“Stephen Mansfield’s latest biography is on Arthur Guinness and the famous brewery he founded. It’s called The Search for God and Guinness: A Biography of the Beer that Changed the World.”
(via Justin Taylor)
Happy Birthday, Cal!
“Today marks the 501st anniversary of Calvin’s birth way back in 16th century France. It is fitting that we thank God for this saint and pray to be encouraged by his witness to the gospel. Calvin wrote as one who loved God, one who knew what it meant to be loved by God, and one who could explain with profound theological depth the biblical message of God’s sovereignty in salvation.”
(via Desiring God)
Happy Birthday, Cal!
“Today marks the 501st anniversary of Calvin’s birth way back in 16th century France. It is fitting that we thank God for this saint and pray to be encouraged by his witness to the gospel. Calvin wrote as one who loved God, one who knew what it meant to be loved by God, and one who could explain with profound theological depth the biblical message of God’s sovereignty in salvation.”
(via Desiring God)
Pyromaniacs: Evangelical Bunko Artists
Pyromaniacs: Evangelical Bunko Artists
Phil Johnson is dead on:
“Over the past 40 years, the evangelical movement has given birth to dozens of flash-in-the-pan phonies, frauds, and bunko artists. John Todd, Mike Warnke, Alberto Rivera, Bob Larson, and Ted Haggard are a few names that come to mind. Todd and Rivera are both dead, but Jack Chick continues to publish their fraudulent claims as true. All the others, though now out of the mainstream, are still engaged in some form of public "ministry” today—still profiting off reputations woven with webs of lies.
This is relevant, of course, to the case of Ergun Caner, erstwhile Dean of Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary. For most of the past decade, Caner has been making demonstrably false claims exaggerating his childhood involvement in Islamic fundamentalism, his early indoctrination in the politics of Jihad, and his post-conversion “debates” with Islamic clerics…
However, the pathetic track record of evangelicals’ consistent failure in dealing with frauds and bunko artists in our midst leads me to be pessimistic about any real resolution in the Caner scandal.“
Read the rest here
(via Justin Taylor)
Pyromaniacs: Evangelical Bunko Artists
Link: Pyromaniacs: Evangelical Bunko Artists
Phil Johnson is dead on:
“Over the past 40 years, the evangelical movement has given birth to dozens of flash-in-the-pan phonies, frauds, and bunko artists. John Todd, Mike Warnke, Alberto Rivera, Bob Larson, and Ted Haggard are a few names that come to mind. Todd and Rivera are both dead, but Jack Chick continues to publish their fraudulent claims as true. All the others, though now out of the mainstream, are still engaged in some form of public “ministry” today—still profiting off reputations woven with webs of lies.
This is relevant, of course, to the case of Ergun Caner, erstwhile Dean of Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary. For most of the past decade, Caner has been making demonstrably false claims exaggerating his childhood involvement in Islamic fundamentalism, his early indoctrination in the politics of Jihad, and his post-conversion “debates” with Islamic clerics…
However, the pathetic track record of evangelicals’ consistent failure in dealing with frauds and bunko artists in our midst leads me to be pessimistic about any real resolution in the Caner scandal.”
Read the rest here
(via Justin Taylor)