I think one of the best Christian apologist of the last half of the last Century was Greg Bahnsen. He was a skilled debater and lecturer on Presuppositional Apologetics and a student of Cornelius Van Til, the father of Presuppositonal apologetics. He’s my favorite apologist and has shaped me in so many ways. He’s one of my role models with his example of scholarship, intellect, boldness to defend the faith, his desire to be biblical and also his pastoral heart. And everything he did was so intense.
We have shared many resources from Greg Bahnsen on our blog over the last 14 years. All you have to do is type in his name under search.
Well there’s a big news I want to share: Now all his audio MP3s are now all available online for free at Covenant Media Foundation:
Covenant Media Foundation’s home page is here.
The site need to be organized better but overall there’s a lot of materials on there. A friend of mine has downloaded 500 plus Mp3s! So to help you find them here’s the site’s MP3 of Bahnsen. Here they are by sets in terms of topics:
After you add the MP3s to the cart you should be able to check out and then download the Mp3s
Some of these lectures I’ve looked at on the site for nearly 20 years and I’m glad now its for free thanks in large part to his son David Bahnsen donating to make this now free.
Praising GOD for free “solid food” edifying resources! Thank you, Jim for sharing these links GOD bless you and your family!
You’re welcome! Christians should strive to go after solid food! I think in all areas of life we think it is strange when people don’t mature; but suddenly with the things of God and the Scripture for some reason some people today think we shouldn’t go deeper into His Word and good sound doctrines! I know you love the Word deeply and your awareness of the Trinity and God’s sovereign grace is encouraging for me every time I notice it in your fellowship! May the Lord use our comments and fellowship to be seed planting to those who don’t know Him! Have a good dinner brother! I imagine you are eating something savory!
Still cooking the dinner, Jim! Thank you for your encouraging words. Going deeper into doctrines is getting answers to questions like who is the Triune GOD and what it means to be with Him in heaven (among other questions) goes beyond temporal understanding of what christian living is.
Wow, what a great resource. Thanks for the alert.
Thanks, brother! I “ordered” the MP3 recordings of Bahnsen’s debate with Catholic apologist Jerry Matatics and priest Michael Manning, which I’ve wanted to listen to for a long time, but didn’t want to pay for. The ordering/download process is a bit convoluted as you mention, and I wish I could have accessed the three MP3’s via my iPhone, BUT I’m very happy to be able to access the debate now.
Wow glad you downloaded that will you be able to do a review? That would be a joy for me to see a post from you on Bahnsen!
Yup, I will definitely post a review about the entire debate once I finish with it. I just wish it was on iPhone so I could listen when I walk and do yard work. When I saw this post, the first thing I checked for was the Bahnsen-Matatics debate and I was very pleased to see it included.
To quote from my mentor, “Re-he-he-heally?” https://youtu.be/H2SuF9wxBjs
I was this close | —–> | to ordering a rather expensive series (Bahnsen + Seminary Level = Maybe I’ll get ten percent out of this) but held off. Now I can get that, plus replace a few other that I only have in part. Thanks, that’s great news. And you’re right about the website. People have to use whatever web skills they’ve developed when searching and such. Some sets are in a ZIP folder, others are individual.
Brother so good to hear from you. I imagine you downloaded the seminary series? I enjoyed listening to those. Any other ones you downloaded? 🙂
Although I had several of Dr. Bahnsen’s lectures from various places, I needed more so I picked up a few sets including introductory, mid-level, and others. Also, several developing the Myth of Neutrality. Interestingly, I was unable to locate some that were given as free downloads by Covenant Media, possibly changed their catalog numbers. So, I have about a gig.
Excellent. That’s quite something. Thanks for sharing this Jim.
You are welcome! Did you downloaded anything or anything you are eyeing? How are you doing these days Mike? I imagine the weather is getting colder for you in the UK?
Hi Jim. I’ve not downloaded anything yet. I’ll take a look though.
Yes we’re doing ok. All our meetings are now online and have been for some months now. It kind of does the job but it falls far short of what church should be. Especially the Lord’s Table.
It’s starting to get a bit colder now. About 5 or 6 deg in the mornings now. The days are not too bad. When the clocks go back at the end of the month it’ll dark by 5:00.
We should try and FaceTime or something.
Hope you and your family are well.
This is great. Thank you so much. I reposted this and will get it on Twitter too!
Wow Kyle thanks for sharing this and also reblogging the Presup Round up and for sharing this on Twitter!
Someone downloaded 500 Mp3s????
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Thank you.
You’re welcome! I’m so happy to hear your apartment is ok after the Hurricane!
Sadness to say that 70 apts. have had their families evicted out of 210. My sister is one of them. Bad damage is the excuse.:(
Praying for your sister; did she find a place to stay at?
Yes. With my other sister but many have no where to go. Please continue in prayer.
Wow thank you pastor Jim.
You’re welcome! It should work too for people in Australia, saw some guys from Australia download it and talking about in on another social media platform, but one has to “check out” first as if one is buying it but that’s because the system hasn’t been changed yet where you can download it as directly from when it was still selling it. Now its online for free because the son helped paid the website to keep his father’s legacy going. Made me thought about what you and I do for Jesus is for keeps, for eternity, in our own small way that God is using us with our evangelism and ministry, amen? I can’t wait to hear what God does through us when we go to heaven one day…
Thank you brother Jim.
May God open more doors for evangelism and ministry.
I am going to download the seminary apologetics set!
I was just trading comments with Jim and a couple of things came to mind.
To begin, I worked on purchasing the Bahnsen MP3 archives from CMFNOW over the course of many, many years. About two years ago, I purchased the last series. I am glad to see they are free now for everyone. Beware though on a couple of counts:
1) CMFNOW’s MP3 tagging is just awful. The meta-data on each file usually doesn’t have author, album, or song title. Every single purchase I made, I had to spend time straightening that out.
2) I think just about everything is compressed to 32kbps. For some of the lectures, that’s just too little. I’m thinking primarily of Greg’s History of Western Philosophy. Many of those lectures are simply unlistenable. I even tried to purchase high-end software to “clean up” the sound to no avail. What is the solution? You can purchase the same series on CD. I then ripped that at 320kbps and you’ll not have any problem hearing the content. There are a number of series like that.
Wow thanks for letting me know
Yes, I had some existing copies and found that I had a few duplicates. The previous downloads were clear, but the new ones were very muddy. I hope I can run them through “Audacity” or something, but at least I have them.