Archive for category: Misc

I am a little surprised how few know who John Dominic Crossan is, given the wide exposure he has received in the media and the large (almost 20) number of books he has written. In any case, I commented on some of his views regarding the Synoptic gospels, and the reliability of the gospel accounts in general, during our Sunday

I would not want to extinguish anyone’s new found passion, for in this day of post-modernism it is nice to find someone who can get fired up about anything at all! But just what is “blogspotting” anyway? I had never heard of it till Phil Johnson made it a national pastime. Now, I would not have learned about www.technorati.com if

This is just for folks coming out tonight in Tom’s River: we will be at Faith Baptist Church, 1528 Route 9, Tom’s River, starting at 6pm! Sorry to be posting stuff like this two hours before we start, but I did not have the info till now! My apologies. Even if you can’t make it at 6, keep on coming,

Greetings from Long Island. Despite NY’s best efforts at hiding road signs, I made it back onto the Island for the tenth “Great Debate” this coming Thursday evening. I hope to see all of our friends here in the New York/New Jersey/Pennsylvania area in just a few nights. I need to bring something to the attention of those who pray

Just a quick note from the Bible Conference of Bethlehem Bible Church in West Boylston, MA. Arrived last evening, a bit late, and given traffic, got to the church less than fifteen minutes before we were to begin. Got all set up and managed a presentation on the New Perspectives on Paul. This morning we covered a wide variety of

1) I do not know who put up the Dave Armstrong blog. I was pointed to it last night. 2) If they did not obtain permission from Angel for the use of his cartoon, whoever it is should take it down. 3) If you want to see how to deal with Dave Armstrong, look back a few months to what

I confess, I had to look it up just to make sure I wasn’t going to blow it this coming weekend. Don’t panic completely, it’s the 8th. So, going to send flowers again? My friends over at Solid Ground sent out a really counter-cultural idea. Hey, Mom can read! Yes indeedy, and if you are blessed, like I, with a

With thanks to those of you who pre-ordered, we are thankful to announce that the NO COMPROMISE wrist bands arrived five days early. If you had been waiting to order yours until you knew they were actually sitting in the back room—well, they are sitting in the back room. And because a few of you noted that we were using

Who wrote the following? “…unconditional election of individuals to eternal life was not taught by the Apostles. God did elect or predestinate, that all those who would be saved, should be saved in Christ Jesus, and through obedience to the Gospel….” Was it:    1) Dave Hunt    2) Adrian Rogers    3) Benedict XVI    4) Joseph Smith, Jr.    5) Billy Graham You

Back from Oklahoma City. Saw the memorial downtown and was quite moved! Very, very well planned and laid out. The museum was very well made, too. Can’t believe that was a full decade ago now. My how the world has changed. I may hold off commenting more on the Wilkin debate till the DL on Tuesday. It is just hard

I only caught the very first portion, but I really enjoyed what Os Guinness had to say on The Bible Answer Man broadcast today. At one point he said, “Modern evangelicals have traded sola scriptura for sola cultura.” Bravo! I hear he will be back on tomorrow. Here’s some info. Next, Richard Barcellos sent me a John Owen quote that

Years ago I was listening to a tape of someone lecturing on Luther, and he gave a quote that I copied down. He did not give a reference, and I don’t even remember who it was. But the quote went like this: If I profess with the loudest voice and clearest expression every portion of the truth of God except

What award? The “New Lows in Nastiness for a Self-Proclaimed Christian” Award. Congratulations! Mr. MacDonald, evidently, has been imbibing in the Boar’s Head Tavern so much that not only has he developed a very foul mouth, but his memory has been shot as well. I was given this link this evening—BE WARNED. Mr. MacDonald likes profanity (notice how regular that

Dear Eric: Just a quick response to your kind note you posted over the the Boar’s Head Tavern. I respond mainly because it continues to amaze me not only how folks in that Tavern behave, but also why they seem so dead set against reading words in their native context, and taking every possible response offered in the worst possible

Just got a note from the folks at Solid Ground, who have been putting out all these great books of late, saying they are holding a quick, and I do mean quick, one day sale to try to generate some income to help cover a 2004 tax bill (golly, tomorrow is April 15th!). Some pretty deep reductions on certain books,

When preaching in the Tabernacle in 1884, Spurgeon reflected on facing opposition in ministry (Oakley tip to SDC): A company of mean-spirited, wicked men, who are no bigger than bees, mentally or spiritually, can get together, and sting a good man in a thousand places, till he is well-nigh maddened by their scorn, their ridicule, their slander, and their misrepresentation.

