Archive for category: Misc

   I think it would be useful for thoughtful folks–you know, folks who think before they open fire, burn, or go to war–to read what Benedict XVI actually said in his talk that has resulted in such outrageously inane and violent reactions from so many. Here is the talk. Here is the relevant portion:    I was reminded of all this recently,

   First, an “I told you so” that is not much of one. I have said many times that homosexual activists cannot allow freedom of speech or expression. Their ultimate goal is to silence anyone who would even whisper God’s standards. They do not want equal rights, they want super-rights, all based upon sexual behavior. And as long as they have

   First the ups. We’ve got the stolen property covered (bless you all); Conan could not get through my door (then again, neither can I–but that is temporary); the monsoon knocked out our alarm system and scrambled its brains, hence the failure—that is fixed, and even improved; bars for the windows are coming next week (thanks, BD!). So, for those asking

   Can you tell what is missing from this picture? Probably not. What is missing is my tablet PC. Yeah, the one I used in the Shabir Ally debate. Same one I used in preaching at the Metropolitan Tabernacle in London. Same one I used when speaking to the Grace Life men’s meeting a few weeks ago in LA. It’s gone.

   Hey, here’s a pic of the Pyromaniac and yours truly after I spoke for a couple of hours on Islam. And I wanted to mention a really interesting conversation I had during the break.    During the first half of my presentation I presented what the Qur’an says about Christ and Christian belief. I got to use my new wireless video

   If you’ve seen the Chuck Norris and Jack Bauer lists that are floating around the Internet (evidently there is some level of…conflict between fans of both) you have the background to understand this humorous parody. As for me, well, Charles scares me. Someone has listened to way too many debates and Dividing Lines. Hope you enjoy it. If you don’t…complain

   Another “sneak peak” from my upcoming book, Pulpit Crimes:    If the purpose of the pulpit is to provide a place for God’s voice to be heard amongst His people, then surely one of the greatest, and sadly, most common crimes against the pulpit is when God’s voice is muddled, mixed, and muffled, by human tradition. It is indeed a great

   I have been informed that we had a major “woops” take place in the first shipments we made of the Shabir Ally debate DVDs. Seems a stack of the second DVD of the John Dominic Crossan debate got switched with the Ally debate, so what was sent out was the second disk of the Crossan debate. I am also informed

   It has been a while since I uploaded a fractal. My Webshots page now allows me to link directly to thumbnails there, which simplifies my doing this, so that is nice. This isn’t a normal fractal like those I’ve uploaded before. Instead, this one I made in Gimp rather than UltraFractal or Sterling. But it makes for a nice background

   If you don’t get this…you haven’t been listening to the DL of late.

   The following was just linked in channel from here (thanks crewbear). I think it says all that needs to be said about what happens when a denomination is cut loose from the Scriptures: “We take no position on Scripture or theology or morals,” said Donna Bott, a leader of a group called Episcopal Voices of Central Florida, which sponsored the

   Preached on the view of God’s Word regarding homosexuality and the pro-homosexual movement at PRBC both services Sunday. When the sermons are posted, they will be here.    Pray for the safety of our offices. Someone smashed out my wife’s passenger side window Thursday evening when she was here, right out in the parking lot. Left a six inch knife in

   For those in the Arizona area, Phil Johnson will be doing a Spurgeon Seminar in Rio Rico (about 17 miles from the Mexican border) October 28-29, 2006. Here’s the info. I would love to hear Phil speak on his favorite subject, even more so now that I’ve been to the Metropolitan Tabernacle. If you are not headed to Orlando for

   Watching the news these days reminds me of how frightening it must be to not know God has a purpose He is working out in this world. The Mideast remains a mess, and, of course, will remain a mess until either the Lord returns or He grants repentance to a very large group of people. There is only one hope

   I thought this had been concluded. But I just returned from dinner to find more e-mails waiting for me, one of which demonstrates that Ergun Caner did not even bother to read the last one I sent him though he responded to it! I am simply dumbfounded, especially since Ergun’s e-mail to Tom Ascol includes lines like this: As for

   With the morning Bible Study and both services tomorrow, followed by a morning flight out, through Charlotte, to London, basically wiping Monday out, getting me in only hours before I speak at the School of Theology on Tuesday, I have a feeling I won’t be blogging for a while. Lord willing I may–and I emphasize may–get a chance to put

   As many of you know, for years www.straitgate.com hosted various of our real audio files for free. Then it went down. Now, its proprietor, Steven Luker, is ready to get it going again, but he needs your help. If you find Straitgate to be useful, please click here to read how you can help keep it around.

