Archive for category: The Dividing Line

We began our review of Ron Armstrong’s sermon on predestination, as promised (see previous entries for links). Only managed to get about ten minutes into it, so I will continue my review, Lord willing, next week as we do some Skype-based DL’s as I travel to New Mexico and Colorado. Join us then!

Yes ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages, it’s time for a Radio Free Geneva. Yes, I know Gene Cook reviewed this sermon a while back, or so I’ve been told. That’s OK, it is still worth it. If you know any of the young folks who were in the audience at Cornerstone Community Church in Wildomar,

Announced that we will be doing a Radio Free Geneva on Thursday, discussing this sermon, and then went through some thoughts prompted by Jeremy Tate’s article here. Then took calls, including one from John on BioLogos and theistic evolution, and others. Another wide ranging program!

Reported on my very interesting discussion with Mormon missionaries at a ward chapel in the Phoenix area Tuesday evening, then took a call from a brother in the West Indies on the subject of Revelation 5:9-10, then talked to the Open Air Atheist a bit, and finished off with two more calls. Another “eclectic” program!

Had a good time on the program today reviewing comments made a number of years ago by Islamic lecturer and apologist Jamal Badawi regarding the alleged passages in the Bible that prophetically speak about Muhammad. I had been looking for his comments on Isaiah 9:6-7 for quite some time, and finally found them. Then we did a fun contest based

I started off with a half hour monologue on being of two minds as a Christian, specifically, the conflict that many of us experience in possessing knowledge of “natural science” and the like, and yet seeking to have a Christian worldview that honors God’s revelation and is whole and complete and pleasing to Him. Some folks will find the discussion

Started off with the revelations coming out of Liberty regarding the “investigation” of Ergun Caner, followed by a brief (well, relatively so) examination of the outrageous behavior of Harold Camping yesterday, and then took calls, mainly on Camping’s theology. Here’s the section on Evangelist Tim Lee and his claims that Ergun Caner never lied:

Wide ranging discussion today, but at the end of the show Abdullah Kunde called in to talk about….Harold Camping. Can you believe it? Only on the Dividing Line!

You never know when a program is going to take off…but this one sure did. Went fifteen minutes long, too, just to get all the calls in. So…started off with the announcement that the Great Evangelical Cover Up continues on with the hiring of Ergun “I was born in Istanbul and trained in jihad and came to the United States

My sincere thanks to my good friend and brother, Michael Brown, for giving us over an hour of his time today to discuss his new book, A Queer Thing Happened to America, which is available in our Amazon bookstore, here. Please take the time to listen to this interview and consider the issues it raises. This is one of the

I was left without words a dozen times as I listened to Michael Brown dismantle Dr. Eric Smaw (Dr. Smaw assisted in the dismantling) in a recent (April 21) debate on the redefinition of marriage. Spent the whole hour listening to the rebuttals and cross examination today on the program. Don’t forget that Dr. Brown will be joining me on

Going to have our regular Tuesday DL on Monday, regular time (11am MST). And don’t forget that on Thursday the 12th we will be joined by Dr. Michael Brown.

I took the first portion of the program to analyze the comments made by Minnesota Representative Steve Simon that have become widely distributed over the last few days. Then I began playing some portions of the recent debate between Dr. Smaw and Dr. Michael Brown. Here, also, is the video of the first portion of the program:

Started off doing what, well, as far as I can see, very, very few people have been doing since the strike against Bin Laden’s compound: reminding folks, by reading directly from his own pen, what motivated and powered the most wanted man in the world. Then we started with calls on textual criticism, Bible translations, and the soteriological intent of

Started off briefly addressing some issues that arose from my reading of a great new book by Michael Brown, A Queer Thing Happened to America. I hope to have Michael on to discuss this topic soon, but till then, you will want to get your own copy. Want to help A&O out in the process? Get it through our Amazon

Started off with a brief report on my encounter with Brian McLaren on the Unbelievable program in London (the show airs on Saturday, we will link to it once it is posted). Then finished off the Ehrman/Licona dialogue, alson from Unbelievable, and then took a call from Patrick on the role of evidence in apologetics.

