Posted by backpack on May 19, 2013
Deacons & Elders [05/19/2013]
Why is biblical church government important? What do elders do in congregational life? What is a deacon, what do they do and how do they work
with the elders? All this and more!
Related Resources: What is an Elder? | sermon video by Pastor Bob What is a Deacon? | sermon video by Vocab Bad Examples of Church Government discussion video w/Vermon & Bob
Posted by backpack on May 12, 2013
Smart Faith Conference [05/12/2013]
Vocab and guest host Marty Clapp talk to Shawn White, a working class apologist who is also the mastermind behind the Smart Faith Apologetics Conference. Smart Faith is Arizona's high profile annual apologetic conference. Shawn also talks about defending the resurrection at local colleges.
Special Guest: Marty Clapp and Shawn White
Posted by backpack on May 5, 2013
My Lord and My God! [05/05/2013]
Vocab and Vermon discuss John 20:28, where Thomas says to Jesus, "My Lord and My God." Learn the context of a verse which triumphs over all deficient Christologies, especially that of the Watchtower Bible & Tract Society.
Bonus Link: video of a sermon Vocab preached on this passage...
Posted by backpack on April 29, 2013
The Mailman Apologist [04/28/2013]
Vocab is joined by working class apologist Marty Clapp. Marty is a mailman during the day and yet an apologist. Marty shares some amazing stories from both the high school and college ministry he has done. This show gives hope to the so-called non-professionals (like us)!
Special Guest: Marty Clapp of Think Again Apologetics
Posted by backpack on April 21, 2013
False Teachers & Lyrical Theology [04/21/2013]
Vermon and Vocab talk about shai linne's new song "Fal$e Teacher$", where he calls out a number of prosperity preachers. We discuss the nature of public rebuke (see Matthew 18) and play audio clips from popular TBN guests. We are even joined by a few of the artists who worked on the new Lyrical Theology album to get their perspective.
Special Guests: JG Whitley and Omri Miles of iSix:5
Posted by backpack on April 14, 2013
Homosexuality/Marriage DEBATE [04/14/2013]
A debate with atheist blogger Skeptimus Prime on homosexuality and same-sex marriage. Vocab and Dylan lay out their views side by side and then critique/defend.
Special Guest: Dylan Walker aka Skeptimus Prime
Posted by backpack on April 7, 2013
Being Black & Reformed [04/07/2013]
Vermon leads a discussion about the black and Reformed movement and some of the big issues. We bring up this book Glory Road and talk about some of the Reformed rappers.
Posted by backpack on March 31, 2013
French Muslims & Christian Rap [03/31/2013]
Review of Vocab’s mission trip to France.
Topics include: Muslim and Christian relations, the spiritual dynamics in France and apologetics in evangelism and relationships.
Special Guests: French missionary Mark Good and musician Alden Powers
Posted by backpack on March 24, 2013
Purpose & Meaning DEBATE [03/24/2013]
Debate with atheist Patrick Callahan (student at University of Arizona) on Meaning and Purpose. Includes a moderated debate portion as well as an open discussion portion.
Posted by backpack on March 17, 2013
A Theology of Prayer [03/17/2013]
We walk through a 4-part sermon series we did on prayer and discuss the biblical doctrine behind it.
Posted by backpack on March 10, 2013
Black Christians You Should Know... (But Probably Don't) [03/10/2013]
Black Reformed Christian's Biographies based off of the book The Faithful Preacher.
A discussion about church history and ethnic segregation in the US.
Posted by backpack on March 3, 2013
The Great Evangelical Recession [03/03/2013]
John Dickerson discusses his new and incisive book, The Great Evangelical Recession. We ask questions like 'how many evangelicals are there really in America?' 'What is the future for evangelicalism?' John talks about 6 Factors That Will Crash the American Church. . . and How to Prepare.
Special Guest: John S. Dickerson
Posted by backpack on February 24, 2013
Proverbs & Christology [02/24/2013]
The BPR crew discusses some intriguing questions:
- How do we interpret the Old Testament Wisdom Literature?
- How does the Book of Proverbs relate to Christology and the New Testament?
Posted by backpack on February 17, 2013
The Canaanite Judgment [02/17/2013]
Professor Clay Jones of Biola University joins us to give a response to the New Atheist’s “Divine Genocide” charge in regards to what they mistakenly call the Canaanite genocide. We also detail some of the sins of the Canaanites: idolatry, incest, adultery, child sacrifice, homosexuality, and bestiality.
Special Guest: Clay Jones, assistant professor in the Master of Arts in Christian Apologetics program
Posted by backpack on February 10, 2013
Online Apologetic Resources [02/10/2013]
Brain Auten of Apologetics315.com points us to many wonderful online resources for apologetics. He also gives us some tips on how to interact when having apologetic convos on the internet. Good stuff.
Special Guest: Brain Auten of Apologetics315.com
Posted by backpack on February 3, 2013
Is Homeschooling a Necessity? [02/03/2013]
Our guest, Joel McDurmon of American Vision, gives a passionate and eloquent defense of home schooling. He makes the case for home schooling while considering an audience who may be only mildly sympathetic or even skeptical to private education.
Special Guest: Joel McDurmon of American Vision
Posted by backpack on January 27, 2013
Nadir Ahmed DEBATE [01/27/2013]
Vocab vs. Muslim apologist Nadir Ahmed on the question of "Does God Kill Innocent People?"
Special Guest: Nadir Ahmed
Posted by backpack on January 20, 2013
Conversing with the Word of Faith [01/20/2013]
Pastor Saiko Woods is a Reformed pastor in the Houston area who recently had a sit down with Fred Price, Jr. The video of their talk has been sparking some much needed conversations between Reformed and Word of Faith Christians.
Special Guest: Saiko Woods
Posted by backpack on January 13, 2013
Joel the Day of the Lord [01/13/2013]
The BPR squad summarizes the book of Joel, one of the Hebrew prophets. We also discuss the motif and concept of the Day the Lord in biblical theology.
Posted by backpack on January 6, 2013
Zoroastrianism [01/06/2013]
JP Holding doing apologetics on the ol' Zoroastrian charges: "Judaism is a rip-off' or 'Christianity borrowed from it' and all that stuff.
We ask this about Zoroastrianism: --what is it? --how do people use these arguments? (supposed parallels/influence) --what are the answers?
Special Guest: JP Holding of Tektonics.org
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