangle, and Bigfoot (I’m being perfectly serious), is about to show up on movie screens across the US. For those who call this a

   Despite the best efforts of many of my opponents, the record actually indicates that I am, in fact, human….

   There are few programs that have had me on as often as “Issues, Etc.” with Todd Wilkins, produced by Jeff Schwarz. Today, the program was rather unceremoniously axed, and basically all evidence of its existence deleted. Given that I have greatly benefitted from the program, I would like to encourage others who have likewise been blessed by it to express

   For folks on the run!

   This coming Friday night/Saturday morning I will be the guest on the apologetics.com radio program on KKLA with Lindsay Brooks. My daughter, Summer, joined us for the first half hour to talk about her experience last semester with Dr. Carter. Then we pretty well wandered about the apologetic landscape! We pre-recorded the program since…it airs between midnight and 2am! Maybe

   There is probably no more pressing apologetic concern than the constant attacks upon the veracity and integrity of the text of Scripture. And no one is more central in the current attacks upon the New Testament than the chair of the department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina, author of The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture and the

   In the New York area, only one radio show dares to address relevant topics important to Christians. Chris Arnzen’s Iron Sharpens Iron is a live daily broadcast featuring a variety of topics, guests and controversial issues.        For those you with basic questions about Calvinism, a recent show featured a Pastor’s roundtable discussing the basics. For those of you beyond

   A channel regular mentioned I might want to fix up my YouTube page, which I honestly did not know I even had, so I took a few moments to do so today. Once I upload the next video blog (which is converting formats even as I type this), I’ll have 59 videos posted, with, Lord willing, lots more coming. It

   I was looking over the top ten stories in the “Christian” world according to CT. Some were probably not even noticed by most in post-evangelicalism, such as the civil war in the Anglican communion over homosexuality. The Robinson ordination was big news, but the resultant fully appropriate reaction by Christians in the denomination hasn’t gotten quite as much notice. Persecution

   I was informed today that Jason Wallace of Christ Presbyterian Church in Salt Lake (the man behind all of the debates we did up there over the years) has begun a television program that might be of interest to our readers. In fact, tonight he will have Alma Allred on, a gentleman I have known since sometime in the 1980s

   The past week at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, I had the opportunity to sit in on three days of Bauckham lecturing on the “Gospels as History.” He distilled some important elements of a future book, and some of his research found in his book, Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospel as Eyewitness Testimony. Here is a pdf of his handouts and

This past Tuesday Chris Arnzen’s Iron Sharpens Iron show had Dr. White as a guest giving an overview of his recent debate with Muslim apologist Shabir Ally. For those of you who want to prepare for dialoging with Muslims, this show provides excellent introductory material and lays out the basic issues. The show can be found here.    This week, Steven

   Putting Jesus In His Place: The Case for the Deity of Christ by Robert M. Bowman Jr. and J. Ed Komoszewski is a book about the greatest human who has ever lived: Jesus, God in the flesh. The world’s religions have no problem embracing and affirming his human nature; it is the doctrine of his divine nature that offends and

For some of you this may be old news, but it is worth mentioning. For a limited time you can receive the Greg Bahnsen/Gordon Stein debate for only 2 pennies. You can either download the MP3’s or CMF will send you two CDs (free shipping). To take advantage of this offer (and you should if you do not already have

   Whenever I go to the local bookstore, there seems to be a new volume in the “For Dummies” series. I have yet to see a “Luther For Dummies” volume, but there is The Complete Idiot’s Guide To The Reformation & Protestantism (I would like to point out that book suggests Catholic apologist Dave Armstrong’s old website as an “Internet Resource”

I am scheduled to be on Chris Arnzen’s Radio show, Iron Sharpens Iron (August 6, 3-4 PM) discussing “Luther Myths.” The station, WNYG AM 1440, can be heard in the New York area. The station also live-streams online. Their webpage can be found here. Here is their Real Player broadcast link. To call in on the air, the number is

A new book that will be worth your time: For Us and for Our Salvation: The Doctrine of Christ in the Early Church , by Stephen J. Nichols (Crossway, Aug. 2007). Table of Contents: Introduction “Who Do People Say That I Am?”: Christ’s Crucial Question 1 – In the Beginning Was the Word: Christ in the Early Centuries 2 –

Here is this month’s top 10 list of why Dave Hunt’s Berean Call should change its name to something else. The following quotations are all from the July issue of The Berean Call. I challenge you to be Berean. Look up the verses provided by The Berean Call, or search your Bibles and history to find out if the assertions

   In light of the recent discussion-controversy of the approach that a believer should take in doing apologetics, and Roman Catholicism specifically, I could not help but think of a most poignant article that James White wrote over a year ago responding to someone claiming they were becoming Roman Catholic because of James White. I just could not let this one

I noticed my last entry Ten Luther Myths was picked up on a number of blogs and discussion boards. Here are five more.     1. Luther Had a Mental Disorder?    The story goes that while listening to a Gospel lesson at mass on Mark 9:14-29 about an evil spirit being cast out, Luther fell to the floor in the choir

I regularly get e-mail from people I don’t know asking questions about Martin Luther. I’ve even had people contact me in the hopes I will help write their research papers for school (I will not!). Recently, I was sent a few Luther questions, and I was amazed certain myths still circulate. Despite the explosion of cyber-information, here are ten that

   Two months ago I posted a response to Greg Stafford illustrating, once again, why Christians down through the ages have believed what the Watchtower denies: that Jesus Christ is identified as hwhy (Yahweh) by the New Testament writers. Over the past two months folks have sent me notes indicating that Stafford was working on a reply. Given how long it

   I have often said that seeing folks saying these things has a different impact on us than just hearing it. So I am so thankful that the DVD of the debate with John Shelby Spong on homosexuality is now available. I posted a clip a few days ago, and here is a second. You can see how frustrating it was

   Jeff Downs is a busy guy these days, but he found time to send me this link today, and I wanted to share it with our readers. Excellent theological/textual information relating in particular to Bart Ehrman’s claims that are being repeated ad-nauseum by a wide variety of those who oppose the faith, from your run-of-the-mill Arians to Muslim apologists. As

   Homosexuals are suppressing the truth of God in their lives. It is a difficult thing to wrestle constantly with your conscience, to put out so much effort into convincing yourself that your sin is good, to call light darkness and darkness light. It is toilsome. Because of their state, homosexuals are particularly angered by anyone who would say “homosexuality is

   Here is the last clip I will post from this portion of tape I found. If you listen carefully, you will get a good idea of how dishonest the SSC is. You will also hear Rich and I chatting as well.    First, it is a lie that I wish to be the “elder” of the Mormons, take Joseph Smith’s place,