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Over the past five or six years our Amazon wish list, which we call the Ministry Resource List, has been a tremendous blessing and assistance to our work here at A&O.  Unfortunately, Amazon isn’t overly good at letting us know who bought what, and that leads to problems.  So, we’ve moved the MRL to our store.  In essence, what we

First, I shut down the AandODirector twitter feed, as per my announcement yesterday.  @Droakley1689 is my only feed.  I started the other because of complaints about my posting personal tweets.  Then I realized, “It  has never crossed my mind to ask someone I follow in Twitter to stop posting personal stuff, so why am I worried about whiners?”  So let

Since my travel home has been, well, less than easy, and I find myself now with some time on the (thankfully) final leg of my journey, I wanted to write up some thoughts about the debates which took place on Revelation TV this past weekend. First, I am somewhat uncomfortable with the term “debate” in this instance, for a number

“In confutation of false doctrines, he is neither to raise an old heresy from the grave, nor to mention a blasphemous opinion unnecessarily: but, if the people be in danger of an error, he is to confute it soundly, and endeavor to satisfy their judgments and consciences against all objections.” Nick Batzig has written an article on

When I am 1) not preaching, and 2) actually in Phoenix, I teach the adult Bible Study class at the Phoenix Reformed Baptist Church.  Two weeks ago I did a quick study, a rather practical thing, on how to respond to the profaning of marriage in our culture, based upon this blog article.  Here’s the resultant class discussion: This past

So I was working through the morning “stuff” on line (RSS feeds, emails, cuing up The Briefing) when someone in channel pointed me to another Lumpkins hit piece against yours truly.  Nothing new, same ol’ same ol’ from Petey, until I saw a section that caught my attention: Consider the arrogant earful one Muslim apologist apparently received from James White after attempting

He must have been having a bad day.  I mean, it’s tough being Benny Hinn.  Penthouse suites and private jets and limos and fine cuisine—it’s gotta get tiring after a while, doesn’t it?  All the security and hassle with being a superstar.  Gotta give the guy some slack, right? In this clip Hinn is in Kiev, Ukraine a few years

Today Dr. Kruger will join us at 1pm EST sharp…however, approximately 20 minutes earlier we will interrupt the Way Back Machine and I will play the entirety of the phone call that Dr. Kruger and I will be discussing, since we will not have time to play it in its entirety while he is on the line.  So, tune in

I was just directed to the combox of Peter Lumpkins’ recent blog post, which I addressed briefly at the end of the last Dividing Line.  I find there one of the clearest examples of how hatred (in this case, hatred of yours truly) can bring together so many amazingly different people.  Think about the rogues gallery of folks who have

The YouTube version of my presentation on the Ergun Caner scandal has, since it was posted, been problematic.  The HD version was lost due to a drive crash, so all we have had was the live stream version, which began 15 minutes before we started.  So we had to keep telling people to fast forward 15 minutes in.  Well, I’ve

Yesterday I was directed to a Tweet picture that spoke volumes.  Here it is: Pictures can say more than a thousand words, to be sure.  And this picture speaks volumes.  But I would like to respond to Mr. Church’s interpretation, which I would call the “interpretation of inevitability.” First, the issue of the abuse of language, the constant ploy of

Be careful what you preach about!  Today I preached from 2 Corinthians 4:1-6, and the need to not “lose heart” but to press on toward our calling in 2014.  So what happens when I get home?  I discover that Ergun Caner has gone on another Twitter rant, proclaiming his innocence and, of course, including falsehoods and shots at yours truly.

As I was doing some sermon preparation recently, I caught myself reading through some sermons by G. Campbell Morgan (who, I must say, was was an excellent orator).  I was struck by his development of the role of Caesar Augustus in the how it came about that Jesus should be born in Bethlehem. He began by observing the greatness and

Back on September 8th of this year Pastor Steve Gaines of the Bellevue Baptist Church in Memphis, Tennessee, preached a sermon titled “God’s Sovereign Plan.”  You are encouraged to download the sermon and listen to it here.  Given that brother Gaines’ sermon presents a very, very common view amongst Southern Baptists, and as his doctoral work was on the sermons

I just noticed that the schedule for the GPTS Conference (which I mentioned a few weeks ago) is now up with all the details. Check it out here.

The video from this year’s Southern Evangelical Seminary conference on presuppositionalism and young-earth creation is now online (whoever made the decision to post this: Thank you!). Speakers: Richard Howe, Jason Lisle, and Scott Oliphint. Moderator: Frank (a different moderator would have been nice) Turek 🙂 Watch it by clicking here.

I thought I had posted links to the following audio on this site, but I can’t seem to find it. Here is a discussion/debate between Richard Gaffin, Jr. and Wayne Grudem. I believe this recording is from 1989. Perhaps you’ve seen this one posted other places, but here is a more recent discussion (2010) between Ian Hamilton and Wayne Grudem.

While I was in Texas recently (for the presentation I did on the many false claims and exaggerations of Ergun Caner of Arlington Baptist College) I spoke at the BMA Seminary and met Jacob Gucker.  I had run into Jacob’s work on the web, and wanted to let others know about his Biblical Manuscripts materials, available here.  Good work Jacob!

As most of our readers know, I was greatly blessed to have the opportunity to travel to South Africa and engage in a series of six debates recently with defenders of the Islamic faith.  This included two debates in mosques, and four at universities.  My opponents were Bashir Varnia (in Lenasia), Yusuf Bux (in Johannesburg), Yusuf Ismail (in Potchefstroom) and

To:  report@repentanceblacklist.com Greetings! I am deeply disturbed to find that I am not listed on your website, www.repentanceblacklist.com.  I would like to request that you fix this error as soon as possible.  I openly proclaim (like Jesus did) that repentance is absolutely central to gospel proclamation, and that there is no saving faith that is not joined with repentance.  I

No, really, no joke. In just minutes (7pm EDT), Ravi Zacharias, Dannis Prager, and Jeff Foxworthy will be addressing the topic: “The Death of Truth and the Decline of Culture” Click here to watch live.

If this video doesn’t bless your heart, check your pulse.

As I type this I am in the process of uploading the video of the very first ‘Great Debate’ on Long Island from 1996 to YouTube.  The numerous ‘issues’ with the recording from that debate would eventually lead to our purchasing cameras of our own and sending volunteers out to Long Island in order to record future ones. As we expand

Packing up to head back to Phoenix (via Frankfurt and Chicago) and ran across some recent William Lane Craig comments that truly amazed me.  Right before identifying Jimmy Dunn as one of his favorite NT historians (that alone says a lot—Dunn’s work is simply acidic to believing Christianity, and is based upon a thoroughly non-Christian mindset when it comes to

Just about to head out to Premier for the Unbelievable programs, and then back to Heathrow and the flight across Africa to JoBurg.  Saw a post in a quick run through my RSS feeds that made me go, “You’re kidding, right?”  Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like Steve Hays is kidding.  Steve has suggested that Caner’s recent attempt to have one

Now that we have the new website up and running, and I can blog more easily, I wish to answer the single most often asked question (FAQ) I receive: how do I read books while cycling? Simple.  First, Kindles (not the new PaperWhites) can read most books (have to check).  Plug an audio cable into the Kindle, record to your