On today’s program I continued the discussion from last week on antinomianism. I discussed antinomian tendencies within contemporary Lutheranism in reference to my recent post on the issue. I went through the quotes I provided and demonstrated how to correctly speak of this issue in a balanced manner. Here is the program. Read more

On today’s program I discussed antinomianism in light of reformed theologian Mark Jones’ new book on the topic. Here is the program Read more

On today’s program, I continued my response to Karlo Broussard on purgatory. I dealt with his arguments from Scripture. The two texts addressed are from 1 Corintians 3, and Matthew 5. It was demonstrated that these two texts do not say anything about purgatory. Here is the program. Read more

On today’s program I discussed the Roman Catholic teaching on purgatory. I reviewed a lecture by Karlo Broussard, a Roman Catholic apologist, and discussed our differences, pointing out the errors in his argument. This is the beginning of a two part series in response to this lecture. Here is the program   Read more

On today’s program, I gave a brief overview of the history of Dispensationalism. I critiqued that position by discussing how the New Testament authors interpreted prophetic texts addressed to national Israel.Here is the program.I was also on the Boars in the Vineyard podcast this week, which can be found here. Read more

On today’s program, I interacted with a lecture by Roman Catholic apologist Steve Ray in which he argued against the doctrine of justification by faith alone. I demonstrated that this idea is clearly taught in Romans,and also discussed James 2. Here is the program. Read more

I was joined by Chris Rosebrough of Fighting for the Faith to discuss the recent Strange Fire conference.Here is the program. Read more

I discussed a number of topics on today’s program. I spent the first half hour talking about the Reformed covenantal argument for infant baptism, and how we should approach this subject. I then answered a listener question about people who are called “righteous,” and “blameless” in the Old Covenant. Finally, I addressed the Church of Christ’s view of baptism.Here is the program. Read more

On today’s program I gave some updates regarding upcoming projects, and then intended to answer a number of listener questions, but ended up spending the entire program discussing the imputation of Christ’s active obedience. I discussed whether this is a Lutheran doctrine, and what texts should and shouldn’t be used to support this teaching. Here is the program. Read more

On today’s program, I discussed the connection between the preparationist theology of early American Puritanism and it’s connection to the theology of Paul Washer. I review of ten minute segment of a Paul Washer sermon which demonstrates his dependence on this view of Christian conversion, and discussed the danger inherent in this approach. Here is the program Read more