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Podcasts

MUST-LISTEN: William Lane Craig video and audio from Saddleback Church event

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New audio lectures and video from William Lane Craig:

Can We Be Good Without God? (National Faculty Leadership Conf. 2008)
Audio

Why Does Anything at All Exist? (National Faculty Leadership Conf. 2008)
Audio

Healthy Relationships (National Faculty Leadership Conf. 2008)
Audio

Who Does Jesus Think He Was? (National Faculty Leadership Conf. 2008)
Audio

Why Does Anything at All Exist? (Wake Forest University)
Video

Response to Richard Dawkins book, The God Delusion (University of Florida)
Audio

One Question: The top 3 questions Univ. of Florida students are asking God (University of Florida)
Audio

Effective, outwardly-focused ministry to transform the culture.

UPDATE: Brian Auten e-mails to notify me of more audio from the apologetics conference at Saddleback.

For your information, the audio and video for the Saddleback Apologetics Weekend is available now. This includes Geisler, D’Souza, Craig, Bock, Koukl, and Moreland.

And here are the lectures:

• How Can I Know God Exists? – Dinesh D’Souza – MP3
• How Did the Universe Begin – William Lane Craig – MP3
• If God Exists, Why is there Evil? – Norman Geisler – MP3
• Has Science Made Belief in God Obsolete? – J.P. Moreland – MP3
• What Do the Gospels Really Say About Jesus? – Darrell Bock – MP3
• How Can I Defend My Faith Without Sounding Defensive? – Greg Koukl – MP3

I have to give kudos to Rick Warren for hosting this conference. I don’t like him at all, but this was a BIG DEAL.

I didn’t like the Norman Geisler one as much, but the others are all good.

UPDATE: Links to ALL THE VIDEO AND AUDIO HERE.

Commentary

Is Rick Warren an orthodox Christian?

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In my view, Warren minimizes sin and judgment  in order to appeal to “seekers”. He doesn’t defend traditional marriage. He seems to think that Christianity is about doing nice things for people, and making everyone feel good, instead of telling them the truth.

Well, Neil Simpson’s latest round-up has an article about Warren’s latest blunder.

Neil writes:

Rick Warren doesn’t understand the concept of unequally yoked.  It isn’t just about not marrying unbelievers, it is about not partnering with them in spiritual enterprises.  We should share the Gospel with Muslims, not do “ministry” together.

The post he links to at Slice of Laodicea cites this Washington Times article:

The Rev. Rick Warren, one of America’s best-known evangelical Protestant pastors, pleaded with about 8,000 Muslim listeners on Saturday night to work together to solve the world’s greatest problems by cooperating in a series of interfaith projects.

“Muslims and Christians can work together for the common good without compromising my convictions or your convictions,” Mr. Warren said during an evening session of the annual convention of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) at the Washington Convention Center.

“I am not interested in interfaith dialogue but interfaith projects,” said the pastor of the 24,000-member Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, Calif., who is widely known for his bestseller “The Purpose-Driven Life.”…

My advice: Never trust Christians who think that Christianity is just about helping the poor. That is a peripheral issue, which some Christians focus on in order to avoid debates about the main issues of Christianity. The main issues are “Does God Exist?” and “Who was Jesus?”. Why people follow these left-wing social justice mega-church pastors instead of solid Christian scholars is beyond me. Just another reason why Christians should be fiscal conservatives.