2012 Online Apologetics Conference
How Accurate is the Bible?
Four excellent talks on the accuracy of the Bible by Dr. Ken Boa here.
Ken Boa worldview picture
I love this picture from Ken Boa’s website and use it as a 1280×800 pixel background image on my laptop. The full size image is here:
www.christian-apologetics.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/YHWH.jpg
I would like Ken to produce a really hi-res version of this image so that we can make a poster from it and stick it on the wall (hint hint…….).
And here is another one, this time from Tim Challies:
The Defense Never Rests: A Workbook for Budding Apologists
By William Lane Craig and Joseph Tang
Professor John Lennox — The Word of God in Creation MP3s
Dr. Arnold Fruchtenbaum visiting New Zealand in April (and OZ in March)
Scholar and teaching machine Dr. Arnold G. Fruchtenbaum from Ariel Ministries is returning to New Zealand and Australia.
Itinerary from the beautiful Ariel Winter Mailer PDF here.
Ariel Ministries New Zealand office is here.
Struth, this is one full-on itinerary!!!
The latest details are here.
Date: Friday 6 April
Venue: Good News Bible Chapel Location: Napier, NZ
Date: Saturday 7 April
Venue: Good News Bible Chapel Location: Napier, NZ
Date: Sunday 8 April
Venue: Good News Bible Chapel Location: Napier, NZ
Date: Monday 9 April
Venue: Church on Vogel Location: Palmerston North, NZ
Date: Tuesday 10 April
Venue: Church on Vogel Location: Palmerston North, NZ
Date: Wednesday 11 April
Venue: North Beach Christian Fellowship Location: Christchurch, NZ
Date: Thursday 12 April
Venue: Rowley Avenue Bible Chapel Location: Christchurch, NZ
Date: Friday 13 April
Venue: Rowley Avenue Bible Chapel Location: Christchurch, NZ
AND AUSTRALIA TOO IN MARCH
Date: Saturday 3 March
Venue: Perth Messianic Assembly, Dianella Church of Christ Location: Dianella, AU
Date: Sunday 4 March AM
Venue: Perth – Nollamara Baptist Church Location: Nollamara, AU
Date: Sunday 4 March PM
Venue: Perth – Woodvale Baptist Church, 67 Woodvale Drive, Woodvale
Location: Woodvale, AU
Date: Monday 5 March PM to Thursday 8 March PM
Venue: New Life City Church
Location: Kewdale, AU 6105
Date: Tuesday 6 March
Venue: Bethany Baptist Church (Ministry House)
Location: Beechboro, WA
Date: Wednesday 7 March
Venue: Harvest West Bible College (Limited to college members only) Location: Belmont, Perth
Date: Thursday 8 March AM
Venue: Perth – Subiaco Church Youth Centre
Location: Subiaco, AU (08) 9388 1030
Date: Saturday 10 March
Venue: Melbourne – Celebrate Messiah Beit HaMashiach Messianic Congregation
Location: Caulfield South VIC, AU 3162 (03) 9563 5544
Date: Sunday 11 March AM
Venue: Belmont / Highton Baptist Church
Location: Belmont Victoria, AU 3216 (03) 5241 1453
Date: Monday 12 March PM, and Tuesday 13 March PM
Venue: Bendigo
Location: Bendigo VIC, AU
Date: Thursday 15 March AM
Venue: Adelaide – South West Baptist Church
Location: Seacliff, AU (08) 8377 1802
Date: Friday 16 March PM
Venue: CWMF (Christian Witness Ministries Fellowship)
Location: Eight Mile Plains, Brisbane, AU
Date: Saturday 17 March
Venue: CWMF (Christian Witness Ministries Fellowship)
Location: Eight Mile Plains, Brisbane, AU
Date: Sunday 18 March AM
Venue: CWMF (Christian Witness Ministries Fellowship)
Location: Eight Mile Plains, Brisbane, AU
Date: Monday 19 March to Friday 23 March
Venue: Capernwray Torchbearers Bible College
Location: Burradoo NSW, AU 2576
Date: Saturday 24 March
Venue: Tamworth Salvation Army Hope Centre
Location: Goonno Goonoo NSW, AU
Date: Sunday 25 March AM
Venue: Tamworth Bible Baptist Church Location: Tamworth, AU
Date: Sunday 25 March PM to Tuesday 27 March PM
Venue: Maroubra Baptist Church Location: Maroubra/Sydney, AU (02) 9344 3355
