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I was just directed to the speaker’s page for the 25th Annual Pastor’s Conference at the First Baptist Church of Jacksonville, which begins January 28th. Notables speaking there include Ah Mohler and Mark Dever. And Ergun and Emir Caner. And what do you see when you click on Ergun Caner’s bio link? Yes, I know…someone just cut and pasted from

I’m traveling and have two technical issues that will preclude attempting to do a Skype DL today. I will see if I can get them cleared up by Thursday!

Headed to Kentucky for the Polemics class, so while I’m on my way, I thought I’d link up a Bible Study and two sermons from SermonAudio that were just now posted. Hope they are useful and edifying! I am going to do my best to make this the only time I even deign to make note of one of Islam’s

Lord willing I will have time (and strength) tomorrow evening to fill you in on my “Birthday Bike Adventure” tomorrow, as I have mentioned my “climb a hundred feet for every year of age” birthday celebration tradition since 2005. I will be adding a little…extra tomorrow. For those with iPads or iPhones (or iPod Touches), there is an awesome Qur’an

OK, if you are a crusty Puritan, move on, nothing to see here…. If you are a non-crusty Puritan (like me), and everyone else… I wanted to take just a brief moment to acknowledge some of the folks at this season who have been an encouragement to me over the past year and, in light of that, whom you might

As I have much to get done between now and my flight to St. Louis (hello TSA, here I come!), I am going to drop these two items together despite the fact that they are…well, worlds apart. First, John Bugay provided some insightful commentary on the conversion syndrome today here. I was, ironically, listening briefly to “Deep in Scripture” from

There are few pieces of music more stirring, more beautiful, more exalting than Handel’s Hallelujah Chorus. So to have it sung, by surprise (at least for most shoppers) by chorus members mingling amongst them accompanied by a beautiful pipe organ—well, this is definitely special. Thanks to KG for the link:

I had the opportunity to do an interview on sola gratia and other Reformed themes when I arrived in Minneapolis a few weeks ago. That interview has been posted here.

Going to be the only one this week, though, as I will be headed to the airport (aka, my Second Home) on Thursday for my flight up to Oregon (please pray for the debate on Friday with Robert Sungenis on purgatory). Also, I wanted to thank Ryan Habbena and the folks at Conquering King Fellowship for a great job in

This post over at Beggars All is short and needs to be read. I love the observations at the end. I encountered yet again someone pushing the silly idea that Codex Vaticanus identifies Islam in its rendering of “666” in Revelation 13:18. This ridiculous idea is being circulated by less helpful members of the evangelical community. I provided a link

I will be on with Janet Mefferd today at noon my time. I have no idea if that will be live anywhere, always recorded…just don’t know. But, I’ll be on! Had a great double ascent of South Mountain this morning, and snapped this picture on the way down the second time. A bit hard to see, but each of those

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First, I will be on Iron Sharpens Iron to discuss my debates with Robert Sungenis in about forty minutes (8PM EDT). http://sharpens.blogspot.com. Second, I forgot to let folks know about a sermon I delivered on a biblically-based doctrine of the believer’s security in Christ while in Santa Fe. It is not your normal sermon on the topic, but, I think

As our readers know, I have a two-on-two debate tomorrow evening here in Phoenix, where I will team up with Dr. Michael Brown in defense of the Trinity against two unitarians, including Sir Anthony Buzzard. So I have not had time for blogging, and evidently the rest of the team is just as busy as I am. My apologies. But

Two months ago I posted the following video in which I ask Dr. Geisler to answer three questions. Two months have passed, and Dr. Geisler has remained silent. The game plan of those involved in the cover-up of the Ergun Caner Scandal is now clear. Taking a page directly from the political play book (that seems to be the new

First, please pray for the debate this evening on Long Island. I have found a setting on the little streaming PC that should make the audio much clearer and louder for those who will wish to listen live on the regular DL link. I should have it fired up and running by 7pm EDT (unless I have to run solely

