July 3, 2003

Pressed on with our review of the Regent University debate with Shabir Ally, focusing upon the key issues that will surely arise in just a few weeks now in Seattle.

Had a wonderful time with Tom Ascol on the DL today, taking calls and discussing, at first, the Caner situation, but moving beyond that fairly quickly to broader issues of the gospel and the like. Good calls, a hopefully very useful program.

Covered a wide range of topics today, such as: Psalm 36:4 and the need to despise evil; the growing evidence that the “Gospel of Jesus’ Wife” fragment is a modern day fraud; the fundamentalist, non-reflective secularism of Adam Gopnik; Paul Williams’ love affair with the nuttiest of history and theology; more examples of how intolerant those of the left are

We had been hearing about the arrival of Roger Olson’s book, Against Calvinism, for quite some time. It happened to arrive just before I left for Australia, so I did not have time to do much more than review his comments on 1 Timothy 2:4 (here). I have now returned home, so I got his book recorded to mp3 and

Since Rich is out of town we won’t be posting the programs until he gets back. Please direct all outraged e-mails to Rich. 🙂 We did do the program, though, live, and covered Dr. Craig’s lecture on the “Problem of Evil” delivered at Cambridge a few years ago. You should be able to hear it…next Monday or Tuesday, if you

   I recently listened to Patrick Madrid speaking of our 2002 debate as a “painfully obvious” example of how “unbiblical” the arguments are against the Roman Catholic perspective on the veneration of saints. So I thought I would start working through the debate itself. It is amazing how many people will proclaim someone a “winner” of a debate without actually listening

Started off responding to comments by a British fellow on FaceBook regarding my sermons this past week, all of which were on the topic of, or touched upon, homosexuality. Then I read Michael Brown’s excellent article on the heartbreaking results of artificial insemination on the lives of those who are born of the procedure, including a poem that truly communicates