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First, many thanks to the more than a dozen folks who have sent me the link to the new book from the English Roman Catholic Church, The Gift of Scripture. I honestly don’t know if I have ever received as many duplicate copies of the same URL in my life. Yes, I know about it, and am seeking to obtain

I stopped by Solid Ground today and noted a couple of items of interest you might want to check out (yes, I know, this may tend to prompt biblio-covetousness, the great bane of Mrs. Calvinists everywhere—my apologies):     First, despite the repeated efforts of some folks to deny our existence or our legitimacy, we Reformed Baptists keep popping up. Reformed

Sovereign Grace Fellowship of New Orleans has now set up a bank account where you can donate directly. Checks or Money Orders can be sent to: Sovereign Grace Fellowship Relief Fund AmSouth Bank Natchez Main Branch 320 Franklin Street Natchez, MS 39120 Phone: 601-445-2601 If you want to contact the bank via phone I am sure that they can handle

For those of you who have heard me speak on the Da Vinci Code and Dan Brown’s inability to figure out which centuries are which, this comic is perfect.

I cannot help but noting the irony: on August 26th during the evening session of our national conference I played clips from my 1989 encounter with Robert Funk, the co-founder, along with John Dominic Crossan, of the Jesus Seminar, illustrating the bias very plainly found in Funk’s position (and in his concluding the interview by telling us all to “go

Before we move on to all the issues facing us in the future, allow me to once again express my sincere thanks to two men without whom the recent conference and debate simply could not have taken place. You will soon begin to see video clips, and soon be able to listen to, and watch, the debates, and I believe

Just wanted to pop up a few more pictures while I have wi-fi here in Anchorage before we try to catch our flight home late this evening. First is a little better picture of a pre-debate conversation between myself and John Dominic Crossan from last Saturday evening. Once again, let me reiterate how amiable and kind Dr. Crossan was during

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Well, I must admit, the Sun Princess is quite the ship. I just discovered that aside from the Internet Cafe (which I had become accustomed to on past cruises), this ship has a Wi-Fi hot spot that, though it costs the same as the Internet Cafe, allows me to use my laptop so as to get my regular mail, not

Many of us have seen recent video of the devastation done by Hurricane Katrina to the city of New Orleans, the floodwaters covering the city, the damage to the SuperDome, and the people being evacuated. Just north of New Orleans on Lake Ponchartrain is the town of Slidell, Louisiana. Slidell was hit particularly hard by the storm, with much of

Greetings from Ketchikan, Alaska! I was informed that there is an Internet Cafe with reasonable prices in port, so I quickly put something together to let you all know how things are going up here in the Inner Passage of Alaska.     Yesterday was the second of the two debates in this series, this one a four-man discussion of the

Well, we are starting to get re-packed as we head out early in the morning for the drive to Vancouver, from whence we will head to sea Monday evening for the apologetics cruise to Alaska. Keep especially Tuesday at “high noon” in prayer, as that will be the four-man debate on the Resurrection. Pray as well for my son Joshua,

Well, the 2005 A&O Conference started off on the right foot this evening. What a wonderful time we had! The Emmanuel Reformed Baptist Church was completely filled. Honestly, we couldn’t have seated another five folks if we tried. Jim Renihan began with a tremendous and passionate presentation of the inspiration and authority of the Word of God. It was so

Wow, old home week has begun! I just went down to have lunch with Mike O’Fallon and Bill Webster, and ended up running into c0ach, solaChristo, MarieP, Life, redgoatee, Dr. Renihan and his wife, Bill McKeever and his wife–we are taking over! My son has arrived, Steve Camp is on his way from the airport as I type this, and

I feel like a balding psychologist! But I can’t erally say that, since that would make Rich the equivalent of Roz…well, they do both start with an “R.” Anyway, things are moving fast here in Seattle. Lots of folks arriving, and that’s always exciting, seeing familiar faces, as well as new ones. Always encouraging as well. Preparations are on-going at

Guest blogger Alan Kurschner developed the blog infection and succumbed. Here’s his new blog. No word on if a memorial service is planned.