I hope to have the stream up and running between 5:45 and 6pm tonight, EDT for the debate on the sinlessness and immaculate conception of Mary. I need to conserve battery power, as I haven’t replaced the external battery I was using to extend its life (I need to do that asap!). The debate is taking place at a Roman

Snapped this picture about 30 miles into a 42 miler this morning. That full moon had made the completely dark portion of the ride—less than completely dark! It was really gorgeous. Amazingly, though it was 88 degrees, the wind made it feel almost cool at times (I am going to freeze when the temp drops into the 70s!). So as

One of the most troubling pictures I have seen in the Ergun Caner Scandal, and the following Evangelical Cover Up, is that of Ergun Caner lecturing to a room full of military personnel. I assumed, from the start, that he was lying to them about growing up in Turkey, being trained in jihad, etc., and I was right. Jason Smathers

Settled in at my hotel in Detroit (found a Target, found Subway, have skim milk and Kashi cereal, as well as a good Internet connection—life is good). I think doing four live “Jesus or Muhammad” programs on ABN will be sufficient for the week (as well as speaking at the God and Culture Conference this weekend), so I don’t intend

So I asked Carla Rolfe to come up with a design incorporating the key Greek text from 1 Peter 3:15, and she came up with this. I think it looks great. She blogged about it here, and you can get yours here. But make sure you have 1 Peter 3:15 memorized, in context, before wearing it!

First, the last lower res pic from my riding phone—a new phone (still cheap enough to be taken on rides) with a 5.1 megapixel camera arrives today. This is eastbound on CareFree Highway at 5:43am, not quite half way through a 62.11 mile ride (fellow cyclists will recognize the distance: 100km, a “metric century”). Very odd weather we are having

As I have pointed out a number of times, the small cadre of Caner defenders seem to be drawn from the same circle of influence defined by Liberty University, Veritas Evangelical Seminary, etc. Yesterday on the Dividing Line I pointed out another connection that exists between one of the most emotional, vitriolic, and simply irrational of Ergun Caner’s defenders, Tim

A discussion of the difference between even consistent misstatements over time, and lying. Hopefully some helpful thoughts.

You will recall that Norman Geisler has taken the lead in the cover-up of the Ergun Caner scandal, seemingly intent upon protecting his fellow Veritas professor from the great Calvinistic conspiracy at all costs. A hand full of surface-level excuses have been offered by Geisler, all of which have been reviewed and found to lack much in the way of

The “exoneration” statement by Veritas Evangelical Seminary came to my attention on the same day I viewed the footage contained in the following brief video. I collected together the various elements of mythology–untruths, lies, exaggerations, etc., and put them into a less than ten minute montage. And so I ask a simple question: what kind of thinking could possibly lead

I had missed this official statement from Veritas Evangelical Seminary regarding Ergun Caner. It concludes by saying, Since Dr. Caner’s conversion testimony was validated, he was not charged with any legal, moral, mal-intent, or theological heresy, only “misstatements” (common to all speakers, for which he has apologized), VES will be retaining Dr. Caner as a valued adjunct faculty member and

First, I’ve been hearing from a number of sources that Ergun Caner’s name has disappeared from the Fall teaching schedule at Liberty. This seems to lend a fair amount of support to the supposition that the year “teaching” contract was nothing more than “Here, take a year to look for another position.” Those who have been running about yelling “Exonerated!”

Jason Smathers has produced more official, legal documentation relating to the many mythological claims made by Ergun Caner over the past nine years. The key fact established beyond question here? The exact date when the Caner family arrived in the United States from Sweden: September 13, 1969. Relevance? Ergun Caner was born November 3, 1966. That means Ergun Caner was

Tom Chantry has offered another insightful commentary on the Ergun Caner Scandal/Evangelical Cover-Up here. He concludes: I suggest this. Pick one sermon – say the Prestonwood Baptist Church sermon from 2001. (Sorry that the link is to AOMin, but hey, I’m not the one taking down links to my sermons all over the web!) Listen to that sermon, and compare