December 15, 2005

As it turned out, a Mormon that had been refuted by Dr. White’s knowledge of Scripture retaliated by making unfounded insinuations about the validity of his doctorate. Rich Pierce took the opportunity to positively present the benefits of Columbia Evangelical Seminary and its innovate approach to mentoring Evangelical scholars.

Dr. White has caught an earlier flight back from Italy and will be arriving back to 110 degree heat tonight. Soooooo, we will be having a “Jet Lag” Dividing Line at 11:00AM PDT tomorrow. UPDATE: And, thanks be, I arrived home in one piece. I would like to invite Xavier and the other kind folks of the Planet Envoy forums

I started off playing a portion of Dan Barker’s “testimony” about his deconversion, focusing upon what kind of Christianity he left, and making application from there. Then we took our break and had two phone calls on Matthew 16:18 and “upon this rock,” leading to a fairly lengthy discussion of the development of the papacy over time.

I started off playing a portion of President Obama’s inaugural comments, focusing upon his promotion of homosexuality and the profaning of the divine institution of marriage.  We when took a call from Jane up in the northwest asking how we can “respect authority” when that authority stands inalterably opposed to God’s ways.  We took two other calls, one on an

The dangers of Ecumenism – there is power in the unity of the church, but there must not be compromise at the cost of truth.