   You’ve seen the phrase before. It refers to those who through the omniscience of hindsight can tell you exactly what Brett Favre or (let’s date ourselves a bit) Roger Staubach should have done on that last drive of the big game. When we say “hindsight is 20/20” we are simply acknowledging that we are time-bound creatures, and we cannot see

   The e-mails keep pouring in. Many thanks.    Our audio server site, which hosts the DL and our mp3s, crashed last night. They say they have been working on it all night, but last we checked, their work has been somewhat in vain. We hope to see it back on line soon. The joys of technology!    Finally, was reading an article

   Mike over at Solid Ground let me know of a big inventory reduction sale they have going at the moment, including some great stuff on justification and all. I like to let you know when folks like Solid Ground offer great deals since these kinds of books just don’t appear very often on the shelves of your local Christian bookstore…well,

   Acts 10:42 “And He ordered us to preach to the people, and solemnly to testify that this is the One who has been appointed by God as Judge of the living and the dead.”    Let’s consider what we can learn from this description of preaching in the early church. First, we see that it is a divine command. “He ordered

   Paul knew he was going against popular intuition. He wrote, “For indeed Jews ask for signs and Greeks search for wisdom; but we preach Christ crucified, to Jews a stumbling block and to Gentiles foolishness, but to those who are the called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God” (vv. 22-24). Please do

   A quick unedited sneak peek at Pulpit Crimes:    I have come to view this concept of preaching as one of the greatest signs of the decay of modern evangelicalism in Western culture today. It is so blatantly unbiblical, in fact, so patently absurd in light of even the briefest scripturally-inspired reflection, that it must be a sign of God’s judgment

   I am currently “out of pocket” working on writing Pulpit Crimes (which also explains the blog silence). So, here are a couple of unedited sections from a “notes file” I have put together. This material then becomes incorporated into various chapters in the process or organizing the book. Since I am often asked about the writing process, I thought some

   Greetings from Long Beach Airport. On my way home after spending yesterday with Ray Comfort and Kirk Cameron and the entire crew at The Way of the Master here in Southern California. I talked, quite honestly, non-stop, from yesterday morning at 7:30am till yesterday afternoon at 4:30pm. We shot a great deal of footage (high def!) on Jehovah’s Witnesses, Mormonism,

   Might get a little slow around here for the next two weeks. I will be gone a good bit more than I’m here, with questionable internet access. But I’ll do my best. We will shoot for a Wednesday afternoon DL next week, though it would be best to go for an earlier time, like 6pm EDT instead of 7pm.    Oh,

   The DL will be live this afternoon at 4pm. I might even have something other than a plastic table to sit at today! I have been listening to the sounds of hammers, drills, saws, all day…and the wood for my bookshelves is supposed to arrive next week! The trees finally grew up, I guess. Not sure what I will do

   I get a weekly e-mail from John Shelby Spong (no, it isn’t personal: it’s mass produced). The things people write to him are often utterly amazing to me. But today’s was most notable. Grimes G. Slaughter (that’s what it said, honestly) wrote: I have just been fired as a Jr. High Sunday School teacher at the First Presbyterian Church in

Shabir Ally Debate mp3’s Available! Click here to order. No, we don’t have the DVD’s yet, for two reasons: 1) we don’t have the tapes from Biola, and 2) these mp3’s were taken from a tape in one of our two cameras that had an audio feed. Believe me, we want the DVD’s as badly as anyone else, and will

   First, for all the procrastinators on the West Coast who are all of a sudden scrambling to get tickets to the debate this Sunday evening at Biola with Shabir Ally: I put this link up earlier, but not everyone has figured out the deep things of computer searching, so, here it is again: click here to get details and tickets.