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As most of you know, this coming weekend will be filled with opportunities to proclaim the Gospel of our glorious Jesus Christ. I will be presenting and defending the Christian view of sin and redemption Friday evening, the atoning work of Christ and the accuracy of the New Testament documents on Saturday, and the deity of our Lord Jesus on

Sometimes I wonder at the level of theological dialogue and discourse today, especially when I have those precious few moments to rummage through the words of the giants of the past. One of those men was John Owen. I have been greatly blessed by his writings, and greatly challenged as well. He calls us to think far beyond the level

I am speaking at the Discern 08 Conference in Santa Fe, and we just had a Q&A section. Some of the panel included Rob Bowman, Bill McKeever, Ron Rhodes, and myself. At one point Ron Rhodes was asked about Calvinism and Arminianism. Since the question was not addressed to me, I did not intrude upon the response. But toward the

   Just a couple of quick notes. We will be continuing our review of the 1993 sola scriptura debate on the Dividing Line tomorrow. I have to chuckle when I see people commenting on the video, “Hey, let it go! It was 15 years ago!” The double standards are amazing. Madrid is free to make claims about the debate that simply

I am currently cruising at about 36,000 feet on my way to the conference in Anchorage, Alaska. I was doing what is normally called “sermon preparation,” but for me of late, that has been focused very much upon the text itself. That is, I have found great freedom (and the people of God have seemed to be especially blessed) when

Greetings from Anchorage, Alaska! Just a real quick note to say that I won’t be able to attempt to do a DL today via Skype. The conference schedule is such that I think it would be impractical. But it is great to be with the brethren here in Anchorage, and please pray that the Lord will bless the ministry of

   A number of years ago I wrote an article for an online journal. A few years later they removed this article, for unknown reasons, so I reposted it. As I read new converts to Rome glibly repeating the same shallow, circular arguments about sola scriptura, I am reminded of how important it is to think clearly on this topic, and

   Carla informed me this morning that she has added a really neat looking travel mug to her Team Apologian store. You can find it here. I think it looks great. I know my family uses these things all the time, so I’ve already ordered some for our house. A portion of the purchase prices goes to Alpha and Omega Ministries.

   Carla’s been busy cranking out designs for Team Apologian, our dear friend Mylo Hatzenbuhler, and Iron Sharpens Iron. If you haven’t visited in a while, check out the new designs, especially those with the A&O Logo on them.

The printing press revolutionized apologetics. Suddenly it became possible for books to be widely disseminated with a relatively small expense. Today, the Internet has reduced that expense even further. As with the printing press, the blessings are mixed. The technological advances make defending the faith easier, but they also making attacking the faith easier. Apologetics remains important — and the

   So early last week I was thinking about what to get my dad for Father’s day (just ruined THAT surprise), and I started playing around with the software at zazzle.com. I had gotten my wife a calendar there for Valentine’s day and it turned out very nicely. So I started looking at their ties and how I could make a

   The poor American who claims to be a hostage in Canada (have you noticed that everyone you meet from Canada says they are not, in fact, Canadian?) has put together a second “Theology Matters” graphic. You can see it in full size by visiting her store here. You can get coffee mugs and stuff, too. I have to admit, it

   I had removed Ross’ feed from my RSS reader last week. This evening while doing something else I opened up my Google homepage, and it has a blog search window in it that pulled up Ross’ most recent slander. Bob Ross has been corrected, many times, on his spreading falsehoods about others, and in this case, in his questioning my

   Evidently I cut and paste the wrong embedding codes a few months back for the Khalid Yasin video, and ended up repeating myself. I guess I might have been trying to avoid posting the actual first video since people made fun of my bright shirt! But, here’s the actual first part of the Khalid Yasin series; the one that posted

Some of the readers of this blog are familiar with my old site rctr.org (well, it is still there, but nothing has really been done with it for quite some time) and the Resource Report or Resource Blog. This site was designed to keep the average Joe, who did not have access to libraries nor the time to research, updated

   This was just too good not to share. (ht: BC). (Updated to a much higher resolution version of the same video).