Date: Wednesday 28 March, and Thursday 29 March
Venue: Hobart
Location: Hobart TAS, AU
Date: Friday 30 March 5 PM – Monday 2 April 2 PM
Venue: Sydney – Meroo Camp Location: Seven Hills NSW, AU 9624 8947
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Research Professor Dr. Darrell Bock of DTS to visit New Zealand in July
Dr. Darrell Bock (DTS page, blog, Amazon
- Research Professor of New Testament Studies at Dallas Theological Seminary
- Professor for Spiritual Development and Culture at Dallas Theological Seminary
- Editor at Large for Christianity Today
- Past President of the Evangelical Theological Society (2000-2001)
- Author of over twenty books and is a New York Times Best Selling author
…and it tipped to be visiting New Zealand in July 2012. More to come…
(HT to Joe Fleener)
Thinking Matters Youth Conference coming to Auckland in February
Here.
Lee Strobel: We’re on Cusp of Golden Era of Apologetics
A must-read for budding and established apologists here:
All of these trends have awakened a sleeping giant – Christian apologetics, or the defense of the faith. We’re seeing apologetics books on the New York Times bestsellers list. Schools like Biola University and its Talbot School of Theology, which are leaders in apologetics, are filled to capacity. Denver Seminary is launching a new degree in Christian Apologetics and Ethics this fall. One organization is seeking to place apologists on 500 college campuses in the next five years.
WILLIAM LANE CRAIG: OUR CHURCHES HAVE DROPPED THE BALL…
Here.
Other students I met with at Princeton were enrolled in a class taught by the New Testament critic Elaine Pagels which they nicknamed the “Faithbusters Class” because of its destructive effect on the faith of many Christian students. They had no way of knowing how far out of mainstream scholarship Prof. Pagels’ views on the Gnostic gospels are. It was a privilege to share with them grounds for the credibility of the New Testament witness to Jesus.
Their experience is not unusual. In high school and college Christian teenagers are intellectually assaulted with every manner of non-Christian worldview coupled with an overwhelming relativism. If parents are not intellectually engaged with their faith and do not have sound arguments for Christian theism and good answers to their children’s questions, then we are in real danger of losing our youth. It’s no longer enough to teach our children simply Bible stories; they need doctrine and apologetics. It’s hard to understand how people today can risk parenthood without having studied apologetics.
Unfortunately, our churches have also largely dropped the ball in this area. It’s insufficient for youth groups and Sunday school classes to focus on entertainment and simpering devotional thoughts. We’ve got to train our kids for war. We dare not send them out to public high school and university armed with rubber swords and plastic armor. The time for playing games is past.
– William Lane Craig
Craig is so right. The games need to stop. The training needs to start.
William Dembski Interview
Get it here: www.thebestschools.org/blog/2012/01/14/william-dembski-interview/
I love Dembski. He is an intellectual genius, and honest to the heart. With the persecution he has faced both inside and outside the church, he is also like a modern Galileo.
Happy Birthday, Dr. Hawking
From here.
Oh blast, we missed his 70th by a couple of days. Oh well, check out this video of “God and Stephen Hawking: Do the Laws of Physics Make God Unnecessary?” which was presented by Prof. John Lennox, Professor of Mathematics at Oxford University, here in Seattle back in August. Lennox spoke at University Presbyterian Church, sponsored by Discovery Institute.
Apologetics, Mike Licona, students, 2012, what’s next?