Given that I will be at the office at 4:30am to be on Unbelievable in London with Brian McLaren, we are going to move the DL to the normal Thursday afternoon time (4pm PDT). Join us then!

Almost made it through, but not quite. Spent the hour listening to, and commenting on, the exchange from Unbelievable. I will finish it up on Tuesday.

Started off reading a certified letter that was sent to me from Green Bay, Wisconsin. Very insightful. Then discussed George Bryson’s article (noted on the blog earlier), then got into playing the key portions of last Saturday’s Unbelievable program from London, where Justin Brierley had on Bart Ehrman and Mike Licona. Another important examination of how Christian truth can be

Nice to have had internet connectivity during the entirety of the Dividing Line today, that’s for sure. Finished up the Harris rebuttal in the recent (expensive) debate from Notre Dame, then listened to Norman Geisler on a national radio program dodge a clear question focused upon the incoherence of his views of divine sovereignty, and then addressed an e-mail about

Deadcast, i.e., once again, though we had perfect connectivity all weekend, 50 minutes before the program, BOOM, network outages. Rich has spent the past four hours since the program working on stuff, and, for the moment, we are back up and seemingly operational. For now. In any case, started off with the announcement of the 2012 Apologetics Cruise out of

I am starting to think Peter Lumpkins has relatives that work for Cox Communications. We started off with a brief discussion of Harold Camping and what to do with Campingites starting May 22, 2011. Then we looked again at some Silly Atheist Bible Thumper Arguments, managed a whopping 15 more seconds of Abdullah Kunde’s comments from a recent debate (at

Almost canceled the program today (our Internet access went down thirty minutes before the program again), but we got it back and made it through. Talked with Justin about witnessing to LDS missionaries, covered a common argument about the Bible and the Qur’an, took calls on baptism in the early church and a wide variety of other issues, going about

Started off briefly noting Peter Lumpkins’ absence (fully expected of course), then took some quick calls on a wide variety of topics, including a discussion of the high priestly work of Christ and an upcoming debate with atheists. I then moved into reading a large portion of chapter 4 of Love Wins, illustrating the man-centeredness of the Arminian fundamentalism that

Well, the Cox guy comes out, says we should be fixed up, and…boom, five minutes before the DL, once again, we are dead in the water. Thankfully, the Cox guy was just leaving. He can’t find anything wrong here, so this is all in the “main office,” but he isn’t getting anywhere with them, either. Somebody is playing games anyway.

Our ISP is having…issues providing us with consistent internet access. We lost all connectivity about 30 minutes before the DL, but got it back. Then it dropped out five minutes before, so we have called them and they are “sending someone out” (you know how specific that is), so, for now, we are going to try for 3pm our time,

Started off challenging Peter Lumpkins to provide documentation of claims he has been making, and then moved on to important stuff: a quick review of key issues relating to both Love Wins as well as Forged by Bart Ehrman. I hope to provide some foundational and important observations that will be helpful to my fellow believers.

Started off noting that Love does Win…at least, it gets Peter Lumpkins to post reviews of Rob Bell’s book by Anglicans (well, Anglican last time I checked anyway). But we had a very full board of calls, and after a few technical glitches, got to them, including questions about KJV Onlyism, Rome’s abuse of Luke 1:28, Fred Phelps, and the

We are bumping the DL back a day, so, regular Tuesday time (11am MST) on Monday. Yeah, Amazon released Love Wins early, so I’m about half way through that, but…that has nothing at all to do with why we are moving the program. I just needed to clear Tuesday out for something else! So, hope to hear from you as

Another eclectic program today, covering Richard Mouw’s proclamation of Rob Bell as orthodox, a call from Ben the agnostic, a quick review of some comments by Mustafa Arja in a recent debate (looking at his use of Shabir Ally and especially Bart Ehrman), and then a call that took us almost 15 minutes beyond our normal time, a conversation with

Our ISP is having a hard day today. We lose our connectivity every few minutes, and maintain it only erratically. So, that may impact the DL this afternoon. Right now, we, just like the God of Open Theism, do not know what the future holds. So if you try connecting up at 4pm MST and there’s nothing there, you’ll know