May 13, 2003

Today I was joined by Alan Conner, author of Covenant Children Today: Physical or Spiritual? (2007, Reformed Baptist Academic Press). We took many calls on a wide variety of aspects of the subject of baptism.

We took the time today to go back over the controversy that has developed when I asked my debate opponent Saturday afternoon to tell us what one of the key texts on the atonement (and in my opening statement) actually means, and he refused to do so. I played the audio of the exchange, put the text on the screen,

Started off talking about the creeping dhimmitude in the US, then looked at some Christian grandparents being punished by the secularist elite government in Scotland, then mentioned the Steve Ray’s inconsistency in his comments on the Protevangelium of James, then talked about a package I received from Dr. Sam Gipp today (you really need to listen to that one). Then

Started off the program today talking about the upcoming debate with Robert Price, and requesting continued prayers that I would be given my visa to visit London in time for my flight a week from Thursday. I was going to fairly briefly respond to the comments by Brian Brodersen, Chuck Smith, and Don Stewart, but once I played all the

Did not even bother trying to make a transition between the two halves of today’s program. Started off with a discussion of Islam and eventually the reading of a few “hadith Qudsi,” all of which I explained on the program. Then switched over to a response to yesterday’s attempted response by Peter Lumpkins, taking the opportunity to go a little

Spent the entire program Thursday responding to one of Bart Ehrman’s recent interviews on National Public Radio. Ehrman’s most recent book, Misquoting Jesus, is making the rounds amongst the enemies of the faith, and in this particular interview, he speaks much of his past as an evangelical, giving us some insights into how one goes from MBI graduate/strong evangelical to