Alpha and Omega Ministries

In light of recent events in Israel we took the first 55 minutes or so of the program to review issues in Islam, looking at the Qur'an and hadith to understand the animus Islam produces toward the Jews. It's been quite a while since we did any in-depth discussion of Islam, so I provided a lot of basic explanations of terms, etc. Then we moved to the events of Saturday and our 40th anniversary celebration. I played a video, and then looked at some of the pictures from our slideshow, taking a walk down memory lane. Old folks like doing things like that.

Literally five minutes before the program started The Jerome Biblical Commentary for the Twenty-First Century, Third Fully Revised Edition arrived at our offices. I gave some interesting citations from it since it contains a Foreword by Pope Francis. Then we read through a report from a leftist who attended Andy Stanley's conference, and finished off with some comments in defense of presuppositionalism over against the popular attacks coming from the Thomists.

Last program from the road, should be home next week in our regular studios. Talked a bit about Doug Wilson's blog article in response to Owen Strachan, though I mostly discussed the -Memorials- issue from that article. Then I played sections from two videos from a -former Calvinist,- Jason Breda, and considered why those who leave a movement struggle to accurately represent it after the switch. We finished by looking at his wildly botched attempt to get around John 6-37.

Believe it or not, there really is a connection between all of that, and an important one. And we covered it all on an hour and 45 minute program today that was delayed 15 minutes while Rich ran around with his hair on fire finding a way to get the sound from my laptop to work- But we covered the Pope's move with reference to blessings for same-sex couples, Andy Stanley's talk to his church from Sunday morning, and Stephen Wolfe's comments as well. Enjoy-

In between getting some needed maintenance done on the truck and speaking on textual criticism tonight, James took an hour to squeeze in a show. After doing some recap on G3 he discussed his sermon from Isaiah 41 and the Sovereignty of God -in time.-

Recorded before a live audience at G3 James discusses everything from the early days of witnessing to Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses and Roman Catholics to more recent issues as God has blessed this work over the years.

Slightly shorter program today as I speak this evening here in PA. Discussed the upcoming debate and relevant issues, played a clip from Jesse Duplantis, and a clip from Thabiti Anyabwile as well.

Did the program live on the road from Indianapolis this evening, looking at the amazing secular tyranny in California, then a discussion of the challenges we are all facing as believers in these changing and unique times, and finishing with a look at some Taylor Marshall tweets.

Did the program from warm, wind-swept Amarillo, Texas today, discussing some comments made on the Reformed Forum first, and then switching to looking at some key aspects of Rosaria Butterfield's new book. https---www.amazon.com-Five-Lies-Our-Anti-Christian-Age-dp-1433573539

I hot footed it over here to Albuquerque this morning to be on Iron Sharpens Iron with Chris Arnzen, and so I continued the topic -since it was on my mind- on this program. Looked at 1 Cor. 6 and Romans 1 and the entire -Side A-Side B- controversy. Then briefly commented toward the end of Taylor Marshall's comment about Augustine.

Wrapping up our home stand before I head out next week with a pretty high energy program running through topics brought up on social media. We looked at how Francis is going to update his 2015 encyclical on the environment soon and asked, -If he can't see the scam of climate change, how can he have much insight at all--- We looked at a horrific Harrari tweet and a few others, then we also explained what the nice LDS home schooling mom was talking about when she talked about bringing sacred souls to earth. Finished up looking at another man-centered -and failed- attempt to get around John 6 by Soteriology 101. 75 minutes today. Right now it looks like we will be shooting to do a program from the road after I am on with Chris Arnzen on Iron Sharpens Iron next Wednesday.

I hope we offered an important discussion today regarding Pope Francis, the direction of the Roman Catholic Church, the impact of leftist ideology, and the vital role of Scripture as an unchanging standard.

I started off with a few comments on the coming mask mandates, etc. Then, we took quite a variety of questions today from our callers- We discussed head coverings and Michael Heiser's odd views on 1 Cor. 11- Hebrews 1-10 and its citation of Psalm 102- angels and demons today- how to translate the Greek term ---- -thelo-- and finally a discussion of justification, confession, and the Lord's Supper.

Finished up our response to Trent Horn on the topic of theopneustos, which we began two programs ago. But, I have started reading Rosaria Butterfield's new book, Five Lies of Our Anti-Christian Age, https---www.amazon.com-Five-Lies-Our-Anti-Christian-Age-dp-1433573539 which is due to be released on September 12th, and I shared a few quotes and thoughts that are directly relevant to the debate in Manheim, PA, on September 16th.

We continued our response to and review of Trent Horn's video, here, https---youtu.be-nLX3yDgw5lk dealing with his attempt to get around the reality that he is personally not in a position to foist a novel definition upon the entire Church, let alone to call it the -death knell- of sola scriptura.

Went just over 90 minutes today. The first quarter hour we talked briefly about dying Bible pages -showed off my recent examples- and the descent of the US into true banana republic status. Then we launched into Trent Horn's response to me on theopneustos, getting into a wide variety of topics such as church history, lexicography, and the like. We will continue our response on Thursday-

Started off showing my newly -dyed- Bible texts, following the process laid out by Jeffery Rice in this video, and then took calls on Rushdooney, Alma Allred -Mormonism-, recognizing novel and soon to be abandoned ideas in theology, wokeness in the Assemblies of God, and dealing with Jehovah's Witnesses on the eternality of Jesus.

Looked at two different sets of arguments against Calvinism today, first from Brian of Faith on Fire on YouTube, then back to Leighton Flowers on John 6-44. Enjoy-

Ninety minutes in the big studio today using the big board to look at some important topics. Started off with a little KJV Only silliness, then a little TR-Only silliness, and then on to comments made by IRBC pastor Steve Meister on Josh Sommer's program about biblicism being the -road to Rome.- Having corrected that idea, we moved into the topic of Bible translation and the topic of semantic domains, hapax legomenoi, etc.