See Mike’s website here: www.risenjesus.com
(See also Mike’s PDF on what to say to Jehovah’s Witnesses and Mormons when they knock on your door.)
New Testament Scholar Daniel Wallace: Is What We Have Now What They Wrote Then?
Christopher Hitchens, April 13, 1949 – December 15, 2011
New Atheist Christopher Hitchens has passed on.
Hitchens, who wrote for publications such as The Atlantic Monthly, Slate and Vanity Fair, rose to prominence for his divisive opinions, his unabashed atheism, his scorching critiques of popular figures like Mother Teresa Henry Kissinger, and, above all, his razor wit. (Reuters)
I personally admire Hitchens for having the guts to stand up for what he believed, even if I would disagree with him as his brother Peter Hitchens did (blog, Amazon book “The rage against God”).
Our condolences go out to his family.
From those I follow on Twitter…
- C Michael Patton: Christopher Hitchens died today. #verysad vnty.fr/vFD9TU Prayers are with his family and brother.
- Lee Strobel: Feeling grief at Christopher Hitchens’ death. I was among many who shared Christ with him; so sad he rejected Gospel.
- Douglas Wilson: How to think about the death of the outspoken atheist.
- Albert Mohler: The point about Christopher Hitchens is not that he died of unbelief, but that his unbelief is all that matters now. Unspeakably sad.
- Rick Warren: My friend Christopher Hitchens has died. I loved & prayed for him constantly & grieve his loss. He knows the Truth now.
- Joe Fleener: Christopher Hitchens has died. Let’s pray for his family & those who he’s influenced that they may repent & trust Christ.
- Larry Taunton: I am truly saddened to hear that my friend and debating opponent Christopher Hitchens has passed away. Our thoughts are with his family.
- Hugh Hewitt: I am at a loss of what to say about Christopher Hitchens except that he was towards me and my audience unfailingly gracious –and dazzling.
A small book by Hitchens and friend Doug Wilson is available here:
Just received an email from an atheist religionsucks@webtv.net
The email contained the usual Dawkins-esque diatribe about religion (yawn) and mocking my friend Rabbi Maverick. I wrote a reply (below) and sent it to both the atheist “Neil C. Reinhardt” and the Maverick, but ironically after telling me how much smarter atheists are then religious people, his email bounced !!!
Well, here is my reply anyways:
Neil (cc: Moshe the Maverick),
I consider atheism to be the least intellectual of the positions you note. Face it dude, your guys keep losing the debates, and as for the gutless pathetic Dawkins, well he won’t even front up with Craig. He should wear a skirt !
You seem to forget that many atheists are (yawn) just doing what their parents did. I did, until I converted from atheism to Christianity.
It should also be remembered that the millions killed last century were killed in the name of atheism. Yeah, the blowhard atheist ignoramuses will go on about Hitler being a Christian, but this just shows their intellectual dishonesty. See Professor Richard Weikhart‘s book “From Darwin to Hitler” for example.
As for criminals — yeah right — you probably have no idea what a Christian even is. Of course American culture hardly gives Christianity a good name does it? And the American church in general appears to be about as sick and in need of a doctor as any church in the world is.
I concede the point about leaders. The simple reality is that it is hard to be both a committed Christian and a dedicated leader. There are only 24 hours in the day here in New Zealand and it is hard to be good at many things. Also, many of us have families that we are very committed to. And you guys have set up a nice secular priesthood, copying the Roman Catholic Church that you all despise so much (I don’t like the RCC either FWIW).
Best regards,
CA
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New Scientific Visualization Out of Yale: From Conception to Birth
From here.
For you formed my inward parts;
you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.
I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Wonderful are your works;
my soul knows it very well.
My frame was not hidden from you,
when I was being made in secret,
intricately woven in the depths of the earth.
Your eyes saw my unformed substance;
in your book were written, every one of them,
the days that were formed for me,
when as yet there was none of them.
(Psalm 139:13-16 ESV)
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