Introduction to Hermeneutics Series: Session Four: The Doctrine of the Self-Attesting Word of God

GO TO SESSION THREE I.                    The Concept of Authority a.       Definition i.      “Authority itself means that right or power to command action or compliance, or to determine belief or custom, expecting obedience from those under authority, and in turn giving responsible account for the claim to right or power.”[1]                     ii.      If something is properly [...]

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Quote: Apostle Paul and Dialogue

“Paul’s strategy for engaging the Jews and pagans could be described as dialogical, but like Jesus, Paul did not dialogue to learn but to create opportunities for his apostolic witness.  We must be clear that the content of Paul’s theology and gospel message was not informed by dialogue with religious others.” (Todd Mile, A God [...]

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Arrested for Reading Scripture in Public (California)

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Is it Biblical for Evangelicals to say only homosexual behaviors are sinful (excluding homosexual desires)?

In David K. Clark’s work on theological method, his chapter on Theology in cultural context made a comment on how only homosexual behaviors are sins, while the desires are not sin: Regarding sexual orientation, most evangelicals would not see being a homosexual (by which I mean, having homosexual desires) as sin.  Evangelicals do see acting [...]

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Book Review: Solomon Among Postmoderns

This work is a wonderful conscious observation of modernism and postmodernism beyond pop Christian critique of postmodernism of Postmodernism’s epistemological project. Readers will enjoy the wordsmith of the author Peter Leithart, as he paints an illustr…ative picture of Modernism and Postmodernism, offering food for thought concerning the cultural history of Western civilization itself from the [...]

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Highlight of last week’s links in apologetics

Some links that stood out to me from last week on the internet 1.)Review: Is God a Mathematician?– Over at American Vision website. 2.) How Does One Prepare for a Debate?– Jamin Hubner offer his thoughts, plus a PDF link to his chart if you click on this link. 3.) Darrell Bock’s Review of Erhman’s [...]

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The Big Difference between the ‘god’ Guru Sai Baba and my God Jesus is that my God resurrected

Sobering anytime anyone dies. It’s even sobering to think that this occurred on Easter Sunday. On the news from this link: Indian spiritual guru Sai Baba dies (Reuters) – Indian spiritual guru Sri Sathya Sai Baba, revered by millions of followers as a living god, died Sunday in a hospital in southern India. He was [...]

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The Father’s Cup: A Crucifixion Narrative

Worth the 20 something minutes to listen to this Sermon CLICK HERE

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John MacArthur on Rob Bell

Three part blog posts.  I’ll update here if there are more.  Again, I am in the process of researching and critiquing Rob Bell’s theological method behind his soteriology for a blog entry here at Veritas Domain. Here’s some input of John MacArthur in the conversation about Rob Bell’s theology. Rob Bell: A Brother to Embrace, [...]

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One Mainline Pastor realizes Mainline churches are dying, but offer strange reason for why it is

I don’t know what the title has to do with anything. But I thought it was an adventure in missing the point. Read it  HERE.

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Good Apologetics Links from the week: April 16th 2011

Here’s some collections of links that had some good materials over this past week, of apologetics materials. 1.) Gary Demar’s article, “Beware of ‘Genius’ Grumpy Old Men”: You got to read the ending of this thing! 2.) Francis Schaeffer on Morality. 3.) A Massive Shift Coming in What it means to be a Christian? 4.) [...]

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Introduction to Hermeneutics Series: Session Three: Doctrine of Special Revelation

GO TO SESSION TWO I.                    Definition of Special Revelation a.      “God’s words addressed to specific people, including the words of the Bible.”[1] b.      “Special revelation involves a narrower focus than general revelation and is restricted to Jesus Christ and the Scriptures.”[2] c.       Some form of supernatural way in which God discloses himself (Prophets[3], Bible, visions [...]

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Richard Wurmbrand

Richard Wurmbrand was a Lutheran minister in Romania and the founder of Voice of Martyrs. He is a criminal according to the atheistic-communistic Romanian government at that time. Wurmbrand’s crime was preaching Biblical Christianity. He was sentenced to 8 years in prison the first time and 25 years the second time.  Learn more about Richard [...]

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TGC11: Live Video

The languages available for this conference – English, Spanish, Chinese and French The live video and recorded audio will appear on this page. Download available immediately after each session! Tuesday, April 12 2 PM R. Albert Mohler Jr. Studying the Scriptures and Finding Jesus (John 5:31-47) 4 PM Tim Keller Getting Out (Exodus 14) 5:30 [...]

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Presuppositional Apologetics’ Exegetical Project

I hope that by the end of 2011, I can write some essays towards the advancement of Presuppositional Apologetics’ in terms of being grounded by exegesis. In particular, this is what I am working on now, or plan to work on in the near future: (1) Jesus’ debate in Luke 20- Subject of my thesis [...]

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