I noted this announcement on Steve Ray’s blog: The topic this Friday at 7 PM EST is “Bible Verses Often Overlooked by Protestants.” It will be preceeded by John Martignoni’s 1) Do Catholics take the Bible literally? and/or 2) Which Came First: The Church or the Bible? Given the man’s track record, does anyone want to take bets that it

   Up until the day I dared to inform Bob Ross that he had gone way, way over the line in his personal attacks on John MacArthur, we were on friendly terms. But once I dared point out that accusing MacArthur of the things he was involved egregious violations of simple logic (let alone proper behavior), I began to experience the

   I saw this video on Tom Ascol’s blog, and I had to repost it here:    I, too, join Tom in thanking Eros for his incredible skill as a translator. When I spoke for FIEL a few years ago, Eros made the work so much easier. But he and I also had a wonderful time talking together about the Lord and

   I will be speaking Friday, Saturday, and Sunday at Bible Fellowship Church in Hemet, California. Here is a link. Hope to see some of our Southern California friends there!

   1994, Austin Texas. Riding more than 5,000 miles a year on a road bike. Still had just enough hair to try to do a flat-top. Couldn’t get a word in edge-wise with Larry for the first five minutes of the show! Here is a nearly hour long video on the deity of Christ recorded nearly a decade and a half

   A pastor friend of mine up in Scotland took this shot. Makes me want to get back to Scotland, that’s for sure. Just gorgeous. Of course, right now, this spot is probably blanketed under snow. Might be a bit less inviting!    I’m working on getting two more vlogs put together this afternoon, one of which continues the refutation of Ray/Michuta.

   I have resisted all attempts at making my blog a commercial enterprise. But when I find folks who consistently do a professional job, with quick, friendly service, at an outstanding price, I can’t help but tell folks about them. And I have, twice before, on this blog, mentioned Renaissance Art. I was looking for a cover for one of my

   As far as I know, this statement about the gospel is original with me. If someone else beat me to it, I am unaware of it, and did not consciously, anyway, utilize a pre-existing source. In any case, I have used it a lot, so Carla added a line of articles with it, including magnets and cards and stuff. Another

This week I will be giving four hours of lectures on Thessalonians in Orlando. Click here to see what I will be covering and for information on the conference. Direct any questions or comments to me at vanvos (at) gmail (.com)

For those of you wondering how you’re going to make it through the week without hearing The Dividing Line, Dr. White was on Chris Arnzen’s Iron Sharpens Iron program a few weeks ago. Dr. White presented a rebuttal to the Mormon reply to Fox News, and also covered a wide range of Mormon topics. The show can be found here.

   We conclude our series of devotions based on the popular hymn Hark! the Herald Angels Sing. Verse Three Hail the heaven-born Prince of Peace! Hail the Sun of Righteousness! Light and life to all he brings, risen with healing in his wings. Mild he lays his glory by, born that man no more may die, born to raise the sons

   We continue our Christmas meditation, based on Charles Wesley’s hymn Hark! the Herald Angels Sing. Verse Two Christ, by highest heaven adored; Christ, the everlasting Lord; late in time behold him come, offspring of a virgin’s womb. Veiled in flesh the Godhead see; hail th’ incarnate Deity, pleased as man with man to dwell, Jesus, our Emmanuel. Hark! the herald

   Just in time for that hard-to-please person on your gift list…I mean, hard to please Calvinist on your gift list! I first heard this phrase from my fellow elder at PRBC, but Google tells me he didn’t invent it. I have no idea who did, but I sure use it enough, and the Scripture reference, at least, is mine. Any

   As December 25th draws ever closer, I would like to begin a brief series of meditations that will, hopefully, conclude on or near Christmas Day. While I would normally advocate very strongly that Scripture alone should be the basis of our meditations, I would like to deviate from that principle and make use of a hymn as the springboard for