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Some observations on Barbara Johnson's article in the Dallas Morning News

This is in response to Mrs. Johnson’s article in the Opinion section of the Dallas Morning News titled Don’t bother debating faith. Her piece is in response to a debate that happened between Christopher Hitchens and William Dembski at Prestonwood Baptist Church. While she hardly mentions the substance of that debate, she used this opportunity to argue for an interesting point. Her observation of the event led her to deduce the following assertion: Namely, while she applauded Prestonwood for exposing their students to other points of view, she questioned the idea of debating religion at all.

Reasonable Faith Dallas – DFW Apologetics Conference Update

We have exciting news….We are halfway to achieving the goal of being able to hold a conference here in DFW equipping believers to both defend the Christian faith and effectively fulfill the great commission!

Reasonable Faith Dallas Chapter Conference: On Guard

We have the opportunity to hold a large multi-day Christian Apologetics conference this coming fall at one of the largest churches in the Dallas area! This conference will feature some of the top defenders of the Christian faith in the world including Dr. William Lane Craig and Dr. J.P. Moreland.

Some thoughts on the tensions between Scripture and Ethics

The following was posted as a response to one of Bretzke’s chapters in A Morally Complex World. In analyzing Bretzky’s A Moral Complex World, one of the most important things that came out in Bretzke’s writing’s actually are more from this week and it dealt with the particularities in the relationship between Scripture and ethics…

Excerpt: Third Article: Whether In Christ There Was Faith

CHRIST THE SAVIOR Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange A Study of the Third Part of The Summa Theologica of St. Thomas Aquinas The general opinion of theologians is that Christ did not have faith. Such is theopinion of St. Thomas. The reason given in the counterargument does not absolutely prove this assertion, for the words of Peter quoted here,…

What Really Unites Pentecostals?

If what we see in radio, TV and print is any indication, then this Christianity Today article might be on target. They state what seemed obvious to many Pentecostals, just ten years ago.   Pentecostals, it is said, believe that speaking in tongues is the initial evidence of the baptism of the Holy Spirit. The…