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Finding someone’s argument too tough to handle? Over your head in a matter of biblical exegesis, scientific evidence, or logical validity? Don’t despair. Now you can always respond to those smart-alecks and put them in their place. Continue Reading »

Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary is hosting an interfaith witness workshop on Friday and Saturday, October 12 and 13, 2007. Workshop sessions will run all day Friday from 9 am to 8 pm with breaks for lunch and dinner, and Saturday morning from 9 am to noon.

The speakers include Midwestern president Phil Roberts, Tal Davis and Rob Bowman of the North American Mission Board, and Paul Blizard, a former Jehovah’s Witness who is now pastor of Memorial Baptist Church in Beckley, West Virginia. Both Roberts and Davis were at one time part of what is now called the Apologetics & Interfaith Evangelism department of NAMB, where Bowman is currently serving as manager.

The workshop is free and open to the public. Midwestern is located at 5001 North Oak Trafficway, Kansas City, MO 64118. For more information on the speakers and the workshop, as well as contact information, see the seminary’s news release about the event.

Donald E. Hartley’s article, “Revisiting the Colwell Construction in the Light of Mass/Count Nouns,” cited in our discussion of John 1:1 in Putting Jesus in His Place, is still available on the same web site but with a different URL than the one we gave in the book. (Unfortunately, web resources change URLs about as often as humans change telephone numbers.) You can access the article by clicking here.

Few things excite me more than the announcement of a new scholarly tome on Christology. It’s not uncommon for me to knock things over en route to my credit card when I receive a promotional e-mail or printed flyer from a publisher. And I get a weird smirk on my face whenever I go to a theological library and discover a pile of new journal articles to copy for later consumption. I guess you might say that I’m a junkie when it comes to academic Jesus studies. But despite my affinity for the ivory tower, I’m just a visitor to that world. I don’t live there. Neither do the people that I’m called to influence. Continue Reading »

Maranatha Baptist Church in Lilburn, Georgia (a suburb east of Atlanta), will be hosting a Bible & Missions Conference, October 7-10, 2007. The conference theme is “Telling the World Who Jesus Really Is.” The conference schedule is as follows: Sunday, 9:30-Noon, 6:00-7:15 pm; Monday-Wednesday, 7:00-8:15 pm. Rob Bowman will be speaking at all five sessions, along with four missionaries. This conference will provide one of the most indepth seminar series on the deity of Christ that we have done, covering all five areas of the evidence treated in our book Putting Jesus in His Place. The conference will focus on the relevance of the deity of Christ to missions and evangelism.

Maranatha Baptist Church is located at 3340 Five Forks Trickum Rd SW, Lilburn, GA 30047. You can get directions by clicking here. For more information, call the church at (770) 979-9700.