Archive for category: The Dividing Line

Started off with a discussion of religious freedom and Islam in light of the Swiss minaret ban, then started taking calls on Darwinism, Mormonism, and Reformed theology. The calls made for a quick hour to be sure!

Remember, there’s no DL today, as I am sitting at Gate A25 in Phoenix waiting for my flight to St. Louis. Yesterday I had to use the dreaded “John Denver Christmas Music” threat to get the calls going, but they came in, and we covered a wide variety of good topics.

Took a total of three phone calls today, however, the first and last sort of got squished to the ends of the program to make room for a very lengthy discussion with a Muslim caller, Sadiq Abdul Malik from New York. A very interesting hour, to be sure.

I played a portion of a debate from Justin Brierley’s Unbelievable program in the UK where the Sikh representative turned out to be part of Dennis McKinsey’s Biblical Errancy group. Then we took calls, including two on the subject of Jehovah’s Witnesses. Made some hopefully helpful comments on the need to be grounded and balanced in studying the cults. Don’t

Sorry to be late getting this up. Rich’s laptop, which he uses to do a lot of this stuff, died this morning (motherboard), so we are a little delayed. Yesterday we discussed the great non-event of a former pro-golfer promoting a long-refuted book attacking the deity of Christ, then we took a number of calls on a wide variety of

Talked a bit about upcoming debate possibilities, including my getting in contact with Dr. Michael Brown, and the possibility of having him on the DL, and my being on his program as well. Played a caller objecting to Reformed theology from Dr. Brown’s radio program, then took calls.

I know it only took me five months, but we finally finished up Norman Geisler’s “Why I’m Not a Five Point Calvinist” sermon, and took a couple of calls as well. I took a few minutes to report on the last few days of my trip to New York as well. Our pre-feed music came from none other than Mylo

Started off with a song from our KJV Only friends, via the Amazing Grace Baptist Church KJV, called “Bogus Bible Blues.” What a way to start! Then gave a brief report on Saturday’s encounter with Imam Sayeed, and then dove back into the Geisler sermon, taking one call on God “changing his mind” at the end of the program. More

Last Tuesday afternoon I had a Twitter “convo” with Wes from Atlanta. He started off saying he was listening to my presentation on Molinism and that he was amazed at my lack of “intellectual fortitude.” He went on to say that I “misrepresent and slander” anyone who does not ride my particular “hobby horse,” and he mentioned Caner, Craig, and

Started with 12 minutes of review of two packages I had just gotten in the mail, and if you don’t have a sense of humor, skip past that. 🙂 Spent the rest of the hour reviewing the next portion of Norman Geisler’s “Why I’m Not a Five Point Calvinist” sermon. Twice I stopped to comment on why A&O will always

Please note that, with the time change, the DL will be on the usual time tomorrow… that is, the usual time in PHOENIX! While the rest of the US rolled their clocks back, those desert dwellers at Alpha & Omega Ministries did not. So if you ever wonder what time it is in Arizona you can find out easily by

I listened to a “debate” of sorts between Tim Staples and Mike Gendron recently. I do not know when it took place, but it could not have been too long ago. In any case, it was very, very brief. Tim Staples has a pretty much set presentation in those situations, and he does the rapid-fire “carpet bombing” routine of using

I had a real “Stack-O-Stuff” to get through today, so I felt like I was moving at warp speed as I covered the past weekend in Southern California, and a failed Arminian attempt to refute my criticism of Middle Knowledge from last week’s DL. Then we dealt with Patrick Madrid’s significantly less than “in depth” comments on 2 Timothy 3

While I started out with a brief discussion of Frank Beckwith’s claims about the Council of Trent, I spent the vast majority of the hour (even skipping the break) presenting William Lane Craig’s understanding of Middle Knowledge from his book, The Only Wise God, and interacting with it from a biblical perspective. I haven’t taken the time to do this

