June 14, 2005

I really wanted to provide a useful apologetic discussion on the program today, so we started half an hour earlier. I went through some key theological foundations to apologetics from Van Til for the first twenty minutes, then reviewed key elements of the D’Souza/Barker debate. I then finished up with some discussion of Barker’s claims in his book, godless, especially

   Quick programming note. Had a great time helping Chris Arnzen out on Iron Sharpens Iron with the discussion between Tom Wells and Richard Barcellos on NCT vs. CT, but along with some really stressful issues related to next week I have fallen way behind in working on finishing the last four chapters of Pulpit Crimes. I don’t want to do

Drawn by the Father. James walks through John 6:35-45 and demonstrates that salvation is a sovereign act of God as He gives His people to His Son and the Son will lose none.

Hosted by Sean, Simon, and Rich Pierce. Saving faith is not a mere historical faith, temporary faith, and need not be a blind faith. Caller questions about the relationship between election and believing faith.