The second evening of the mini Conference on the solas is just 90 minutes away so we snuck a quick program from the AO Mobile Command in talking about the trip, what’s coming up at G3 and elsewhere, and responding to Soteriology 101’s paid advertising campaign looking to get “converts from Calvinism.” I wandered all over the landscape, to be honest, so fasten your seat belt! Visit the store at https://doctrineandlife.co/ ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07QpgikWa8o
Pastor Jeff Durbin joined me in studio today 1) for a celebration of color thanks to Coogi sweaters and 2) to respond to a video by Noah Adam. Nearly two hours and twenty minutes of discussion of apologetic methodology, theology, and truth. We hope you find it useful---and colorful!
Sorry, had to try to make it rhyme. We had more streaming problems, and in fact, lost the first 30 minutes of the program, started over, and somehow managed to get a lower resolution stream to make it through the YouTube wilderness (we are posting the high quality version however). So what will you find in this two hour program? Well, we have some interaction with a transgender opponent of the faith who, of course, claims to be a Christian (why not?), we have Kyle J. Howard and Ed Stetzer doing their "third way" routine, we have R. Scott Clark sniping at John MacArthur as well. Then we talked about David Wood eating the Qur'an, Muhammad Hijab goading everyone on, and Sam Shamoun challenging Hijab to a fist fight. We then got into the Leighton Flowers analogy of a birthday party as a means of getting around John 6:44, and provided numerous reasons for rejecting this attempted work-around. We really ran the gamut today! A little something for everyone! Visit the store at https://doctrineandlife.co/ Visit the store at https://doctrineandlife.co/
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I was Chris Arnzen's guest on Iron Sharpens Iron today, and then 15 minutes later we did the Dividing Line. I am in Tucumcari, New Mexico, making my way home in the mobile command center, truly enjoying our new studio, Starlink web access, etc. Despite some pretty strong thunderstorms we maintained connection and discussed forty years of ministry in the first half hour before looking at an article by "progressivist" John Pavlovitz on the sin of Christian homophobia. Talked a bit about how we can use the coming Month of Debauchery to press forward the claims of King Jesus.
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I finished six hours of lecture and immediately set up to do a DL in the lovely library area of Grace Bible Theological Seminary and was kindly joined by President Jeffrey Johnson and by Provost Owen Strachan to talk theology and a little history as well!
The entire program today in the big studio was to deal with the action of the divine Son in considering the equality He had with His Father and concluding that His equality was not to be held onto at all costs but, rather, that He would enter into human existence in the incarnation. We walk through the text on the big board and conclude that it is a perfectly valid question to ask what it means that the Son could contemplate His equality with the Father as a unique action on His part. Enjoy!
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In light of one of my upcoming debates in South Africa next week I took the time to review one of the audience questions from the talk upon which our debate will be based, “Is Jesus God?” Of course, in the course of an hour, we covered a lot more than that. Hopefully helpful information for sharing with our Muslim friends!
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Graeme Codrington grew up in the conservative Baptist context of South Africa, even graduating from the Baptist Union Seminary in Johannesburg. Over the past decade, however, he has taken a leading role in promoting "acceptance" of homosexuality and gay marriage in South African churches. In October of 2015 Dr. Codrington engaged James White in debate on the subject of homosexuality at a spacious church in Johannesburg before an audience of about five hundred. The issues were clearly addressed, many questions answered, and the benefit is now for all who can watch and listen and consider the arguments provided by both sides. Visit the store at https://doctrineandlife.co/
After the fall of Adam into sin was the will of man so irrevocably damaged that humans can no longer choose to do good, but will choose evil, all the time? Did God enable all people the freedom to choose Him or must God choose them first? Once saved, always saved? The questions are too numerous to list, but the answers all depend on if the will of man is free or in bondage to sin. The ultimate condition of the human will is but one of the issues when dealing with the controversies between the doctrines of Arminianism and Calvinism. This debate has intrigued people longer than the namesakes of the debate, John Calvin and Josephus Arminius, have been around. Visit the store at https://doctrineandlife.co/