Marvin Olasky Interviews Rosaria Butterfield

Deepak Chopra vs. Greg Koukl on Lee Strobel's "Faith Under Fire" TV Program

WHEN I hosted a national television program called Faith Under Fire, which featured short debates on spiritual topics, I decided to invite best-selling New Age author Deepak Chopra to be a guest. The topic would be the future of faith. To offer a different perspective, I asked my friend Greg Koukl to represent Christianity. The idea was to tape them as they interacted for about fifteen minutes via satellite, the typical format for a segment of the show.

That plan quickly went out the window.

Greg was simply so engaging and so effective in poking holes in Chopra’s worldview that I had to keep the cameras running. Time after time, Greg was able to expose the faulty thinking underlying Chopra’s amorphous theology and correct his inaccurate claims about Jesus and the Bible. Before I knew it, we had consumed the entire hour of the show. Chopra — who was accustomed to spouting his opinions unchallenged on television and radio — was left thoroughly defeated and deflated.

As soon as the taping was over, I turned to my producer. “That,” I said, “was a textbook example of how to defend Christianity.”

~ LEE STROBEL, foreword to the book "Tactics: a Game Plan for Discussing Your Christian Convictions"

Michael Brown on The One Minute Apologist: LEVITICUS & HOMOSEXUALITY

TIMOTHY GEORGE: Martin Luther and the Triumph of Grace

ROBERT VAN KAMPEN: The Biblical Defense for the Prewrath Rapture of the Church

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COME THOU FOUNT: Original lyrics by Robert Robinson (1758); Page CXVI version (2009)

Come thou fount of every blessing
Tune my heart to sing thy grace
Streams of mercy never ceasing
Call for songs of loudest praise

Teach me some melodious sonnet
Sung by flaming tongues above
I'll praise the mount I'm fixed upon it
Mount of thy redeeming love

Here I raise my Ebenezer
Hither by thy help I come
And I hope by thy good pleasure
Safely to arrive at home

Jesus sought me when a stranger
Wondering from the fold of God
He, to rescue me from danger
Interposed His precious blood

O to grace how great a debtor
       daily I'm constrained to be!
Let thy goodness like a fetter,
       bind my wandering heart to thee

Prone to wander Lord I feel it,
       prone to leave the God I love
Here's my heart, O take and seal it,
       seal it for thy courts above

I am bound for the kingdom
       Won't you come with me

Hallelujah we sing

Leigh Nash: Give Myself to You (with lyrics)

Let your blood and mercy poured
Let your gracious body brokened
Be to me oh Lord
Be to me oh Lord

I live because you died
Precious Lord you came to save me
Oh you gave me life
Oh you gave me life

Now I give myself, I give myself to...

You are everything I need
You're the air I breathe
The melody I sing
You are all I want to see
You're my holy King
You're everything to me

Have my gift oh blessed one
All repentance I can offer
Love is surely won
Love is surely won

By the thorns that crowned your brow
I can claim your love unfailing
I'm in freedom now
I'm in freedom now

Robert Bowman Jr: Writing About Wrong Religions

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Peter Stravinskas: The "Pay Now or Pay Later" Principle of Roman Catholic Soteriology

James R. White: Thoughts on the Day After Election 2012 in the United States

"Those who make them will be like them, and so will all who trust in them"

Psalm 115:3-8

Our God is in heaven;
    he does whatever pleases him.

But their idols are silver and gold,
    made by the hands of men.

They have mouths, but cannot speak,
    eyes, but they cannot see;

they have ears, but cannot hear,
    noses, but they cannot smell;

they have hands, but cannot feel,
    feet, but they cannot walk;
    nor can they utter a sound with their throats.

Those who make them will be like them,
    and so will all who trust in them.

 

Mary's Boy (by Alathea), with lyrics

I cant't wait until Christmas! I have to post this right now :) 

  Mary's boy, humble and lowly

Mary's boy, strong and mighty
Man of sorrows
Now comes the joy
The weight of the world rides on Mary's boy

Every mountain, every sea
By the Lord they came to be
The rejoicing o'er the land
Turned to grief by Adam's hand
Said the father to the son of the world that we have made
There must be a sacrifice
A price that must be paid

Mary's boy, humble and lowly
Mary's boy, strong and mighty
Man of sorrows
Now comes the joy
The weight of the world rides on Mary's boy

A kingdom born in Bethlehem
Would redeem Jerusalem
Wise men journeyed bringing gifts
And the wrath of Herod's fist
Joseph took his baby and wife
They fled to the Nile
Out of Egypt God would call
Call his only child

Mary's boy, humble and lowly
Mary's boy, strong and mighty
Man of sorrows
Now comes the joy
The weight of the world rides on Mary's boy

Justification in three soteriological systems: Protestant, Roman Catholic, and Easy Believism (by John Gerstner)

Pastor Rolly Cayabyab's "Isang Silip sa Langit" (with lyrics)

"Boring ang Sine, Hindi ang Bibliya" (~John Piper)

R.C. Sproul's "Knowing Scripture": Eleven Lectures on Bible Interpretation

Why Study the Bible?

Private Interpretation

The Science of Interpretation

Literal Interpretation

Literary Forms (Part 1)

Literary Forms (Part 2)

Reading the Bible Existentially

The Explicit and the Implicit

Parallelisms

Scripture and Culture

Principle vs. Custom

Principle vs. Custom (R.C. Sproul's Knowing Scripture, part 11)

Scripture & Culture (R.C. Sproul's Knowing Scripture, part 10)

Parallelisms (R.C. Sproul's Knowing Scripture, part 9)

The Explicit and the Implicit (R.C. Sproul's Knowing Scripture, part 8)