Archive for category: General Apologetics

   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,

   So the Mormons are streaming out of the Conference Center, heading for lunch. Thousands of folks passing right by you. And what do you preach? Well, if you are one of the members of the Street Screeching Cult, you preach about…King James White, of course! Oh, and you have some poor deluded soul smile while wearing a bald cap and

   A few days ago I was rummaging around through some old video tapes and found one marked “SLC Street Preachers.” It contains 34 minutes of video from the second year the SSC was in Salt Lake, including the infamous “I Love Gail Kiplinger!” portion I played on the DL when we got back. As I listened to it I was

   While believers were attempting to explain the concept of substitutionary atonement, penal satisfaction, etc., to an atheist, good ol’ Paul Owen, former (sorry, not enough room to fill this list in anymore), pops in to help out: I don’t agree with “penal substitution” because God would simply not punish His Son for the sins of others. Christ was given up

   A thought about the work of Christ on this Resurrection Sunday from my debate against Richard Hopkins on the subject of LDS Temples.

   Sometimes I just sit here at my desk staring at my screen when Rich forwards some of the e-mails we get. The Internet creates “thugs,” bullies with a lot of hot air but zero substance who thrive on acting out their childhood playground fantasies from behind a keyboard. Almost every group has them, sadly. I’ve run into KJV Only types

For those interested in presuppositional apologetics, here is a new resource: Pushing the Antithesis: The Apologetic Methodology of Greg L. Bahnsen. Ed. Gary DeMar (American Vision, 2007).    Dr. Greg L. Bahnsen believed that to deal with the academics of the day and their arguments against the Christian faith, it is necessary to do battle with them at the highest levels

   It was one of the most humorous occurrences in my debates. The context was anything but humorous. I was debating noted liberal Barry Lynn on the subject, “Is Homosexuality Compatible with Biblical Christianity” on Long Island. This is the debate Lynn tried to suppress, threatening legal action if we distributed the tapes. During the cross-examination, as is so often the

   While riding yesterday I listened to the folks at The Things that Matter Most interviewing Dr. Bock. In the process they played three clips from a previous interview with Robert Jensen of the University of Texas. Jensen is not a biblical scholar, nor a historian. His field is journalism. But, despite that, for some odd reason, he decided to opine

   So, it seems the Mayor of Macon, GA has converted to Islam. In our increasingly Islamic-friendly environment, this news in itself is perhaps not too surprising, nor indeed is the fact that it was reported by a major news network. Whenever I come across things like this, however, like many people who know anything at all about Islam, I am

   If the person who wrote this can so easily read my recent post on Bullinger and then say this about it: I’m supposed to respond to arguments about Bullinger and his perspective on the Roman Church while at the same time being subjected to questions as to how much I’ve actually read of Bullinger…as if that had anything at all

This 27 minute presentation, unscripted, with no notes, no outline, is an explanation of my faith meant for those without any pre-existing theological vocabulary. No, it is not meant as a “response” to any other presentations floating about out there. I had been asked to address this topic many months before any current controversies erupted. Please feel free to copy

   A friend wrote and gently rebuked me for noting the less-than-orthodox caption on the Lee Strobel video page. My point was that given the presence of so much bad stuff about Christ this time of year (“baby Jesus no crying He makes…” blah! Gnosticism!), we don’t need this kind of sloppy theology. I was told I needed to watch the

   Though we have yet to receive our own copies of the debate from October 19th, the mp3 audio of the debate has been posted, so we have taken those files (which seem to be missing some small things, like the full introductions) and have sampled them down to a manageable size and make them available to you here. It is