We are greatly thankful for the huge outpouring of interest in the sermon we posted recently and in our effort to urge all believers, in light of the events in Rome, to resist the urge to compromise the gospel at this important time. Now, if you have read this blog for any period of time at all, you know I

Just a tad bit different than London or Inverness, but I’m off once again, this time to the Heart of the Gospel Conference in Toledo, and then on to Cornerstone Baptist in Roseville to speak Sunday morning. I’ll be speaking on justification issues at the conference, weaving various threads of the new perspectives on Paul controversy through each of my

Just updated the calendar page and added the information on the conference at Bethlehem Bible Church in Massachusetts in June. Check it out!

You see her, don’t you? Right there, in the water! It’s Nessie! Yes, this is a shot of Loch Ness, Scotland, and I’m sure I see Nessie right there in the water, don’t you?

There is an important article on the gty.org website. CNN massacred an interview with John Macarthur, once again showing that the MSM (Main Stream Media) wouldn’t know the truth if it walked up and socked them in the nose. Read here.

Greetings once again from the UK. I’m afraid in the providence of God I have once more been reminded of my mortality and the frailty of the flesh: despite all my best efforts, being crammed into a tiny space against the bulkhead in an ancient “Super-80” in the back of the plane for three hours with the fellow next to

No, I’m not really sure what day or time it is, to be honest, but so far I have truly enjoyed my time here in the United Kingdom! Getting ready to head to dinner, and tomorrow to the British Library and Museum! Just wanted to say hello (and test my blogging ability here in England)! I hear I need to

A few weeks ago I noted that I had to re-install Windows after a motherboard upgrade (Mac cultists enjoyed that a lot). All of my programs are back and happy and everything…except for one. I listen to a LOT of music on my computer, and back about 2002 I purchased the full-bore, life-time upgrade, super-duper version of MusicMatch Jukebox Plus.

We do not know why the newest update of FireFox (1.0.1) has decided to completely mess up the margins on this blog. Everything worked just fine in 1.0.0, and still works fine in IE. We’ve had our “geeks” look it over. We changed nothing, it is something in FireFox itself. I love FireFox, but it is a bit annoying when

Just a quick note: the Dividing Line will be live this afternoon, Lord willing. Whether I will be overly alive, or lively, is another issue. Half a night’s sleep and a 3 hour plane ride doesn’t help the ol’ brain work well. Anyway, when we landed, the flight attendant (I was going to put “stewardess” but that would have really

Just back from a great evening with all the fine folks at the Founders Conference. Preached as best I know how, then did Q&A for, I think, two hours or so. Maybe less, maybe more, I’ve lost all track of time at the moment. Just a wonderful evening with great men and women of God.

I just got an e-mail from our good friends at Solid Ground Christian Books advertising a half-price sale on the companion book to Gods and Generals, a great deal at only $12.50. I don’t know how big Solid Ground’s e-mail list is, but I thought I’d let our folks know about such a great offer. Here it is.

I’m doing two radio programs today (March 2nd): 8:15am CST on KJSL with Tim and Al on Calvinism, and then 2:05pm EST on “Engaging Your World” on WVNE. You can listen here, at least I hope, to the second program, which will discuss either my Scriptural sufficiency work, or the KJV Only issue, or both. Sometimes I really don’t know

A while back in my response to Mark Bonocore’s errors regarding Irenaeus and a few other matters, I noted his association with Dr. Art Sippo, a medical doctor and Roman Catholic “apologist” of sorts (if angry ad-hominem and blustering denunciation can be equated with doing apologetics). I first encountered Sippo in Toledo, Ohio in 1991. It does not look like

Well, I try to look at it positively. My system had been upgraded from Win98 to Win2k and then WinXP. The body of data encompassed in the system registry was OLD. We found stuff in there from programs I had last used when I had hair! So when we just couldn’t find out why the new motherboard was not working,