…you might want to help it keep going! We’ve managed to do the DL on a shoestring for a very long time. Thanks to volunteers who know a great deal about computers and the net, and to the Lord’s blessing of our equipment, we have almost never missed doing the program due to technical difficulties. But the reality is, we

First DL since Ergun Caner blocked me from following his insights on Twitter. I played a clip of him claiming that he has a standing rule to debate anyone, anywhere, any time. Then I briefly commented on John Shelby Spong’s new manifesto in which he claims his side has won the homosexual debate, so, there’s no reason to debate it

I went through Barack Obama’s speech/sermon to a radical homosexual organization on Saturday on the DL today, demonstrating that Obama’s dream for the US is for a nation without Christian morals or guidance. I didn’t bother leaving my seat when it was over, for I then did the next hour on Iron Sharpens Iron with Chris Arnzen on the same

I intended to spend the whole hour doing a Radio Free Geneva, announcing that I had learned that Ergun Caner has written a foreword for Lou Ruggiero’s new book, The God of Calvinism, but the first two calls that came in (early in the program) were on Camping (from a fellow who has called the ministry many times) and atheism

On today’s Radio Free Geneva edition of the Dividing Line we discussed LouRugg and his planned book against Calvinism, with highlights from some previous interactions he’s had with Dr. White and TurretinFan. Next we turned to a caller who seemed to think that Harold Camping didn’t go far enough. Finally, we heard from an atheist/agnostic who thought Dan Barker edged

I forgot to blog the DL we did up in Oregon on the 24th of September. As I recall, we finished off our review of the George/Beckwith ecumenical dialogue at that time. My apologies for not having gotten it blogged before. Today on the program we started off wishing Rich Pierce a happy birthday, and then moved on to a

I started off today’s program with a brief recap of the debate from Newberg, and Dan Barker’s continued damage control campaign. Moved fairly quickly on to the comments of Chuck Smith and his co-hosts on the “Pastor’s Perspective” radio program, as found here. This just under five minute clip is a study in shallow eisegesis. It is incredible that these

We finished off our review of the George/Beckwith ecumenical dialogue at that time.

Ecumenical hysteria continues today on the DL as we work through the Beckwith/George dialogue from Wheaton. I will do my best to do a live DL from Newberg, Oregon on Thursday afternoon at the regular time. Don’t forget the live webcast of the debate with Dan Barker at 10am Saturday (PDT)!

I managed to get a good bit of ground covered in the Beckwith/George dialogue today, but once again, over and over again, the centrality of the Gospel, and the shallowness of ecumenism, were illustrated. Important interaction that, sadly, isn’t taking place nearly as often as it should in our truth-starved culture.

   Today I began working through the Timothy George/Frank Beckwith dialogue that took place recently. It will take a number of programs to play the entire dialogue and interact with it, but I think it is necessary to do so. There is so much muddled thinking on this issue in our day, and ecumenical dialogues that start with an abandonment of

OK, not quite the plague, but Rich has had this sinus stuff since Monday, and I got it Tuesday. I told him to stay home and rest, and I will take it easy while packing for my trip to Santa Fe. I surely pray I won’t have any problems speaking this weekend at Discern 09! I’m on the “downside” of

A two-part program, basically. In the first half I discussed the debate between TurretinFan and William Albrecht on the topic of the propriety of the use of the phrase “Mother of God” with reference to Mary, and in the second half I took a call that took up the whole half hour on the subject of Mormonism and the Book

Ratzinger on Purgatory, Then Calls on Acts 13:46-48, Islam, and God’s Sovereign Decree.

As the video I posted earlier documents, I took the first quarter of the program to discuss Steven Anderson of “I Hate Barak O’Bama” fame, then took some calls and played more of William Lane Craig’s defense of Arminianism.

Sort of took a walkabout the first part of the program, discussing Australia and…various things. Then we took a call from Harrisburg on exegesis, then, after the break, Michael, a Roman Catholic from California, called, and we spent the rest of the show discussing prayer to Mary and related subjects.