Honestly. I posted three blog articles today. It is just that I scheduled them to appear during the cruise! A few folks have promised a few more “guest blogs” but we are really coming down to “crunch time” on the conference and cruise, so, things might get a tad thin around here for a while. Please don’t let the quiet

Out of town till Monday afternoon. Can’t guarantee much over the weekend, though I’ve been promised Internet connectivity while I’m away, anyhow, so if that pans out, I’ll try to put in an appearance here. I have three blog series on my “list” to get to, but each will require a fair amount of work, so I’m not sure if

I took a few moments to read through a few pages of a Solid Ground book I mentioned a few weeks back, Heroes of the Reformation by Richard Newton. I was struck by the fact that though it is meant for young people, in reality, sadly, given the passage of time, it would be quite appropriate for most adults today.

We have lost the use of our main workshop and are setting up a makeshift work area in my spare bedroom. Please pray that we can recover the use of the room soon. I spent all day yesterday recovering the roof so the room should be watertight again. The ceiling needs to be re-insulated and and the drop ceiling replaced.

Well, we will be mopping up in the morning. A monsoon storm came through and ripped the roof off of the room where we fill our orders last night. Thankfully, it didn’t rain, but we were only able to get plywood laid down without anything else before nightfall tonight. And the image to the right shows the radar of a

Next, our Catholic correspondent referred to the “Queen Mother” in the Davidic kingdom. Of course, there was no “Queen Mother” in David’s kingdom. Instead, early on in Solomon’s reign, his mother came to him to make a request of him. The story is found here: 1 Kings 2:19-20 So Bathsheba went to King Solomon to speak to him for Adonijah.

PBS actually had a short segment on the Emergent Church movement with both McLaren and Carson being interviewed. Anyone who has read almost anything on the movement won’t find anything new here, but it was actually handled rather fairly, which surprised me a good bit. Here’s the link to the web version of the story, which includes streaming video of

Richard Barcellos is a Reformed Baptist pastor in Southern California, a fairly regular visitor to our chat channel, an all-around good guy, and the main driving force behind The Reformed Baptist Theological Review (www.rbtr.org). We were chatting in channel recently and the subject of a new offering from Solid Ground Christian Books came up, that being the commentaries of John

Just got my copies of the current CRI Journal, and the cover article is my own two-part series on Bible translations: “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.” I’m sure I’ll take some heat on this series, but mainly for not being as mean and nasty as my alleged reputation. When it comes to Bible translation, I have found that

TOKYO – A Japanese psychiatric counselor has recited pi to 83,431 decimal places from memory, breaking his own personal best of 54,000 digits and setting an unofficial world record, a media report said Saturday. Here’s the story.

I’ve been trying to get hold of some friends in London, but so far, no success. I’ll try again soon. Hopefully the furor will die down and the phone lines will open up. . But our prayers are with our brothers and sisters in London, some of whom I

Apolonio Latar’s article on sola scriptura was cited on the Catholic Answers web board recently, so I thought I would, once again, go over ground that has been covered many, many times. However, in light of the fact that most Roman Catholics are unwilling to read, at least in print, the responses to their own position, it is incumbant upon

On the positive side: preached on 1 Cor. 1:17/1 Cor. 2:1-5 last evening at PRBC (listen/download).     On the positive side: rode 27.6 miles this morning, first time on the major roads (because it’s a holiday!). Felt great to climb Thunderbird hill again (top end of 59th Ave. for those who know the area). Hadn’t seen that heart rate in

I am perfectly serious…I was going to write an e-mail to Steve Camp yesterday and say, “Hey, Steve, since you are cranking out all these articles, why not just get with the program, get yourself a blog, get an RSS feed, etc., so the rest of us can keep up with you?” But, I got sidetracked. So what happens today?