Here in New Zealand, I am often told by evangelical leaders that we now live in a post-modern society, which has moved beyond “arguments” and that Apologetics is an outdated “modernist concept.” They say we need instead to “tell the story” so that people will see the “meta-narrative of scripture”—whatever exactly that means. Last night, Madeleine and […]
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Hear Matthew Flannagan Preach on Genesis 33 (Mp3)
December 8th, 2012 Comments Off on Hear Matthew Flannagan Preach on Genesis 33 (Mp3)
Hear Matthew Flannagan preach on Genesis 33. Genesis 33 – Jacob Meets Esau 33 Jacob looked up and there was Esau, coming with his four hundred men; so he divided the children among Leah, Rachel and the two female servants. 2 He put the female servants and their children in front, Leah and her children next, and Rachel and Joseph in […]
Tags: Genesis · MP3 · Sermons · Takanini Community Church
Back from the USA
November 23rd, 2012 23 Comments
Madeleine and I flew back to New Zealand from Milwaukee on Tuesday having both attended the Evangelical Philosophical Society Annual Meeting, the Annual Meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society, and the Evangelical Philosophical Society’s Apologetics Conference. Prior to that I had spent three weeks based in Charlotte, North Carolina. I will speak about the conferences later in […]
Tags: Cherokee Apologetics Conference · Evangelical Philosophical Society · Evangelical Theological Society · Frank Beckwith · Mary-Jo Sharp · Milwaukee · North Carolina · Paul Copan · Southern Evangelical Seminary Apologetics Conference
Hear Matthew Flannagan Preach on Genesis 32 (Mp3)
November 17th, 2012 Comments Off on Hear Matthew Flannagan Preach on Genesis 32 (Mp3)
Hear Matthew Flannagan preach on Genesis 32. Genesis 32 – Jacob Prepares to Meet Esau 32 [a]Jacob also went on his way, and the angels of God met him. 2 When Jacob saw them, he said, “This is the camp of God!” So he named that place Mahanaim.[b] 3 Jacob sent messengers ahead of him to his brother Esau in the land of […]
Tags: Genesis · MP3 · Preaching · Takanini Community Church
Hear Matthew Flannagan Preach on Genesis 31 (Mp3)
November 12th, 2012 Comments Off on Hear Matthew Flannagan Preach on Genesis 31 (Mp3)
Hear Matthew Flannagan preach on Genesis 31. Genesis 31 – Jacob Flees From Laban 31 Jacob heard that Laban’s sons were saying, “Jacob has taken everything our father owned and has gained all this wealth from what belonged to our father.” 2 And Jacob noticed that Laban’s attitude toward him was not what it had been. 3 Then the Lord said to […]
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Hear Matthew Flannagan Preach on Genesis 30 (Mp3)
November 5th, 2012 Comments Off on Hear Matthew Flannagan Preach on Genesis 30 (Mp3)
Hear Matthew Flannagan preach on Genesis 30. Genesis 30 30 When Rachel saw that she was not bearing Jacob any children, she became jealous of her sister.So she said to Jacob, “Give me children, or I’ll die!” 2 Jacob became angry with her and said, “Am I in the place of God, who has kept you from having children?” […]
Tags: Genesis · MP3 · Preaching · Takanini Community Church
A common objection to belief in the God of the Bible is that a good, kind, and loving deity would never command the wholesale slaughter of nations. In the tradition of his popular Is God a Moral Monster?, Paul Copan teams up with Matthew Flannagan to tackle some of the most confusing and uncomfortable passages of Scripture. Together they help the Christian and nonbeliever alike understand the biblical, theological, philosophical, and ethical implications of Old Testament warfare passages.
Tom Wright on Hypocrisy: Catholic Church Sex Scandals, the Media and Jimmy Savile
March 9th, 2013 7 Comments
N T Wright, theologian and research professor at St Andrews University, tells the British media a few home truths about hypocrisy and faux moral outrage. I listened in disbelief as John Humphrys interviewed Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor on Radio 4’s Today programme this week. Surely, he said, like a headmaster addressing an errant teenager, if highly placed people knew about […]
Tags: Hypocrisy · Jimmy Savile · N T Wright · Virtue Ethics