Over the weekend Walid and Theodore Shoebat posted a number of items aimed my direction, and though most of what (especially) Walid produced is simply irrelevant (or too childish to respond to), it did provide a basis for a discussion of the centrality of the gospel, the nature of the gospel, and related issues, especially as they have to do

Tomorrow I will be doing responses to critiques so I wanted to start off the year with a more positive presentation based upon going in-depth into the Scriptures, something I know most in our audience really enjoys and benefits from. I would have to deal with these texts in the context of my response tomorrow, so this way we can keep the replies from becoming massively long. Enjoy!
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Advertising?  Me?  Well, sorta, I guess.  But here’s the reason:  I get lots and lots and lots of folks asking me, especially on social media, to function as an online bibliography production device.  I just don’t carry that kind of info around with me.  Sometimes I can help, but most of the time I cannot stop and do the research