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I attended a memorial today for a saint of God I knew many years ago. In fact, I was his assistant for a period of time when I was in college. His name was Pastor Harold Green. He was the associate pastor of the North Phoenix Baptist Church back in the 80s and 90s (I was a member there from

When I went to bed last night I had no idea I would spend the entirety of Saturday writing a small book in response to the further promotion of an evangelical cover-up, a sad defense of the blatantly indefensible. But the Lord knew, of course (sorry, open theists, you are just wrong!). Now, I mentioned in my “geek video” posted

near Eau Claire or Wausau, I will be teaching an upcoming course on Jesus and the Gospels, as well as Biblical Greek. Click here and here for more information.

Flashback to 1994. I had started riding in 1993, and got my wife into it as well. So on our 12th wedding anniversary (June 25th, 1994), what did we do to celebrate? We got up early, drove to Black Canyon City, Arizona, and rode our bikes up Five Mile Hill to the Sunset Point Rest Area, and then rode back

1) It was Father’s Day, and my daughter Summer called me as I was driving to ABN after my debate and informed me that I am her favorite person in all the world. 2) It was Father’s Day, and my dad was able to attend the debate with Sheikh Awal, sitting in the second row. 3) After the debate a

In half an hour the next episode of “Jesus or Muhammad” will begin, live, here. It is live and call-in. Please pray for my voice. I’ve been at it all day and you will notice I am rather hoarse. I will be back on the program same time tomorrow night, then on Sunday I have two sermons, a Sunday School,

For the half dozen folks who would find this at all interesting…. Riding year 2009/2010 completed (as of Saturday). Distance: 5,420 miles. Total Ascent: 148,580 ft (45,287m, 28.14 miles). So I covered 140 miles more, but it was the ascent that was wild. Last year was only 21.71 miles of ascent. Since early April my rather radical change (for the

When I find folks that do a great job, I like to let folks know. In the past I have noted my regular use of book covers made by Renaissance Art over in Santa Fe. I have a number of their excellent two-color covers now, and really enjoy them. They are well made and well priced as well. So recently

Many thanks to the folks at Northernridge Baptist Church up in Denver for getting me going on the month of May on the bike (they rented a road bike for me for while I was with them). The altitude training spurred me on. So, for May, 2010: Miles ridden: 612.89 (record in one month, at least since I got back

I just saw someone responding to Malcom Yarnell (@myarnell) repeating some more slander from Peter Lumpkins (@SBC_Tomorrow), a man who has proven himself recently to have no interest in truthfulness or honesty (a shame, since he claims to be a Christian leader). What was once somewhat amusing (his constant repetition of the “hyper-Calvinist” label, etc.) has become somewhat pitiful when

   OK, that wasn’t too tough. This is the picture of the speakers from the Greenville Theological Seminary’s Spring Bible Conference, held just a few weeks ago. Dr. Pipa is third from the left, and that tall drink of water is Dr. Murray from Scotland. And yes, he said my Scottish accent sounded like I was from the eastern parts of

   I’ve been pretty busy since yesterday’s DL. Only had a small amount of time this morning to comment on Ephesians 1:11, and just got into the office. I fired up Michael Brown’s program that he did just over 20 minutes after our mini-debate from yesterday. I could tell his voice wasn’t doing too well—hard to do a program after the

I would like to thank Doug McMasters and the folks at TRC for getting me through morning rush hour traffic in London this morning to the studios of Premier Christian Radio for my two programs with Justin Brierley. These were my fourth and fifth appearances on the Unbelievable program, and I really enjoyed my time with Justin. The first program

Greetings from the other side of the pond! Have had a wonderful time with the fine folks at Trinity Road Chapel the past two days, and look forward to ministering the Word tomorrow in both services. Monday and Tuesday will be “crunch time” with the debate with Abdullal al Andalusi Monday night, and the two Unbelievable radio programs Tuesday morning,

My thanks to all who prayed that the Lord would open the way for me to get to London by granting my visa in time. It was granted today, so it will arrive in time for me to depart next week! I am so thankful, and look forward to meeting all the saints there! Yes, we could still use your

I haven’t been able to talk a lot about my trip in only a month to London, as we are still arranging things, but I’m getting really excited. We are trying to arrange *two* debate on Unbelievable, and one of them may be with an anti-Trinitarian I have wanted to engage for a long time. Another Islamic debate opportunity may

There is no greater joy than to know the power of Christ’s resurrection in the face of death. The gospel of God’s free grace, which points us solely to Him and away from ourselves, gives great peace and comfort when loved ones who share the faith leave this life and enter into His presence. The Lord in His great grace

I know I mentioned it on the last DL, but I should have blogged the fact that I am out of town this week, teaching at Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary’s Mill Valley campus. Sorry if anyone tried to listen to the DL and found…well, nothing at all. Lord willing, we will be back on a regular schedule next week.

