Video of Stephen Meyer

Hear and see Dr. Stephen Meyer speak on "The Signature in the Cell," at the Heritage Foundation. This man is articulate and brilliant.

Dr. Stephen Meyer on "The Signature in the Cell"

Steve Meyer is going to be on the Medved show today at 1:00 PDT for the full second hour of the program – you can listen online at KRLA, or just tune your radio to a local station carrying Medved’s show.

Listen online here: http://www.streamaudio.com/Player/Player.aspx?Station=KRLA_AM&filename=&Optin=no

- Anika

Anika Smith
Discovery Institute
206-292-0401 ext.155
asmith@discovery.org

Understanding Sin

Charles Colson writes of the fall of Governor Sanford and the ways of sin.

"The Stoning of Soraya M."

I am quite interested in this film, but it is rated "R." I know there is some violence, but not sure about the rest of it. If anyone has seen it, and would like to give a report, I would appreciate it.

Not Loving God with all our Mind

This is from an April 9, 2009 report from Barna Research. If it is accurate, it explains much about the sterility and banality of American "Christianity."

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Four out of ten Christians (40%) strongly agreed that Satan “is not a living being but is a symbol of evil.” An additional two out of ten Christians (19%) said they “agree somewhat” with that perspective. A minority of Christians indicated that they believe Satan is real by disagreeing with the statement: one-quarter (26%) disagreed strongly and about one-tenth (9%) disagreed somewhat. The remaining 8% were not sure what they believe about the existence of Satan.

Although a core teaching of the Christian faith is the divinity and perfection of Jesus Christ, tens of millions of Christians do not accept that teaching. More than one-fifth (22%) strongly agreed that Jesus Christ sinned when He lived on earth, with an additional 17% agreeing somewhat. Holding the opposing view were 9% who disagreed somewhat and 46% who disagreed strongly. Six percent did not have an opinion on this matter.

Much like their perceptions of Satan, most Christians do not believe that the Holy Spirit is a living force, either. Overall, 38% strongly agreed and 20% agreed somewhat that the Holy Spirit is “a symbol of God’s power or presence but is not a living entity.” Just one-third of Christians disagreed that the Holy Spirit is not a living force (9% disagreed somewhat, 25% disagreed strongly) while 9% were not sure.

Groothuis at Scum

I will be preaching at Scum of the Earth Church in Denver on Sunday, June 28 at 7:00 PM. My text is Luke 19:1-11. The sermon title is "Meeting Jesus: Money Made New." I hope to see some of you there.

John Piper on Entertainment

Read John Piper on why he does not watch television or go to many movies. I agree with him entirely on this. Too many Christians have made deep compromises with the world in these areas. We need to take the Bible seriously (and its Author) and repent. Is it any wonder the American church is not growing, that worldliness is epidemic, and that few know either the fear or power of God?

Remembering Walter Martin

"Controversy for the sake of controversy is sin. Controversy for the sake of the Gospel is a divine command"--Walter Martin.

Kenneth Samples has written an excellent three-part remembrance of Walter Martin, the great father of the countercult movement, who died twenty years ago this month. Martin exhibited many apologetic virtues, which Samples highlights. I was honored to have Walter write the forward to my second book, Confronting the New Age (InterVarsity, 1988) and to spend some time with him in Seattle in the late 1980s. I appeared on "The Bible Answer Man Program" with him in Seattle in about 1987. I listened to dozens of this tapes, which he donated to The McKenzie Study Center (where I was on staff) in the early 1980s. Early in my Christian life, I also read The Kingdom of the Cults, which was formative in my understanding of orthodoxy and heresy.

Media Critic to Present at Denver Seminary

I have recommended the video, "Thus Spake the Spectacle" on this world famous blog. The creator of it noticed and asked if he could present something at Denver Seminary. So, we will have Eric Goodman present the following on July 7 at 7:00PM in room 120 at Denver Seminary. The event is free, but will make you think!


Thus Spoke The Spectacle: Media, Technology, and the Co-option of the Sacred

Eric Goodman is a musician and videomaker living in New York City. He is a graduate of Cornell University, where he led off the first annual "MIDI Madness" Digital Music Festival. He has studied electronic music, music composition, video production and film scoring at Cornell and the Center for the Media Arts. His project of conceptual music videos, Thus Spoke The Spectacle, fuses original compositions, video clips, and narration from the fields of media studies, literature and philosophy. Drawing upon a wide range of theories, the project explores the meaning and effects of our corporate-controlled, media-saturated, technological society.

Call Me "Senator"

Read Dennis Prager on Barbara Boxer's incivility and disrespect for the military.

Take it Out; Live with it Off

"Some benefits of life without television" by Jim and Amy Spiegel. Kindred spirits are; out there. Thanks to Paul Adams for this link.

Book Review of "The Problem of Evil" By Peter Van Inwagen

Paul Raynor, a recent graduate from Denver Seminary with an MA in Philosophy of Religion, has reviewed Peter Van Inwagen's book, The Problem of Evil at Denver Journal.

The Manipulation of Images

Here are a few minutes of video from a 1976 film series called, "How Should We Then Live?" featuring Francis Schaeffer. He makes a very basic point about the deceptive possibilities of television (and really all video technology), but I fear that many people today have not taken seriously what he warns of: media manipulation of facts.

If you want more (and you should), read the entire book of the same title, please. I have reviewed it at Denver Journal.

Are you Resisting the World, the Flesh, and the Devil?

A man standing still is doing nothing, but a man standing still in a raging river is resisting.--Chinese proverb.

Truth Decay: Eleventh Printing

InterVarsity Press just send me a copy of my book, Truth Decay (2000) with a card saying this: "Truth Decay has been reprinted. This is the eleventh printing, bringing the total number of copies in print to 26,502...

Although this book has been much-attacked (James K. A. Smith dismissed it in a footnote by saying I was "afraid of postmodernism"), it is has also been much-used. For the latter, I am grateful. Prison Fellowship has used it as part of their terrific Centurion Program. It is endorsed by Os Guinness and J.P. Moreland. That made my year.

This is my most academic book I have authored to date (the forthcoming apologetics text, What Matters Most, will be more so), so I am happy it is still in print after nine years.

All the World's a TV and We But Images

Television is our culture’s principal mode of knowing about itself. Therefore—and this is the critical point—how television stages the world becomes the model for how the world is properly to be staged—Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death (1985).

Darwin and Prediction

Dr. Cornelius Hunter chronicles the failed predictions of Darwin on his web page. This distills and adds to material in his several books on Darwinism. Darwinists often say (rather robotically, usually) that intelligent design makes no predictions. That is false. Darwin made them, too, and most have not been verified.

CAIR and Terrorism

Charles Colson writes of CAIR's (Counsel on American Islamic Relations) links to the terrorist organiation, Hamas. www.breakpoint.org/listingarticle.asp?ID=11903). Sorry, I could not get the hyperlink to work.

The Trouble with Paris: Book Review

My review of The Trouble with Paris by Mark Sayers is now up at Denver Journal.