There is a young couple from my church in Wisconsin who flew to Haiti to minister at an orphanage. It was one hour after they landed that the earthquake hit. Please keep them in your prayers as they now minister in ways that they were not expecting. Dear Moms and Dads and Pastors (Jan. 12) Please pass this info along

For years I have been responsible for deciding on a film to show at our New Years Eve celebration at PRBC. We’ve shown all sorts of films, like Martin Luther: Heretic, the Radicals, etc. Last year we saw Facing the Giants. This year I wanted to show FireProof. So I e-mailed Kirk Cameron and asked if sometime this week we

Past seven days: 187.32 miles ridden. 6,431 feet of ascent. 11.25 hours in the saddle 53,325 pedal strokes 103,000 beats of the heart during exercise 4+ pounds magically transferred to…some poor guy somewhere Multiple editions of The Deen Show, Albert Mohler Show, Faith Defenders and Unbelievable listened to on subjects ranging from Buddhism, Sikhism, Islam, Molinism, the Manhattan Declaration.

We were thrown another curve on the exact participant from the Muslim side for the “Jesus in the Qur’an and the Bible” encounter on November 7th, but I have some other details to share with my friends in the New York/Long Island area. Sunday morning November 8th I will be at the Lynnbrook Baptist Church, 225 Earle Avenue, Lynnbrook, NY

   I planned on this for a few months. Thanks to Summer and tucsonmom for driving up the hill in support. 26 miles, 6,234 feet of ascent, topping out at 8,300 feet. Mt. Lemmon, Arizona. Next time I will plan to descend this monster. I didn’t this time because I was planning on riding Gate’s Pass the next day, and wanted

   This weekend I will be at Westside Baptist Church in Great Falls, Montana speaking at the Acts 13:48 Conference Friday night, all day Saturday (literally!), and then in both morning and evening services on Sunday. For more information you can call 406-761-3511. Their website is here.    The following weekend I will be in Southern California. On Friday night the 23rd

   Part of me says I shouldn’t post this, but I figure those who don’t like me will use anything anyway, so why not give them something fun? This morning I did a Calvinist ride. It didn’t start out that way, but hey, it must have been predestined. I was originally focused on doing the steepest, toughest climbs I know of

   I got a couple of notifications of the Newser mistake yesterday morning wherein my picture was put in the place of that of Steven Anderson, resulting in the graphic to the right. I know, I know, all us Baptists look alike to the press, right?    I really appreciated the fact that the first person to inform me of this, a

   While in Australia Phil Johnson and I did what you are supposed to do when in another country: act like the natives. So, we watched the Ashes. I actually knew about the Ashes from my visits to the UK (where, back in 2005, England had finally won them back, only to lose them in 2007). My separated-at-birth brother Roger Brazier

   I completed my assignments at the Glory of the Atonement Conference at Grace Bible Church last evening. I had a wonderful time with the brethren here in Brisbane, despite my weakened voice (evidently, there are some things blooming here that my sinuses have never encountered before!). I am excited that we have already begun discussions about coming back, currently looking

It is a beautiful 77 degrees here in Sydney right now, but where did Saturday go? Oh well, I’ll get it back a week from Tuesday I suppose. In just a few hours I will be speaking on why sane people still believe in Jesus, which, given the secularism of Australia, seems an appropriate topic. I have gotten enough sleep,

   That’s the best way I can describe it. Oven study.    I love living in Phoenix…for about 9.5 months out of the year. Clear blue skies, sunshine. But for 2.5 months out of the year, well—it’s not enjoyable. We are in the middle of that period now. For most human beings, January/February is the worst. For us, July, August, and the

   I just returned from spending the lunch hour with LeCrae, Tedashi and the rest of the guys. They are ministering here in Phoenix tonight, so, thanks to Twitter (and whoever hooked us up yesterday by that means!), we got together at their hotel. I brought my MacBook and my projector and gave my NT Reliability presentation over lunch. I figure